Can we criticize Israeli policies?
20.01.2026 09:33
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Can we criticize Israeli policies?
Again short of massive expulsion of Palestinians with gigantic moral, legal and geopolitical impact, Israel has no options but to deepen its apartheid policies and continue low gear genocide in Gaza and increase the pressure in the West Bank. What they did to UNRWA today is part of this strategy.
This all leaves the Palestinians squeezed into a corner of bad choices not to mention their sclerotic and bankrupt leadership.
The region itself, from Turkey, to Iran, to Saudi Arabia and the UAE are busy with their own national security and how they can fit their regional needs/prerogatives with the US's, and not to antagonize Israel (for one of them how to actually align with Israel).
The eyes of the world (read western and global elites) are all on #davos as European leaders are trying to appease Trump who has been wrecking the already fatigued and crumbling global world order from the UN to Nato, from trade rules to armed intervention, and from Venezuela to Greenland to Gaza.
There will come one day, hopefully not in decades, where many countries and people will say they had been against this all along, but their silence now amounts to being complicit.
... and many more injured since the Israeli right wing put its genocidal retaliation on steroids after the Hamas armed attack in October 2023 that killed about 1150 Israelis.
Current Israeli policies will squeeze them more and more and maybe hundreds of thousands of them will leave over time as they see what is happening to their people. Already over 71,000 Palestinians in Gaza and nearly 1,000 more in the West bank have been killed ...
Without this, and between the river and the sea under the full control of the apartheid Israeli policies about seven million Palestinians and seven million Jews.
Israeli radical right wing (not a fringe now) knows that such heinous acts cannot annihilate the Palestinians -- only genocidal acts like what has been happening in Gaza for two years or massive expulsion can bring the ultimate extreme zionist dream to completion.
.. especially the refugees, 750,000 of them were forced out of their homes in mandate Palestine in the 1948 Nakba when Israel was established.
This destruction takes place decades after this UN organization started working from there .and almost a year after the Israeli government seized the building as part of its lawfare against institutions that may raise issues related to the rights of Palestinians ... .
UNRWA, that extends health, educational and other humanitarian help to millions of Palestinians, has been targeted by the Israeli government for long. Today these occupation authorities (occupation since East Jerusalem was occupied by force in 1967) have started destroying these buildings.
The Israeli government does what it does best, denying the Palestinian people their rights and strangulating international aid to them. Today Israeli bulldozers and officials started demolishing the UNRWA offices in Jerusalem and seizing the land.
at the hands of a bankrupt ruling elite that is wrecking havoc at home and allover the world. What a searing beauty and a masterly narration with lots of imagination and a sense of the humane as it should and how it was mutilated and lost for many.
โTime buries time โฆโ one of the many gems in a treasure that Omar El Akkad sprinkles throughout his beautiful - if bleak - novel, โAmerican Warโ, of a post war US that is no longer united in the final years this century. The novel presents a war whose genesis we might be watching unfold now--
It joins movies that dissect the untold depths of suffering, loss and deprivation that the Palestinians have faced and how they have been pushed into a corner with only bad choices.
It joins movies like โNo Other Land", "The Upshot", "Farha", and "Palestine 36".
To understand the predicament of the Palestinians, watch "All that is left of you" a great movie by Cherine Dabis spanning three generations from 1948 to 2022. It shows the depth of loss, anger, and how the Israeli state could continue the slow annihilation of the Palestinians.
How Israel systematically destroyed Gaza. Great writing by @aloner.bsky.social
The daily life under a ceasefire, preemptively killing people some of whom may think or act in the future against your state which occupies their land, besieges them and controls every minute of their lives!
New data reveals 98 Palestinian deaths in Israeli custody since October 7
www.972mag.com/98-palestini...
This probably sounds idealistic and irrelevant in this neocolonial and blatantly racist world order we live under now, but it must me declared all the time until such murders stop and accountability takes place.
pre-emptive strikes and incomprehensible and utterly depraved dismissal of civilian death as collateral damage are both illegal and immoral and, even in security terms, counterproductive in the long term ..
There can be Hamas members in Lebanon and certainly in Gaza or elsewhere, but if anything the genocidal war over the past two years has taught us is that ....
This happens so often that it has become more than normalized.
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
and the reporter, say on BBC, repeats Israeli claims that the killed were Hamas or terrorists (or a mistake and collateral damage if they are very young children -- younger than 13 since those teenagers can be a threat, it is in their genes as some right wing Israelis would say) ...
Every morning when I hear or read the news, somewhere buried towards the end of the bulletin, we get the usual report that Israel killed several people in Lebanon or Gaza or the West Bank..
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al-salon.com/article/dab-...
The 10 leading AI tools repeated false information on topics in the news more 35% of the time in August 2025, up from 18% a year earlier. www.newsguardtech.com/ai-monitor/a...
From 9/11 to Gaza: How I lost faith in the humanitarian system
This is the title of my commentary published today by the New Humanitarian.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...