Dear America- Why is an America that fought to save Europe from the Nazi Holocaust want to be part of the Zionist Holocaust that is raging in a land called holy by all three Abrahamic faiths ?!!

"We need a world where every child is in school & learning, safe from harm and able to fulfill their potential. Stand with children in their call for peace #ForEveryChild, everywhere." UNITED NATIONS

letter I just sent to all my elected leaders 

Dear America,

I read with utter horror the Israeli plans for Gaza in the Washington Post 8-31-2025: "Gaza postwar plan envisions ‘voluntary’ relocation of entire population"

Sick minds and greedy people carefully thought out how best to profit from the ongoing forced displacement of the native non-Jewish men, women and children of historic Palestine.

Religious persecution is evil and wrong- basing citizenship rights and security on a person's religion is recipe for disaster and escalating violence.

Many of our ancestors came to America to escape from religious persecution. So why is America, where church and state are supposed to be fully separate, choosing to back armed Israeli bigotry, injustice and genocidal land grabs ?!

Why is an America that fought to save Europe from the Nazi Holocaust want to be part of the Zionist Holocaust that is raging in a land called holy by all three Abrahamic faiths ?!!

The United Nations and full respect for The Universal Declaration of Human Rights are the right road map towards building a just and lasting peace- start with full support for every refugees inalienable right to return to original homes and lands.

Sincerely,

Anne Selden Annab

NOTES https://anniesnewletters.blogspot.com/search/label/Notes

"Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world..."   https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

STOP THE SIEGE- stop funding crazy cruel Israeli schemes & the forced displacement, imprisonment, starvation, torture, and killing of human beings in Gaza and Palestine.

"The olive tree is more than a tree in Palestine, it is a heartbeat, a witness, a rooted elder holding centuries in its branches. When Israeli forces and settlers tear these groves from the earth, it is not only roots that are severed, but memory, heritage, and the quiet dreams of generations. Yet even uprooted, the olive carries a stubborn truth: that belonging cannot be erased, and that the land remembers those who loved it." Sliman Mansour of Palestine

A Palestinian farmer in Gaza discovered this mosaic under his orchard in 2022. Who knows what became of the farmer, his family, his home, and the mosaic: As of 27 May 2025, UNESCO has verified damage to 110 sites since 7 October 2023 – 13 religious sites, 77 buildings of historical and/or artistic interest, 3 depositories of movable cultural property, 9 monuments, 1 museum and 7 archeological sites.

Dear America- Israel says it wants the hostages but what Israel has wanted all along is yet another an excuse to grab all the land of historic Palestine and beyond.

Please no more Israeli GHF killing fields or other such Zionist schemes that aim to further harass and destroy the native non-Jewish population of historic Palestine.

Our "friend" Israel does not and never has practiced the rule of fair and just laws with equal rights for all... Zionism is ?!!!!

The Israel Lobby comes in many forms, and I suspect Israeli bribes do too. So in a way American funds sent to support Israel come back in the form of an information war on America, aimed at gathering more funds and lethal weaponry so that Israel can continue USURPING land, rights, and peace... and Occupation Forces can continue harassing and harming any who dare object to such blatant injustice and violence.

I do not know why Zionism went so wrong- but it did...

STOP THE SIEGE- stop funding crazy cruel Israeli checkpoints & the forced displacement, imprisonment, starvation, torture, and killing of human beings in Gaza and Palestine.

Stop forcing us to be wage slaves for Israeli racism and escalating war... #MandelaDay is an opportunity to honor Mandela's commitment to freedom, justice & equality.

White Supremacist violence and injustice makes the world an increasingly dangerous place for all who disagree with White Supremacists- Nazi Germany under Hitler then, and both American and Israeli White Supremacists in positions of power now.

SUPPORT House Resolution 317 - Urging the United States to lead the world back from the brink of nuclear war and halt and reverse the nuclear arms race 2025... and please stop trusting Israel to give US good advice and intel.

The Texas floods killing children are a heartbreaking natural disaster, whereas Israel armed with American weaponry killing children is a cruel choice made by human beings who really should know better.

Happy Fourth of July... Happy that we have the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Bill of Rights, The Rule of Fair and Just laws, and all the brave civil rights heroes through out our history who helped America become a more real democracy for all people... Not so happy that America is funding and arming Israel's ongoing violations of international law and human rights in both Gaza and the West Bank.

Set the right example by scorning violence and racist hate... The world does not need more weapons of war. We need to prioritize peace and progress with respect for ALL human beings, regardless of supposed race or religion.

Invest in the people's needs... Be for real freedom, justice, true equality, and respect for all of humankind!

Stand up for international law and Human Rights, not the weapons industry.

PLEASE SCORN VIOLENCE and stop arming Israel with lethal weaponry plus dumb excuses to cause cruel harm to others!

We should be supporting the people's needs, not state sponsored terrorism and the intentional starvation and torture of children.

Thank you NPR, for the compassionate listen into Palestinian life, trauma, and suffering

This Earth Day please start noticing how much pollution and injustice war creates.

Tragedies abound here on planet earth, but at least we can try to make our world a better, more fair, just and secure place for more people.

Racist times created hell on earth for "others" then, we really should know better now...

Funding religious extremists and charlatans is a recipe for disaster.

Please do not let this tragic situation became a reason for more people to be treated more unequally, with more Palestinians and Palestinian Americans being doxed, destroyed, and displaced.

Life is not a video game. These are real human beings and American made weaponry has been creating a Holocaust with The Rule of Lawlessness in the Holy Land.

Taxpayers' money should not be shoring up greed, corporate corruption, injustice, and war.

Please, let Golden Rule thinking and the rule of fair and just laws guide US all towards a better way forward.

State sponsored violence is not the way to convince vulnerable people to veer away from arming religious tyranny and terrorism.

Criticizing Israel is not Anti-Semitic. Calling for respect for human rights and the rule of fair and just laws is not Anti-Semitic. Countering the poisonous propaganda of a very foreign rogue nation state that interferes with our elections and our free speech is not Anti-Semitic... Americans should not be funding, arming, and/or excusing Israel in any way, shape, or form.

Please stop fueling corporate corruption, WAR, and escalating suffering for countless men, women, and children. 

Israel, armed with American made weaponry and political support, invests in religious extremism and sets up families to be canon fodder for religious wars.... Israel claims to be Jewish, but what it really is is a cruel war machine that has been aggressively grabbing land, rights, and peace from the people of historic Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. 

Hate crimes are escalating here in America with people primed by Zionism to think, say and do horrible things...

Don't let American weaponry or words inspire even more religious extremism, terrorism, and state sponsored brutality world-wide

Slavery, Segregation and Forced Displacement are wrong. Wrong then and wrong now. 

Please do not demonize and silence or destroy people who speak out peacefully against corruption, injustice, racism, bigotry, and violence of every type. 

The best idea is to start with full support for fair and just laws based on full respect for basic human rights.

Frankly every Holocaust Museum on earth should have a wing added explaining the very real plight and suffering of the native non-Jewish Palestinians. 75 years and counting...

America should not help Israel commit crimes against humanity.

 

Emily Jacir, Memorial to 418 Palestinian Villages Which Were Destroyed, Depopulated, and Occupied by Israel in 1948, 2021, refugee tent, embroidery thread, record book

"The olive tree is more than a tree in Palestine, it is a heartbeat, a witness, a rooted elder holding centuries in its branches. When Israeli forces and settlers tear these groves from the earth, it is not only roots that are severed, but memory, heritage, and the quiet dreams of generations. Yet even uprooted, the olive carries a stubborn truth: that belonging cannot be erased, and that the land remembers those who loved it." Sliman Mansour of Palestine

Olive grove (حقل زيتون), oil on canvas, 2012 by Sliman Mansour of Palestine

sliman.mansour

The olive tree is more than a tree in Palestine, it is a heartbeat, a witness, a rooted elder holding centuries in its branches. When Israeli forces and settlers tear these groves from the earth, it is not only roots that are severed, but memory, heritage, and the quiet dreams of generations. Yet even uprooted, the olive carries a stubborn truth: that belonging cannot be erased, and that the land remembers those who loved it.

 

"Holy Family in an Olive Grove, 2020" painted by Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour

"Perseverance" by Sliman Mansour of Palestine

A Palestinian farmer in Gaza discovered this mosaic under his orchard in 2022. Who knows what became of the farmer, his family, his home, and the mosaic: As of 27 May 2025, UNESCO has verified damage to 110 sites since 7 October 2023 – 13 religious sites, 77 buildings of historical and/or artistic interest, 3 depositories of movable cultural property, 9 monuments, 1 museum and 7 archeological sites.

Photos from 2022 : Byzantine mosaics discovered under Gaza farm

The mosaics, latest in a series of Byzantine archaeological finds in Gaza, are [were]“in a perfect state of conservation”

https://aje.io/poip3g

The son of Palestinian farmer Salman al-Nabahin uses a sponge to uncover Byzantine mosaics that were discovered by his father while ploughing his land in Bureij in the central Gaza Strip. [Mohammed Abed/AFP]

The patch of land holding the mosaic is about 500 square meters (5,400 square feet) and three dug-out spots reveal glimpses of the mosaic. [Mohammed Abed/AFP]

 

This mosaic was discovered by chance by a Palestinian farmer while working in his olive orchard in the Bureij refugee camp  https://aje.io/poip3g

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A Palestinian farmer in Gaza discovered this mosaic under his orchard in 2022. Who knows what became of the farmer, his family, his home, and the mosaic.

A Palestinian farmer in Gaza discovered this mosaic under his orchard in 2022. Who knows what became of the farmer, his family, his home, and the mosaic.

Found in an area less than a kilometre (half a mile) from the often tense border with Israel, the mosaics are "in a perfect state of conservation", said French archaeologist Rene Elter, a researcher associated with the French Biblical and Archaeological School of Jerusalem whose team examined the finds. [Mohammed Abed/AFP]

A Palestinian farmer in Gaza discovered this mosaic under his orchard in 2022. Who knows what became of the farmer, his family, his home, and the mosaic.

So far the damage we know of to historical and cultural sites in Gaza noted by UNESCO

 https://www.unesco.org/en/gaza/assessment

As of 27 May 2025, UNESCO has verified damage to 110 sites since 7 October 2023 –  

13 religious sites,  

77 buildings of historical and/or artistic interest, 

3 depositories of movable cultural property, 

9 monuments,  

1 museum and 

7 archeological sites.

Dear America- Israel says it wants the hostages but what Israel has wanted all along is yet another an excuse to grab all the land of historic Palestine and beyond.

"This time of year, children in #Gaza should be preparing for school — choosing backpacks, sharpening pencils, dreaming of the year ahead. Instead, they search for water, queue for food, and shelter in classrooms turned into crowded refuges. Children in Gaza have lost three years of schooling risking to become a lost generation. We need a #ceasefire now." @UNRWA

Dear America,

HAMAS and Israel are two peas in a pod- both arm religion and both use violence, terror and harassment to get what they want. However there are 2 big differences:

#1. Israel is a lot smarter than HAMAS. Israel knows how to use everything to its advantage, including using every armed Palestinian attack or insult as a reason to invade and destroy whatever Israel wants to invade and destroy. 

Israel has extensive outreach with the ability to convince outsiders that they are in the right even when they are very much in the wrong.  For instance Israel has been deploying false accusations against UNRWA in order to 

A. Block UNRWA aid and aid workers from entering Gaza. 

B. To convince the U.S.A. to stop funding UNRWA.  

C. To have an excuse to bomb refugee camps and Arab cities: Gaza now, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria next, enabling Israel to expand its Occupation and violations of international law in every direction. 

UNRWA is the United Nations Relief Works Agency that aids, feeds, and educates Palestinian refugees, and helps keep them alive. UNRWA works.  That is why Israel wants to destroy it. 

Israel knows how to manufacture consent for genocide in multiple ways...

In 2024 the U.S.A. gave Israel $23 billion dollars in military aid to Israel.

Which brings us to point #2. Israel is a heavily armed formal military with tons of sophisticated weaponry, an air force with jet fighters, drones, tanks, full control of all borders, extensive surveillance equipment, and an exceptionally talented PR department whereas Hamas is a relatively powerless small terrorist group with few weapons whose leadership lives comfortably far away from Gaza.

Israel says it wants the hostages but what Israel has wanted all along is yet another an excuse to grab all the land of historic Palestine and beyond.

Land for Peace for Palestine was a dismal failure.  Oslo helped Israel gain funds and support, and cover for continuing its war on the men, women, and children of historic Palestine. 

Children are starving and dying in Gaza.  Israel with its mainstream media minions have Americans convinced that HAMAS is to blame for this crisis because armed militants are stealing all the food.

Islamists are tools in Israel's arsenal: HAMAS really should return all the hostages ASAP, and they should lay down all their weaponry.  

Give up on violence- but do not ever give up on shaping the rule of fair and just laws, for everyone's sake.

America needs to set the right example by refusing to escalate a global arms race.  We should be investing in peace and the people's needs- not Israeli violence, corruption, and greed.

Sincerely,

Anne Selden Annab

NOTES https://anniesnewletters.blogspot.com/search/label/Notes

STOP THE SIEGE- stop funding crazy cruel Israeli schemes & the forced displacement, imprisonment, starvation, torture, and killing of human beings in Gaza and Palestine.

For almost 6 months, no shelter supplies have been allowed into Gaza. About 90% of people are displaced, living in overcrowded conditions. Existing shelters have deteriorated or been left behind amid repeated forced displacements. Further displacement will overwhelm an already catastrophic shelter situation. Let UNRWA bring in shelter supplies. #UNRWAworks

"The famine declared today in Gaza Governorate by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is the direct result of actions taken by the Israeli Government. It has unlawfully restricted the entry and distribution of humanitarian assistance and other goods necessary for the survival of the civilian population in the Gaza strip." ... United Nations Human Rights Chief Volker Türk in Geneva... "They [Israel] must ensure immediate entry of humanitarian assistance in sufficient amounts, and full access to UN and other humanitarian organisations."

Israel has dismantled the proven and internationally backed ‘civilian model’ of aid distribution, furthering its military and objectives in Gaza and furthering starvation, according to a newly published joint report by Forensic Architecture (FA) and the World Peace Foundation (WPF).

Palestinian Mona Lisa. A well-preserved portrait of a woman, part of a mosaic floor found in a Roman villa in the city of Sepphoris near Nazareth. Her realistic expression, faint smile, and expressive eyes reminded viewers of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.

"It’s not a “project” and it’s not “controversial.” It’s land theft and it’s ILLEGAL UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW" ... Deftly, time & time again, Assal Rad points out how our media has been writing it wrong, rather than righting a wrong:

Israel killed Maria and her entire family today in Gaza. Israel dropped a bomb on the tent where they had taken refuge... Israel has killed more than one [Palestinian] child every hour since October 2023

Let's repeat this again: Even wars have rules- Civilians, Schools, Hospitals, Healthcare workers,Civilian infrastructure, [& JOURNALISTS] are Not A Target

Gaza’s journalists are talented, professional and dignified. That’s why Israel targets them- Nesrine Malik in The Guardian

Israel destroyed 400 [Palestinian] homes in Gaza’s Zeitoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City, over the past six days through aerial bombardment and the use of booby-trapped robots...

Just a quick glimpse of Gaza Before & After Israel's War

Old photos of Palestine c 1885 by Cecil Shadbolt, published in his book "Walks in Palestine"

The water fountain is called a sabil [in Arabic], a word that originally meant path. Later, it came to mean path to God. Sabils were widespread in the Muslim world until the early 20th century. They were charitable water fountains refilled by water carriers at specific times of the day

"Illegal Israeli settlers’ seize the land of the ancient monastery of St Gerasimos in the West Bank [Palestine] near Jericho- an ancient early Christian sanctuary" - William Dalrymple, author of From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East

Greek Orthodox Jerusalem Patriarchate lands face encroachments by Israeli settlers near Jericho

Our complicity in Gaza has set the stage for a second genocide - in the West Bank ... the back story that utterly undermines Israel's "self-defence" narrative in Gaza by Jonathan Cook

"Why are Western politicians and media outlets suddenly speaking about Israel's crimes? Not to save the Palestinian people from genocide. It's to protect their own reputations." OWEN JONES: Have Israel's Friends ABANDONED It? w/. Omar Baddar

"“The Middle East conflict”… what a ridiculous way to frame Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian lands." Assal Rad

UNRWA USA : "We grieve for the more than 200 Palestinian journalists, over 300 of our UNRWA colleagues, and the tens of thousands of innocent people killed [by Israel] in Gaza since October 2023."

Nadeen Ayoub, a former Miss Earth finalist, will represent Palestine at Miss Universe 2025, the country’s first entry into the global pageant.

The Jerusalem municipality has frozen all bank accounts belonging to the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem. According to Protecting Holy Land Christians, the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate is now unable to pay salaries to its clergy, teachers, and staff. Other churches face similar disputes. A court case brought against the Armenian Patriarchate by the Jerusalem municipality is set to be discussed in September.

Israel threatens to ban major aid organizations as starvation deepens: 100 organizations call for an end to Israel’s weaponization of aid 14 Aug 2025 Global

They want you silent. Speak anyway Opinion

Israel is wiping out Gaza’s journalists – and it’s no longer even hiding it. The laws of war are clear: journalists are civilians. To target them deliberately in war is to commit a war crime

Israel Deports Father Nadino Capovilla

United Nations says families, a generation being ‘wiped out’ by Israel’s war on Gaza- Malnutrition from Israeli-induced starvation, & Israeli strikes kill dozens of Palestinians as journalists are deliberately targeted.

‘If these words reach you … Israel has succeeded in killing me’: the last words of a journalist killed in Gaza Anas al-Sharif

Dear America- Please no more Israeli GHF killing fields or other such Zionist schemes that aim to further harass and destroy the native non-Jewish population of historic Palestine.

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Building a Culture of Peace ...

"The United Nations was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell." ~Dag Hammarskjöld, second Secretary-General of the United Nations

"Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world..."   https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

For almost 6 months, no shelter supplies have been allowed into Gaza. About 90% of people are displaced, living in overcrowded conditions. Existing shelters have deteriorated or been left behind amid repeated forced displacements. Further displacement will overwhelm an already catastrophic shelter situation. Let UNRWA bring in shelter supplies. #UNRWAworks

UNRWA

@UNRWA

For almost 6 months, no shelter supplies have been allowed into #Gaza. 

 

About 90% of people are displaced, living in overcrowded conditions. 

 

Existing shelters have deteriorated or been left behind amid repeated forced displacements. 

 

Further displacement will overwhelm an already catastrophic shelter situation.

 

Let UNRWA bring in shelter supplies.

"The famine declared today in Gaza Governorate by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is the direct result of actions taken by the Israeli Government. It has unlawfully restricted the entry and distribution of humanitarian assistance and other goods necessary for the survival of the civilian population in the Gaza strip." ... United Nations Human Rights Chief Volker Türk in Geneva... "They [Israel] must ensure immediate entry of humanitarian assistance in sufficient amounts, and full access to UN and other humanitarian organisations."

UN Human Rights

@UNHumanRights

Famine declared by IPC in #Gaza Governorate is a direct result of actions by #Israel's Government that has unlawfully restricted entry & distribution of humanitarian aid. It is a war crime to use starvation as a method of warfare, and the resulting deaths may also amount to a war crime -

@volker_turk

 

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 https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/08/turk-says-gaza-governorate-famine-direct-result-israeli-government-actions

Türk says Gaza Governorate famine is direct result of Israeli Government actions

22 August 2025

United Nations Human Rights Chief Volker Türk in Geneva 

The famine declared today in Gaza Governorate by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is the direct result of actions taken by the Israeli Government. It has unlawfully restricted the entry and distribution of humanitarian assistance and other goods necessary for the survival of the civilian population in the Gaza strip.

We have already seen deaths from starvation and malnutrition across the strip.  The Israeli military has destroyed critical civilian infrastructure and almost all agricultural land, banned fishing, and forcibly displaced the population – all drivers of this famine.

It is a war crime to use starvation as a method of warfare, and the resulting deaths may also amount to the war crime of willful killing. Israeli authorities must take immediate steps to end the famine in the Gaza Governorate and prevent further loss of life across the Gaza strip. They [Israel] must ensure immediate entry of humanitarian assistance in sufficient amounts, and full access to UN and other humanitarian organisations.

Israel has dismantled the proven and internationally backed ‘civilian model’ of aid distribution, furthering its military and objectives in Gaza and furthering starvation, according to a newly published joint report by Forensic Architecture (FA) and the World Peace Foundation (WPF).

Palestinians, including children, who are struggling to access food due to Israel’s blockade and ongoing attacks on the Gaza Strip, wait in line to receive hot meals. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/aug/22/famine-benjamin-netanyahu-palestine-gaza-israel-war-latest-updates

Israel has furthered starvation with 'military model' of aid distribution, according to new joint-report

Israel has dismantled the proven and internationally backed ‘civilian model’ of aid distribution, furthering its military and objectives in Gaza and furthering starvation, according to a newly published joint report by Forensic Architecture (FA) and the World Peace Foundation (WPF).

The report by the research agency and charity respectively– published today at the same time as the UN-backed body, IPC confirmed Famine in Gaza – examines two models for aid distribution in Gaza, revealing how since 18 March 2025, Israel has dismantled the proven and internationally backed ‘civilian model’ of aid distribution, replacing it with a ‘military model’ which furthers Israel’s military and political objectives in Gaza while starving the region’s civilian population.

FA verified at least 64 incidents occurring between 18 March and 1 August of civilians being attacked by the Israeli military while seeking aid, including 25 incidents at and around Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. ration stations.

It concludes that Israel has used aid to break down existing social and civil structures in Gaza, grounded in relations between family networks, political groups, and international aid organisations, to generate dependency and, as a result, to establish political control over the Palestinian population.

Eyal Weizman, director of Forensic Architecture said

Aid can be lethal when used in a manipulative way. We have unpacked the architecture of starvation imposed by Israel in Gaza.

It is composed of acts of construction and destruction: the destruction of Palestinian agriculture and food sovereignty, the destruction of Palestinian civil society, and the construction of death traps.’

Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation (WPF) added:

‘The dehumanisation of Palestinians, the stripping of basic dignity, and the tearing apart of the fabric of the community are not accidental byproducts of the mass starvation inflicted on the people of Gaza.

There is every reason to believe that these are what Israel intends through its militarised ration system.’ ....READ MORE

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/aug/22/famine-benjamin-netanyahu-palestine-gaza-israel-war-latest-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-68a848668f082259ede86abf#block-68a848668f082259ede86abf

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Palestinian Mona Lisa. A well-preserved portrait of a woman, part of a mosaic floor found in a Roman villa in the city of Sepphoris near Nazareth. Her realistic expression, faint smile, and expressive eyes reminded viewers of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.

Palestinian Mona Lisa. A well-preserved portrait of a woman, part of a mosaic floor found in a Roman villa in the city of Sepphoris near Nazareth. Her realistic expression, faint smile, and expressive eyes reminded viewers of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.

 

Arabs in Pictures | مدنيات عربية

@ArabsinPictures

"It’s not a “project” and it’s not “controversial.” It’s land theft and it’s ILLEGAL UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW" ... Deftly, time & time again, Assal Rad points out how our media has been writing it wrong, rather than righting a wrong:

Assal Rad

@AssalRad

"What Israel is doing to Palestinians:

 

 -Genocide 

-Ethnic cleansing 

-Occupation 

-Annexation 

-War crimes

 -Starvation 

 

What the media calls it: 

 

-Military operation 

-Relocation plan 

-Offensive 

-Settlement project 

-Takeover plan 

-Hunger crisis 

 

 This is complicity, not journalism."

 

 ~~~

.... " “Israel says” is not journalism. “Israel escalates genocide, forcibly displacing Palestinians under threat of death,” that’s your headline." Assal Rad

 

~~~

 

Assal Rad: "They’ve normalized daily massacres, but nothing is normal about this."  BREAKING: At least 64 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn on Wednesday, including 19 aid seekers, medical sources tell Al Jazeera.

 

~~~

 

Assal Rad: “Moves” They could have said land theft, annex, occupation, ethnic cleansing, forced displacement, genocide… But NYT went with “Moves.”

 

~~~ 

Assal Rad:

": Completes land-grab, annexes territory

 : Approves a controversial project"

"Also look at the striking difference in the image they use. For Russia, Putin looks like a cartoon villain. For Israel, Smotrich just looks at a map." Assal Rad

~~~

 

Assal Rad: "It’s not a “project” and it’s not “controversial.” It’s land theft and it’s ILLEGAL UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW."

 

 ~~~

 

"“An exhausted military”

@CNN

is more concerned with how tired Israeli soldiers are from committing genocide than the state of their Palestinian victims." Assal Rad