Aaron Bushnell who set himself on fire outside DC Israeli embassy in
pro-Palestine protest 'showed more courage than politicians'
Aaron
Bushnell, 25, succumbed to his injuries overnight after lighting
himself on fire as he screamed 'Free Palestine' on Sunday in a protest
he livestreamed
It has since
emerged that his parents Dave and Danielle Bushnell are longtime members
of the pro-Israel Community for Jesus church in Massachusetts
Corporate Japan deals an unwitting blow to US East Asia policy
Japanese
trading giant Itochu’s decision to cut ties with an Israeli defence
contractor over the ICJ’s preliminary ruling on Israel’s war on Gaza
will have consequences beyond Palestine.
Professor of Human Rights and Peace Studies at Osaka Jogakuin University in Osaka, Japan
Japanese trading giant Itochu’s surprise announcement on
February 5 that it was terminating its agreement with the Israeli
defence contractor Elbit Systems has sent shockwaves throughout
corporate Japan. Itochu stated specifically that they based their
decision on the International Court of Justice ruling that Israel may be
committing genocide in Gaza, and on the position of the Japanese
government that the ICJ decision must be implemented “in good faith”.
Itochu matters; it is a household name in Japan, being the
third largest trading firm and one of the titans of the country’s
economy with a 2023 revenue of
over $104bn. Prominent trading companies like Itochu are also
politically important, as they have historically been looked at as the
captains of Japan’s trade-based economy. Itochu’s decision sends a very
clear message about the acceptability of doing business with Israel.......
Manufacturing Consent: The Border Fiasco and the “Smart Wall”
The political response to the crisis at the southern border
continues to advance the bipartisan “smart wall,” having been backed by
Trump and Biden alike. This bipartisan consensus reaches far beyond the
US, as much of the world is similarly speeding along in implementing
“digital borders.”
The disastrous situation at the US-Mexico border is, and has been,
intentionally produced. Throughout the last several administrations,
regardless of campaign and other public rhetoric, the porous nature of
the border has remained unresolved. On several occasions, the situation
as it has developed has been blamed largely on incompetence and
government inefficiency. Though some administrations have been tougher
than others in regards to terrestrial migration (under some metrics),
the US-Mexico border has not been sealed off so to force entrants to
cross through officially recognized and managed ports of entry.....
The topic of COVID-19 vaccine shedding has long been controversial, but now, some doctors say it is real.
“Shedding is unfortunately real,”
said Dr. Pierre Kory at the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance
(FLCCC) conference in Phoenix, Arizona, in early February. “The FDA
(U.S. Food and Drug Administration) knows that.”
Dr. Kory is a
co-founder of the FLCCC, a non-profit advocacy group founded by
physicians for the treatment of COVID-19, long COVID, and postvaccine
syndromes. He is also the co-founder of the Leading Edge Clinic and has
treated over a thousand long-COVID and postvaccine patients.
Fact-checkers have largely denied shedding on the basis of definition.
The commonly cited definition comes from the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) website, which defines shedding as the
release of viruses, bacteria, and their components from live vaccines.
While mRNA and adenovirus vaccines are not live vaccines, they function similarly to gene therapy products.
All gene therapy products pose a risk of shedding, according to the FDA.....................
Brazil recalls ambassador to Israel in row over Lula’s Gaza comments
Israel says Brazilian president is not welcome in the country after he compared Israel’s war on Gaza to the Holocaust.
Brazil has recalled its ambassador to Israel, and Israel says
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is not welcome in the
country in a diplomatic rift after Lula compared Israel’s military campaign in Gaza to the Holocaust.
“What’s happening in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian people
hasn’t happened at any other moment in history. Actually, it has
happened: when Hitler decided to kill the Jews,” Lula said on Sunday.....
There have been several interesting developments relating
to Israel’s ongoing destruction of Gaza and its people, but one might
well question the motives of at least one of the principal players in
the drama, namely Joe Biden’s United States government. Last Tuesday the
United States, acting to protect Israel, vetoed a
United Nations Security Council resolution, arguing that it would
“jeopardize” the ongoing negotiations between the two parties to release
the Israeli hostages and it wouldn’t be “conducive
to a sustainable peace and would instead empower Hamas.” Thirteen of
the fifteen members of the Security Council supported the resolution,
Britain abstained, and US alone voted against it. It was the third
humanitarian resolution incorporating a ceasefire vetoed by Washington
over Gaza, each of which was intended by the White House to give Israel a
completely free hand to deal with the Palestinians.
The resolution had been proposed by Algeria and it called
for an immediate ceasefire and the expediting of emergency humanitarian
assistance to the in-peril Gazan population. The UN has been warning
that a humanitarian catastrophe that could kill hundreds of thousands is
about to take place if nothing is done to reverse what is being called a
genocide due to the deliberate employing of famine and disease, not to
mention the killing of more than 30,000 Palestinians by the Israeli
military aided and abetted by the US. After the UN vote, the Algerian
ambassador to the UN said Washington’s
lone opposing vote should be understood as “approval of starvation as a
means of war against hundreds of thousands of Palestinians” and “ it
“implies an endorsement of the brutal violence and collective punishment
inflicted upon” those Palestinians in Gaza.” The Algerian resolution
also came at a time when the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The
Hague is beginning its separate review of whether Israel has used the past month to mitigate or cancel its genocidal acts in Gaza........................
A mother in Manitoba, Canada, has revealed that teenage students at
her son’s school were being provided with wooden phalluses, condoms, and
a cartoon flip book featuring gay sex art as part of their “sex
education.”
On February 19, Janine Stephanie Penner took to Facebook
to express outrage that her teenage son had been provided a number of
inappropriate “sex education” aides. In the post, Penner claimed that
her son, who is currently in grade 10, had been provided with a “gay
porn graphic flip book at school as a method of learning how to use
condoms and in addition, received 15 condoms and a wooden pecker for
practice.” Penner’s son attends the Virden Collegiate Institute.
Not two-state solution, the only panacea for Palestine is to dismantle Zionism
Wednesday, 21 February 2024
By David Miller
Western states, especially the UK, are trying to resurrect
the two-state solution to the long-simmering Palestinian issue as they
move for the first time to endorse a Palestinian state.
This new move signals recognition that the Axis of Resistance is
winning and winning emphatically despite four months of the genocidal
war waged by the Israeli regime on Gaza.
But why do these Western states, which claim to exalt democracy, not
favour a democratic solution to the occupation of Palestine?
Why not offer a vote to all Palestinians about how they want to live?
Surely, this would be an elegant solution that would show a true
commitment to democracy.
As it happens, there is one state that has proposed a democratic
solution to the occupation. That is the Islamic Republic of Iran.
In November last year, Iran’s foreign minister Hossein
Amir-Abdollahian emphasized again the right of the Palestinian people to
determine their own destiny saying a referendum would be a “complete”
solution to the Palestinian question.....
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