Wednesday, June 26, 2024

 Aljazeera:
"Happening again: Guantanamo victims say Israel using ‘US-style’ torture. When former Guantanamo detainee Asadullah Haroon looks at pictures of Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons, the memories of his own abuse and torture in United States detention centres come flooding back.

'This is the worst form of oppression,' he says. 'When you are labelled as a terrorist you cannot defend yourself in any way. Without a doubt it’s the same process; they are torturing the people in the same way. I think the Americans have made this and the Israelis are implementing it.' ...

The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) and other human rights organisations have called on the United Nations special rapporteur on torture for urgent action to end 'the systematic abuse, torture and ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Israeli prisons and detention facilities.' ”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/22/happening-again-guantanamo-victims-say-israel-using-us-style-torture

-->This story can't be read in the US media. The deadly links between US and Israeli torture are to be expected. Neither country has much respect for human dignity or human rights.

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Aljazeera:
"Tens of thousands of protesters waving Israeli flags and chanting slogans against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government rallied in Tel Aviv Saturday, demanding new elections and the return of captives held in Gaza.

Large protests have occurred in the Israeli city on a weekly basis over Netanyahu’s handling of the nearly nine-month-old war in Gaza started by Hamas’s October 7 attack on southern Israel. Many protesters held signs reading 'Crime Minister' and 'Stop the War' as people poured into the biggest Israeli city’s main thoroughfare. ...

Antigovernment protest organisation Hofshi Israel estimated more than 150,000 people attended the rally, calling it the biggest since Israel’s war on Gaza. Some demonstrators lay on the ground covered in red paint in the city’s Democracy Square to protest what they say is the death of the country’s democracy under Netanyahu."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/22/all-of-the-rats-in-the-knesset-mass-anti-war-protest-in-israel

-->No US media seems much interested in this story. The left paints Israel as a genocidal state. The right wants Israel to kill even more Palestinians. But why are demonstrations like this ignored?

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Common Dreams:
"'Visible Signs of Wasting': Heat, Forced Malnutrition Strangle People of Gaza. ...

Humanitarian officials at the United Nations warned Wednesday evening that with Israel continuing to block aid deliveries across Gaza, thousands of children are among those facing acute malnutrition as extreme summer heat exacerbates suffering in the besieged enclave.

The Site Management Working Group for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) released its latest report on the humanitarian situation in Gaza, noting that aid deliveries in recent days have done little to improve the condition of a population that has been under attack by the U.S.-backed Israeli military—and facing an illegal blockade—for more than eight months. ...
 
'No nutrition screenings have been conducted to assess the scale of malnutrition and treat identified cases due to limited capacity,' reported OCHA. Last week, the World Health Organization reported that more than 8,000 children have been diagnosed with and treated for acute malnutrition, including 1,600 with severe wasting."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/malnutrition-gaza

-->There is not that much interest in these stories about starving children. This story in Common Dreams shows the body of a starving four year old. When the NYT can bring itself to print a picture like this, the Gaza genocide will be over. It is only the ignorance of the American people that keeps this slaughter of Palestinians from ending.