U.S. President Joe Biden praised Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., last week for stating that Israel should hold new elections amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza—but both men—who never held a job outside Washington were shrewd and refused to call for a ceasefire.
With each passing day, it is becoming clearer that Israel’s goal in Gaza is to reoccupy the territory, and deport the 2.1 million Palestinians in the enclave, according to a report last week in The Los Angeles Times.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, last week and defended the genocide being carried out in Gaza and said one cannot support “Israel's goal of destroying Hamas and then oppose Israel when it takes the action necessary to achieve that goal.”
An investigation by a UN agency found that an Israeli tank opened fire on a group clearly identified as journalists in the early days of its siege of Gaza—killing a Reuters journalist and wounding six others in Lebanon.
U.S.-backed IDF militants in Gaza have killed more Gazan children in just over five months than “the number of children killed in four years of wars around the world combined,” according to the UN.
Israel announced last week that it plans on moving displaced Palestinians in Rafah to so-called humanitarian islands in the central part of the country as it carries out its next offensive inside the southern city where over 1.4 million people have been cramped and slaughtered for over a month.
Pro-Israel moneymen who have already targeted top U.S. colleges like Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania with lawsuits over antisemitism on campus said they have their knives out for additional schools.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, has all but laid out its blueprint on how the messaging should be in Washington about the ongoing genocide campaign in Gaza—as politicians that the group has in its pocket—face more criticism at home about the support.
Eliyahu Mali, Israel’s top rabbi in Jaffa, said last week that the Torah calls for the killing of all Palestinian men, women, children, and babies in Gaza, stating that there should not be a soul still alive after the conflict.
Israel struck Rafah’s largest residential tower last week, claiming that Hamas has been using the 14-story building to conduct military activities.