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| Harry Burton @HBtoons ·cartoon July 2025 @irishexaminer . #Gaza |
I do not know why Zionism went so wrong- but it did. Maybe it was
mental illness, maybe it was greed, but maybe does not matter as much as
the actual facts, and the fact is that it did, and it must stop.
It is not just the intentional starvation of children trapped and
tortured in Gaza right now as Israel bombs Palestinian refugee camps,
homes, businesses and farms- ALL Israeli injustice and bigotry must
stop.
Israel is in the wrong. It is in long term and flagrant violation of international law and the Palestinians basic human rights, including but not limited to every refugees' inalienable right to return to original homes and lands.
At a time when the rest of the world was figuring out how to give full and equal rights to all people regardless of their race, religion, or gender, Israel set out to systemically push the native non-Jewish Palestinians (including many Christians) into poverty and forced exile, a dastardly pattern that continues to this day.
Rather than shun and scorn Israel for violating international law, Western countries have wasted decades funding and arming militant Israel with a massive arsenal of weaponry including jet fighters as Israel steals lands, rights, and peace from the native non-Jewish people of historic Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan.
Shame on both our mainstream media and our politicians for trusting
Zionism and the Zionist entity's sophisticated disinformation campaigns,
PR tricks, and manipulative spin on every story.
In her old age, Helen Thomas- an intrepid American reporter- was castigated, demonized, and rejected for daring to suggest that Israelis should go back to where they came from, but she understood more than most Americans know: Worldwide Jewish Israelis moved into Palestine, and even today armed Jewish Americans continue to move into the illegally occupied territories, harassing and hating the Palestinians because Palestinians refuse to disappear.
Many Israelis have full citizenship, freedom, respect, job opportunities, and security in multiple countries,
whereas far too many Palestinians have no citizenship, no rights, freedoms, respect, job opportunities, or security in the
land of their birth or elsewhere.
Today's Israel is a dangerous delusion, beloved by many who would rather profit emotionally and/or financially from arming religious tyranny, injustice, and endlessly escalating war.
Zionists have been pressuring America to de-fund and destroy The
United Nations. Already American funds have been cut from UNWRA the U.N.
agency that helps feed and educate Palestinian refugees, and America
has withdrawn from UNESCO the U.N. educational, scientific and cultural
organization.
Meanwhile China is gathering soft power, building roads and BYD electric cars and cellphones that people worldwide are turning towards so as to steer away from American and Israeli-made products and services.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
Dutch intelligence report identifies Israel as a foreign threat for first time. Israel conducted disinformation campaigns to influence public opinion and politics in the Netherlands, says report by security and counter-terrorism agency. The report also voiced concerns over mounting threats from both Israel and the US toward the International Criminal Court in The Hague
*International Law makes it abundantly clear that every one- every person and every refugee- has an inalienble right to leave and to return to their homes and lands. That is why Israel wants to undermine and abolish the United Nations and UNWRA.
Imagine fleeing your home under bombs, only for Israel to declare it “absentee property” and give it to someone else forever. That’s why Palestinians remain refugees – because leaving means losing everything to Israeli law. People say “just resettle Palestinians elsewhere.” But Israel wrote laws like the Absentee Property Law (1950) to steal homes of those forced out, and the Law of Return (1950) to hand that land to settlers. Apartheid is built into their legal system.
"The absolute incapacity of Western leaders to enforce international law when it comes to Israel is EPIC..." Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt
Jewish Voice for Peace: Israeli settlers invaded Umm al-Kheir [West Bank] with a bulldozer to destroy what little remains of the Palestinian village. As Awda and his family tried to defend their homes and land, a settler opened fire—both aiming directly and shooting indiscriminately. Awda was shot in the chest and later died from his injuries..... This is not a clash or a conflict — it is colonial violence. It is ethnic cleansing, carried out under the protection of the Israeli military regime. The Israeli government's strategy of settlement expansion — through settler violence, military raids, and systematic demolitions — is part of a broader project rooted in the original goals of Zionism: to claim maximum land with a minimum number of Palestinians. In Masafer Yatta, this strategy aims to complete the displacement of Palestinian communities to make way for expanding Israeli settlements.
Children in the Gaza Strip are starving to death. Severe malnutrition is spreading among children faster than aid can reach them, and the world is watching it happen.... “These deaths are unconscionable - and could have been prevented. The UN-led humanitarian response must be allowed to function fully through unfettered aid access to children in need."
What We Talk About When We Talk About the Right of Return: "... they [Palestinians] have a legal right to return to Gaza, now, or in the future. And under international law, the 1.6 million 1948 refugees and their descendants in Gaza also have a right to resettle on the land taken from them and their families three-quarters of a century ago, and to benefit from the housing, infrastructure, services, schools and universities in the land that is now Israel that they have been unlawfully denied."
"Only in Gaza you will see airdrops and airstrikes in one picture. No one should look to the sky and wonder if what's falling is death or dinner."
Airdropping aid is a PR trick and dangerous distraction- it is not a good way to get food to starving children in Gaza... What’s needed is safe access by road. Let aid in through the UN, including UNRWA: "Opening all the crossings and flooding Gaza with assistance is the only way to avert further deepening of starvation among the people of Gaza. What’s needed is at least 500/600 trucks of basics every day."
Protesting over Gaza’s starvation feels like screaming into a void – but we mustn’t stop by Nesrine Malik in The Guardian
"But we haven’t been able to share lunch together for a while now. Starvation has worsened, food is scarce, and constant bombardment and the collapse of transportation have made even the simplest gatherings nearly impossible. Still, his wife often sends me pages from her diary, writing about life under genocide, with glimpses of hope never fading from her words." Maha Hussaini
Last night, the Israeli army began airdropping international aid over Gaza after nearly 5 months of a suffocating blockade. While they may appear as relief, these airdrops are deeply humiliating and reinforce the very starvation they claim to solve. Here's why ...
A 2025 BANG on POTs protest of Israel's systematic starvation & torture of Palestinian men, women, & children in Gaza #PALESTINE
"Israel is “easing” restrictions on aid that they said they weren’t restricting… Remember the Gaza pier? The airdrops? The stories of opening more crossings? A new aid plan? This is just another PR stunt. Israel is starving Gaza and committing genocide, that’s still the story." Assal Rad
Chris Hedges: "Starvation was always the plan, the preordained final chapter of the genocide. Israel methodically set out from the beginning of the genocide to destroy sources of food, bombing bakeries and blocking food shipments into Gaza, something it has accelerated since March, when it severed nearly all food supplies. It targeted the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) — on which most Palestinians depended on for food — for destruction, accusing its employees, without providing evidence, of being involved in the attacks of Oct. 7. This accusation was used to give funders such as the United States, which provided $422 million to the agency in 2023, the excuse to halt financial support. Israel then banned UNRWA."
"And yet we watched as those subtle, innocent, beautiful nuances of our tongue were twisted into indicators of suspicion. In an American discourse so heavily imbued with anti-Palestinian racism and so rife with Islamophobia, Palestinians or those who dare see them as human are not allowed to have legitimate intentions or legitimate grievances. They are to be constantly seen as suspicious. Even if they speak of human rights, equality, dignity, they can never really be trusted to mean those things because of who they are — sneaky shapeshifters with deeply held, murderous, ulterior motives. It is quite remarkable how much this echoes antisemitism throughout history, and that should surprise no one. All forms of racism are connected" Yousef Munayyer
"The goal was clear: to make Gaza entirely dependent on Israel's goodwill, of which there was almost none, and at the same time utterly dependent on aid. In tandem, Israel started waging a deceitful campaign claiming UN aid organisations were linked to Hamas "terror" in the hope it could use this as a rationalisation for impeding aid, as it has done with great ferocity " It was a genocide in Gaza from day one. Here's why- Here is a brief outline of some of the most pertinent factors by Jonathan Cook
Chris Hedges Confronts the N.J. State Assembly on Dangerous Antisemitism Bill: The bill would accept the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, which conflates criticism of the state of Israel and Zionism with antisemitism.
A July 16th 2025 Letter from Presiding Episcopal Bishop Sean Rowe on Crisis in Gaza Palestine: "We join Archbishop Hosam in his call for the Israeli military to end the bombing of hospitals and the seige of Gaza: for the restoration of humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza under United Nations supervision, and release all unjustly detained people and hostages..."
Gaza 2025: An aerial image before AND during the israeli annihilation of an entire population, from homes, hospitals, livestock, to the people themselves
Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication. As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom
The Palestine issue was slated to include a dozen research articles, essays and other writings on topics ranging from education in Israel-Palestine and among the Palestinian diaspora, to academic freedom in the US.
Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens Medical staff say they are struggling to function well enough to care for injured and malnourished civilians in overwhelmed hospitals
Mass starvation spreading across Gaza, aid agencies warn- More than 100 aid agencies, including Doctors Without Borders, Save the Children and Oxfam, say ‘our colleagues and those we serve are wasting away’
Philippe Lazzarini: "Silencing voices. As if banning international media is not enough. Humanitarian workers are also banned when they report on atrocities committed in Gaza & elsewhere in the occupied Palestinian territory." ... OPEN THE GATES!
“Israel has written one of the darkest pages of human history.” —Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur
Israel is killing 100-120 Palestinians in Gaza daily, as an average rate.. THIS NUMBER DOES NOT INCLUDE THE PEOPLE DYING BECAUSE OF HUNGER.
"In the shadow of famine and under skies thick with grief, we still reach for one another, not to escape, but to stay human. It’s that one quiet moment that gives us the push to keep showing up; to hold on to the land, to memory, to whatever still softens us. Somewhere between the olive trees and the ash, something in us still reaches back." Sliman Mansour, Palestinian
Dear America- STOP THE SIEGE- stop funding crazy cruel Israeli checkpoints & the forced displacement, imprisonment, starvation, torture, and killing of human beings in Gaza and Palestine.
USA/Israeli Harassment Campaigns seek silence support for Human Rights, the Rule of Fair and Just Laws, Real Democracy, Palestine... and the list will not stop there: Your turn is coming.
" Ever since the failure to implement the 1948 UN resolution 194, which gave Palestinian refugees the right to return to their homes in what became Israel, we have been disappointed again and again." Gaza Raja Shehadeh
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Slavery,
Segregation and Forced Displacement are wrong. Wrong then and
wrong now
This Earth Day please start noticing how much pollution and injustice war creates.
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
