Israel Now Faces Its Worst Nightmare
Any future Arab-Israeli conflict will look a lot like this one: involving not only those Palestinians living under occupation, but those Israeli Arabs living in Israel itself.
Americans can be forgiven for believing that the recently concluded Israeli-Palestinian conflict was just more of the same. After all, we’d seen this before, with rockets fired from one side while bombs were being dropped from the other. We even knew how the drama would end: while American policymakers mouthed their support for Israel’s right to defend itself, the same off-stage actors (primarily Qatar and Egypt), intervened to mediate a ceasefire as they had done in the past. And so the conflict ended, the dead are now being mourned and Israelis and Palestinians have returned to their normal lives. Until the next time.
The Israelis are seeking to reframe their occupation of Palestine as something else, in order to hide their inhumane oppression. What's happening in Gaza is not a 'war' nor a 'conflict', but a brutal military colonization. Israel launched its.
Israel resumes supply of goods, aid to Gaza Strip; fishing allowed
Israel resumes supply of goods, aid to Gaza Strip; fishing allowed
“The Israeli leadership has simply lost its moral compass,” says the father of the late Lt. Hadar Goldin, whose remains have been held by Hamas since “Operation Protective Edge” in 2014.
By Ariel Kahana and Lilach Shoval
A truck loaded with humanitarian aid passes through the Kerem Shalom border crossing, the main passage point for goods entering the Gaza Strip from Israel, May 21, 2021. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
(May 25, 2021 / Israel Hayom) Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz has issued instructions to resume shipments of humanitarian goods into the Gaza Strip for the first time since “Operation Guardian of the Walls” ended in an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire that took effect at 2 a.m. on Friday.
2021-05-25 12:35:51 GMT2021-05-25 20:35:51(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
JERUSALEM, May 25 (Xinhua) U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged that the United States would rally support to rebuild Gaza, as he began his Middle East tour in Jerusalem on Tuesday.
In a televised statement after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Blinken said the United States will work to rally international support and make its own significant contributions.
But it will be ensured that Hamas does not benefit from the reconstruction assistance, Blinken said about the Islamist Palestinian group that runs the besieged Palestinian enclave.
Netanyahu, speaking alongside Blinken after their meeting, warned that his country will launch a very powerful response if Hamas will renew rocket fire at Israel.
Social media platforms are complicit in censoring Palestinian voices
The Conversation
25 May 2021, 08:38 GMT+10
As the Israel-Palestine ceasefire agreement holds, social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram (which is owned by Facebook), continue to come under fire over the censorship of pro-Palestinian content.
In times of conflict, any kind of censorship by major platforms can erase evidence of state-sanctioned violence, human rights abuses and potential war crimes against innocent civilians.
This is particularly concerning as evidence of brutality and violence on social media can often be the only form of testimony that holds false narratives and mass denial of human rights abuses to account.