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I was invited to watch NAZA and asked to sit on Q&A panels afterwards to discuss. Here are my thoughts on what the film reveals and what it shields. The story told and the target it misses. #naza #israel electronicintifada.net/conte…
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A Pakistani court has sentenced human rights activists Imaan Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha -- known for representing oppressed communities, incl the Baloch -- to 10 yrs in prison for allegedly breaching an intl cricket team's security arrangements. dawn.com/news/2040694/atc-se…
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A bit bizarre that only two weeks after piling up on the Greens for saying zionism is racism every mainstream commentator is lamenting that the only thing preventing a Netanyahu defeat is the unfortunate fact that … zionism is racism
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Colonizers and enslavers have always developed and used technologies to calculate the evaluate the lives of the colonised. My review of NAZA and the inflation in Israeli Necro-Economics from the Al Aqsa intifada to the genocide. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n20/…
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At least half of Israel wants Netanyahu to remain in charge, they are the Bibi ha-melekh crowd. The vast majority of that other 50% essentially agree with everything he has done and continues to do: the obliteration of the Palestinian people, destruction of Lebanon, and occupation/subjugation of Syria, war against Iran, etc. They just think Israel now has an image problem, that can be solved with a little rebranding and it can go on living the dream as if nothing happened.
In my interviews with Israelis, a portrait has emerged: a people defiant but weary, resistant to Palestinian pain but traumatized from war, fed up with the world but fearful of global isolation, and in a tug-of-war with themselves.
Read and listen:
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UN Commission of Inquiry:
"Israel has committed war crimes & the crimes against humanity of extermination, persecution, torture, rape & other forms of sexual violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, intentionally targeting Palestinian civilians."
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Wow!
This graph depicting the Palestinian vs. Israeli death toll from 1940 to the present shows exactly when the genocide begins - and why it is a genocide...
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Exclusive: The UK’s largest “sharia-compliant” fund, HSBC’s Islamic Global Equity Index Fund, has purchased more than $100m worth of shares in 5 companies linked to the Israeli military in the first half of this year, a @MiddleEastEye analysis can reveal
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WATCH HERE: How Biden Helped Israel Destroy Gaza: A conversation with Akbar Shahid Ahmed about his new book, “Crossing the Red Line: Biden, His Advisors, and Israel’s War in Gaza.” infinitejaz.com/p/how-biden-…
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Israel has now killed more people during the Gaza “ceasefire” it agreed to in October 2025 than the total number of military and civilian casualties on October 7, 2023.
Over 300 of those killed during the “ceasefire” were children, eight times the number killed on Oct 7.
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Palestinians now control just eight per cent of the land in the West Bank. “92 per cent of the land for 50 per cent of the people—how is that sustainable?” a policy fellow who has been mapping Israeli settlements said. newyorker.com/news/a-reporte…
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"there is not a single functioning MRI machine left in the entire Gaza Strip. All seven machines that once existed were destroyed by the Israeli occupation."
And of course, despite 10 months of the 'ceasefire', no such medical equipment has been allowed in.
There are many realities in Gaza that rarely make it into daily coverage. One of them: there is not a single functioning MRI machine left in the entire Gaza Strip. All seven machines that once existed were destroyed by the Israeli occupation.
Doctors are now forced to diagnose and treat many patients without MRI scans, making already difficult medical decisions even harder.
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Gaza has the highest concentration of child amputees in the world (at the peak of Israeli bombing, 10 kids were losing limbs daily), UNRWA says. And now Israel is now blocking prosthetic limbs from entering Gaza. All this has happened with US support or complicity.
🚨Aid coalition chief: Israel blocks wheelchairs, prosthetics, watermelons, and fresh produce from entering Gaza
Athena Rayburn, executive director of the Association of International Development Agencies, which represents more than 100 humanitarian and development NGOs operating in the occupied Palestinian territory, detailed Israel’s sweeping restrictions on aid during a UN Security Council briefing Wednesday.
🔹Israel rejects scissors, crutches, wheelchairs and prosthetic limbs as “dual-use,” bars medical specialists and restricts engine oil so severely that its price has risen to 45 times normal levels, bringing aid operations to “an absolute breaking point,” Rayburn said.
🔹Israeli authorities have also rejected watermelon and onions under an unpublished “humanitarian policy,” deregistered more than 30 international aid groups and repeatedly moved the supposedly fixed Yellow Line, cutting access to at least 85 water points, schools and health clinics.
“Humanitarian assistance, by its nature, cannot be conditioned,” Rayburn said, noting Israel was shrinking “almost daily” the physical space in Gaza where aid groups can operate.
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It has been a full year since Israeli soldiers killed 22 Palestinians, including journalists and rescue workers, in a double strike on a hospital in Gaza. No one has been held accountable. trib.al/vYa6ZPs
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Essential Read on the Future of Gaza
As Envisioned by the "Board of Peace" & its key architects: Jared Kushner & Tony Blair
Kudos to @mrmhawish for this excellent analysis and reporting
"Gaza, as planned, will be a peripheral appendage to Greater Israel, a captive population toiling for low wages and a meager existence, following a pattern that has long been established in the West Bank. I asked Sara Roy, an associate at Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies, what the U.S. and Israel hoped to accomplish with their development plan. 'It’s about eliminating a Palestinian presence in Gaza,' she said, 'eliminating Gaza as the center of resistance, and about ending the whole Palestinian political project to which Gaza is the key'."
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@MouinRabbani @MacaesBruno @sarahleah1 @mehdirhasan @elgindy_ @owenjonesjourno
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“I think targeted assassinations should be carried out in Gaza, taking down 30 to 40 every night. Not just those who pose an immediate threat – there are people there who are not worthy of life. They shouldn’t live. They’re not even people.”
Israel's Ben-Gvir suggests killing '30 to 40' people in Gaza nightly on podcast with ex-hostage
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We are humbled to present the largest oral archive of testimony from Gaza produced since the genocide began, a collective memorial to the journalists who gave their lives to tell their people’s stories. LISTEN: bit.ly/livingrecord
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Israel is actively dividing and partitioning southern Lebanon with checkpoints similar to those in the occupied West Bank and a “Yellow Line” restricted zone, much like the one established in Gaza.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/te4toc
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“It’s no longer a matter of individual settlers. It’s now a policy. It’s a policy of getting rid of Palestinians from villages and literally obliterating the West Bank.”
Mary Robinson spoke to @IsaCNN on @CNN about her recent visit to the Middle East, alongside fellow Elders @HelenClarkNZ, Graça Machel and Hina Jilani, and their conclusion that the Israeli government aims to make Palestine disappear.
Watch a clip below ⬇️