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November 15 - 14, 2024
Food for thought:
Here's why the Gaza war is 'consistent with genocide',
according to UN body
Read more and decide for yourself
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November 14 - 13, 2024
"Israel's warfare methods
in Gaza 'consistent with genocide'": UN committee
Report says Israel 'using starvation as a method of war
and inflicting
collective punishment on the Palestinian population'.
and more actual and fact-finding news |
November 12 - 9,
2024
Food for thought: With the
genocide literally deepening onto flesh and bone
israels' western allies are also literally deepening not
only their 'moral'
support but also the deliveries of arms.
In other words: thats how low western Humanism can sink.
So yes, how are you?
Read more and decide for yourself |
When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi
figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da
qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so
called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.
photo: Raghed Waked-Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera - Nov 15, 2024 - By Giovana Fleck
<<In Amsterdam, clashes trigger a divisive blame game as old wounds
reopen
Violence that marred a football match between Israeli and Dutch teams
has scarred the diverse city now searching for healing.
Amsterdam, the Netherlands - More than a week after clashes in
Amsterdam, Tori Egherman, a Jewish writer and researcher who has lived
in the Dutch capital for 20 years, still feels angry. As she sits in a
cafe, the poster above her, featuring a black dove, reads "Peace now".
The image was created by Dutch graphic designer Max Kisman when Israel's
latest war on Gaza began and has been distributed free of charge to tens
of thousands since. "What makes me angry is that they come, act in the
most violent and racist ways, and then leave us to clean up their mess,"
she said of the Israeli football club fans involved in last week's
violence. "This episode only makes Jews and Muslims suffer the most. If
we are more divided and can't work together, there's little we can do as
communities to improve the current situation." On November 8, fans of
Maccabi Tel Aviv who had travelled to support the Israeli team playing
the Dutch group Ajax vandalised Palestinian flags and chanted racist,
dehumanising slogans.
There were <no children> left in Gaza they chanted, as they called for
the Israeli army to <win>, promising to <f**k the Arabs>. They also
attacked the homes of city-dwellers with Palestinian flags at their
windows. As they headed to the match on November 9, they again chanted
racist slogans.
After the match, Ajax having won by 5-0, Maccabi fans were chased and
attacked by groups on foot and on scooters in what world leaders,
including United States President Joe Biden, have called an act of
anti-Semitic violence. Five people were hospitalised, dozens were
arrested, and policing has been heightened since. "I am not saying that
the violence wasn't anti-Semitic. I really think it was both provoked
and anti-Semitic," said 62-year-old Egherman, who immigrated from the
US. She added that over the years, she has witnessed "a lot of Jews who
get called out for using a kippah - like many Muslim women are too for
using a hijab". However, she said anti-Semitism is "only acknowledged if
it doesn't come from someone who’s white and Dutch".
'This was completely expected'
Local activist Sobhi Khatib, a 39-year-old Israel-born Palestinian who
arrived in Amsterdam decades ago, said, "The more you break down this
incident, the more you see how this was completely expected." Khatib
recalled student-led pro-Palestine protests earlier in 2024, when police
used batons against demonstrators. "The violence from last week is an
escalation of the institutional violence that has been present and
normalised in Dutch society, especially since [Geert] Wilders was
elected last November," he said, referring to the Islamophobic
politician who leads the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV). The PVV
triumphed in 2023, becoming the largest party in the House of
Representatives. In recent days, the Dutch state has tried to exert
control on activists. After the clashes, Amsterdam's Mayor Femke Halsema
issued an emergency decree banning protests. But some, enraged by
Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, have defied the measure.
Frank van der Linde, an activist and organiser in Amsterdam, tried to
fight the ban legally. "We have to fight against this repression by all
non-violent means," he said, adding that preventing free expression
risks further disruption. "The mayor is shooting herself in the foot."
In a court case, he argued that the decree breached human rights. The
court ruled on November 11 that the ban was legitimate. "Repression is a
trend," concluded van der Linde.
'This conflict deeply impacted the Dutch Moroccans'
The Netherlands is home to a large Muslim minority who comprise about 5
percent of the population. Most have roots in Morocco and Turkey. The
country's relationship with Dutch Moroccans in particular is often
uneasy. <There is a lot of Moroccan scum in Holland who make the streets
unsafe,> Wilders said in a 2017 election campaign. <If you want to
regain your country, make the Netherlands for the people of the
Netherlands again, then you can only vote for one party.> "This conflict
deeply impacted the Dutch Moroccans in the city, much more than the
Palestinians," said Khatib.
Dutch Moroccan student Oumaima Al Abdellaoui, 22, usually spends her
time visiting schools to talk to pupils about cohesion. In 2019, she
co-authored a book about the two cultures in Dutch society. "Everyone in
my communities, both the Islamic community and the Dutch Moroccan
community, is frightened and angry over the blame game. We don't know
what’s coming next,” she said, adding that the community is often
wrongly blamed for societal woes such as a lack of housing or crime.
There's a deep feeling of not being understood and not being protected
by the government or the police." She used the Dutch term <tweederangsburger>
to describe the feeling among many Dutch Moroccans, meaning
<second-class citizen>. "The attacks against the Maccabi fans were
condemnable," she said. "Violence should never be used. But this
violence is a consequence of a build-up of marginalisation, racist
politics, and racism within the police force." As protesters continue to
defy bans, debates rage on responsibility, and minority communities in
the Netherlands remain fearful, while Israel's war in Gaza goes on.
To date, almost 44,000 Palestinians - most of them women and children -
have been killed since October 7, when Hamas launched an incursion into
southern Israel during which 1,139 people were killed and more than 200
were taken captive.
Jelle Zijlstra, a 37-year-old Amsterdam-born Jewish theatre director and
activist, worries that the far-right and anti-immigration political
groups in the Netherlands will capitalise on the street clashes for
years to come. "While all this happened, we forgot to focus on the
people who are suffering the most in Gaza," he said. "What we saw last
week seemed like a scary equivalency that Jews and Muslims are natural
enemies ... Our officials have been quite picky in what types of
anti-Semitism they condemn, usually the type that suits their agenda.
Therefore, they are using Jews to deflect racist policies and
Islamophobic rhetoric." Prime Minister Dick Schoof has termed the riots
and attacks as <unadulterated anti-Semitic violence>, saying there is a
<big difference between destroying things and hunting Jews>. While he
has touted the possibility of stripping passports of <those who have
turned away from society> referring to suspects behind the attacks on
Israeli fans, he has said the Maccabi supporters' violence will be
investigated. When contacted by Al Jazeera, Amsterdam’s chief of police
sent a statement that acknowledged the harassment of those sympathetic
to the Palestinian cause but concluded that above all, <I can imagine
that Israelis feel unsafe ... their wellbeing is our top priority.> The
office of Amsterdam's mayor said Halsema's priority was restoring peace
and order, and she was therefore unavailable for comment. Joana Cavaco,
a 28-year-old member of Erev Rav, an anti-Zionist Jewish collective
based in the Netherlands, argued that blaming people of Arab backgrounds
for anti-Semitism is unlikely to ease tensions and limits open
discussions about Europe's role in the Holocaust. "Anti-Semitism is a
part of Dutch society, it is rooted in this culture," she said. "When it
comes to Holocaust memory, the Dutch point their fingers at the Germans,
without acknowledging that people from the Netherlands have allowed Jews
to die in concentration camps. Those are the questions that we try and
believe should be addressed to mitigate anti-Semitism. This provides
safety." She added that ensuring the safety of Palestinians will also
lead to the protection of Jewish people.
Khatib, the Palestinian activist, said when the Maccabi Tel Aviv fans
arrived in Amsterdam, he avoided wearing his keffiyeh in public. "I was
afraid," he said. He remains pessimistic about the future of Amsterdam's
pro-Palestine movement, especially if the national discourse fails to
evolve.
At the end of the interview, another pro-Palestine protest was emerging
at Amsterdam's Dam Square, a short distance away. Khatib placed his
keffiyeh around his shoulders, making sure that it was visible even over
his rain jacket.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/15/in-amsterdam-clashes-trigger-a-divisive-blame-game-as-old-wounds-reopen
Note by Gino d'Artali: After a fierce debate in the Dutch parlaiment
centered around the question if the 'riots' where countered by racist
police-forces hunting Plestinians, Morrocon and Arabs the government did
not fall over it but... they're not out of the woods yet as long as this
government does not recognice that there is a genocide going on in
Palestine.
Al Jazeera - Nov 14, 2024 - By Edna Mohamed
<<LIVE: Israel pounds Lebanon and Gaza with 160 strikes
Israeli air strikes hit the Dahiyeh, Haret Hreik, and Chiyah areas in
the southern suburbs of Beirut in the fifth consecutive day of heavy
bombardment of Lebanon's capital. An Israeli drone kills two more
paramedics in Lebanon’s southern Nabatieh governorate as outrage pours
in after at least 12 rescuers died in an air attack on a civil defence
centre.>>
Read more and video:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/16/live-who-chief-slams-israels-killing-of-12-paramedics-in-lebanon-strike
France 24 - Nov 15, 2024
<<French court orders release of Lebanese militant Georges Abdallah held
since 1984
A French court Friday ordered the release of pro-Palestinian Lebanese
militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, jailed for 40 years after being
convicted for the killing of two foreign diplomats. The office of
France's anti-terrorism prosecutor said on Friday it would appeal the
decision. The court said Abdallah, who was detained in 1984 and
convicted in 1987 over the 1982 murders, would be released on December 6
on condition that he leaves France, French anti-terror prosecutors said
in a statement, adding that they would appeal the release order. "In (a)
decision dated today, the court granted Georges Ibrahim Abdallah
conditional release from December 6, subject to the condition that he
leaves French territory and not appear there again," the prosecutors
said.
Abdallah was sentenced to life in prison in 1987 for his involvement in
the 1982 murders of US military attache Charles Ray and Israeli diplomat
Yakov Barsimentov in Paris, as well as in an assassination attempt on
Robert Homme, a US consul in Strasbourg. The Lebanese Armed
Revolutionary Factions claimed responsibility for the two murders,
saying they were carried out in retaliation for US and Israeli
involvement in the Lebanese civil war, which erupted in 1975, as well as
Israel's subsequent occupation of southern Lebanon, which began in 1982
and lasted until 2000. During his long incarceration, Abdallah has been
supported by a network of human rights groups, anti-imperialist,
Marxist, and anti-Zionist activists who have denounced what they
consider the judicial mistreatment of "a hostage of the French
government". They compare him to a more celebrated former political
prisoner: Nelson Mandela of South Africa.
'A legal and a political victory'
The US has consistently opposed Abdallah's release, but Lebanese
authorities have repeatedly said he should be freed from jail. Abdallah,
now 73, has always insisted he is a "fighter" who battled for the rights
of Palestinians and not a "criminal". This was his 11th bid for release.
He had been eligible to apply for parole since 1999 but all his previous
applications had been turned down, except in 2013 when he was granted
release on the condition that he would be expelled from France. However
the then interior minister Manuel Valls refused to go through with the
order and Abdallah remained in jail. The court's decision on Friday is
not conditional on the government issuing such an order, Abdallah's
lawyer, Jean-Louis Chalanset, told AFP, hailing "a legal and a political
victory".
A spotlight on French justice system
Abdallah has never expressed regret for his actions.
Wounded in 1978 during Israel's invasion of Lebanon, he joined the
Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP),
which carried out a string of plane hijackings in the 1960s and 1970s
and is banned as a terror group by the US and EU. In the late 1970s,
Abdallah, a Christian, founded his own militant group the LARF, which
had contact with other radical left militant outfits including Italy's
Red Brigades and the German Red Army Faction (RAF). A pro-Syrian and
anti-Israeli Marxist group, the LARF claimed four deadly attacks in
France in the 1980s. Abdallah was arrested in 1984 after entering a
police station in Lyon and claiming Mossad assassins were on his trail.
At his trial over the killing of the diplomats, Abdallah was sentenced
to life in prison, a much more severe punishment than the 10 years
demanded by prosecutors. His lawyer Jacques Verges, who defended clients
including Venezuelan militant Carlos the Jackal, described the verdict
as a "declaration of war". There remains a broad swell of support for
his cause among the far left and communists in France. Last month, 2022
Nobel literature prize winner Annie Ernaux said in a piece in communist
daily L'Humanité that his detention "shamed France".>>
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, Reuters):
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20241115-french-court-orders-release-of-lebanese-militant-georges-abdallah
BBC - November 14, 2024 - By Robert Greenall
<<HRW accuses Israel of war crime of forced displacement in Gaza
As many as 130,000 Palestinians have been displaced by an Israeli ground
offensive in northern Gaza since October. Israel has committed war
crimes and crimes against humanity by deliberately causing the mass
displacement of Palestinians in Gaza, a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW)
says.
About 1.9 million people - 90% of Gaza’s population - have fled their
homes over the past year, and 79% of the territory is under
Israeli-issued evacuation orders, according to the UN. HRW's report says
this amounts to "forcible transfer" and that "evidence shows it has been
systematic and part of a state policy". It also says Israeli actions
appear to "meet the definition of ethnic cleansing". Israel said the
report was <completely false and detached from reality>. <Contrary to
claims in HRW's report, Israel's efforts are directed solely at
dismantling Hamas's terror capabilities and not at the people of Gaza,>
Oren Marmorstein, a spokesperson of Israel's ministry of foreign affairs
posted on X. He added that Israel would <continue to operate in
accordance with the law of armed conflict>. HRW has also accused Hamas
of using civilians as human shields by operating inside homes and
civilian infrastructure. The report was published as Israeli forces
continued a ground offensive in northern Gaza that has displaced up to
130,000 people over the past five weeks. The UN has said 75,000 people
remain under siege with dwindling supplies of water and food in the
towns of Jabalia, Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun, where the Israeli military
says it is preventing a Hamas resurgence. US says Israel hasn't breached
its law against blocking aid in Gaza. Under the laws of war, the forced
displacement of any civilians inside an occupied territory is
prohibited, unless it is necessary for their security or for an
imperative military reason. For displacement to be lawful, civilians
must be moved safely and provided with accommodation and essential
supplies. They must also be able to return to their homes after the end
of hostilities in the area. HRW's report - based on interviews with
displaced Palestinians, analysis of Israeli evacuation orders, satellite
imagery showing destruction of buildings, and videos and photos of
strikes - concludes that there is no plausible imperative military
reason to justify the displacement of nearly all of Gaza's population
and that the other conditions for it be lawful have also not been met.
The US-based group says the Israeli evacuation orders have been
"inconsistent, inaccurate, and frequently not communicated to civilians
with enough time", and that they "did not consider the needs of people
with disabilities and others who are unable to leave". Israeli forces
have also "repeatedly struck designated evacuation routes and safe
zones", it adds. It accuses Israeli authorities of blocking "all but a
small fraction of the necessary humanitarian aid, water, electricity,
and fuel from reaching civilians in need", as well as carrying out
attacks that have damaged and destroyed vital resources like hospitals
and bakeries. HRW also alleges that Israel's military has "intentionally
demolished or severely damaged civilian infrastructure, including
controlled demolitions of homes, with the apparent aim of creating an
extended 'buffer zone' along Gaza's perimeter with Israel and a corridor
which will bifurcate Gaza". "The destruction is so substantial that it
indicates the intention to permanently displace many people," it warns.
Israeli government ministers are also cited as saying that Gaza's
territory would decrease and that land would be handed to Israeli
settlers. "Forced displacement has been widespread, and the evidence
shows it has been systematic and part of a state policy. Such acts also
constitute crimes against humanity," HRW says. It also says that the "organised,
violent displacement of Palestinians in Gaza, who are members of another
ethnic group, is likely planned to be permanent in the buffer zones and
security corridors", and that such actions "amount to ethnic cleansing".
In response, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that
the report was <both selectively presents information in a manner that
obscures context, as well as makes certain blatant misrepresentations>.
<The IDF's warnings to members of the civilian population to temporarily
distance themselves from areas expected to be exposed to intense warfare
are made in accordance with the obligation under international law to
take feasible precautions to mitigate civilian harm by providing advance
warnings prior to attacks,> it added. <The IDF only operates in areas in
which there is known to be a military presence, and is still at this
time working to dismantle Hamas' military infrastructure in various
parts throughout the Gaza Strip.> The IDF has also previously denied
that it is seeking to create permanent buffer zones and Israeli Foreign
Minister Gideon Saar recently said that displaced people from northern
Gaza would be allowed to return home at the end of the war. Also on
Thursday, a UN General Assembly special committee released a new report
that says Israel's warfare methods in Gaza are "consistent with the
characteristics of genocide, with mass civilian casualties and
life-threatening conditions intentionally imposed on Palestinians
there". Israel has vehemently denied that its forces are committing
genocide in Gaza. During a press briefing on Thursday, US state
department spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters the US <unequivocally
disagreed> that Israeli warfare methods were consistent with genocide.
<We think that that kind of phrasing and those kind of accusations are
certainly unfounded,> he said.
Israel launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to the group's
unprecedented attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in which
about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.
More than 43,700 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according
to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.>>
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8ygyem84jo
BBC - November 14, 2024 - By Robert Greenall
<<Netanyahu aide investigated over 7 October document changes
Tzachi Braverman, right, reportedly said he altered the documented time
of a call to the prime minister The Chief of Staff to Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being investigated by police over
allegations of altering documents relating to the 7 October Hamas attack
to portray his boss in a more favourable light. Tzachi Braverman, one of
Netanyahu's closest advisors, was questioned by the Israeli police Lahav
433 major crimes unit for over five hours on Thursday, according to
reports in Israeli media. Detectives have confirmed an investigation is
under way. The accusation is focused around two telephone calls that
Netanyahu received as the Hamas cross border raid was unfolding on 7
October 2023. Braverman is suspected of having altered the documented
time when Netanyahu first received an update on the attack via a
telephone call from his military secretary at the time, Major General
Avi Gil. The chief of staff is accused of changing the time from 06:40
to 06:29.
He denies having altered the transcript of the call other than to change
the time. "I know that the first call was received at 06:29, that's why
I insisted on changing it," he is reported to have told detectives
during the interrogation. While Gil had phoned Netanyahu at 06:29, as
the Hamas attack began, Netanyahu did not give any instructions, telling
him instead to phone again in 10 minutes, at 06:40, according to a
report in the Haaretz newspaper, It was only during the second phone
call for which Braverman allegedly altered the time stamp to appear as
though it was the first, that Netanyahu ordered Gil to hold a
situational assessment on the developing Hamas invasion, Haaretz
reported. The allegation is that Braverman altered the time, in order to
give the impression that the prime minister had acted more urgently and
more decisively.
The chief of staff denies that. The 7 October attack was the biggest
military and intelligence failure in Israel's history. Several senior
military officials have already resigned over it. Netanyahu has
consistently denied any personal failure. His critics though, believe it
is the prime minister who was ultimately responsible for the failure to
prevent the deadliest attack on the country since the foundation of the
State of Israel in 1948. Various investigations are under way into the
military and intelligence failures and Netanyahu has rejected claims he
is stalling on demands for a full-scale inquiry. This potential scandal
is in its infancy, but it could go on to seriously undermine the Prime
Minister's position. And it comes at a time when Netanyahu is mid-way
through a trial facing corruption charges. He is due to testify in that
trial next month, having failed to have the case thrown out, believing
it is a political witch-hunt.>>
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgk18pdnxmmo
Al Jazeera - Nov 14, 2024 - Al Jazeera Live
<<Here's why the Gaza war is 'consistent with genocide", according to UN
body
The UN has released a report on the first nine months of Israel's war on
Gaza where it accuses Israel of genocide by 'using starvation as a
method of war and inflicting collective punishment on the Palestinian
population'.>>
Source/video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/11/15/heres-why-the-gaza-war-is-consistent-with-genocide-according-to-un-body
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