The U.S. House of Representatives voted last week on a bullshit resolution bashing the testimony of three Ivy League presidents who refused to follow Israel-lobby pressure and condemn campus protesters who dared call for a ceasefire in Gaza while Israel carries out its genocide.
The UN last week adopted a non-binding resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, with 153 countries voting in favor of the resolution that was presented by Egypt and Mauritania.
The U.S.’s decision to oppose the UN General Assembly’s vote last week for a ceasefire resolution in Gaza gives the hardline Israeli government carte blanche to continue its onslaught against Palestinians in the coastal enclave and the West Bank, according to an article in WSWS.
John Kirby, the spokesman for the White House National Security Council, did his best last week to play down President Joe Biden’s comment that Israel has been conducting “indiscriminate bombing” in Gaza.
Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), said last week that the conditions on the ground in Gaza are so poor that the coastal enclave is “not really a habitable place anymore.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin said during his lengthy news conference last week that no sensible person can compare the conflict in Gaza with Russia’s approach to Ukraine.
The Israel Defense Forces, or IDF, have been forced to acknowledge publicly some troubling ruthlessness by its troops in Gaza ranging from chanting racist slogans to intentionally destroying a toy store with no military significance.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last week that Israel needs three things from the U.S. during its genocide in Gaza: munitions, munitions, and munitions.
While the amount of humanitarian aid allowed by Israel into Gaza has been merely a pittance of what is needed, top extremist Israelis spoke out against letting even a trickle of supplies into the country during the ethnic cleansing.
One of the world’s worst humanitarian crises broke out in the Gazan city of Rafah, which sits on the border with Egypt, as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have tried to flee from the Israeli onslaught throughout much of the coastal city.