Silverseren

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[–] Silverseren@fedia.io 30 points 9 months ago

The "group of individuals" was the local movement company. They were assisting getting to the destination and there was no evidence that they made any hostile actions. That's what ANERA says in this article even. So they didn't admit to any of the made up nonsense that IDF or this Times of Israel article is claiming.

[–] Silverseren@fedia.io 23 points 9 months ago

So, they're not even trying to hide their actions at this point. Doing this in West Bank shows the goal is indeed the ethnic cleansing of the population and forcing them out so the land can be taken. We already know that has been the prerogative for decades, but this is a pretty blatant example.

[–] Silverseren@fedia.io 2 points 9 months ago

That's some high tier psychological damage right there.

[–] Silverseren@fedia.io 1 points 9 months ago

Haaretz is the only real source of coverage of such opposing voices. And the Israeli government has already been trying to make moves to have them be shut down for daring to not support the will of the government.

[–] Silverseren@fedia.io 12 points 9 months ago

There's definitely people protesting in Israel and have been since the start. But it is indeed unclear on whether they're protesting regarding their government's actions in Gaza or just protesting against Netanyahu more generally (which they had also been doing prior to all this anyways).

[–] Silverseren@fedia.io 12 points 9 months ago (13 children)

I honestly feel like if the national powers at the time had been actually serious about the Jewish people deserving a homeland after the horrors of the Holocaust, then Israel should have been created out of a portion of western Germany.

[–] Silverseren@fedia.io 31 points 9 months ago

That combined with the "Killology" guy really explains how worthless and barbaric the entire US police system is.

[–] Silverseren@fedia.io 17 points 9 months ago (3 children)

So the government can force you to go into surgery to remove something from your brain now?

[–] Silverseren@fedia.io 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Did you miss the massive protests going on for years when the US was doing the murdering? A bunch of people got arrested back then for daring to stand up to the US government.

We can always do more. One issue with the Uighur situation is China is doing a good job of preventing any info to get out on what they're doing. If it was more blatant and obvious on the abuses they were doing, there would be more attention on it (like there was back when we did get some info on their activities originally).

We should push the US government to do more on all those subjects.

So you think it's a fad for people whose relatives are being actively murdered right now? Do you know how dumb that sounds?

[–] Silverseren@fedia.io 101 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So, CNN didn't actually do any background checking to make sure they were talking to actual undecided group members.

[–] Silverseren@fedia.io 4 points 9 months ago

It's funny that any time he speaks about policies he supposedly supports, we just instantly know that his position is completely vacuous and it's entirely about how much power and prestige he is given. He doesn't care about any of the issues, just about himself.

Which makes him a very good match for Trump, I suppose. I wonder if they'll butt heads because of that.

[–] Silverseren@fedia.io 2 points 9 months ago

Do you honestly think Biden or Harris will do much of anything other than the current lip service toward opposing Israel even after Trump loses?

 

“It feels like I’m in an alternate world,” Rima Mohammad, an uncommitted delegate from Michigan, told me of her experience at the Democratic National Convention. She described entering the United Center in Chicago for the convention and encountering giddy attendees after she attended a forum where Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, an American pediatric intensive care doctor, recounted harrowing details from her medical mission in Gaza. “I was literally bawling at the panel, and then going into the convention where people are excited and celebrating—it was the weirdest feeling,” Mohammad said.

Mohammad is wearing a black-and-white kaffiyeh imprinted with “Democrats for Palestinian Rights” every day that she attends the convention. While almost all other attendees are in full Harris gear, celebrating with “We heart Joe” signs, the uncommitted delegates—around 30 in total, representing some 700,000 voters—clearly stand out among other convention-goers, some of whom have seem wary or guarded around them. Mohammad described a brief encounter with Michigan’s Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as “mostly a photo op.” She said the governor was sympathetic but didn’t have much to say.

Mohammad is the grandchild of Palestinian Nakba survivors who remain refugees, she said; she is also an outspoken Democrat. She is on the public school board in Ann Arbor, and recently ran for Michigan state representative. She’s been stunned by the party’s response to the war in Gaza so far, and was feeling intense whiplash at the DNC. “It’s disappointing that it’s taking the uncommitted delegates to advocate for something so simple and humane,” she said. “The bar is really low. People just want to feel like they’re being taken seriously. This isn’t just about a Muslim or Arab vote; it’s about decency.”

 

Several major lawmakers, from Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez to President Joe Biden, made mention of the atrocities in Gaza during the first night of the Democratic National Convention on Monday. But among the crowd and behind the scenes, efforts to cover up mention of the genocide were still underway.

During Biden’s speech, a Jewish delegation unfurled a large sign revealing the text “Stop Arming Israel.” The effort was quickly stopped by nearby attendees, who blocked the sign with “We [Heart] Joe” sticks while another attendee in a row above the protesters attempted to snatch the banner away.

Another attendee, two rows away from the protesters, used one of the pro-Biden signs to repeatedly hit a woman wearing a hijab on the head.

 

He may not be in office, but Donald Trump has been speaking with the powers that be about Israel’s war on Gaza—but it’s not in an effort to end the genocide.

Instead, Trump has allegedly been talking with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to avert a cease-fire deal, fearing that doing so could help Vice President Kamala Harris win in November, according to PBS.

“The reporting is that former President Trump is on the phone with the Prime Minister of Israel, urging him not to cut a deal right now, because it’s believed that would help the Harris campaign,” said PBS’s Judy Woodruff Monday night. “So, I don’t know where—who knows whether that will come about or not, but I have to think that the Harris campaign would like for President Biden to do what presidents do, and that’s to work on that one.”

 

As students return to college campuses across the United States, administrators are bracing for a resurgence in activism against the war in Gaza.

 

As students return to college campuses across the United States, administrators are bracing for a resurgence in activism against the war in Gaza.

 

'Our lives are more important than their lives': Gazans not suspected of terrorism are detained and sent as human shields to search tunnels and houses before IDF soldiers enter, with the full knowledge of senior Israeli officers, several sources say; IDF claims this practice is forbidden

 

After personally participating in the forced displacement of homeless people in a Los Angeles encampment, Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday threatened to withhold funding from counties that don’t sufficiently crack down on the unhoused.

Buoyed by the right-wing U.S. Supreme Court’s recent City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson ruling — which was welcomed by Newsom and other Democratic leaders like San Francisco Mayor London Breed who filed amicus briefs in the case — the governor issued an executive order last month directing officials to clear out homeless encampments, which have proliferated amid rampant economic inequality and stratospheric housing prices in the nation’s most populous state.

After taking part in a Thursday sweep of an encampment in Mission Hills in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley, Newsom declared: “I want to see results… If we don’t see demonstrable results, I’ll start to redirect money.”

 

One word to break the fascist fever. One word to deflate the power Trump and his cronies think they have.

 

Israel had initially agreed to facilitate the medical evacuation of hundreds of sick and wounded children from Gaza for treatment in the UAE. Physicians for Human Rights-Israel called the decision 'a cruel game by the Israeli government with children's lives'

 

The two of us are humanitarian surgeons. Together, in our combined 57 years of volunteering, we’ve worked on more than 40 surgical missions in developing countries on four continents. We’re used to working in disaster and war zones, of being on intimate terms with death and carnage and despair.

None of that prepared us for what we saw in Gaza this spring.

The constant begging for money, the malnourished population, the open sewage — all of that was familiar to us as veteran war zone doctors. But add in the incredible population density, the overwhelming numbers of badly maimed children and amputees, the constant hum of drones, the smell of explosives and gunpowder — not to mention the constant earth-shaking explosions — and it’s no wonder UNICEF has declared the Gaza Strip as “the world’s most dangerous place to be a child.”

 

A BBC investigation reveals that Microsoft is permanently banning Palestinians in the U.S. and other countries who use Skype to call relatives in Gaza.

 

In recent conflicts, such indirect deaths range from three to 15 times the number of direct deaths. Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death to the 37,396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza. Using the 2022 Gaza Strip population estimate of 2,375,259, this would translate to 7·9% of the total population in the Gaza Strip. A report from Feb 7, 2024, at the time when the direct death toll was 28 000, estimated that without a ceasefire there would be between 58,260 deaths (without an epidemic or escalation) and 85,750 deaths (if both occurred) by Aug 6, 2024.

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