NB: Imagine! what would Biden and Trump and good Christian MAGA faithful and Keir Starmer etc., say if this figure were registered for their citizens for EVEN ONE DAY, rather than 710 days? They have sunk so deep in the mire of blood and tears which they have created (since 1948, when they terrorised 760,000 Palestinians int leaving their homes and villages), that they don’t even know how ingrained their racism is. There won’t be ‘a day after’, gentlemen and ladies of the mythical free world. You will live with the consequences of your sins for the rest of the century. As goes the Yiddish proverb: The truth never dies but is made to live as a beggar. This beggar will devour your souls for a very long time.
One of your own arch imperialists, Lord Curzon, as British Foreign Secretary, had this to say in 1923 whilst speaking of the transfer of populations between Greece and Turkey. He warned that ‘the driving out of peoples‘ was ‘a thoroughly bad and vicious solution, for which the world will pay a heavy penalty for a hundred years to come’: R.M. Douglas; Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War; p 71. And this is what Sir Edwin Montagu, Secretary of State for India and the only Jewish member of the British Cabinet, opined about Zionism in 1917. DS
Madonna has requested Pope Leo to visit Gaza personally before its too late
Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the strip. The reported statement confirms the Gaza administrations casualty estimates. Statistics are also available here: GAZA casualties, live statistics: these show 228,563 casualties, since October 2023, i. e., 321 dead or wounded PER DAY.
According to the latest data from the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the World Health Organization & the Palestinian government as of January 15, Israeli attacks have damaged:
- Almost all of Gaza’s homes (damaged or destroyed)
- 80 percent of commercial facilities
- 88 percent of school buildings
- Healthcare facilities – 50 percent of hospitals are partially functional
- 68 percent of road networks
- 68 percent of cropland
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A former Israeli army commander, Herzi Halevi, has confirmed that more than 200,000 Palestinians have been killed or injured in the war in Gaza, and that “not once” in the course of the conflict were military operations inhibited by legal advice.
Halevi stepped down as chief of staff in March after leading the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for the first 17 months of the war, which is now approaching its second anniversary.
The retired general told a community meeting in southern Israel earlier this week that more than 10% of Gaza’s 2.2 million population had been killed or injured – “more than 200,000 people”. That estimate is notable as it is close to the current figures provided by Gaza’s health ministry, which Israeli officials have frequently dismissed as Hamas propaganda, though the ministry figures have been deemed reliable by international humanitarian agencies.
The current official toll is 64,718 Palestinians killed in Gaza and 163,859 injured, since the start of the war on 7 October 2023. Many thousands more are feared dead, with their bodies buried in the rubble. At least 40 people were reported killed on Friday in Israeli strikes, mostly around Gaza City.
The Gaza ministry statistics do not distinguish between civilians and fighters, but leaked Israeli military intelligence data on casualties until May this year suggested that more than 80% of the dead were civilians….
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Nation-states as national homes; and Sir Edwin Montagu’s views on Zionism (1917)
GABOR MATE interview: Zionism will be looked upon as one of the greatest disasters in Jewish history
Arab Failures: The Unspoken Complicity in Israel’s Genocide
Michael Brenner: The West’s Reckoning?
A Conspiracy of Silence / The Killing Floor of Gaza
Chris Hedges: The Gaza Riviera
Gaza and the End of Western Fantasy
Israel’s Assassination of Memory
“Write my name on my leg, Mama”
‘The Children Haunt Me at Night’: The Protest That’s Forcing Israelis to Face Kids Killed in Gaza
After the truth-shower 