Blood Oil.

Image courtesy of Palestine Chronicle.

           So the very compassionate good old U$ of A is building a port on the beaches of Gaza and will protect it with their war ships. The pretext is that they will deliver aid to the Palestinians, however, they won't stop the genocide, for in all honesty that would upset their real plans. Once the Zionist psychopaths have destroy Gaza and dispersed its population, then the U$A is in a wonderful position, with a ready built port, to extract the riches of the Gaza oil fields just of the coast of Gaza and ship it to their markets around the world. A nice wee boost for the economy of the U$A.

 Image courtesy of Human Rights Watch.

 

           The callous barbarity and inhumanity of the western imperialists knows no bounds. Profit overrides the lives of thousands of innocent civilians and the starvation of children. U$A can stand by and let the Zionist psychopaths do the killing, while they wait in the wings to reap the blood soaked spoils of this brutal genocide. Throughout this entire inhuman genocidal attack on the civilian population of Gaza, U$A and its Western puppets have supported the slaughter to the hilt, stood by and arm the aggressor and now they are getting ready to collect their pay back, the riches of the Gaza oil fields. Endless wars are rich pickings for this blood soaked insanity of an economic system. Its total destruction is the only answer to get to a society of fairness and justice for all. A society built on mutual aid, co-operation, that sees to the needs of all our people.

 

Image courtesy of Wikipedia.

 

 

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Keelie 47.

 

                Once again the great wee pocket rocket of a newspaper, your newspaper, the Glasgow Keelie hits the street. Issue 47 now available at pickets, demos, on the streets, seek out your copy, you won't be disappointed, From what your council gets up to, how we are continually ripped-off by this insane economic system that feed the rich at the expense of the poor. Contact with those who on a daily basis fight the injustices and call for justice and peace. Of course we support Palestine and demand a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the Zionist perpetrated genocide.
           You can also read it on line at Glasgow Keelie, ask for copies to distribute among you friends, communities and workplaces, all for free. Or get in touch and gives your grip about the injustice we the people suffer on a daily basis, tell us your story, articles welcome. 

 

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Insanity.

        Writing about what has gone wrong in this world is easy. We could start locally, the rising child poverty in the UK, increasing hardship on families due to rocketing mortgages, and food prices, the increase in homelessness, and rough sleeping, the collapsing health system by government agenda, to drive it in to the hands of large corporations to let them make millions for the suffering of ordinary people, the crumbling education system. All of these are a brutal indictment of a system that has miserable failed to see to the needs of people of this country.
        However, all this fades into insignificance when we look at what the American empire and its cronies are doing in supporting the genocide taking place in Gaza under the the hands of the psychopathic Zionist nutcases sitting in the Israeli government. A deranged bunch of insane religious headbangers who believe they are special, the chosen people and have the right to ethnic cleanse the country of Palestine because their wee mythical man in the sky gave them this land more than 2,000 years ago. Insanity and religious fantasy as government policy. What is more shocking, that the leaders of the so called developed West go along with this savage insanity. Instead of their humanity, which they all seem to lack, instead of calling for a ceasefire to this brutal genocide, they bleat on about more humanitarian aid instead of a ceasefire, WHY, do they believe that the Palestinians must be well fed and looked after before they are slaughtered?

Image courtesy of North Jersey

 

 

        Over 21,000 civilians killed in less than three months, more than half of them children. Will those who are against a ceasefire, please explain how this can be, in all humanity be acceptable. Those orchestrating this bloody genocide and those supporting it, must be held to account and soon if humanity has a chance of survival in this troubled world. 

 

An extract for an interesting article by Caitlin Johnstone in conjunction with her husband Tim Foley. 

        There’s a single news story about international conflicts which keeps repeating itself again and again in different iterations, and that story is this: “US-centralized empire fights to secure domination of planet Earth, and some populations resist this.”
           You’re seeing this story with Hamas, Hezbollah and Ansarallah today. That’s what you’ve been seeing with all the standoffs with Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. That’s what you see when the US-centralized power structure terrorizes nations in Latin America like Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua.
           It’s a giant empire attacking nations who have the temerity to insist on their own national sovereignty rather than being absorbed into the imperial blob. It uses full-scale wars, proxy conflicts, starvation sanctions and blockades, drone wars, CIA coups and deliberately fomented color revolutions to subvert any government which defies the US agenda of securing total planetary domination.
       If you can understand this, you can understand pretty much any major international conflict in modern times.

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Gaza.

 

Image courtesy of Amnesty International.

        Some headlines from Information Clearing House, I know some people don't like IFC, so make of them what you will, but read them, and see if it changes your mind on the genocide being carried out by Israel on Gaza.

Israeli Genocide in Gaza Crosses 12,000, 5,000 Of Them Children

Israeli air strike on UN-school kills 'at least 50' on devastating day of attacks

Families dig out loved ones by hand in Gaza as thousands remain under rubble

'Pregnant women in Gaza forced to opt C-section in torchlight without anesthesia'

At least 30,000 wounded in the Strip, 202 medical staff killed

Dozens killed in latest Israeli bombing of Gaza Mosque: Israeli planes targeted the Mosque as worshippers gathered for a congressional prayer.

Most of Israel’s weapons imports come from the US. Now genocide Joe is rushing even more arms: What the US sending Israel weapons “at the speed of war” looks like.

Hamas Didn’t Attack Israelis Because They Are Jewish
‘A lot of discontent’: Netanyahu alone as Israel turns on wartime PM

Five nations request war crime probe over situation in Palestinian territories

Ramzy Baroud: History tells us why Israel will not defeat Gaza

UN Security Council adopts resolution for ‘humanitarian pauses’ in Gaza

Israel Rejects UN Call for ‘Extended Humanitarian Pauses’ for Gaza

UN says Israel’s limited aid is not enough

HRW: Communications blackouts like in Gaza could be 'cover for atrocities'

No Gaza cease-fire: Israel’s US ambassador says ground campaign will take ‘weeks’

‘Killing babies won’t bring our babies back’: Relatives of the victims of Hamas’s attack are among those arguing against revenge on Gaza.

Israeli ministers outraged over 'limited' fuel set to enter Gaza

Iraqi resistance hits multiple US bases in Iraq, Syria: The Islamic Resistance in Iraq announced on 17 November its forces attacked three US bases in Syria and Iraq.

Syrian air defenses repel latest Israeli attack on Damascus

Anti-Israel rhetoric in Jordan intensifies as kingdom braces for chaos

Jordan scraps energy deal with Israel: Amman says long-standing ties with Tel Aviv cannot move forward while the Israeli army 'continues to kill children in Gaza'

Sorry, Biden: Ireland’s Sinn Féin embraces Palestinians and shuns Israel : “The world sees Israeli actions for what they are — barbaric, hateful, cowardly war crimes,” McDonald told the crowd.

 

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Genocide.

     

         Surely the only subject matter that should be grabbing our attention today, is the genocide of the Palestinian people by the colonialist Zionist apartheid state of Israel. Over the centuries the human race has witness many brutal and savage events, but for the 21 century, what is happening to the Palestinian people must shock every fibre of humanity. A genocidal act of inhuman savagery, driven by a fanatical religious group hell bent on claiming Palestine as a Zionist state, cleared of Arabs. Since the creation of the phoney Zionist state of Israel, the Palestinian people have been displaced in their millions to refugee camps in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and elsewhere. The last remaining Palestinians in their own country are in refugee camps in the largest open air prison in the world, the occupied territory of Gaza and the West Bank, and the are at this very moment being crushed by one of the most powerful military states in the world. All humanity must stand up and demand an end to this savage genocide and justice and freedom for the Palestinian people. 

Image courtesy of Morning Star.

From SubMedia.

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Protest.

   

 

         While Western states pay homage to the Israeli apartheid regime in its act of genocide on the people of Palestine, the people of those states are on the streets in defiance of, and anger at, their governments' stance. Across the globe massive protests took place on Saturday 14th October demanding justice and peace for the Palestinian people. Here in the UK, London saw tens of thousands march in protest at the pending genocide of the people of Gaza, Bristol 1,500, Manchester 1,500 Liverpool similar numbers. In Scotland, Glasgow saw several thousands march through the city demanding peace and justice for the people of Palestine, similar protests took place in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Dundee. It is obvious that the Western state acceptance of collective punishment on Gaza is out of touch with the people they are supposed to represent. This state stance in favour of collective punishment is contrary to international law. Yet, those states that pretend to be the defenders of democracy, turn a blind eye to the pending genocide facing the people of Gaza, innocent blood is on their hands.

 

Croud Image courtesy of Daily Record.

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Zionist Propaganda.

     

        The Israeli Palestine affair is so wrapped up in propaganda and emotion that a lot of people don't know the facts of the true nature of this genocide by the Zionist state of Israel. The Israeli state and its supporters are masters of propaganda and can command tremendous publicity and support from the media and heads of state, and they use it at ever turn to paint the picture they want to be stamped on the public psyche. The picture of poor peace loving Israel being hated and attacked by mad Arab terrorist groups.

      The following extract is from an article by Jeff Halper and taken  from Roar Magazine, it gives an excellent analysis of what is really happening and how it got started. Well worth the time to read it in full. 

       Since its inception as a settler colonial movement in the late 19th century, Zionism has relentlessly pursued a campaign to erase the Palestinian presence in Palestine. It has done so by manipulating the resistance generated by that campaign among Palestinians to its own ends, by instrumentalizing Palestinian resistance so as to de-politicize it and make it appear nothing but criminalized terror.
       A key element of settler colonialism, in the famous phrase of the Australian anthropologist Patrick Wolfe, is the elimination of the indigenous people in the lands coveted by the settlers. Although this suggests their physical elimination – which usually happens at least partially – it can take different forms: cultural as well as physical genocide, displacement, marginalization, ghettoization or, when they have ceased being a demographic or political threat, assimilation. They might even be offered some form of symbolic self-determination. Whatever works. I use the term “erasure.” More nuanced, it covers all strategies of removing the indigenous presence, political, legal, physical and cultural. At the same time, settlers, who are constantly attempting to market their colonial narrative as the “civilized” one, even among their own people, instrumentalize the resistance of the indigenous people, ensuring that it is kept within tolerable limits.
       This strategy is clear to Israelis. The image of the plucky kibbutznik against the faceless gangs of Arab terrorists stands out in Zionist hasbara (“explanation,” a Hebrew euphemism for propaganda) from the highly influential novel Exodus through the David and Golaith motif of the Six Day War down to demonstrating the higher moral caliber of the Israeli soldiers risking their own lives in Gaza so not to harm innocent civilians, in stark contrast to the “murderous Arabs.”
       That dual aim of erasure and instrumentalization of the Palestinians lies at the heart of the events of the past several weeks, from the Sheikh Jarrah evictions through the attack on the worshippers in the Al Aqsa Mosque and on to the attacks by Hamas on Israel and Israel’s bombing of Gaza, the inter-communal fighting within Israel and, perhaps, uprisings in the West Bank.
From the Nakba to the 1967 War
        The process of erasure has continued unabated since Zionism first claimed the Jews’ exclusive entitlement to the Land 125 years ago. Even before any actual contact, before Zionist adherents in Minsk or Plonsk ever realized that Arabs lived in the land that was awaiting them and that they thought to be “without a people,” Palestine was cast as a country that “belonged” to the Jews. The very purpose of Zionism — and this is still true of Israel today — was to transform an Arab country into a Jewish one, Palestine into the Land of Israel. If anything, the Palestinians were merely irrelevant. From those early days until this moment, both the Zionist movement as well as the Israeli state have refused to recognize the very existence, let alone the national rights, of a Palestinian people.
        The Zionist movement soon got crucial support from Britain, the world’s leading colonial power of the day. The Mandate over Palestine given to the British by the League of Nations carefully incorporated whole sections of the Balfour Declaration, itself dictated to the British government by Zionist leaders, which committed the British to establishing a Jewish national home in Arab Palestine. If it addressed the Jews as a national group, a people with rights of self-determination, the Mandate denied that to the Palestinian majority (which represented about 90 percent of the population in the early 1920s), who were referred to only as non-Jewish communities in Palestine. To be sure, their civil and religious rights were to be protected, but under the Mandate Palestinians enjoyed no national rights as a people. The ultimate acts of erasure came in 1947-48. The national wishes of the Palestinian people for independence were ignored when the United Nations recognized 56 percent of Palestine as a “Jewish” state, handing it over to the third of the population that was by then Jewish, despite clear signs that massive ethnic cleansing of Palestinians would result. And, in fact, by the end of 1948 war (the Nakba or Catastrophe), 85 percent of the Palestinian population, about 750,000 people, of what became Israel had been driven out.
       After 1948, the campaign of erasure started taking other forms: the erasure of Palestine’s Arab character, the Judaization of the landscape; putting into place the colonial structures of Jewish domination and control. A permanent State of Emergency was declared — it is still in effect today in the Occupied Palestinian Territory — placing the Palestinian population beyond the bounds of Israel’s legal system and under martial law. The Military Government under which Palestinian citizens of Israel lived until 1966 allowed the state to expropriate their lands and ghettoize them.
          The Israeli parliament passed a series of laws, supplemented by dozens of military orders, to de-Arabize – or as they put it, to Judaize – the country. The Absentee’ Property Law of 1950, for example, alienated refugees’ land from their owners and allowed Israel to systematically demolish, without compensation, some 530 entire Palestinian villages, towns and urban areas — about 52,000 homes were destroyed — transferring title to the lands to Jewish settlers and Judaizing the landscape. To complete the erasure of a Palestinian presence, the Arabic names of towns, rivers and geographical areas were replaced with Hebrew ones. By the early 1950s, 94 percent of the land that had been in Palestinian hands, including two million cultivated acres, was now classified as Israeli “State Land.”

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Gaza.

        So the bombing and killing has stopped for the moment, but the people of Gaza were not subject to this brutal bombardment from Israel as a one off, they are subjected to a constant savagery from the Israeli military on a daily basis, as are all the Palestinian people who are under the apartheid thumb of the Israeli Zionist state. The fight to free the Palestinian people from the vicious grip and violent whims of the Zionist state of Israel must continue. A stop to the overwhelming military power of the Zionists being unleashed on the people of Palestine must be permanent. The pressure must continue to highlight the true savagery of the Israeli Zionist state and bring justice to the people of Palestine.  

A call for solidarity for the people of Palestine.

Stop the War Coalition

NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION FOR PALESTINE

SAT 22 MAY - 1PM - EMBANKMENT, LONDON

         Saturday's national march in solidarity with Palestine is to go ahead despite the ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel.
        The bombs may have stopped but the brutal occupation, siege and ethnic cleansing continues. We are marching tomorrow in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
       We will be demanding an end to the UK’s complicity in Israel’s actions.
Boris Johnson expresses his 'deep concern' yet happily sells Israel the weapons it uses to kill innocent Palestinians.
       That's why we must all be out on the streets of London this Saturday to pressure our government to take concrete action to end it's support for Israel's apartheid regime.
       We can’t stop just because Israel has temporarily stopped bombing Gaza. We must campaign and protest until the Palestinian people enjoy what is their birth right: freedom, justice and equality in their historic homeland.

Join us today. Help us by tweeting and sharing on social media #UK4Palestine

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Rampant Genocide.

     Obviously the only supporters of the Trump/Netanyahu "deal of the Century"  for the people of Palestine, are rabid racists, apartheid supporters, fascists and Trump worshipers. However they will do their utmost to implement this racist land-grab with the hope of obliterating the land of Palestine off the map completely. No rational person with a grain of humanity can stand by and watch this happening. This deal will not be rescinded by debate in the corridors of power, too many in that labyrinth of power and corruption pay homage to their imperial master America. It can only be opposed on the streets in countries around the world. Sadly I don't see Glasgow's name in this list though I do know that there is wide opposition to this extension of American/Zionist imperialism. Let's widely publicise our actions and show the strength of solidarity.

This from Struggle La Lucha:

      Palestinian communities and supporters of Palestine inside occupied Palestine, in the refugee camps and everywhere around the world have mobilized a series of events, actions and demonstrations to express their outrage at the latest colonial insult proffered by U.S. imperialism, the Zionist state and complicit reactionary regimes, the Trump-Netanyahu “deal of the century.”

     A list of actions is below, organized by a wide range of community groups and solidarity movements. This list focuses mostly on events outside Palestine and the camps – there are countless mobilizations taking place there. We know this list is incomplete and growing! will add your action and demonstration to the list if you send us the time, date and location. Send us a message on Facebook or email us at samidoun@samidoun.net to add your mobilization to the growing international rising that makes clear that the people of the world stand with the Palestinian people and will never accept apartheid, land theft and colonization.

UPCOMING ACTIONS

Saturday, 1 February

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND
2:00 pm, Aotea Square, New Zealand. More info:
https://samidoun.net/event/auckland-palestine-human-rights-rally/
NAPOLI, ITALY
11:00 am Metro Toledo, Napoli. More info: https://www.facebook.com/giovanipalestinesi.italia/posts/2829767097086466
MILAN, ITALY
4:00 pm, Piazza Duomo/Arengario, Milan. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/giovanipalestinesi.italia/posts/2829767097086466
PARIS, FRANCE
3:00 pm, Fontaine des Innocents, Paris. More info:
https://samidoun.net/event/paris-protest-trumps-declaration-of-war-on-palestinians/
BARCELONA, CATALONIA (SPAIN)
6:30 pm, Placa Sant Jaume, Barcelona. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/comunitat.palestina/posts/2957069284326653
KOBLENZ, GERMANY
12:00 pm, Herz-Jesu-Kirche, Koblenz. More info:
https://samidoun.net/event/koblenz-no-to-the-deal-of-the-century-demonstration/
HAMBURG, GERMANY
3:00 pm, Steindamm 55, Hamburg. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/PalastinensischeGemeinschaftInDeutschlandEv/posts/3309641825727274
BORAS, SWEDEN
12:00 pm, Stora Torget, Borås. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/484555255807680/
GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN
1:00 pm, Gustaf Adolfs torg, Gothenburg. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/170475410928798/
HELSINGBORG, SWEDEN
1:00 pm, Söder, Helsingborg. More info:
https://samidoun.net/event/helsingborg-protest-the-trump-deal/
RONNEBY, SWEDEN
1:00 pm, Ronneby torg, Ronneby. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/pal.in.se/photos/a.777417652281878/2914966685193620/
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
2:00 pm, US Embassy, Dag Hammarskjolds Vag 31, Stockholm. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2692925357660447/
ODENSE, DENMARK
3:00 pm, Banegardspladsen, Odense. More info:
https://samidoun.net/event/odense-no-to-the-deal-of-the-century/
BERGEN, NORWAY
3:00 pm, Den Bla Steinen, Torgalmenningen, Bergen. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/637045693730573/
ENNIS, IRELAND
1:00 pm, The Height, O’Connell Square, Ennis. More info:
https://www.ipsc.ie/event/ennis-emergency-vigil-reject-the-trump-netanyahu-steal-of-the-century-ipsc
DUBLIN, IRELAND
2:00 pm, General Post Office, O’Connell Street, Dublin. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/185899832814621/
LIMERICK, IRELAND
3:00 pm, Bottom of Thomas Street, Limerick. More info:
https://www.ipsc.ie/event/limerick-emergency-vigil-reject-the-trump-netanyahu-steal-of-the-century-ipsc
LONDON, UK
1:00 pm, US Embassy, 33 Nine Elms Lane, London, More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2883478418385390/
MANCHESTER, UK
1:00 pm, Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/281779089464036/
BIRMINGHAM, UK
3:00 pm, opposite Waterstones (by the Bullring), Birmingham. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/birminghampalestineaction/posts/2467249560203413
TORONTO, CANADA
1:00 pm, US Consulate Toronto, 360 University Ave, Toronto. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/120157812630391/
MONTREAL, QUEBEC
1:00 pm, Norman Bethune Square, Montreal. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2649259201840051/
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, US
1:00 pm, 11000 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/519680402004224/
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, US
1:00 pm, Copley Square, Boston. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/205983373778802/
DALLAS, TEXAS, US
2:00 pm, Dealey Plaza, Dallas. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1780900755375497/
HOUSTON, TEXAS, US
3:00 pm, Corner of Westheimer and Post Oak, Houston. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/173949043954721/
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, US
5:00 pm, Five Points Fountain, Columbia. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/UofSCSJP/photos/a.764959730266462/2645478312214585/

Sunday, 2 February

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
2:00 pm, Dam Square, Amsterdam. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/837728293341115/
BERLIN, GERMANY
3:00 pm, Brandenburger Tor, Berlin. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/806759639837552/
OSLO, NORWAY
2:00 pm, Stortinget, Oslo. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1405052866339368/
COLUMBUS, OHIO, US
12:00 pm, 15th Avenue and High Street, Columbus. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/200398221090879/
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, US
1:00 pm, Centennial Olympic Park, Atlanta. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2325279181096737/
VANCOUVER, CANADA
2:30 pm, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/172540570673079/

Monday, 3 February

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
2:00 pm, US Consulate General, Museumplein 19, Amsterdam. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/774905216326149/
VIENNA, AUSTRIA
3:00 pm, US Embassy, Boltzmanngasse 16, Vienna. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/566191377123146/photos/a.586026968472920/754733871602228/

Tuesday, 4 February

GIJON, ASTURIAS, SPAIN
7:00 pm, Plaza del Parchis, Gijon (Xixon). More info:
https://www.facebook.com/causaarabe.asturies/posts/2799750740083680

Friday, 7 February

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
2:30 pm, Rond-point Schuman, Brussels. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10158109192094456&set=a.10151621688824456&type=3
HELSINKI, FINLAND
4:00 pm, Helsingin Tuomiokirkko, Helsinki. More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/186304922443411/

Sunday, 9 February

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, US
3:00 pm, Oakland (Pittsburgh). More info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/487529305243500/

List of COMPLETED ACTIONS

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A System Where Despots Sit At The Banquet.

Extract from Independent:

      According to the United Nations, the humanitarian situation is so dire Gaza may become completely uninhabitable by next year.
      More than 70 per cent of the youth are unemployed, the highest jobless rate in the world.
       Ninety-seven per cent of the water is undrinkable and more than half the population lives under the poverty line. Until relatively recently families were existing on less than six hours of electricity a day, which also means key infrastructure like sewage plants have not been operating properly.

       The population of Gaza is approximately 1.6 million, with over 50% under 18. Here are some other details the people of Gaza have to endure while living under the yoke of the Israeli Zionist regime, situations created by the direct and deliberate policies of that genocidal regime.

           The average wage declined by over 20% in the past six years. 54% of Gazans are food insecure and over 75% are aid recipients. 35% of Gaza’s farmland and 85% of its fishing waters are totally or partially inaccessible due to Israeli military measures. 50-80 million litres of partially treated sewage are dumped in the sea each day. Over 90% of the water from the Gaza aquifer is undrinkable. 85% of schools in Gaza run on double shifts. About one-third of the items in the essential drug list are out of stock.

        The world powers know what is happening in Gaza and the West bank. The world powers know that the Israeli apartheid Zionist government continues to steal Palestinian land at an ever increasing rate. The world powers know that the conditions in Gaza are sub-human, as a direct and deliberate policy of that Israeli Zionist regime. The world powers know that clean water, sewage disposal and electric power are very sporadic luxuries in Gaza, again due to the direct and deliberate policies of that Zionist Israeli regime. The world powers know that what is happening in Gaza is genocide, again as a result of the direct and deliberate policies of the same Israeli Zionist Apartheid regime.

      Yet those same world powers turn a blind eye, welcome that poisonous regime to their corridors of power, invite them to their banquets, and pompous ceremonies. That makes them equally guilty of these crimes they are complicit. Palestinian suffering is on the hands of all the Western governments, the stench of Palestinian blood seeps through their stinking marble halls of power.
       This situation will not be changed by voting in a new Messiah in this country or that country, the whole rotten system of capitalism that sustains this brutal travesty will always welcome brutal regimes, despots and authoritarian rulers, if there is profit in the deal. Humanity is not in its calculations. To stop this and other brutal inhumanities that ravage our world we have to bring down the root cause, capitalism and its drive for profit at all costs from the insanity of perpetual growth.

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Dare To Criticise Israel??

       I have always known that the USA is not the democratic paradise it spouts to the world at large, but I didn't know that several states make it obligatory to sign a pro-Israeli certificate before you can work for any state funded institution!!!

This from an article by The Intercept: 

       A children’s speech pathologist who has worked for the last nine years with developmentally disabled, autistic, and speech-impaired elementary school students in Austin, Texas, has been told that she can no longer work with the public school district, after she refused to sign an oath vowing that she “does not” and “will not” engage in a boycott of Israel or “otherwise tak[e] any action that is intended to inflict economic harm” on that foreign nation. A lawsuit on her behalf was filed early Monday morning in a federal court in the Western District of Texas, alleging a violation of her First Amendment right of free speech.

      The child language specialist, Bahia Amawi, is a U.S. citizen who received a master’s degree in speech pathology in 1999 and, since then, has specialized in evaluations for young children with language difficulties (see video below). Amawi was born in Austria and has lived in the U.S. for the last 30 years, fluently speaks three languages (English, German, and Arabic), and has four U.S.-born American children of her own.
    Amawi began working in 2009 on a contract basis with the Pflugerville Independent School District, which includes Austin, to provide assessments and support for school children from the county’s growing Arabic-speaking immigrant community. The children with whom she has worked span the ages of 3 to 11. Ever since her work for the school district began in 2009, her contract was renewed each year with no controversy or problem.
      But this year, all of that changed. On August 13, the school district once again offered to extend her contract for another year by sending her essentially the same contract and set of certifications she has received and signed at the end of each year since 2009.
      She was prepared to sign her contract renewal until she noticed one new, and extremely significant, addition: a certification she was required to sign pledging that she “does not currently boycott Israel,” that she “will not boycott Israel during the term of the contract,” and that she shall refrain from any action “that is intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on, or limit commercial relations with Israel, or with a person or entity doing business in Israeli or in an Israel-controlled territory.”

        The language of the affirmation Amawi was told she must sign reads like Orwellian — or McCarthyite — self-parody, the classic political loyalty oath that every American should instinctively shudder upon reading:

        That language would bar Amawi not only from refraining from buying goods from companies located within Israel, but also from any Israeli companies operating in the occupied West Bank (“an Israeli-controlled territory”). The oath given to Amawi would also likely prohibit her even from advocating such a boycott given that such speech could be seen as “intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on, or limit commercial relations with Israel.”

    
         There are currently 26 states where this legislation is now law and 13 where the legislation is pending, that would cover well over half the states in America. It would seem that in America you can advocate boycotts of all manner of things in your own country but dare not speak to harm Israel, strange?

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Palestinian Death Causes No Ripples.

       The misery, death and destruction visited on the people of Gaza by the Israeli Zionists regime continues, while in the UN, America vetoes an action that might investigate this genocide and the UK in it usual colonial mindset abstains. So the Zionists are free to continue with their genocide and land grab. All based on the ludicrous insane belief that an invisible man in the sky gave them this land around 2,000 years ago. A fictitious foundation for a savage reality, insanity rules. 

       June 1st. saw a crime that should have brought all civilised people onto the streets in righteous anger, demanding justice and an end to this Zionist genocide, but it hardly got a mention in that babbling brook of bullshit we call the mainstream media.

      On June 1st., in the besieged Gaza strip, Palestinian nurse Razan al-Najjar was shot in the chest and killed by an Israeli Zionist sniper. At the time she was providing medical aid to injured protesters. One Zionist rifle aimed deliberately at the chest of a young woman providing medical assistance, one deliberate action on an unarmed young woman, and the silence is overwhelming, why?

       In another incident, it takes courage to confront your armed Zionist jailers, who treat you as sum-human.

Thanks Loam for the video link.

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Lest We Forget!!

        By now our babbling brook of bullshit, the mainstream media will have moved on from the brutal murder of 111 Palestinian protesters by the Israeli Zionist military machine. They will be onto some new spectacle, sensation, scandal, the sex life of an MP, gossip on the latest moviestar spilt up. Lots of popcorn and bubble gum trivia for the masses. However the persecution of the Palestinian people still goes on, day in and day out, the Israeli Zionist state is relentless in its genocide of the Palestinian people. So though the babbling brook of bullshit has drop the subject, we the ordinary people should not. We must not forget that this is 70 years of ongoing persecution, 70 years of land grabs by the Zionists, day and daily murder, arrests and repression of an entire people, held in the largest open air prison in the world.

     So the protests across the world must continue in solidarity and support of a persecuted people, the Palestinians. We must continue to raise our voices about the 21st. century genocide, that is aided and abetted by the Western governments. Our silence is complicity in the support, and supply of weapons, to the Israeli Zionist state. we have to continue to shout, this genocide must end.

     It is encouraging to see that a group of Glasgow citizens are keeping the protests going. Though again sad, that only one red and black flag present, held aloft by a solitary Glasgow anarchist, where are you all? Today, Saturday 26th May, they were out side Marks and Spencers Argyle Street store, a known strong supporter of the Israeli Zionist state, informing the the general public of the situation in Palestine. A genocide based on the ludicrously insane idea that an invisible man in the sky, gave this land to the Jews some 2,000 years ago. That is the belief that underpins this savage murder of thousands over the years. 

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