The ongoing genocide in Palestine
(Article collection from May 10, 2024)
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Biden’s War on Gaza Is Now a War on Truth and the Right to Protest
By Jonathan Cook
May 10, 2024
The media’s role is to draw attention away from what the students are protesting – complicity in genocide – and engineer a moral panic to leave the genocide undisturbed
As mass student protests quickly spread to campuses across the United States last week, and others took hold in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, the western media gave centre stage to one man to arbitrate on whether the demonstrations should be allowed to continue: US President Joe Biden.
The establishment media reverentially relayed the president’s message that the protests were violent and dangerous, treating his assessment as if it had been handed down on a tablet of stone.
Biden declared the protesters had no “right to cause chaos”, giving the green light for police to go in with even greater force to clear the encampments.
This week, Biden raised the stakes further by suggesting the protests were evidence of a “ferocious surge” of antisemitism in the US.
According to reports, more than 2,000 protesters have been arrested after some university administrators – under growing pressure from the White House and their own wealthy donors – called in local police.
In approving the crushing of dissent, Biden contradicted himself: “We are not an authoritarian nation where we silence people or squash dissent. But order must prevail.”
One small problem went unmentioned: Biden was not a disinterested party. In fact, his conflict of interest was so gigantic it could, like the damage to Gaza, be seen from outer space.
The students were calling on their universities to pull all investments from companies that are assisting Israel in carrying out what the World Court has called a “plausible” genocide in Gaza. Those weapons are being supplied in huge quantities largely thanks to the decisions of one man.
Yes, Joe Biden.
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https://www.unz.com/jcook/bidens-war-on-gaza-is-now-a-war-on-truth-and-the-right-to-protest/
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‚Genocide Joe‘ Suffers Another Mortifying Slap-Down at the United Nations
By Mike Whitney
May 10, 2024
In a clear rejection of US policies and leadership in the Middle East, the UN general assembly voted overwhelmingly to back the Palestinian bid for full UN membership. The western media have mostly ignored Friday’s balloting since the widely-anticipated results represent another black eye for Washington. But the outcome of the vote is a blow to the Biden administration’s failed Gaza policy as well as a clear indication that America’s blanket support for Israel’s genocide is increasing Washington’s isolation and irrelevance.
The assembly vote was 143 to 9, which means that US diplomatic influence has eroded to the point where the White House could barely coerce 9 of their most-loyal vassal states to reject the motion. It is imperative that people fully grasp the meaning of this vote, which suggests that the so-called “Rules-Based Order” is a withering fraud that grows more anemic by the day. Additionally, the vote provides compelling evidence that the American Century is officially over and that the vast majority of the world’s nations are no longer willing to comply with Washington’s self-serving edicts.
Naturally, Israel’s envoy to the UN, Gilad Erdan, used the opportunity—not to express his remorse at being a participant in his nation’s sadistic rampage in Gaza—but to scold the other members of the assembly for acting courageously on a matter of principle. Without a trace of irony, Erdan accused the other members of “shredding the UN charter with your own hands. Yes, yes, that’s what you’re doing. Shredding the UN charter.”
What Erdan failed to mention is that Israel holds the world’s record for breaking UN resolutions and has yet to encounter an international law that it won’t break with impunity. Israel decided long-ago that its future depended on its ability to use the world’s biggest bully as its personal bodyguard thus allowing it to ignore any legal or moral restraints on its behavior.
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CNN exposes horrible Israeli torture methods on Palestinian detainees
By Janna Kadri
May 10, 2024
According to the whistleblowers, the beatings inflicted upon detainees were said to be done out of spite and not intended for intelligence gathering.
Three Israeli whistleblowers working at the Sde Teiman torture camp, a „holding“ site for Palestinians abducted during „Israel’s“ invasion of Gaza, have come forward with testimonies of systemic abuses by the military, including prisoners being restrained, blindfolded, and forced to wear diapers, CNN reports.
The whistleblowers described the grim conditions that Palestinian detainees face in Sde Teiman, stating that they were not allowed to move, talk, or even peek under their blindfolds.
„We were told they were not allowed to move. They should sit upright. They’re not allowed to talk. Not allowed to peek under their blindfold,“ the whistleblowers told CNN.
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Torture, executions, and live burials: UN experts on Gaza mass graves
The UN experts are urging the occupation to end its aggression against Gaza, demanding that the states who arm it end the export of weapons „immediately“.
By Al Mayadeen English
May 6, 2024
https://afsaneyebahar.com/2024/05/07/20699989/
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The beast of ideology lifts the lid on transformation
By Alastair Crooke
(Former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum)
May 6, 2024
https://afsaneyebahar.com/2024/05/06/20699984/
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Is Post-War Gaza Power-Sharing Deal Between Israel and Arab States Feasible?
By Oleg Burunov
May 5, 2024
https://afsaneyebahar.com/2024/05/05/20699924/
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Algeria calls for urgent UN meeting on Gaza mass graves
By Al Mayadeen English
May 4, 2024
https://afsaneyebahar.com/2024/05/04/20699868/
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„Have You No Sense of Decency?“
By Michael Hudson
April 28, 2024
https://afsaneyebahar.com/2024/05/01/20699828/
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Amir Mortasawi (alias Afsane Bahar) (امیر مرتضوی (افسانه بهار 