I’ve yearned for a venue where we could speak openly about what’s happening in one of the world’s most contentious regions. My background is German, so you can probably anticipate where the topic ends up when I bring up Israeli politics. That has gotten old for me, and I won’t put up with it in any of the conversations going on here. My people committed terrible crimes, and ever since then, we have been working to make amends. I’ve already seen a description of the Holocaust on Wikipedia that, depending on how you define it, could relate to the deaths of anywhere between 2 million and 30 million people. Never in my life will I debate about math. It doesn’t matter to me if it was 100 or 100 million. It was wrong to murder people, and it shouldn’t happen again anywhere. Story over.

This community must continue to be a place for open discussions; however, I would prefer not to intervene harshly in any conversations that get improper. Unlike the Palestine community on Lemmygrad, this community is different. I won’t favor one side over the others. I like having spirited talks, which is why I started this community. Such talks ought to be educational rather than propagandistic or meant to belittle. I hope to learn more about the situation and hope others do as well.

I expect heated discussions. After all, it wouldn’t be a proper Irish wedding without a small brawl or two. As long as the participants can agree afterward that the choice of whiskey was good, and a good time was had by all.

When posting an item, please utilize a paragraph or two from the article rather than simply the headline to persuade readers to read the entire thing.

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank face daily harassment and attacks from Israeli settlers and the army. And as they did in Gaza, soldiers regularly post videos of themselves online

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbI03FbiP1v/

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/63449377

‘I can reel off the names of children who died... because we couldn’t feed them’ Dr. Nick Maynard talks about heartbreaking moments in Gaza where kids made it through surgery, but then still died bcz basic food and nutrition were blocked by Israel

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/63439999

The Israel lobby’s attempt to destroy Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign is a disturbing example of how money warps democracy.

archive: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/wC0II

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/63326385

On Friday, Israeli settlers attacked 80-year-old Ibrahim Ismail al-Jabour and his family in the Hawara area of Masafer Yatta, occupied West Bank. Local sources report that Israeli soldiers present at the scene did not intervene and instead protected the settlers during the assault. No official IDF comment yet.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49303694

In this exclusive interview, former Australian Foreign Minister, the Hon. Bob Carr reveals the deep underlying influence of the Israeli lobby in Australian politics – and how it has long shaped Canberra’s stance on Israel–Palestine.

Once a co-founder of the Labor Friends of Israel with Bob Hawke in 1977, Carr has undergone a dramatic transformation – from being hailed in Tel Aviv as an “honourable gentile” to now becoming one of the loudest critics of Israel’s brutality in Gaza.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49281290

resource: https://archivegenocide.com/download.html

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49280897

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49280853

Former CIA officer John Kuryaku exposes Israel's massive espionage against the US—nearly 187 spies identified by the FBI stealing nuclear and F-35 secrets. He alleges Israel had foreknowledge of 9/11 but withheld warnings, expecting US retaliation to benefit Israeli strategic interests. Kuryaku warns the CIA and Pentagon are now more aligned with Israeli interests than American sovereignty, with Israeli personnel being embedded directly into US military command under new NDAA provisions. He calls this a political power shift driven by AIPAC lobbying. He also condemns the extrajudicial killing of US citizen Anwar al-Awlaki and his 8-year-old daughter as unconstitutional. The interview suggests US policy is increasingly "occupied" by foreign influence, eroding democracy and strategic autonomy.

Cross posted from https://lemmy.zip/post/66133434

it's collapsing

At Gate 8 of Ercan Airport — the main hub of Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus, a territory recognized by no government except Ankara — a 24-year-old Israeli citizen is stopped moments before boarding a flight to Mexico via Istanbul. Inside his luggage: a specialized cryogenic transport container. Inside the container: four human embryos, preserved in four separate test tubes, sealed under nitrogen. The label on the container reads: “Life Parcel.”

Israel is killing Palestinian babies before they are born. Not as a figure of speech. In the literal, biological, measurable sense: in the wombs of their mothers, in the nitrogen tanks of the fertility clinic a single Israeli shell obliterated in December 2023, on operating tables where cesarean sections are performed without anesthesia because the blockade has eliminated the anesthesia, in the incubators Israeli forces smashed when they raided the Kamal Adwan Hospital neonatal unit.The United Nations Commission of Inquiry reviewed the evidence. The Rome Statute does not hesitate to define it. The Genocide Convention of 1948 does not hesitate to classify it. The only entities that hesitate are the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France — who have decided, with full information, that Palestinian children, even unborn Palestinian children, do not rise to the level of a crisis requiring a change of policy. This text will name what they will not name.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46682687

Without people like this there would literally be no journalism left.

Seven months after the so-called ceasefire, people in Gaza say the war has not ended. Bisan Owda reports from Gaza, where bombings continue, large parts of the territory remain inaccessible and families are still living in tents on top of the rubble of their homes.

“They say the war ended. But it didn’t.” With children walking to school under fire and people struggling to access water and basic needs, daily life is still shaped by uncertainty and loss. At the edge of it all, the sea remains one of the few places where people can gather to find a moment of calm.

“They cannot destroy the sea.”

Britain’s Keir Starmer is already pulling the rug from under his own grudging declaration. The only hope of change is of the unintended consequences variety.