https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/12/why-are-canadian-taxpayers-subsidizing-israels-military/
Why are Canadian Taxpayers Subsidizing Israel’s Military?
Critics say Israel is an army with a country, but it is the apartheid state’s supporters who confirm it. Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University has once again launched an initiative to promote the Israeli military even though it violates charity regulations and risks the group’s special tax status.
In a recent end of year fundraising appeal, a group officially dedicated to the “Advancement of Education” sent its members “Supporting Our Student Soldiers”. The CFHU appeal notes: “The We Are One campaign provides scholarships and academic assistance to our returning IDF soldiers who are courageously fighting in the ongoing war. … Let’s unite to provide education and healing for our IDF warriors, demonstrating our unwavering commitment to their success and recovery.”
With branches in seven Canadian cities, CFHU has instigated a number of other initiatives to support the apartheid state’s military. In 2018 the CFHU branch in the nation’s capital “launched the Ottawa Scholarship Fund in support of reserve duty soldiers studying at The Hebrew University.” At the event, according to CFHU’s annual report, “four students shared their inspiring stories from their military service and explained what it means to be a reserve duty soldier in the IDF.”
A 2019 story on the website of an organization set up by famed liquor bootlegger Alan Bronfman in 1944.....
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https://news.antiwar.com/2023/12/30/ukrainian-attack-on-russia-kills-at-least-14
Ukrainian Attack on Russia Kills At Least 21
Kyiv says the attack was a response to a large Russian missile barrage on the previous day that killed nearly 40Update 12/31/23: Russia now says the toll in the attack has risen to 21 killed (including 3 children) and 111 injured.
Ukraine conducted a major attack inside Russian territory, leaving at least 14 people dead. The war has escalated over the past week as Ukraine has conducted strikes inside Russia, and Moscow ordered a missile and drone barrage against Kyiv.
Russian authorities report the Belgorod region that borders Ukraine came under missile and rocket fire on Saturday. Moscow’s state media service, Tass, says at least 14 are dead and over 100 were injured in the attack. The Russian Defense Ministry says one child is among the dead.
The Kre
mlin reports that several of the Ukrainian projectiles were shot down. The Russian military slammed the attack as “indiscriminate” and claimed several of the rockets were cluster munitions.................
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Biden Campaign Staffers Protest US Support for Israel’s Gaza Onslaught
In an anonymous letter, 17 staffers called on President Biden to push for a ceasefire and end unconditional aid to IsraelA group of 17 staffers for President Biden’s 2024 re-election have signed onto an anonymous letter protesting the president’s support for the Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza.
“Complicity in the death of over 20,000 Palestinians, 8,200 of whom are children, simply cannot be justified,” the letter reads.
The staffers said President Biden was losing support due to his full-throated for the Israeli campaign, noting that 72% of voters under 30 disapprove of his handling of the conflict. Recent polling has shown that the majority of Americans favor a ceasefire in Gaza, an idea the president opposes.
“Biden for President staff have seen volunteers quit in droves, and people who have voted blue for decades feel uncertain about doing so for the first time ever, because of this conflict,” the letter reads.....
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https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/12/are-we-the-baddies/
“Are We the Baddies?”
Western support for genocide in Gaza means the answer is yes
The desperate smear campaign to defend Israel’s crimes highlights the toxic brew of lies that’s been underpinning the liberal democratic order for decades.
In a popular British comedy sketch set during the Second World War, a Nazi officer near the front lines turns to a fellow officer and, in a moment of sudden – and comic – self-doubt, asks: “Are we the baddies?”
For many of us, it has felt like we are living through the same moment, extended for nearly three months – though there has been nothing to laugh about.
Western leaders have not only backed rhetorically a genocidal war by Israel on Gaza, but they have provided diplomatic cover, weapons and other military assistance.
The West is fully complicit in the ethnic cleansing of some two million Palestinians from their homes, as well as the killing of more than 20,000 and the injuring of many tens of thousands more, a majority of them women and children......
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https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/12/rip-john-pilger/#more-147100
RIP John Pilger
John Pilger was always on the side of the oppressed. He denounced Imperialism and all its violent predations–war, genocide, exploitation–as well as its endless lies and propaganda. Till his death, he fought tirelessly for the freedom of Julian Assange, and his last article was a call to solidarity.
John gave voice to the invisible and the voiceless: the hungry, the poor, the handicapped, the conscripted, the sanctioned & bombed, the dispossessed, refugees, the chemically experimented on, the structurally adjusted, the coup’ed, the famine-expendable, the colonized, the genocided, the silenced, shining a light in the hidden, dark recesses of the hell of Empire and Capital.....
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Moon of Alabama's thread on Ukraine
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/01/ukraine-open-thread-2024-005.html#comments
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Turkey, Malaysia Back South Africa’s Genocide Case Against Israel
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https://scheerpost.com/2024/01/05/john-mearsheimer-genocide-in-gaza/
John Mearsheimer: Genocide in Gaza
By John Mearsheimer / Substack
I am writing to flag a truly important document that should be widely circulated and read carefully by anyone interested in the ongoing Gaza War.
Specifically, I am referring to the 84-page “application” that South Africa filed with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 29 December 2023, accusing Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.1 It maintains that Israel’s actions since the war began on 7 October 2023 “are intended to bring about the destruction of a substantial part of the Palestinian national, racial and ethnic … group in the Gaza Strip.” (1) That charge fits clearly under the definition of genocide in the Geneva Convention, to which Israel is a signatory.2......
Venezuela Sends 6,000 Troops to Guyana Border, Says They’ll Stay Until British Warship Leaves
Maduro Argues British Violating Deal with Guyana and Disavows ICJ Jurisdiction in MatterTensions over the fate of Guyana’s Essequibo region continue to rise with reports Venezuela is deploying some 6,000 troops into the border region to conduct exercises over the disputed region. The deployment is in response to Britain’s deployment of the HMS Trent off the Guyana coast.
President Maduro argued the British arrival violates an extent deal between Guyana and Venezuela and constitutes a threat to both Venezuela and a violation of Latin American sovereignty.
Britain was critical of the Venezuelan exercises and demanded they cease. The HMS Trent is a relatively small ship, a River-Class patrol vessel with a complement of an estimated 34-45. Britain described the deployment as part of a series of regional engagements..............
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