by Oui
Wed Apr 2nd, 2025 at 10:55:00 PM EST
Evidence of 'execution-style' killings of Palestinian aid workers by Israeli forces, doctor says | The Guardian |
Forensic consultant says multiple bullets were used from short range in attack that has caused global outrage
A forensic doctor who examined the bodies of some of the 15 paramedics and Palestinian rescue workers shot dead by Israeli forces and buried in a mass grave in southern Gaza has said there is evidence of execution-style killing, based on the "specific and intentional" location of shots at close range.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society, the Palestinian Civil Defense and UN employees were on a humanitarian mission to collect dead and wounded civilians outside the southern city of Rafah on the morning of 23 March when they were killed and then buried in the sand by a bulldozer alongside their flattened vehicles, according to the UN.
Israel has expanded its aerial and ground attacks in Gaza since ending the ceasefire last month. The prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Wednesday it intends to "divide up" the territory.
Israel Nazi analogy guilt Holocaust Germany, not Palestine
The Nazi analogy and the trauma of October 7. Smearing Palestinians by invoking the most painful memory for Jewish people creates the conditions for endless conflict
For Jewish-Israelis and Jewish communities worldwide, reference to Hitler, Nazis, or the Holocaust taps into a painful and devastating collective historical memory. Yet this is being repeatedly invoked by Israel and its allies to describe Hamas and its attack on October 7.
This article argues that three political purposes are served by doing this. First, it embeds the idea that Israel is the only thing protecting Jews from another genocide. Second, it constantly reinforces the notion that Israelis are being targeted by Palestinians because they are Jews and not because they are occupiers and colonisers dispossessing and oppressing Palestinians. And third, it helps to silence critics by demanding unequivocal support for Israel in its current form as an apartheid state, no matter what it does.
But opinion polls are showing that Israel is losing support in Western societies, particularly amongst young people; this means that smearing critics and Palestinians will soon lose credence and impact.
"We're going to take out seven countries in five
years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon,
Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran."
- Gen. Wesley Clark (2001)
ICJP UK Director Tayab Ali legal procedures Israel war criminals Global 195
"Suspected Israeli War Criminals Are No Longer Safe Outside of Israel!" | ICJP Palestine UK Director Tayab Ali |
Global 195: As ICJ, ICC cases stall, could new legal coalition bring Israel to justice? | Arab News |
VDL Reacts Israeli Hoodlums Rampage In Amsterdam
I just spoke with PM Dick Schoof head of the Geert Wilders coalition ...
Amsterdamned or Maccabi Gate
Netanyahu lobbied von der Leyen over genocide case | Electronic Intifada - - 21 March 2025 |
Israel is trying to keep secret its lobbying against a legal case aimed at halting the Gaza genocide.
Through a freedom of information request, I have established that Benjamin Netanyahu contacted Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission's president, over the proceedings initiated last year by South Africa.
Israel's embassy in Brussels has objected to the disclosure of the letter from the prime minister. To their shame, officials working for von der Leyen have accepted Israel's demand.
Why is the European Commission giving Israel a veto over what documents may be released into the public domain? What is von der Leyen and her entourage trying to hide?
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Israeli firms - which already cooperate closely with Europe's weapons industry - stand to gain from her "generosity."
Through my aforementioned freedom of information request, I have also learned that the European Jewish Association (EJA) - a pro-Israel lobby group - has been in touch with von der Leyen's office (via Israeli diplomats) about a possible award.
It would appear that the group wished to formally acknowledge her support for the war on Gaza. But that is a guess - Israel's EU embassy has objected to the release of the EJA letter, too.
And, of course, von der Leyen's lackeys have once again accepted Israel's objections. Heaven forbid that they offend a state carrying out a genocide.
Germany, Gaza and the World Court: Broadening the scope of genocide
Germany has been most prominent in this regard. In 2023, 30 per cent of Israel's military equipment purchases totalling $326 million came from Berlin. The Scholz government has also been a firm public supporter of Israel's offensive. "There is only one place for Germany at this time," the German chancellor told his country's; lawmakers on 12 October, "that is by Israel's side." Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock added curtly that it was "not the job of politicians to tell the guns to shut up."
Germany's Holocaust guilt does not justify support for Israeli fascism | MEE |
The German government must urgently reassess its stance on the Gaza war, and adopt a more humane policy that recognises Palestinian rights
Since the end of the Second World War, as a direct consequence of Nazi crimes against Jews during the Holocaust, Germany has adopted a strong policy of support for Israel. This support has become a cornerstone of Berlin's foreign policy, morphing into a permanent obligation.
Germany's support for Israel goes beyond merely endorsing its right to self-defence, extending to the provision of advanced military equipment, including submarines and weapons systems.
Germany Partner in genocide
As part of our recent visit to Berlin, we were taken on a tour of the Wannsee villa, where senior Nazi party members in 1942 decided on the Holocaust, one of the most heinous crimes against humanity in history. But German politicians often link their guilt over these crimes against Jews to their unconditional support for Israel, even in its fascist form - as if supporting Israel equates to supporting Jews.
This unconditional support puts Germany in a difficult position, especially when it comes Israel's repeated wars on Gaza.
Ursula Von der Leyen honorary doctorate from Ben Gurion university in the Negev, Israel (2022)
There is also a more personal reason for me. I am a European woman of German nationality. And no longer than 80 years ago, millions of Jewish people were murdered by Germans, in the greatest crime of all human history. We, in Germany, take historical and enduring responsibility for this inhuman disruption of civilization. It is an indelible stain on my country's conscience, which we must never and will never forget. So, it feels like a miracle that a German like me is welcomed and honored here, in the State of Israel, as a friend among friends, only a few generations after the Shoah. But it is no miracle. My being here is the consequence of a choice made by the State of Israel, and by one man above all: The great David Ben-Gurion. It was he who took the first, historic step towards reconciliation with the Germans. He believed that the best way to honor the victims' memory was to build a better future... Europe and Israel are bound to be friends and allies.
German First .. Israeli Second ... European Third ...Human Being comes Last.
When Israel's Early Leaders Pondered the "Arab Question," Ben Gurion Called Them "Donkeys" | Tikun Olam - 5 Jan. 2018 |
Sixty Years Since JFK, A New Dangerous Nuclear Game
Kennedy warned Eshkol US support was `jeopardized' without nuclear inspections | TOI |
Declassified documents show President John Kennedy warned Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol in 1963 that U.S. support for the young country would be "seriously jeopardized" if Israel did not allow the United States periodic inspections of Israel's nuclear reactor.
A telegram from Kennedy dated July 4, 1963, congratulates Eshkol on assuming the prime ministership after David Ben-Gurion's resignation and recounts talks between Kennedy and Ben-Gurion about inspections at the reactor in Dimona.
"As I wrote Mr. Ben-Gurion, this government's commitment to and support of Israel could be seriously jeopardized if it should be thought that we were unable to obtain reliable information on a subject as vital to peace as Israel's effort in the nuclear field," the telegram said.
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy has never been fully resolved. There are/were Israeli leaders of the Mossad who boasted that the most vital operations have not been discovered. Even operations that already shocked to world above the Eichmann kidnapping, the Lavon Affaire in Egypt ... will never see the light of day. Spoken by Rafi Eitan ...
NEVER AGAIN!! Applies to all peoples victim to genocide, today Palestiians are suffering the fate of Israeli war crimes and acts of genocide in Gaza and the West Bank.
David Ben-Gurion's resignation 16 June 1963 leave for "vacation"
What Happened to Ben Gurion When He Finally Quit Israel's Government? | Haaretz - 2013 |
The decade between Ben-Gurion's resignation and his death, in 1973, was a kind of senile decline; the amount of hate he spewed and his preoccupation with bizarre matters did not permit one to think otherwise.
It was something that ranged between madness and comedy, and had he not been a symbol in his lifetime, a symbol to which had been ascribed "prophetic vision," it is doubtful there would be any interest in the sad story of the last 10 years of Ben-Gurion's life. That same determination through which his leadership had excelled became a political farce after his retirement.
His reasons for stepping down were unclear. According to the most sensational guesses, he resigned because he did not want to meet U.S. President John F. Kennedy's demand for American inspection of the nuclear reactor in Dimona, or to agree to let refugees return as part of a resolution to the conflict. In general, the Old Man disliked Kennedy and made very peculiar comments during their meeting (in 1961), which did not attest to ample tact, nor, apparently, to the manners one expects of a statesman. There were other explanations for the abrupt retirement, and Avi Shilon spends time on them − for example, early signs of dementia. The prime minister was 77 when he resigned.
In any event, the truth that emerges from the rich and riveting book "Ben-Gurion: Epilogue" is this: In retrospect, it seems that Ben-Gurion thought he would remain, unofficially, beside the helm, without the daily worries of the prime minister's job. He evidently longed to be "the great guide." His successor, Levi Eshkol, along with the leaders who stood beside the prime minister throughout all the years that Ben-Gurion led Mapai, would − so the Old Man thought − let him go on being "the prophet."
And then, all at once, he was the leader shorn of his crown. The figure of biblical prophet was truly useless to a state that had just begun its petit-bourgeois life, at least in the country's center, with the reparations payments from Germany, a paradise compared to the past, and also three years before it was hit by a recession and four years before the 1967 war.
Ben-Gurion's disillusionment was rapid. Yes, Kennedy was assassinated and Lyndon Johnson altered the administration's policy toward Israel. But Eshkol, apparently, was also good at steering the relations between the countries in a direction Ben-Gurion could not understand.
Symbolic gestures offended him. For example, the government's decision to honor Ze'ev Jabotinsky's will, and bring his remains to Jerusalem for reinterment. Ben-Gurion had refused to do this for years. Eshkol consented to the gesture, however, and masses of Betarists accompanied their leader to Mount Herzl. This did not stop Menachem Begin from sticking a knife in Eshkol's back in 1967 and bringing upon us Moshe Dayan.
Successive leaders of the State of Irael were in their early lives sworn terrorists
Jabotinsky created the Haganah, in 1920, to protect the Jews of Palestine against Arab pogromists, and spent years in a British prison for the "crime" of organizing Jewish self-defense. He was the spiritual father of the Irgun Zvai Leumi, the underground Jewish militia that fought for Jewish independence.
Two of Jabotinsky's most devoted followers, Jewish underground leaders Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir, would later serve as prime minister of the State Of Israel that their leader did not live to see.
Terror Cell Leader Follower of Shas and Beitar Jerusalem | 6 July 2014 |
… and Europe’s leaders stay silent during the televised holocaust of Palestinian people …. SHAME!!
There are no words and this is inexcusable as these events will remain a stain on humanity of the Western world for generations … don’t ever talk about “democracy” and individual “freedom” or “superiority” the heavenly “garden” and the “jungle” out there … hypocrisy all around and complicity to the genocide as any attempt to stop the Israelis are absent. The West is morally corrupt and can only survive by weaponization of information, subversion of the facts and a war of propaganda. It will blow up in your faces sooner or later.
See my follow-up report in the true scale of the atrocity after the horrific deeds of execution of these first responders. May the IDF executioners burn in hell.
Invite Netanyahu: Genocide in the White House
