“I disagree with Kamala’s position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote for her?” ... Here is Bernie Sanders well thought out answer

https://youtu.be/Vf5MThSniiY?si=EG00V7jFgx6sr_EZ

White House Statement from Vice President Kamala Harris on Aysenur Eygi "Aysenur was peacefully protesting in the West Bank—standing up against the expansion of settlements—when her young life was senselessly cut short. No one should be killed for participating in a peaceful protest. The shooting that led to her death is unacceptable and raises legitimate questions about the conduct of IDF personnel in the West Bank."

Statement from Vice President Kamala Harris on Aysenur Eygi

2. Briefing Room
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The killing of Aysenur Eygi is a horrific tragedy that never should have happened. Doug and I are keeping her family and loved ones in our prayers. Aysenur was peacefully protesting in the West Bank—standing up against the expansion of settlements—when her young life was senselessly cut short. No one should be killed for participating in a peaceful protest. The shooting that led to her death is unacceptable and raises legitimate questions about the conduct of IDF personnel in the West Bank.  Israel must do more to ensure that incidents like this never happen again.
 
Israel’s preliminary investigation indicated it was the result of a tragic error for which the IDF is responsible. We will continue to press the government of Israel for answers and for continued access to the findings of the investigation so we can have confidence in the results. There must be full accountability.
 
The United States will continue to hold accountable anyone in the West Bank – Israelis and Palestinians – who stokes violence and undermines peace and stability.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/09/11/statement-from-vice-president-kamala-harris-on-aysenur-eygi/

 [AS ALWAYS PLEASE GO TO THE LINK TO READ GOOD ARTICLES (or quotes or watch videos) IN FULL: HELP SHAPE ALGORITHMS (and conversations) THAT EMPOWER DECENCY, DIGNITY, JUSTICE & PEACE... and hopefully Palestine]

Please stop aiding and abetting Israeli insanity. Full Stop.

 Dear Biden ...etc... 

Israeli insanity convinces select Americans who were raised with full and equal rights to hate, harass, impoverish and kill Arabs in Israel/Palestine.

Israeli insanity convinces Israelis, fully subsided by Israel AND America, to go out and uproot Arab olive trees & steal Arab land- rights- and freedom... day after day after day for decades now, ALL fully funded by the American government and protected by most of our mainstream media and commercial entertainment enterprises. 

Israeli insanity is dangerous and wrong: Since 1948 Palestinians have been pushed into forced exile and crowded refugee camps that are bombed and invaded by Israel- armed by America.  

Our Congress adds insult to injury by cutting funds to UNWRA, the aid agency created by the United Nations to help Palestinians who were forcibly displaced from their ancestral homes and lands in 1948 by invading armed Zionist terrorists. 

Israeli insanity funds Jewish privilege creating apartheid and escalating injustice in The Holy Land.

Please stop aiding and abetting Israeli insanity. Full Stop. 

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

Gaza death toll surpasses 35,000 amid Israeli onslaught & At least 78,755 other Palestinian men, women, and children have been injured in the Israeli onslaught as of May 10th, 2024

Asna Tabassum, the USC valedictorian who had her commencement speech canceled due to her support for Palestinian equality, received a heavy round of applause during her graduation today from the engineering school.

Israel's Attack on America's USS Liberty in 1967

Former Congressman Pete McCloskey, longtime supporter of Palestinians and USS Liberty veterans, has passed away at the age of 96

From UC Berkeley’s encampment: Mosab Abu Toha's poem on what a Gazan should do during an Israeli Air Strike

Will our own democracy and established Fourth Estate survive the decades old insidious invasion of a very foreign country that pretends to be our friend, but really is no one's friend, including its own Apartheid building citizens?

Maps illustrating Israel (& Palestine) 1947 Partition plan, the 1949 Armistice Lines, the 1967 borders, the border jumping convoluted Israeli-made Apartheid wall, maps of Jewish-only Settlements and IDF Checkpoints in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and Gaza.

UN agency closes East Jerusalem HQ after arson attack by ‘Israeli extremists’ Unrwa chief says compound has faced a number of attacks, with lives of UN staff at serious risk

The New Yorker: The Kids Are Not All Right. They Want to Be Heard. What explains the student movement against the war in Gaza? Sometimes the correct answer is the one right in front of you. By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

A conversation in a cafe

Once upon a time, not terribly long ago... ‏ Miss Palestine with her two Runners-Up: Beauty in a peaceful country (Palestine) before 1947

Queen Rania of Jordan: ‘What’s happening in Gaza today… is a war crime’ ...

Israel Officially Banned the Palestine Flag from 1967 to1993 (Occupation to Oslo) ... WATERMELONS

Israel is banning Al Jazeera, America is banning TikTok. We know why: What the two laws have in common is desire to silence Israel-Gaza war critics.

There is ‘nowhere safe to go’ for the 600,000 children of Rafah, warns UNICEF

Americans should not be helping racist Israel maim, wound and kill the children of Palestine.

Arresting students and banning Tiktok will not stifle the truth about Israeli crimes against humanity.

FYI the Israel/Palestine conflict did not start on Oct 7th 2023. To be fair and honest you must go back to 1917 when the British Empire and Occupation promoted the Balfour Declaration to create a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine.  At the time Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire and there was a small Arab Jewish population living there, living in peace along with Muslims and Christians.  

Fast forward to 1948 when following the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust, modern man made Israel was created. Israel was not created peacefully or by consensus with the Arab residents who had lived there for eons.  Israel was created by invading Zionist terrorists who murdered many indigenous Arabs- fragmenting families, and pushing millions of Palestinians into forced exile.

Israel has failed to provide evidence of Unrwa staff terrorist links: report

Israel has dropped almost 75,000 bombs and shells on Gaza in 200 days, twenty times more than the US aimed at Iraq in six years of war. It’s not war. It’s genocide.

There are enough weapons of war and destruction already on planet earth.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin?

The UN Mediator for Palestine, Count Folke Bernadotte, believed that the Palestinians displaced had a right to return to their homes and wrote several UN reports to that effect.

"It would be an offence against the principles of elemental justice if these innocent victims of the conflict were denied the right to return to their homes while Jewish immigrants flow into Palestine, and, indeed, at least offer the threat of permanent replacement of the Arab refugees who have been rooted in the land for centuries."

Bernadotte was assassinated on Friday 17 September 1948 by members of the group Lehi, a Zionist terrorist organization, commonly known in the West as the Stern Gang

 

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

 PALESTINE REMEMBERED

A Palestinian refugee woman cross-stitching traditional Palestinian embroidery, Gaza, 1967. © UNRWA Photo Archives.

The face of America’s ugly Gaza policy: "... Can we really celebrate Black women [Kamala Harris] in power who can’t use said power to prevent death and starvation inflicted on a stateless people? I — like an increasing number of voters — don’t think so." Karen Attiah

Black women are the face of America’s ugly Gaza policy

By Karen Attiah

 in The Washington Post

March 5, 2024 

For Black women, the liminal space in which Black History Month becomes Women’s History Month feels like the time to reflect on our progress — and how far we have to go.

The Biden administration has deployed Black women as both velvet gloves and iron fists in respect to Israel’s latest assault on Gaza, in which more than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. They are both enforcing U.S. complicity in this atrocity and attempting to soften its appearance.

On Sunday, Vice President Harris was in Selma, Ala., marking the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the 1965 march to protest the police killing of... READ MORE    https://archive.is/z88Bw#selection-715.0-757.142

 

How did Kamala Harris go from being a rising star to a damp squib?

Arwa Mahdawi

The first female vice-president was supposed to be the future of the Democratic party – now she looks like ancient history

 

Remember Kamala Harris? Just a few years ago the first female vice-president of the US was surrounded by fanfare, splashed on the cover of Vogue and being feted as the future of the Democratic party. For a brief moment, it seemed plausible that Joe Biden, the oldest inaugurated president in history, might serve just a single term and then gracefully hand the reins over to his VP. “Ms Harris now finds herself the most clearly positioned heir to the White House,” the New York Times mused after the 2020 election....  READ MORE    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/16/how-did-kamala-harris-go-from-being-a-rising-star-to-a-damp-squib