A report from Gaza – unmissable CNN interview
JVL Introduction
“According to the [Genocide] Convention, genocide is a crime that can take place both in time of war as well as in time of peace. The definition contained in Article II of the Convention describes genocide as a crime committed with the intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, in whole or in part.”
An American Nurse recently out of Gaza reports on the disintegration of society in Gaza, a situation in which all societal ties are under extreme pressure as a result of relentless bombing combined with starvation and dehydration as weapons of war.
There is no way in which what is happening in Gaza is accidental, without Israel’s knowledge. Its intent to destroy Gazan society is manifest. It is genocide.
RK
This is incredibly insightful about how desperate life in Gaza is right now: pic.twitter.com/LUuUqq8nkd
— Omar Baddar عمر بدّار (@OmarBaddar) November 7, 2023
Powerful testament of the amazing humanity of Palestinians in Gaza.
Ethnic cleansing verging on genocide by Jewish Zionists, financially and politically-sponsored by (mainly US), Christian Zionists and Evangelicals, has been going on since before the establishment of Israel.
This Nurse is a Hero, all the doctors and Nurses in Gazor are Heros
How can anyone look at the pictures coming out of Gaza and listening to testimony like this justify this genocide, yet they still do. Where is the humanity of these people. I have never been on a march or demonstration until now, and I’m in my 70s but I have been on three and will continue until this horrendous situation stops. Thank you JVL for always being at the forefront of fighting for the rights of Palastinians.
I’ve got a feeling that in 50 years time, this will be the only Holocaust people know and care about. Israel will have receded into memory like other vanished kingdoms, and the Atlantic world will just be regarded as a whinging and whining, untrusted and unwanted, vicious and impoverished “partner” with a bad history and increasingly limited economic and political relevance to the Eurasian world and the Global South.
I remember conversations I had in France some 50 years ago with my girlfriend’s dad and some of the men who worked with him against the occupation during the Vichy years. They told me how much they had sympathised with ordinary Algerians during the so-called Algerian War,which surprised me. Their view (formalised in the Hague Treaty and the Geneva Conventions) was that resistance to an occupying power, however extreme, can never be considered a war crime. It is the occupation that is the war crime.
I took all this on board when deciding against a military career. I had no wish to strengthen my country’s colonial powers in their grubby fight against those whose lands they occupied, which was pretty much the post-war role of HM’s military.
I guess this is pretty much how many people in the West, like the rest of the world, view NATO’s relationship to Israel. All I wonder is how soon the targets the US and UK have stationed offshore of Gaza will be just that. And how soon Turkey and the other regional powers will take decisive action and adopt and implement their own version of “liberal intervention” to aid the Palestinians. Interesting times.