Thursday, July 17, 2025

World News:
"LONDON (AP) — More than 70 people were arrested Saturday at protests in the U.K. against the Palestine Action group being proscribed a terrorist organization by the British government following a break-in and vandalism at a Royal Air Force base.
In London, the Metropolitan Police said 42 people had been arrested by late afternoon. All but one of the arrests were for showing support for a proscribed organization, which police have said includes chanting, wearing clothing or displaying articles such as flags, signs or logos. Another person was arrested for common assault.

A further 16 arrests were made in Manchester, according to Greater Manchester Police, while South Wales Police said 13 people were also held in Cardiff.
In London, it was the second straight week protesters gathered to support the pro-Palestinian activist group. Its outlawing has meant support for the organization is deemed a criminal offense. Police arrested 29 people at a similar protest last weekend."
https://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/world-news/ap-more-than-40-arrested-at-london-protest-in-support-of-banned-group-palestine-action/

-->This seems to be a non story in the US. Maybe that's because UK demonstrators are being arrested for flying flags and chanting. The common thread is the use of criticism of Israel as part of the arrest warrants. That is coming to our shores very soon.

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The Guardian: UK
"Ehud Olmert says forcing people into camp would be ethnic cleansing, and anger at Israel over Gaza war is not all down to antisemitism. The 'humanitarian city' Israel’s defence minister has proposed building on the ruins of Rafah would be a concentration camp, and forcing Palestinians inside would be ethnic cleansing, Israel’s former prime minister Ehud Olmert has told the Guardian.

Israel was already committing war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank, Olmert said, and construction of the camp would mark an escalation. ... 'It is a concentration camp. I am sorry,' he said, when asked about the plans laid out by Israel Katz last week. Once inside, Palestinians would not be allowed to leave, except to go to other countries, Katz said.

Katz has ordered the military to start drawing up operational plans for construction of the “humanitarian city” on the ruins of southern Gaza, to house initially 600,000 people and eventually the entire Palestinian population.

'If they [Palestinians] will be deported into the new 'humanitarian city', then you can say that this is part of an ethnic cleansing. It hasn’t yet happened,” Olmert said. That would be 'the inevitable interpretation' of any attempt to create a camp for hundreds of thousands of people, he said."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/13/israel-humanitarian-city-rafah-gaza-camp-ehud-olmert

-->The NYT isn't interested in what Olmert has to say. This story gets eliminated because it honestly portrays what is going to happen to the Palestinians.

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Common Dreams:
"Israeli Settlers Beat American to Death in Illegally Occupied West Bank: ...
'If President Trump will not even put America first when Israel murders American citizens, then this is truly an Israel First administration,' said one U.S. group.

The Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Health and cousins of Sayfollah Musallat—also known as Saif al-Din Kamel Abdul Karim Musallat—said Friday that Israeli settlers beat the dual U.S.-Palestinian citizen to death while he was visiting family in the illegally occupied West Bank.

A spokesperson for the ministry, Annas Abu El Ezz, told Agence France-Press that 23-year-old Musallat 'died after being severely beaten all over his body by settlers in the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, this afternoon.'

Abdul Samad Abdul Aziz, from the nearby village of Al-Mazraa Al-Sharqiya, said that 'the young man was injured and remained so for four hours. The [Israeli] army prevented us from reaching him and did not allow us to take him away.' "

https://www.commondreams.org/news/settler-violence-west-bank

-->The NYT did a typical coverup for Israel. Its headline reads "Two Palestinians Are Killed in a West Bank Clash With Israeli Settlers." According to the NYT, there had been "a violent exchange on Friday between Palestinians and Israeli civilians." And why the delay in printing this story?