Political Will Cease Fire and Grim Pogrom

If anyone has a relative in Palestine and or American Palestinian trapped in Gaza, giving in to Zionist propaganda will not save you or the ones you love from its murderous hands.

DC and Dearborn 9.55pm / Jerusalem - Gaza Strip - Tel Aviv 4.55am / Berlin 3.55am / London 2.55am [333 hours of war, still continue] BREAKING NEWS live update trilingual [hebrew - arabic - english] click here. More than 5,000 Palestine in Gaza alone killed [1,700 children] by Israel. Maybe 6,000 because still a lot of victims under the rubbles.

Plestia Alaqad, Gazans journo, beg you to speak up for Palestine

Nearly no coverage of the bombing of the orthodox church in Gaza, third oldest church on universe, and no condemnation from American officials who are backing this bombardment. Another green light for genocide. Former Michigan Congressman Justin A. Amash said Friday that several of his relatives sheltering in Gaza were killed by an Israeli airstrike. Justin A. Amash is first ever Palestinian descent [he’s Christian] to be Congressman [via Democrats], and years after, his step following by Rashida Harbi Tlaib. The silence around the bombing at the church is dangerous. It's getting very little attention, despite the scale of the tragedy. American officials heard grim prognosis. Senior Israeli officials told to expect war could last as long as ten years. Palestinian death so quotidian, don’t care if Baptist Hospital get bombing, Indonesian hospital in Gaza get bombing, bakery get bombing, church get bombing, or mosque get bombing. Drum roll of ground ops sound gets louder.

Palestinian death is so quotidian journalists report it as if they’re reporting the weather. Cloudy skies, light showers, and 4,000 Palestinians dead in the past ten days. or reaches 5,000 since October 7th. Like the weather, only God is responsible: not armed settlers, not targeted drone strikes. In the last 96 hours, or four days, Israel killed 1,411 Palestinians. Mostly children and civilians. That’s 14 Palestinians every hour. So basically the size of 3 families wiped out every hour. The average Palestinian household size in Gaza is around 5.3

detail ARTIST CALL FOR CEASEFIRE NOW

The Writers Guild of America still hasn’t said anything publicly about the savage attack on Israel by terrorists on October 7, but a number of irate showrunners and others will be discussing that silence today. Contrary, 55 prominent actors and artists urge Biden: "Call for an immediate de-escalation and ceasefire in Gaza and Israel before another life is lost." One of them, Jon Stewart [Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz]], as we know, Jewish too, months ago dunk the pentagon because corruption and gigantic error accounting inside Defense Department. As I rechecked, at least 16 out of 55 are Jewish like Jon Stewart.

US politicians who suggest Egypt and Jordan simply “take in Palestinian refugees” are making direct endorsements of ethnic cleansing. 70-75 percent Gazans people is refugees of Nakba 1948. ‘Relocation’ to Egypt and Jordan means finally Nakba 1948 completely in new Nakba 2023. Policy paper from Misgav thinktank - headed by Netanyahu's former national security advisor: Israel now has a "rare and exceptional opportunity to remove all Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt.’’

There are political questions and fault lines that have been simmering under the surface in our organization—especially in the Jewish left and or progressive peace pro Palestine narrative within Israeli—exploding to the fore, gumming up the works at a time when urgency feels paramount. 13 Days ago was the first time that Gazans have actually been able to see the rest of their Palestinian lands. They broke out of prison that has been imposed on them by a 16 year-long air, sea and land blockade by the Israeli military forces.

Leftists should be under no illusions that Hamas, with its theocratic and reactionary ideology, shares this vision. Neither does the Israeli government, which today contains fascist elements who speak openly of ethnic cleansing. Again, the silence around the bombing at the church in Gaza is dangerous. It's getting very little attention, despite the scale of the tragedy.

It is beyond power to bring back those innocents whose lives have already been lost, but everyone can work to prevent the calamity that will surely follow if Israel continues to retaliate as it has so far.

The calamity, grim of Nakba. American officials heard a grim prognosis on their trip to the Middle East. Senior Israeli officials told them to expect a war that could last as long as ten years.

Tremendous increase in IAF [Israel Air Force] raids on Hamas front lines to clear the sight, cut Hamas supply lines and protect IDF ground troops as they march advance towards: Jabalia, Jabalia Refugee camp, Beit Lahia, Attatra, Al Tofah, Al Shejaeya, Al Zeiton, then Tal El Hawa and from the sea towards the seaport and Al Shatea refugee camp (Green Circles).

The number [20] of international citizens - hostage killed by Israel bombardment. ‘Indiscrimination bombing, ‘shower bombing’, maybe 60 or even bigger.

In addition, Israel's utmost goal is to part areas from each other, using the lines it created in the previous days in its mowing the grass aerial bombardment. The Blue and Red lines are the predicted squares the IDF may make to control these areas to proceed with door-to-door close combat. As they try to minimise their presence in plain sight, Israel and Hamas will go from one house to another by breaking walls, using the urban density each to their advantage; only one knows the area better and has been prepared for this battle for years, or, as define by senior Israeli official, [war that could] last as long as ten years.

We are now almost two weeks into, or more precisely as this newsletter landed in your inbox, 333 hours the deadly crisis that began on October 7 when Hamas slaughtered more than 1,400 Israelis, most of them civilians, according to government officials. Israel responded with indiscriminate bombing of Gaza, which has already claimed the lives of more than 5,000 Palestinian civilians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Witnessing the scenes of carnage and human suffering has been harrowing, but it should not fail to move us to action.

As Israel prepares for a potentially catastrophic ground invasion of Gaza, it is more important than ever that everyoe on the American left do not become distracted from the urgent task at hand: to stop the massacres that are still ahead of us by advocating for a ceasefire. 2 main constituencies organizing for Gaza right now are Palestinians whose family members are under the bombs, and progressive American Jews, many of whom lost family in the Hamas attack.

First and foremost, there is the leadership of the Democratic Party, which has offered unqualified support for the Israeli military response. Though we can’t say we are surprised by this, the abandonment of Palestinian civilians to their fate under the rubble strikes us as a profound betrayal by a party that had been moving, albeit very slowly, in the right direction.

The activist left did not rise to the occasion either. Some organizations of the American left, as well as prominent writers and thinkers, have made unaffordable errors in promoting rallies sponsored by the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the ANSWER coalition, and playing defense for indiscriminate violence perpetrated by Hamas, including the taking of civilian hostages. These actions only set back the cause of Palestinian liberation. A serious and moral struggle for Palestinian rights must be rooted in a simple fact: Arab Palestinians and Jewish Israelis will continue to live together in the land between the river and the sea, and all are entitled to freedom, dignity, and equality.

Several observers, including Israeli officials, have likened the current moment to the immediate days following the attacks on September 11, 2001. This sends a chill down our spines. As it did in the United States in the aftermath of 9/11, public discourse in Israel has narrowed considerably since the massacres, with all suggestions of restraint treated as nothing short of madness—that is, when they are considered at all. The Israeli bombing campaign in Gaza is apparently viewed by most Israelis as inadequate. A ground invasion appears imminent.

The prevailing argument in Israel and most Western capitals is that Israel has a right to defend itself from external aggression. No one expected Israel not to respond, but at this point Israel has responded with destructive force. The recent atrocities should not be viewed in isolation. For Palestinians, the recent violence is a horrific development in a decades-long history of dispossession, occupation, and apartheid. For Israelis, it is the bloody culminating failure of Benjamin Netanyahu’s security doctrine and the indefinite postponement of a political resolution for Palestinians.

Public pressure of this sort must continue. This should be the case regardless of the administration’s strategy. If President Biden and his team believe that lockstep support now will enable him to pull Israel back from the brink later, then mounting calls for ceasefire negotiations within his party will only strengthen his hand when the time comes to tell Netanyahu that the military operation must end. If President Biden plans to support Israel’s stated objective of totally eliminating Hamas’s military capability, which will almost certainly mean a months-long ground war in Gaza that will kill thousands, then his policy must be opposed by the left on humanitarian grounds.

Perhaps in the solidarities formed in this moment between Jews, Palestinians, and their allies around the world who believe in the inherent dignity and value of all people, we may at last build the movement we need.

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citation. list 55 actors urge cease fire =

Alia Shawkat
Alyssa Milano
Amanda Seales
Amber Tamblyn
America Ferrera
Andrew Garfield
Ani DiFranco
Anoushka Shankar
Aria Mia Loberti
Ayo Edebiri
Bassam Tariq
Bassem Youssef
Bonnie Wright
Caroline Polachek
Cate Blanchett
Channing Tatum
Cherien Dabis
Darius Marder
David Cross
Dev Hynes
Diplo
Dominique Fishback
Dominique Thorne
Dua Lipa
Elvira Lind
Farah Bsaiso
Fatima Farheen Mirza
Hasan Minhaj
Hend Sabry
Ilana Glazer
Indya Moore
James Schamus
Jeremy Strong
Jessica Chastain
Jessie Buckley
Joaquin Phoenix
Jon Stewart
Kehlani
Kristen Stewart
Macklemore
Mahershala Ali
Margaret Cho
Mark Ruffalo
May Calamawy
Michael Malarkey
Michael Moore
Michael Stipe
Michelle Wolf
Miguel
Mo Amer
Natalie Merchant
Oscar Isaac
Quinta Brunson
Rachel Sennott
Ramy Youssef
Riz Ahmed
Rooney Mara
Rosario Dawson
Rowan Blanchard
Ryan Coogler
Sandra Oh
Sebastian Silva
Shailene Woodley
Shaka King
Simi Haze
Stephanie Suganami
Susan Sarandon
Tommy Genesis
Vic Mensa
Victoria Monét
Wallace Shawn
Wanda Sykes
Yara Shahidi

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Plestia Alaqad | بلستيا العقاد is Journo in Gaza. Telco Ministry of Israel cut off internet to Gaza since 00.00 Saturday but at least 3 ‘popular Gazans’, literally in inside Gaza, Refaat [tweets 11am local time], Jason Shawa [tweets 7am local time], surgery doctor UK - Palestinian citizen Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta to say hi ‘we still alive, but don’t know next day. Situation in Rafah border still chaos.

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