Essential viewing on Gaza
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Richard Kuper
JVL Introduction
Refutation of many Israeli claims by Michael Walker and a fascinating series of exchanges between him and Barnaby Raine (at c.15-30 minutes in and again after 40 mins), totally united in their opposition to what Israel is doing, but teasing out nuanced disagreements on such important questions of how we respond to violence of the oppressed, how we assess conflicting reports which are themselves weapons in the war, and many other issues.
RK
Gaza’s health ministry has said that 471 Palestinians have been killed in an explosion at a hospital after a rocket strike.
With Michael Walker and Barnaby Raine.
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I watched this yesterday and thought it was very good. In a similar vein, I also watched this very powerful commentary from Norman Finkelstein on ‘The Chris Hedges Report’, also recorded recently (and also available on YouTube). [https://therealnews.com/no-sanctuary-israels-long-war-on-gaza]
The position of Barnaby Raine is, to me, the only way forward for progressive forces.
The two state solution is clearly not a solution.
The Zionist Apartheid Settler State has a logic of extended it’s borders.
It has done this relentlessly.
That Fatah accepted the two state solution was both an indication of the corruption of it’s leadership and the weaknesses of a coherent resistance to the western powers.
Excellent coverage of the Gaza crisis. The best analysis I’ve seen of the attack on the hospital.
I hadn’t heard about the 800+ Legal Scholars before, which isn’t surprising of course:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/legal-scholars-israel-genocide
Also came across the following in the search results (when I did a search re the 800+):
‘US legal scholars urge Biden to seek immediate ceasefire from Israel’
Letter signed by 178 members of US’s most prestigious law faculties calls Israeli reaction to Hamas attack ‘a moral catastrophe’
And I came across the following earlier:
Tilda Swinton among 2000+ artists calling for Gaza ceasefire
October 17, 2023
They accuse governments of “aiding and abetting” Israel’s “war crimes” in Gaza
Palestinians face “collective punishment on an unimaginable scale”
Governments should “end their military and political support for Israel’s actions”
And here’s a taster of the response (this in the Sun):
‘LEO McKINSTRY The open letter by luvvies against Israel reveal they’ve been indoctrinated by left-wing propaganda about colonialism’
WITH their closed minds and sheep-like instincts, left-wing posers are nothing if not predictable.
As soon as the terror group Hamas began its murderous assault on Israel almost a fortnight ago, it was grimly certain that the rent-a-mob radicals would soon be demonstrating in our cities, full of condemnation for the Jewish state and support for its enemies.
PS And JVL get a mention in Tanya Gold’s latest piece in/on the JC!
Additional new information provides further challenges to Israel’s “evidence” that a malfunctioning rocket (not an Israeli bomb) caused the Hell at the Gazan hospital. The Channel 4 newscast early evening said:-
– forensic analysis of the Israeli voice recording (alleged to be a conversation between 2 Hamas fighters) shows the tape was digitally modified and unreliable as evidence. The analysts couldn’t say whether the Israeli tape was definitely a fake but they thought it had been constructed from several unrelated separate voice recordings.
– analyses of the sound recording of the explosion and the blast patterns at the hospital showed that what hit the hospital travelled from the opposite direction the IDF said it had come from.
There are now a number of technical experts from unrelated, credible and geographically separated sources saying they’ve disproved points key to the Israeli’s version of events at the hospital.
https://www.channel4.com/news/human-rights-investigators-raise-new-questions-on-gaza-hospital-explosion