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Doctors in Gaza pleading for protection that is supposed to be provided by the Geneva Conventions, pillars of international law that Israel and the Biden administration are doing all they can to shred.
Saja Junaid, she’s 4 years old.
Despite what she’s going through, this video just shows that she’s just a child that deserves to live and enjoy life instead she’s burned all over her body.
WATCH: White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, appear to go out of their way to avoid saying the word “Palestine.”
(h/t
@prem_thakker
&
@briebriejoy
)
Why does Gaza not already have a seaport where the US could deliver aid? Because Israel, part of its ongoing occupation which it pretends didn't exist, prevented Palestinians from building one. The same with an airport.
Look. At. This.
It looks like Hamas stopped firing at Tel Aviv just after South Africa filed its application to the ICJ on Dec. 29.
All January, as the ICJ set a date, heard arguments and then gave their orders, Hamas didn’t fire a rocket at Tel Aviv. They said just before
Hamas' Qassam Brigades launches rockets from Gaza towards Tel Aviv for the first time in weeks — once again dispelling the myth that Israel has eliminated its capabilities in the Gaza Strip.
MUST SEE: State Dept once again refuses to recognize 4th Geneva Convention for Occupied Palestine.
Their intentionally ambiguous response may be an attempt to turn Gaza into a free-fire zone.
When I pressed for clarity, they threatened to eject me.
🎥:
@decensorednews
Palestinians in Gaza are starving and eating grass.
This was exactly what happened during the Irish famine, which was actually inflicted on Ireland by the British.
That’s why people eat food dyed green on St Patrick’s Day. People think it’s a happy thing. It’s not as
State Dept just cancelled today’s briefing. If mass arrests and repression had taken place in universities in Iran or Russia they would go on and on about it. But now, they don’t want to talk at all.
Francis Boyle states that with States (including US and UK govs) cutting off funding to UNRWA, it is "no longer the case of these States aiding and abetting Israeli Genocide against the Palestinians in violation of Genocide Convention article 3 (e) criminalizing 'complicity' in
After not a word of criticism of Israel was uttered at the State Dept briefing for the first 15 minutes, I spoke up.
In the course of the event I asked a series of questions including:
“Does Israel have a right to kill civilians, Matt?”
"Will You Urge Israel to Not Starve and
MUST SEE: Journalists
@SMArikat
,
@MaxBlumenthal
, and
@samhusseini
grill State Department over Israeli “war crimes” and “genocidal rhetoric”
“Will you urge Israel not to starve and slaughter people, please??”
🧵 Get. This. Deceit.
On Wed, Matt Miller, in response to a question from me about if the State Dept recognized that the Geneva Conventions applied to the occupied Palestinian territories, proclaimed: “We of course accept the Geneva Conventions” -- I said thanks and moved on...
Israeli rep at the ICJ in his opening remarks mentions Raphael Lemkin who coined the term “genocide”. Here’s the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention:
The
@LemkinInstitute
calls on the
@IntlCrimCourt
to indict Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
@IsraeliPM
for the crime of
#genocide
in light of the siege and bombardment of
#Gaza
and the many expressions of genocidal intent, especially his deleted tweet from 10/17/2023.
The last time I saw this guy he told the camera he would take everyone’s question and then refused to take mine about the carnage they are inflicting on Gaza and attacks on protesters. Now he’s claiming to honor journalists who ask tough questions. (Comments are great.)
Today on World Press Freedom Day, we recognize the importance of a free and open press and honor the courageous journalists who ask the hard questions and provide crucial information to the world.
Miller: We don't want to see a single civilian killed
Reporter: Ok – why not let civilians in Gaza return to their former land in Israel and have citizenship?
Miller: That'd be forced displacement
It's actually the exact opposite: an attempt to remedy the 1948 forced
WATCH: I question State Dept:
Is Israel really targeting Hamas, or the Palestinian people?
Does the US recognize the 4th Geneva Convention?
Under international law, Israel has no "right of self-defense" as an occupier. See:
Video by
@decensorednews
Correct. US took out electricity and therefore water in Iraq in 90s such that you had cholera outbreaks. Similar to what Israel is doing to Palestinians in Gaza. It’s effectively biowarfare.
🧵 Quite. A. Con.
The US government has attempted to set up a fake legal "narrative" without ever stating what the narrative is.
That is, they pretend the Fourth Geneva Convention doesn't apply to Gaza but completely obscure that position from the public. ...
MUST SEE: Journalist
@samhusseini
calls out the State Dept on their months of evasiveness and deceit about (what should be) a simple question—one that he's asked them repeatedly:
“Does the US government recognize the Geneva Conventions as applying to Gaza?”
Biden: "Hamas has already said publicly that they plan on attacking Israel again, like they did before -- cutting babies heads off and burning women and children alive. And so the idea that they're just gonna stop and not do anything is not realistic."
Your periodic reminder to say “Palestinians in Gaza” and not “Gazans” whenever possible. Minimizing use of “Palestine” and “Palestinian” is part of the genocidal project.
Pro-Israeli Zionist, Alan Dershowitz, vows he will engage in "massive offensive lawfare" against allegedly '"anti-Semitic" Pro Palestine student protesters.
He threatens to have their dorm rooms taken away, take their cars and boomboxes, and "bankrupt" them. He says this is
🧵 1/3 Today, I attempted to compel the State Dept to end some Big Lies....
Me: Does funding Israel violate US law?
State Dept: No.
Me: But Israel is a nuclear proliferator in violation of US law against that.
WATCH: Journalist Sam Husseini (
@samhusseini
) presses the State Dept about Israeli nukes, pointing out that the US govt is legally required to cut funding to nuclear proliferators
He also asks about Nicaragua's case against Germany at the ICJ for aiding Israel's genocide:
Matt Miller at State Sept refused to call on me once again today. It was insane. After Biden’s deranged made-for-TV remarks pretending the anti genocide protestors were violent, Miller went to three reporters who attacked the protesters, either calling them trouble makers (Indian
Miller refuses to comment on whether the administration would revoke visas of students who allegedly “express support for Hamas”
Reporter: Would the administration do such a thing?
Miller: I just don't have any comment on that
I knew Christopher Hitchens. I drank with Christopher Hitchens. He wrote me emails to me signed "Fraternally" and "vigilant as ever, but not as vigilant as you". Then he threatened to call the feds on me after 9/11.
"Christopher Hitchens was one of the great essayists in America. He would be unemployable today because there was no set of priors he wasn’t willing to offend," writes
@nytdavidbrooks
.
A volunteer has put together a great document to reach out to countries critical of Israel so they back up South Africa's
#InvokeGenocideConvention
at the ICJ:
People can urge countries to make Declarations of Intervention to the World Court. More
Aaron Bushnell.
The Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hant said of self-immolation: "I think we must try to understand those who have sacrificed themselves. ... It is done to wake us up."
“I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” he said calmly. “But compared to what people
USA Today: “California valedictorian will no longer give graduation speech over 'alarming' discussion”
Some “complained to the university about Asna Tabassum's social media, which includes an Instagram bio that links to a pro-Palestine website.”
University of Southern
Francis Boyle on the ICJ Orders “This is a massive, overwhelming legal victory for the Republic of South Africa against Israel on behalf of the Palestinians. The UN General Assembly now can suspend Israel from participation in its activities as it did for South Africa and
WATCH: State Dept claims they aren't pressuring Abbas against invoking the Genocide Convention at the World Court to stop Israel's assault.
I put them on notice regarding their own complicity under the Convention.
(h/t
@decensorednews
)
Along these lines, Matt Miller at State (who has repeatedly refused to take my questions since Oct 7) just refereed to "our Israeli government---" and then was corrected to say "our Israeli counterparts..."
While enabling the slaughter of Christians where Christianity began.
My father was born on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Driven out by zionists in 1948.
Stuff your phony Happy Easter you genocidal maniac.
This appears to be great news. Thank you, South Africa. Going through the fine print. The actual filing is very long. Task before us may be to have other states states supporting this legal action.
#InvokeGenocideConvention
JUST IN: South Africa 🇿🇦 invokes the Genocide Convention, filing an application instituting proceedings against Israel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and requesting provisional measures to protect against further “severe and irreparable harm.”
@samhusseini
Israel lied about beheaded babies so it could slaughter babies.
They are coordinating rape propaganda so they can keep bombing Palestinian women.
The lies are infact evidence of coordinated genocidal intent.
So
#InvokeGenocideConvention
Now.
You’re seeing an obvious coordinated effort to disseminate propaganda about mass sexual violence from 2 months ago. Notice the complete lack of mention of alleged crimes against babies/children now. Those headlines have disappeared because they were falsifiable; these are not.
State Dept official
@AnnelleSheline
resigns, quoting Bushnell: ‘I am haunted by the final social media post of Aaron Bushnell, the 25-year-old US Air Force serviceman who self-immolated in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington on February 25: “Many of us like to ask
Annelle Sheline writes that she decided to resign from her position at the State Department given US policy toward Gaza. "Whatever credibility the United States had as an advocate for human rights has almost entirely vanished since the war began."
Journalist
@samhusseini
just put a Pentagon spokesman on notice that he and other Biden administration officials face prosecution of war crimes and genocide.
"You bomb hospital after hospital, bakery after bakery, and you keep pretending you're just after the military"
An under-appreciated aspect of Seldowitz’s threats to the food vendor is that the US gov does use the Mukhabarat in Egypt to torture people. Most notoriously, they tortured al-Libi into a false confession about al-Qaeda working with Iraq. Colin Powell would present that as
Stuart Seldowitz, former Deputy Director in the
#US
State Department's Office of
#Israel
and Palestinian Affairs from 1999 to 2004, expressed Islamophobia towards this Muslim man.
#Gaza
This is great. And it’s not multiculturalism. It’s global solidarity. It’s true universalism.
States can exhibit such solidarity with
#InvokeGenocideConvention
Wish every street were like this now. 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸
BREAKING - State Dept refuses to address how much USAID money went to Wuhan Institute of Virology and collaborator Ralph Baric, who developed techniques for weaponizing viruses (h/t
@decensorednews
)...
It’s my dad’s birthday. Born on the shores of Sea of Galilee in 1932. Driven out by Zionist forces in 1948. I’ve thought of him much of course, but especially the last six months. He talked soon before he died about wishing he’d know how “it all turned out” — by which he meant
Israel and its accomplices lied about beheaded babies so that Israel could slaughter tons of babies. Then they did the same thing about rape. The lies are part of the genocidal intent. The NYT is part of an effective conspiracy to commit genocide at this point.
A major embarrassment for NYT's
@gettleman
and his story on "How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence."
Gal Abdush is the Oct. 7th victim whose story leads and is featured throughout the NYT article. Her family is even featured as the cover image. NYT describes her as a "symbol"
What many Palestinians are saying is “Give me liberty or give me death.”
If your reaction to this is primarily to criticize them, you’re probably an enemy of Liberty.
WATCH: I question State Dept:
Is Israel really targeting Hamas, or the Palestinian people?
Does the US recognize the 4th Geneva Convention?
Under international law, Israel has no "right of self-defense" as an occupier. See:
Video by
@decensorednews
Just woke up. Almost cried in my sleep. Dreamt I was at the State Dept briefing room. Dreamt they were taking a long time to start and I dozed off. Then, there was a commotion as I woke up in my dream and they were about to start. Suddenly all these people dressed in blue towels
MUST SEE: State Dept once again refuses to recognize 4th Geneva Convention for Occupied Palestine.
Their intentionally ambiguous response may be an attempt to turn Gaza into a free-fire zone.
When I pressed for clarity, they threatened to eject me.
🎥:
@decensorednews
Ralph Nader charges massive undercount of Palestinians killed in Gaza: "From accounts of people on the ground, videos and photographs of deadly episode after episode, plus the resultant mortalities from blocking or smashing the crucial necessities of life, a more likely estimate,
Question: “Is Lindsey Graham a Jew?”
McCain: “No, he’s a decent family man.”
Pretty obvious that’s bad, right.
The fact that you don’t see that till I make that substitution shows how deep the biases go.
John McCain's finest moment (for me) came in 2008, when a woman at a rally referred to Obama as an Arab. "No, ma'am," McCain replied. "He's a decent family man, a citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with." That's manning up.
Amazing --
Prof. Francis Boyle has argued the Biden administration is in violation of the Genocide Convention Implementation Act of 1987.
The priceless part is that the original sponsor of that legislation, Boyle just noted to me privately, was...Joe Biden:
South Africa has filed a case at the International Court of Justice in the Hague, accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. International law expert Francis Boyle, who has argued successfully at the ICJ, says he believes "South Africa will win an order against Israel."
#InvokeGenocideConvention
My latest --
To Save Gaza, Invoke the Genocide Convention
The ICC is a "puppet institution". What's needed is a country to invoke the Genocide Convention at the International Court of Justice. Here's how, with argument, phone numbers, addresses and
#InvokeGenocideConvention
My latest --
To Save Gaza, Invoke the Genocide Convention
The ICC is a "puppet institution". What's needed is a country to invoke the Genocide Convention at the International Court of Justice. Here's how, with argument, phone numbers, addresses and
🧵It wasn't just Bush & Cheney who lied their way into the Iraq invasion 20 years ago. Possibly the most important Dem, who had been threatening and falsifying about Iraq for years, was Biden. See clip from his war speech and my piece on his endless lies:
When I asked if he doesn't recognize the Geneva Conventions as applying to the occupied Palestinian territories, he said the briefing ended 30 seconds ago and motioned that his lips were zipped.
I noted that he didn't call on me again.
He laughed and said "Yeah." Audio:
NEW: State Dept says they wouldn't “support” the UN General Assembly suspending Israel under the “Uniting for Peace” resolution, but fails to answer my question about what they'd DO if it’s invoked 🧵
Video by
@decensorednews
:
Boyle is optimistic of South Africa winning against Israel on genocide at ICJ despite obstacles.
Help back up South Africa by urging other nations to join in:
South Africa has filed a case at the International Court of Justice in the Hague, accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. International law expert Francis Boyle, who has argued successfully at the ICJ, says he believes "South Africa will win an order against Israel."
Twenty years ago today, on Sept. 8, 2002, Dick Cheney appeared on Meet the Press, starting the push for the invasion of Iraq. He cited a piece in the NYT from that morning which falsely claimed Iraq got aluminum tubes for a nuclear bomb. But the administration planted that story.
In Nov, I asked his deputy Vedant Patel about the Geneva Conventions and he was evasive. When I pushed for an answer, he threatened to kick me out.
As I noted at the time, if the Geneva Conventions don't apply, then the US is creating a free fire zone:
MUST SEE: State Dept once again refuses to recognize 4th Geneva Convention for Occupied Palestine.
Their intentionally ambiguous response may be an attempt to turn Gaza into a free-fire zone.
When I pressed for clarity, they threatened to eject me.
🎥:
@decensorednews
Israel lied about 40 slaughtered babies so it could slaughter thousands of babies.
Congress smeared students of conscience so Israel could keep killing.
The lies and smears are part of the genocidal intent.
We just need one country to
#InvokeGenocideConvention
— please urge countries to do this. Urge groups to push for this. It’s a concrete step any person can ask any country to do.
🇺🇳 WE NEED JUST ONE UN STATE TO ACTIVATE THE GENOCIDE CONVENTION TO SAVE THE CIVILIANS OF GAZA, PALESTINE.
"It just needs one state to invoke the Genocide Convention and change the narrative and the international dynamic. That will only happen through the power of the people in
The Iranians *seem to have been pleading for UNSC to do something, but with US veto, nothing was forthcoming, so they acted. In that respect, it's about the US blocking the Security Council from doing its alleged job to maintain global security. Another reason why United for
Had the UN Security Council condemned the Zionist regime’s reprehensible act of aggression on our diplomatic premises in Damascus and subsequently brought to justice its perpetrators, the imperative for Iran to punish this rogue regime might have been obviated.
As I’ve been saying. If Hamas releases all the captives, Israeli genocidal regime will likely escalate its slaughter. That’s what Bush I did with Iraq.
State Dept. Denies Latest Allegations that US Government Blew up Nord Stream
Sy Hersh charges the US military was behind the explosion. Ned Price dismisses claims despite US government statements. Says administration abides by WPR:
Full video:
Clip:
Far far worse than this. Biden was the main one pushing partitioning Iraq in the 1990s. He presided over rigged hearings on Iraq in 2002. He probably did more to ensure the invasion of Iraq than any other Democrat. Then he repeatedly lied about his record about this any time he
This all seems like an orchestrated plan to effectively eviscerate the Geneva Conventions for the Palestinians, while pretending that they are upholding the Conventions -- see write up today at -- will be more to come.
George W. Bush, 2003:
"The United States has no quarrel with the Iraqi people."
Matt Miller,
@StateDeptSpox
2023:
"We do not have any quarrel with the Palestinian people."
🚨BREAKING: An American Palestinian has been killed by Israeli air strikes. Her brother, also an American citizen talking about how he is being abandoned by the US govt, he and his father who is disabled are injured from an Israeli airstrike on their home. He is holding his
"בלי רעב וצמא אצל האוכלוסייה העזתית לא נצליח לגייס משת"פ, לא נצליח לגייס מודיעין, לא נצליח לשחד אנשים, באוכל, בשתייה, בתרופות, כדי להשיג מודיעין ואנחנו יודעים שמציאת החטופים היא מטרה עליונה וסופר חשובה לצד מטרות הלחימה." - כך אמרה ח"כ טלי גוטליב במליאת הכנסת
@TallyGotliv
Full piece via
"Jane Doe" Who Immolated Herself at Israeli Consulate in Atlanta Last Year Is Still Alive
Police entered apartment, called it a case of "arson", seized journals from the bedroom, used a drone and noted presence of Quran in police report.
The real story is not that Biden is old and stupid
It’s not that Blinken is horrid
It’s not that Netanyahu is corrupt
It’s not that South Africa is good
It’s not that the US gov is threatening a wider war
The story is that Israel w US and co is committing genocide against
The genocide is happening in large part because people who were culpable in the invasion of Iraq — including Biden and Blinken and Netanyahu — were not exposed for their criminal conduct then. This is just the latest in a series of related crimes.
#InvokeGenocideConvention
NOW.
Correct. Prof Francis Boyle has been advocating this. The UN GA can suspend Israel, admit Palestine, and set up a tribunal to prosecute individuals.
All this is helped by South Africa
#InvokeGenocideConvention
Right now, other countries should back up South Africa 🇿🇦
1/2 The UN General Assembly should suspend Israel like they suspended Apartheid South Africa in 1974. At the time the US unsuccessfully challenged the ruling, which was also opposed by Britain. There is a precedent. It can and should be done.
The next day, I raised my hand the entire briefing (as I usually do) and he didn't call on me.
I went up to him after and asked why he didn’t specify occupied Palestinian territory, he said: “I said exactly what I meant”.
When someone asked what they could do to help Gaza the other day, I said that most anyone can have a Palestinian flag in their window. A friend sent me a pic of their house:
I don't regard what Israel is going as "revenge" or "retaliation" or anything of the sort.
That would be somewhat understandable.
This is a long term goal, to obliterate Palestinian society as much as possible.
Why else all the lies? Why make up atrocities if the goal is