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FYI, James19
The ‘War Without End’ blog-post has been deleted due to some supposed malware issue by Google Blogger and can no longer be linked to.
It seems as if myself and others fell for Israel media manipulation. The story that a land invasion was imminent was fed to the news outlets to make Hamas militants take to their tunnels, where upon the tunnels were then targeted by air strikes.
MS, i think they should acknowledge that their support was based upon Biden’s supposed domestic proposal sand not his foreign policies and as such, they placed their nationalist agenda before internationalism and the interests of the world’s workers.
Glasgow anarchist’s on the ground report
James, something else from the blog to link to on your cyber travels.
It is a copy and paste of various bits and pieces which the Socialist Standard has said over the years, formatted into something which reads as if it was written for today’s crisis.
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2021/05/war-without-end.html
No change
Biden described Israel air attacks that brought down high-rise buildings and killed a number of civilians as
“no significant overreaction”. 83 people in Gaza have been killed, including 17 children. Seven Israelis have been killed.Where was the SSP rump, where was the Sheridan’s Solidarity
I’m struggling to find how how they fared.
UPDATE, Weekly Worker has a report
https://www.weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1347/the-politics-of-denial/
SSP did not stand a single candidate. Truly pathetically, its leader, Colin Fox – formerly of the Militant Tendency – justified the party’s absence from the battlefield on the grounds that it does not have sufficient resources.
Sheridan advocated a vote for the SNP and Alex Salmond’s Alba Party
UPDATE
The Guardian reports
Units of the Israeli army have entered Gaza
“Army spokesman Jonathan Conricus confirmed that Israeli soldiers had entered the Palestinian enclave, without giving any numbers…It is not yet clear whether the operation is a full-scale invasion of Gaza by Israel, or is at this stage a targeted attack “
The Israeli army are shelling Gaza
A land invasion of Gaza?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-57097475
“Israel has deployed tanks and troops to its border with Gaza…Two infantry units and one armoured unit were positioned near the border with Gaza on Thursday. At least 7,000 army reservists have also been called up.”
Hamas said the group was ready for a “reciprocal” ceasefire if the international community pressures Israel to “suppress military actions” at the disputed Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. However, Israeli military spokesman Hilda Zilberman said Israel was not seeking a ceasefire at the current time.
The harsher Netanyahu is seen to act, the better his chances of becoming Prime Minister again by courting the ultra-right zionists into a coalition with him.
Hamas, too, are the beneficiaries of the Israeli actions, in their postponed Palestinian election and many suspect that they invite Israeli belligerence to bolster their credibility.
For a timeline of events to show who are the aggressors
https://beirut-today.com/2021/05/12/palestine-protests-a-full-timeline-of-sheikh-jarrah-events/
Israelis go on rampage.
“…Overnight on Wednesday, far-right Jewish mobs took to the streets across the country searching for Arabs…”
“public security minister, Amir Ohana, appeared to encourage mob violence. Ohana called for the release of a Jewish man arrested in connection with a fatal shooting of an Arab man in the city of Lod, after a synagogue and other Jewish property was torched. Ohana alleged, without providing evidence, that the shooter “acted in self-defence”. He added that “law-abiding citizens carrying weapons” were an aid to authorities.”
It is as if Trump authorised the armed militias to help the police during the Black Lives Matter protests.
“a mob of far-right Israelis dragged a man they thought was an Arab from his car and beat him until he lay on the ground motionless and bloodied.”
“Videos were posted on social media of what appeared to be other attempted lynchings overnight. Violent incidents, including the burning of shops and restaurants, were reported in multiple towns across Israel, including Acre, Haifa and Tiberias.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/13/israel-gaza-airstrikes-rockets-hamas
I think this is indeed a new development. Previously, many Israeli-Palestinians remained passive but now there appears to be expressions of discontent and unrest, and Jewish-Israelis are viewing them as a 5th-Column inside the country.
Wolf attacks on humans are so rare as to be statistically non-existent.
The state of Idaho will allow professional hunters and trappers to use helicopters, snowmobiles, ATVs, night vision equipment, snares and other means to kill roughly 90% of the state’s wolves, knocking them down from an estimated 1,500 to 150.
A group of retired state, federal and tribal wildlife managers wrote to Little asking him to veto the wolf kill bill, saying statewide livestock losses to wolves have been under 1% for cattle and 3% for sheep. The group further noted that the overall elk population has actually increased since wolves were reintroduced into Idaho more than two decades ago. It made no difference.
If you want to see a wolf this summer, skip Alaska’s Denali national park, where the Toklat pack – Alaska’s most famous wolf pack, studied since the late 1930s – has been decimated by hunters and trappers who bait the animals just outside park boundaries. The legendary wildlife biologist Adolph Murie, who studied the Toklat pack for three years and teased apart more than 1,700 scat samples, came to a stunning conclusion: wolves that prey on caribou and Dall sheep primarily take the old or infirm. In effect, they create strong prey populations.
More than 45,000 people applied for the chance to become one of 12 hunters to shoot and kill a single bison each in Grand Canyon National Park?
What is the matter with the psyche of Americans that they seek to slaughter animals? Perhaps it is related to the trait to indulge in the sport of mass shootings? Who knows?
Egyptian mediators were trying to broker a ceasefire agreement.
But Jonathan Conricus, a spokesperson for the Israeli army, said he expected the fighting to intensify. Asked about a possible ceasefire, he said: “I don’t think my commanders are aware, or particularly interested.”
The Israeli defence minister, Benny Gantz, said “this is just the beginning” of Israel’s strikes.
No change
The Guardian and Reuters report that the Biden administration “blocked a U.N. Security Council statement calling for a cease-fire”
And, of course, James, the blog is also trying to keep abreast of the situation and the developments and made this post.
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2021/05/comments-on-current-palestinian-israeli.html
