Dispatch #124 White Lesbian Age 71 Considers 100 Days of Israel’s Campaign of Genocide on Palestinians in Gaza & Netanyahu’s Vow to Continue
- Kathleen A. Maloy
- Jan 14, 2024
- 5 min read
January 14th 2024
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Netanyahu marks 100 days of war with vow to continue fight -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu marked 100 days of the war in Gaza with a vow that “nobody will stop” Israel’s forces until their “total victory.”
In a defiant speech that followed two days of hearings at the International Court of Justice at The Hague, where Israel faces allegations of committing genocide in Gaza, Netanyahu said Israel will not stop fighting until Hamas is eliminated and all hostages are freed.
“We will restore security to both the south and the north. Nobody will stop us — not The Hague, not the axis of evil and not anybody else,” he said, in a reference to Iran and its backing of militant groups including the Houthis in Yemen and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
South Africa’s landmark case at the World Court also asked the court to take urgent steps to prevent further violence in Gaza while the case proceeds. Israel categorically rejected the allegations, saying any provisional measures to stop the violence would threaten Israel’s ability to defend itself. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/14/israel-hamas-war-news-gaza-palestine/
Netanyahu’s viciously belligerent behavior is comparable to Trump. No matter how egregious the charges/facts aimed at him, Netanyahu doubles down his response confident that he will never be held accountable. On his twitter/X feed, he continues to post the dehumanizing lies aka war propaganda about burned babies, beheaded bodies, and the war between light and dark. At The Hague, Israel predictably blames Hamas for the carnage in Gaza, and claims victimhood and self-defense once again. Apparently, Israel’s lawyers chose to ignore that the Genocide Convention explicitly rejects self-defense as an excuse for genocide.
Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 100: Nearly 100,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed, injured, or are missing since October 7.
As Israel’s assault on Gaza reaches 100 days, an estimated 100,000 Palestinians have been killed, injured, or are missing. Still Netanyahu declares: “No one will stop us; not The Hague, not the axis of evil and not anyone else calling the ICJ.”Gaza’s Ministry of Health says Israeli forces killed 337 medical staff and arrested 99 others since October, bombed 203 medical centers and clinics, destroyed 121 ambulances and damaged 30 hospitals, forcing these hospitals to stop operating completely. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/operation-al-aqsa-flood-day-100-nearly-100000-palestinians-in-gaza-have-been-killed-injured-or-are-missing-since-october-7/
100 days of war in Gaza: More than 23,000 [known] dead and a society in ruins.
The magnitude of destruction since 7 October is unparalleled in comparison with any previous Israeli assault on the Palestinian territory One hundred days after Israel launched its assault on Gaza, bombs are still falling on the enclave, which has already seen 4 percent of its population killed, injured or missing (4% of Israel’s population represents 391,600 Israelis). From schools to hospitals, universities to shopping malls, libraries to theatres, in 100 days the building blocks of a society still functioning under a 16-year siege have been wiped out www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-war-100-days-more-than-23000-dead-society-ruins
Mainstream media covers up Israeli calls to drive two million Palestinians into permanent exile. The mainstream U.S. media is almost totally ignoring incendiary statements by powerful Israeli officials who say openly they want to push Palestinians out of Gaza forever. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/mainstream-media-covers-up-israeli-calls-to-drive-two-million-palestinians-into-permanent-exile/
How Israeli Media Depicts the Destruction in Gaza | On the Media | WNYC Studios In this segment of the January 12th On The Media podcast, Oren Persico, staff writer at The Seventh Eye -- an independent investigative magazine focused on media and freedom of speech in Israel – discussed how the Israeli media landscape has created a “dome of disconnection.” While nightmarish images of death and destruction in Gaza have filled the news and social media feeds for months, Israel mainstream media outlets tell a very different story. Images from Gaza only show Israeli soldiers walking through rubble, firing rockets, or guarding dozens of kneeling naked men identified as surrendered Hamas. Most Israelis have no knowledge about 100,000 Palestinian casualties that include tens of thousands of children.
“It’s like living in a mortuary, waiting for someone to bury you."
With Israel isolating the northern Strip, displaced Palestinians in Gaza City are grappling with the immediate perils of starvation and disease. The struggle for survival has morphed into a haunting and totalizing reality for Palestinian residents here in Gaza City, as it has for Palestinians across the entire Strip. Against the backdrop of intensified Israeli military attacks, the deprivation of food and water under a tightened siege, and the pervasive threat of epidemics with no medical aid, the city’s remaining inhabitants — even as they fight to stay alive — feel as if they have been left with no choice but to wait for their death.
For the past two weeks, my children haven’t had a single piece of bread,” Ammar said, tearfully. “Every morning, I evade their questions about breakfast and the news. Literally, I have no food, and I don’t have money to buy rice. “I can’t endure life here anymore,” he continued. “I watch my hungry children right in front of me, and I can’t do anything for them. Every day, their mother heats water on the fire and feeds them watery soup — a soup that satisfies nothing. It’s just hot water.”
Ammar’s wife, Umm Ismail, 40, also spoke through tears: “I have a newborn son who cries incessantly every day. Breast milk doesn’t satisfy him because there’s no food for me. If some rice is available, I feed it to my other children, even though my son needs me to eat in order to breastfeed. But the infant can’t speak and ask for food, while my other children do speak and ask for it. It’s like a knife stabbing me.” https://www.972mag.com/gaza-city-hunger-disease/
It’s not just Israel in the dock over genocide, it’s everyone who looked away.
The powerful case brought by South Africa against Israel at the international court of justice under the genocide convention is a wake-up call for many western governments and media outlets that uncritically supported Israel’s savage war. They should now reflect on the fact that they may have supported a genocide. South Africa’s case marked the first time since 7 October 2023 that the story of Gaza and the Palestinians has been so powerfully told through official channels, piercing through propaganda and obfuscation. It is hard not to be overwhelmed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/12/israel-gaza-genocide-south-africa-the-hague.
Required Reading – An Historic Document: South Africa’s 84-page Application Instituting Proceedings filed in the International Court of Justice, The Hague
The Int'l Court of Justice Case is a Chance to hold Israel and the US to Account for Genocide. Essay by Medea Benjamin and Nicholas JS Davies assesses the scope and purpose of South Africa’s charges against Israel and begins with:
On January 11th, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague is holding its first hearing in South Africa’s case against Israel under the Genocide Convention. The first provisional measure South Africa has asked of the court is to order an immediate end to this carnage, which has already killed more than 23,000 people, most of them women and children. Israel is trying to bomb Gaza into oblivion and scatter the terrorized survivors across the Earth, meeting the Convention’s definition of genocide to the letter.
Since countries engaged in genocide do not publicly declare their real goal, the greatest legal hurdle for any genocide prosecution is to prove the intention of genocide. But in the extraordinary case of Israel, whose cult of biblically ordained entitlement is backed to the hilt by unconditional U.S. complicity, its leaders have been uniquely brazen about their goal of destroying Gaza as a haven of Palestinian life, culture and resistance. www.juancole.com/2024/01/justice-account-genocide.html
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