Israel launches major offensive in Gaza after airstrikes that killed more than 100
Israel has announced a major new offensive in Gaza after launching a wave of airstrikes on the territory that killed more than 100 people, in what it said was a fresh effort to force Hamas to release hostages.
In a statement late on Friday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they had “launched extensive attacks and mobilized forces to seize strategic areas in the Gaza Strip, as part of the opening moves of Operation Gideon’s Chariots and the expansion of the campaign in Gaza, to achieve all the goals of the war in Gaza”.
The announcement came as Donald Trump finished a visit to the region that included stops in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates but not Israel.
Once again the IDF have dropped a bomb through some Palestinian  kindergarten because Hamas had a base underneath it, it’s the sort of morality that would make your average drug cartel blush.
Look at this Palestinian baby…
…why are they being starved to death by a food blockade that is a war crime?
How do you justify this because of what Hamas did on October 7th?
Israel is committing a Genocide, America is enabling that Genocide, and we in the West are too frightened of being called anti-semitic to call out that Genocide.
What has our cowardice done to us?
As babies die from Israeli war crime starvation in Gaza, where is our collective global humanity?
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We need to start naming and outing the genocide deniers, One day everyone will claim to have always been against this.
Because one day the current crop of genoocide deniers will be as despised as Holocaust deniers are today.
So who are they?
Excepting the Green Party and Te Pati Maori, for all the other parliamentary political parties, despite some individual objections, which were overridden, genocide denial is still their official policy position..
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/mp-steps-outside-labour-policy-genocide-remark
Otago Daily Times Friday, 8 December 2023
MP steps outside Labour policy with ‘genocide’ remark
“As babies die from Israeli war crime starvation in Gaza, where is our collective global humanity?” Martyn Bradbury
Where indeed.
Will NZ politicians and mainstream media be the last on the globe to recognise and call out the genocide in Gaza?
Al Jazeera English
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Will Trump do something to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza? | The Listening Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDcWwMf1KbE
Transcript:
Richard Gizbert The Listening Post @9:06 minutes:
….Discerning news consumers have also detected a clear editorial shift in some influential Western media outlets. On the eve of Trump’s trip, news organizations that have long defended Israel’s war on Gaza started changing, or at least altering their tune. And it’s about time!
The world has awoken,
We’ve seen that the Financial Times came out with its editorial calling for an end to the policy of starvation. The Guardian has been publishing pieces similarly. The Economist doing the same. We’re also seeing there’s now a split within the New York Times, and people who are directly calling out.
There is a sea change in public opinion.
It’s just so tragic to me, that it took this much destruction, so many people being killed, for the world to finally wake up….
Quite. But our political leaders and opinion shapers are still wilfully asleep, even now.
Pat O’Dea – Our Political leaders and opinion shapers are asleep…they know what Hamas strategies are…pain and suffering of the Gazan people in order to gain support.
Has anyone found ‘our collective global humanity?’ Some traces, like those spread around a crime scene perhaps?
I have been wondering about this myself. Every now and then someone or even a family decides to walk or cycle the length of Kiwiland and I wondered if that was their actual quest. But no it’s something of a challenge for them – a nice to do without the pain that a journalist might feel if they set to walk the length of Gaza looking for traces of our humanity, how many have been killed on that quest?
The people I live among are just getting on trying to live a moral life and pay their taxes, get WOF etc. Maybe they will travel to a concert or to meet up with relations. I don’t think they have humanity to the fore of their brains. Or they might be writing here or reading about education and school drop-outs and poor attendance. Or a supermarket stabbing. They haven’t time to look for the humanity or even actively think about it in general though they might notice homelessness, be reminded about growing need for foodbanks. My life is falling around my ears as I spend time thinking about NZAO and how distant from our humanity our century of education and scientific developments have brought us; to point non plus.
The cunning ploy of floating an idea, getting it to apparent working order and trumpeting its value, replaces reasoned analysis in the most educated minds. I am strongly attached to Ernest Rutherford after reading much about him. but what he helped discover has been no good for humanity on a net basis. Because we seem unable to settle for a definite system that is understandable, resilient, lasting, practical, fair and strong enough to cope with blows and dents and still be sound, I have considered a simple dichotomy to help sharpen our minds. People can decide their leaning – either to Music, contemplation, imagination, foresight, also empirical, or Mathematical, regulated, technological, systematised, science-first, monetised. (Note https://en.wikipedia.org/wikiMonetization#)
(You will note business people would like to limit libraries, like art if they can profit from it. (I am reading old John Pilger and he talks about famous Australian Aborigine Albert Namatjira getting rorted for his works by predatory white agents, he living in poverty while his paintings earned thousands for the agents. That is an example of the two types interfacing.)
Having realised that one has a leaning, the individual wishing to realise their full humanity would need to learn more about the other side. This would mean men in general, reading more fiction and not just about war stories such as glamorising James Bond; the naval books seem to bring out a man’s humanity. Women would have to be more diverse in their fiction and non-fiction, and realise their leaning and groupthink tendencies leading to conceit; educated, emancipated women are not as superior as they consider.
We all want it to stop yet it can’t be. Befuddling. And disproving of all our modern regime.