Dispatch #158 White Lesbian Age 72 Considers the Indelible Blood-Stained Legacy of Tens of Thousands Maimed, Orphaned & Murdered Children Created by Biden and His Administration
- Kathleen A. Maloy
- Jan 3
- 5 min read
January 3rd 2025 1443 Days Since Inauguration of First Woman Vice-President
17 Days White Supremacist Misogynist Christian Nationalist Regime Begins
923 Days Since SCOTUS Ruled American Women Don’t Have Human Rights
454 Days Since Israel Began Genocidal Assault on Palestinians in Gaza
In a post on the social media platform X, Nour, a Palestinian displaced mother in the central Gaza Strip, wrote: "I cannot sleep. In the suffocating darkness, I feel their breaths beneath their noses to ensure they haven’t frozen to death yet. I cannot sleep. I’m on the verge of madness." www.middleeasteye.net/news/born-heat-war-dead-cold-gaza-newborns-freeze-death
Born in the heat of war, dead from the cold: Gaza's children are freezing to death. Left without power or shelter, Palestinians are struggling to keep their children warm during the winter | Maha Hussaini in Gaza, occupied Palestine & Mohammed al-Hajjar | Middle East Eye | 30 December 2024. Dewdrop fell from the roof of a tent on to Yahya Muhammed al-Batran’s nose, waking him to the news that his newborn son, one half of a pair of twin brothers, had frozen to death overnight on Sunday. Originally from Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, Batran’s wife had given birth prematurely a month earlier but could not remain in the hospital. The children’s first home was a makeshift tent for the displaced, patched over with blankets, in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza. The rudimentary protection from the winter cold and the lack of appropriate clothing meant the boys were at risk from the outset. www.middleeasteye.net/news/born-heat-war-dead-cold-gaza-newborns-freeze-death.
3,500 Children in Gaza Could Die of Malnutrition as Hunger Grips Besieged Territory | Democracy Now! | 3 January 2025. Palestinian authorities warn 3,500 children are at risk of very painful death due to severe malnutrition. Twenty-two percent of Gaza’s population is currently facing catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity. www.democracynow.org/2025/1/3/headlines/3_500_children_in_gaza_could_die_of_malnutrition_as_hunger_grips_besieged_territory
Looking away from the atrocities funded by the US turned out to be almost as hard for me as being a witness. Conservative estimates report at least US$22.7 billion to Israel between October 7 2023 and October 7 2024. The Biden Administration will send another $8 billion to Israel – a parting gift to its war crimes collaborator and international law dismantler.
The New York Times continues to reprise its role as Chief Zionist Propagandist reporting that “The Israeli military, supplied with U.S. weapons, has killed more than 45,000 Palestinians, including many civilians, during the war, according to the health ministry in Gaza.” State Dept. Tells Congress It Plans to Send $8 Billion in Arms to Israel | Edward Wong | New York Times | 3 January 2025. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/us/politics/us-weapons-israel.html This ‘reporting’ despite months of credible reporting that at least 70% of known dead (many thousands lie under rubble or are missing) are women and children.
How to Hide a Genocide”: Al Haq Report Shows How Israel Hides Behind “Safe Zones” | Democracy Now! | 3 January 2025. The Palestinian rights group Al-Haq published a new report called “How to Hide a Genocide,” revealing how Israel uses evacuation orders and “safe zones” to obfuscate its genocidal campaign in the Gaza Strip. Al-Haq writes, “With insufficient space, shelter, sanitation facilities, food, or water sources, and medical care, these safe zones are intentionally designed to ensure the destruction of all life sheltering there. What’s more, the safe zones … are routinely targeted by Israeli occupying forces by air, land, and sea.” www.democracynow.org/2025/1/3/headlines/how_to_hide_a_genocide_al_haq_report_shows_how_israel_hides_behind_safe_zones.
A Deadly Apathy | David Shulman | The New York Review of Books | 16 January 2025.
A blank indifference to cruelty and atrocity as a normative mode of waging war has infected Israel’s collective conscience. What is striking, and horrific, is the fact that Israel has embraced cruelty and atrocity as a normative mode of waging war. The government sets the tone; the army, although at odds with Netanyahu, follows suit; the Jewish supremacists marshal biblical texts proving the joys of revenge. For them, and for many others in Israel, tens of thousands of dead Palestinian civilians in Gaza are an acceptable price to pay for a reckless, savage war. www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/01/16/a-deadly-apathy-israel-palestine-shulman/
“Total Moral, Ethical Failure”: Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov on Israel’s Genocide in Gaza | Democracy Now! | 30 December 2025. Omer Bartov, an Israeli American professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University, describes why he believes Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza right now. “There was actually a systematic attempt to make Gaza uninhabitable, as well as to destroy all institutions that make it possible for a group to sustain itself, not only physically but also culturally,” says Bartov, who warns impunity for Israel would endanger the entire edifice of international law. “This is a total moral, ethical failure by the very countries that claim to be the main protectors of civil rights, democracy, human rights around the world.” www.democracynow.org/2024/12/30/omer_bartov_israel_gaza_genocide
“A Genocidal Project”: Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah on Israel’s Destruction of Gaza Health System | Democracy Now! www.democracynow.org/2024/12/30/gaza_hospitals. On Friday, Israeli troops stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital, northern Gaza’s last major functioning hospital, and set the facility on fire. Many staff and patients were reportedly forced to go outside and strip in winter weather. The director of Kamal Adwan, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, was arrested, and his whereabouts remain unknown. “It’s been obvious from the beginning that Israel has been wiping out a whole generation of health professionals in Gaza as a way of increasing the genocidal death toll but also of permanently making Gaza uninhabitable,” says Abu-Sittah. “On the 7th of October, the Israelis crossed that genocidal Rubicon that settler-colonial projects cross.”
In 2024, did the US Demand for Israeli Impunity Fatally Undermine International Law? www.juancole.com/2024/12/impunity-undermine-international.html. 2024 was a pivotal year for international humanitarian law. On the one hand, the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court functioned as they were intended to by the idealists who founded them. On the other, the International Humanitarian Law that underpins those institutions was profoundly, perhaps fatally undermined by the United States. So this was our paradoxical reality in 2024. Key institutions of International Humanitarian Law finally stepped up to address the plight of the Palestinians and the Israeli genocide in Gaza, which was a substantial step forward for the international rule of law. But it was all undermined by the United States, Britain, France and Germany. 2024 was the year that the demand for impunity for Israel from those four countries broke International Humanitarian Law so badly that it is not clear it can survive.
Gaza hospital chief held at Israel's notorious Sde Teiman prison, released detainees say. Dr Hussam Abu Safiya has not been seen for more than 72 hours after Israeli forces stormed the bombed-out Kamal Adwan Hospital | Middle East Eye | MEE Staff | 30 December 2024. The director of Gaza's last functioning hospital is being held at Israel's notorious Sde Teiman prison, where abuse - including torture, murder and rape - is rife, recently released detainees have said. Dr Abu Safiya has not been seen in public since Friday, when Israeli forces stormed the bombed-out Kamal Adwan Hospital following a nearly three-month blockade of northern Gaza. All medical staff, patients and their relatives were taken out of the hospital at gunpoint, forced to strip down to their underwear and transferred to an unknown location. The last photo of Abu Safiya showed him walking alone towards a row of Israeli tanks that had amassed outside the facility. On Saturday, the Israeli military said - without providing any evidence - that it was holding Abu Safiya on suspicions of "being a Hamas terrorist operative.” www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-war-kamal-adwan-hospital-chief-held-israel-sde-teiman-prison.
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