While much of the world’s attention has been on tensions between Israel and Iran, Benjamin Netanyahu's government continues to butcher Palestinians who are huddled in the Southern Gaza city of Rafah—killing 22 people, including 18 children in an airstrike in the overnight hours on Sunday.
The Israeli economy lost an estimated $56 billion to its genocidal war in Gaza over the last six months—straining an already fragile economy that faces a budget deficit and unprecedented increase in public debt.
U.S. President Joe Biden penned an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal published last week urging Congress to pass the war-funding package that includes $95 billion to help fund the Ukraine War and Israel’s future war with Iran because Tehran hopes to “destroy Israel forever.”
The U.S. House of Representatives last week easily passed the resolution to condemn the phrase “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” because they believed the saying is anti-Semitic.
The New York Times devoted a front-page article last week to allegations by “U.S. officials” that Iran has been pumping the West Bank with weapons—in an apparent effort to lend support to Israel’s ethnic cleansing effort in the territory and illegal land grabs based on “security” concerns.
The Israeli extremists who occupy top positions in government pushed for a major conflict with Iran after Tehran launched its retaliatory strikes Saturday in response to Israel’s consulate bombing in Damascus.
Israel has been targeting humanitarian centers throughout Gaza even after receiving detailed coordinates about the locations in advance, according to a report in Middle East Eye.
The head of the U.S. Agency for International Development said last week that famine has set in in Northern Gaza—prompting the agency to clarify her remarks and say they were not based on a new assessment but were based on information from March.
The Israeli military likely spent over $1 billion to intercept the 300 or so drones and missiles fired by Iran on Saturday in response to Tel Aviv’s bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus.
NBC News reported late Sunday that lawmakers in Washington are facing mounting pressure to pass the massive supplemental package that includes $14.3 billion in aid to Israel after Iran launched its retaliatory strikes in response to Israel’s bombing of Tehran’s consulate in Syria.