The UN chief tells reporters Gaza is “becoming a graveyard for children. Hundreds of girls and boys are reportedly being killed and injured every day... More journalists have reportedly been killed over a four-week period than in any conflict in at least three decades... More United Nations aid workers have been killed than in any comparable period in the history of our organisation... I joined the UN family in mourning 89 of our UNRWA colleagues who have been killed in Gaza, many of them together with members of their family.”

    UN chief: ‘Gaza is becoming a graveyard for children’ - YouTube

    "Should we assume that Hansen and his team of researchers are right, and therefore take the drastic actions that are indicated? Or should we trust that mainstream moderate scientists like Michael Mann are correct, and calmly adopt a more gradual approach? Which choice represents the greatest risk? I think the answer is obvious." - Bread and Circuses at Climate Justice Social

    Hansen Vs. Mann — Is Global Warming Linear Or Exponential?

    "I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." — James Baldwin

    Dr. Lucky Tran, Mastodon

    The best government money can buy. It’s a bit bonkers that anyone still considers the US to be any kind of democracy. It’s not.

    Fossil fuel companies have spent millions of dollars on lobbying and campaign donations to state lawmakers who sponsored anti-protest laws—which now shield about 60 percent of US gas and oil operations from protest and civil disobedience, according to a new report from Greenpeace USA.

    Eighteen states, including Montana, Ohio, Georgia, Louisiana, West Virginia, and the Dakotas, have enacted sweeping anti-protest laws which boost penalties for trespass near so-called critical infrastructure, that make it far riskier for communities to oppose pipelines and other fossil fuel projects that threaten their land, water and the global climate.

    Study: Fossil Fuel Industry Is Behind a Spate of Anti-Protest Bills – Mother Jones

    War crimes and genocide. My disgust deepens with each day.

    Gaza’s largest refugee camp has been bombed again, the third major attack on the site in the past week. This time, Israel struck a UN-run school within the Jabalia camp where thousands of displaced Palestinians had been sheltering.

    Israel bombs UN school in third major attack on Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp | Al Jazeera

    Most of those I follow have been very quiet on this. Complex or not, US tax dollars support Israel. If this is genocide and you’ve remained silent, consider that.

    The “G” word – genocide – “can be used recklessly, carelessly, insensitively, as an emotional shutting of the gates, rather than an opening to an important conversation,” Mehdi says. But it’s a conversation we need, given the rhetoric from Hamas & Israeli officials.

    The G Word: Mehdi examines accusations of genocide against Israel & Hamas - YouTube

    Israel is actively committing the crime of genocide. The evidence is clear: Israel has taken diverse methods to ensure “the destruction of the essential foundations of the life” of Palestinians. These actions include the 16-year-long siege on Gaza. They have cut off food, water, fuel, and electricity, denied access to healthcare, ordered 1.1 million people out of their homes, bombed evacuation routes, and even bombed and targeted hospitals, churches, mosques, and health workers. Incitement to genocide is also punishable under the Genocide Convention. Israeli officials have openly called for the annihilation of the captive population.

    GENOCIDE DEFINITION The term
    GENOCIDE DEFINITION More often genocide refers to a coordinated plan aimed at destruction of the essential foundations of the life of national groups so that these groups wither and die like plants that have suffered a blight. The end may be accomplished by the forced disintegration of political and social institutions, of the culture of the people, of their language, their national feelings and their religion. It may be accomplished by wiping out all basis of personal security, liberty, health and dignity. When these means fail the machine gun can always be utilized as a last resort. Genocide is directed against a national group as an entity and the attack on individuals is only secondary to the annihilation of the national group to which they belong. VISUALIZINGPALESTINE SOURCES OCT 2023
    Incitement to genocide is punishable under the Genocide Convention. Genocide scholars have reviewed statements by Israeli government officials and stated that they are
    THERE WILL BE NO ELECTRICITY, NO FOOD, NO FUEL.. WE ARE FIGHTING HUMAN ANIMALS AND WE ARE ACTING ACCORDINGLY. Yoav Gallant, Israeli Minister of Defense (2023) VISUALIZINGPALESTINE SOURCES  OCT 2023
    WE'LL TURN THEM INTO RUBBLE!..I'M TELLING THE PEOPLE OF GAZA: GET OUT OF THERE NOW, BECAUSE WE'RE ABOUT TO ACT EVERYWHERE WITH ALL OUR FORCE. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister (2023) VISUALIZINGPALESTINE SOURCES  OCT 2023
    RIGHT NOW, ONE GOAL: NAKBA! A NAKBA THAT WILL OVERSHADOW THE NAKBA OF 48. NAKBA IN GAZA AND NAKBA TO ANYONE WHO DARES TO JOIN! Ariel Kallner, Member of Israeli Knesset (2023) VISUALIZINGPALESTINE SOURCES OCT 2023
    IT IS AN ENTIRE NATION OUT THERE THAT IS RESPONSIBLE. Isaac Herzog, Israeli President (2023) VISUALIZINGPALESTINE SOURCES  OCT 2023
    VICTORY: ZERO RESIDENTS IN GAZA. Banners posted in Israeli cities (2023) VISUALIZINGPALESTINE SOURCES. OCT 2023 @000
    THE ONLY THING THAT NEEDS TO ENTER GAZA ARE HUNDREDS OF TONS OF EXPLOSIVES FROM THE AIR FORCE, NOT AN OUNCE OF HUMANITARIAN AID. Itamar Ben Gvir, Israeli Minister of National Security (2023) VISUALIZINGPALESTINE SOURCES  OCT 2023
    THE EMPHASIS IS ON DAMAGE AND NOT ON ACCURACY. Daniel Hagari, Israeli army spokesperson (2023) VISUALIZINGPALESTINE SOURCES   OCT 2023

    Original Post: Visualizing Palestine

    Via Mastodon

    Since 1967, Israel has imposed tight restrictions on travel and essential goods such as food, fuel, medicine, and water in its occupied territories. In 2007, those restrictions became even tighter in Gaza after Hamas seized power there. Since then, it has been nearly impossible for Palestinians to leave Gaza or to access an adequate supply of essential goods.

    Gaza, explained - YouTube

    Joy Reid commentary on Israel bombing Gaza in the Israel-Hamas war is right on. She provides historical context of US involvement in the conflict and region including our ineffective, misguided response to 9-11, attacking Iraq and Afghanistan.

    US foreign policy in the region and this conflict designed to increase violence and destabilize. It’s criminal.

    The Middle East conflict between Israel and Hamas is dividing the world. “Given that these bombings are being done using our tax dollars, perhaps we should ask some questions.”

    Joy Reid on Israeli offensive - YouTube

    Amid growing alarm that more Israeli airstrikes will hit hospitals in Gaza, we speak with two physicians about Gaza’s medical system and Israel’s orders to evacuate key hospitals. Dr. Mads Gilbert, who has helped provide emergency trauma care in Gaza for over four decades, condemns Israel for using allegations of military activity to attack civilian hospitals without proof. “This is all part of this immense intimidation of the Palestinian people in Gaza.”

    “This Has to Stop”: Doctors Denounce Israel’s Targeting of Gaza Hospitals - YouTube

    We bring you the voices of Jewish Voice for Peace and their allies who shut down the main terminal of Grand Central Station during rush hour Friday in one of New York's largest acts of civil disobedience in 20 years to demand a ceasefire in Gaza. The multiracial, intergenerational movement says about 400 people were arrested, including rabbis, famous actors and elected officials from the New York State Assembly and Senate and the City Council.

    "Not in Our Name": 400 Arrested at Jewish-Led Sit-in at NYC's Grand Central Demanding Gaza Ceasefire - YouTube

    After a few years of record-breaking temperatures and extreme weather events, Ripple’s experience is a sign of how climate scientists — who once refrained from entering the public fray — are now using strident language to describe the warming planet. References to “climate emergency” and “climate crisis,” once used primarily by activist groups like the U.K.-based Extinction Rebellion or the U.S.-based Sunrise Movement, are spiking in the academic literature.

    To a growing number of scientists, climate change is an ‘emergency’ - The Washington Post

    Dr. Gabor Maté shares his reflections on Israel/Palestine including recent tragic events on and following October 7th, 2023. This conversation was recorded on October 28, 2023, and was facilitated by Hannah Maté. Please be mindful to engage in respectful discourse in the comments amidst inevitable political disagreement on this subject matter. Resources - Cited in Video: Places to donate: The Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund Dror Israel

    Description of video has a list of suggested resources and books including: The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities by Simha Flapan Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom by Norman Finkelstein The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé Dr. Gabor Maté on Israel/Palestine - YouTube

    “In six days the government of Israel dropped more bombs in the small concentrated are of Gaza than the United States had dropped in an entire year in the entire country of Afghanistan.” - Source: Washington Post

    My take: The indiscriminate killing of children and adult civilian Palestinians in Gaza is a war crime and genocide. The target is not Hamas. Israel is razing the entirety of Gaza.

    Updates on #CeasefireNOW| Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - YouTube

    We speak with philosopher Judith Butler, one of dozens of Jewish American writers and artists who signed an open letter to President Biden calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. “We should all be standing up and objecting and calling for an end to genocide,” says Butler of the Israeli assault. “Until Palestine is free … we will continue to see violence. We will continue to see this structural violence producing this kind of resistance.”

    Palestinian Lives Matter Too: Jewish Scholar Judith Butler Condemns Israel’s “Genocide” in Gaza - YouTube

    “The majority of Americans see some fairly severe environmental harms as likely to happen over the next 30 years,” says Alec Tyson of the Pew Research Center, who helped lead the survey. “For example, 73% say they think a growing number of plant and animal species will go extinct, 61% say they think heat waves will cause large numbers of people to die in the U.S. every year and 58% think rising sea levels will force large numbers of people in the U.S. to move away from the coast.”

    Reality slowly setting in.

    Americans expect climate impacts to worsen, survey finds : NPR

    Just the last few years, a brief glimpse of the violence of occupation and apartheid supported by the US.

    The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has been tracking deaths in the conflict since 2008 and its data shows that 5,600 Palestinians died up to 2020 while 115,000 were injured. 250 Israelis died during the same period while 5,600 were injured.

    The Human Cost Of The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Israeli & Palestinian deaths/injuries documented by the UN. A bar chart depicting the statistics of violence in the conflict shows the one-sided nature of the conflict.

    Chart: The Human Cost Of The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict | Statista

    Israel says it has refused visa to UN official to ‘teach them a lesson’

    Israel refuses to admit to the violence of its ongoing occupation and apartheid. As called out by the UN Secretary-General addressing the UN:

    The attack on Israel did not happen “in a vacuum” and followed “56 years of suffocating occupation” for the Palestinian people by Israel, adding “They have seen their land steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence; their economy stifled; their people displaced and their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution to their plight have been vanishing.”

    “Due to his remarks we will refuse to issue visas to UN representatives. We have already refused a visa for under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs Martin Griffiths. The time has come to teach them a lesson.”

    Israel has called on UN secretary general Guterres to resign after he said that the“appalling attacks” by Hamas against Israel on 7 October cannot justify the “collective punishment of the Palestinian people”, and spoke of “the clear violations of international humanitarian law that we are witnessing in Gaza.”

    Guterres had said “Nothing can justify the deliberate killing, injuring and kidnapping of civilians – or the launching of rockets against civilian targets. All hostages must be treated humanely and released immediately and without conditions.”

    Israel-Hamas war live: Israel vows to ‘teach the UN a lesson’ as row over secretary general’s speech escalates

    In recent years, human rights organizations and legal experts have increasingly described Israel’s policies toward Palestinians as apartheid…

    Apartheid, a term originating from the South African government’s systematic oppression of Black residents, is a crime against humanity under international law. At its core, it refers to policies intended to elevate one racial group over another, with the goal of maintaining the dominant group’s hegemony.

    The argument that Israel practices apartheid, explained - Vox

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