AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee famous for its clout in Washington by funding challengers to any politician deemed not sufficiently loyal to Israel, has used its $73 million in last year’s fundraising to smash any movement calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Israeli officials have withheld humanitarian shipments into Gaza as residents in the coastal enclave face one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters amid the Israeli-led, America-endorsed genocide after the Hamas attack last October.
A major NGO highlighted the increasing risks that journalists face in war zones around the world, with nearly 100 journalists being killed in 19 conflicts—and with Gaza being by far the deadliest.
This past Saturday, Arab representatives called on the UN Security Council to pass a resolution that demands Israel stop bombing Gaza, abide by an immediate ceasefire, and stop their war that keeps displacing Palestinian civilians whose homes have been destroyed.
Despite news reports emerging last week that there is a new chill in the air when U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits Israel because of the country’s genocide in Gaza, Washington refuses to put any conditions on its weapons shipments and refuses to even mention the possibility of a ceasefire.
Egypt will suspend the Camp David Accords—a peace treaty with Israel from 1978—if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes good on his threat to carry out a ground operation in Gaza’s Rafah...
Israel paid special attention to Gaza’s Khan Younis—the hometown of Hamas’s leader—and made sure that the city was pulverized to the ground in its collective-punishment campaign against Palestinians after the 7 October Hamas attack.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s military invasion of Gaza’s Rafah is another example of the ethnic cleansing of Gaza because these Palestinians have nowhere to go.