“The essence of childhood has been destroyed”: Israel’s deliberate targeting of Palestinian children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory since 7 October 2023 –UN Report

https://www.un.org/unispal/document/coi-report-23jun26/

He points out that the US is now the leading Petrostate by far, and that China is dominating in green technology.

However he says this is a good and smart thing! Completely ignoring the fact that it's destroying the planet.

The US is leading us all over a cliff in terms of climate change, and with it's military aggression around the world.

upright. Exhaustion, dehydration, disorientation, heat, suffocation, darkness, sheer collapse—you name it.

One does not need visible blood for violence to be present. Sometimes violence is architectural, administrative, and above all a decision to place hundreds of enslaved people in a room never meant to contain them and then call it “migration management.”

My outrage comes from the fact that such scenes have become normalised both in Libya, Europe and around the globe. The world has slowly learned to consume the dehumanisation of “migrants” as recurring theme instead of evidence of ongoing crimes against human beings that concerns all of humanity.

And while this reality is already unbearable, this morning a document leaked to

statewatch.org confirmed that the EU has begun collaborating with Haftar’s forces in eastern Libya on “migration control.”

The result will be worse than what is happening in this footage.

This is a condition that no court, parliament, humanitarian institution, or democratic society should tolerate for a single hour, let alone for years that has passed.

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Since the usual suspects keep trotting out this talking point (while referring to themselves as "progressive," what a laugh), it's important for there to be the occasional reminder. The "withdrawal" of the State of Israel from Gaza in 2005 was no such thing. The State of Israel continued to control everything about Gaza, and has ever since. The whole point was to starve the Palestinian population of political options, which when combined with a policy of "mowing the grass," and of literally starving the population, was to prevent peace, and prevent "solutions" completely, one state, two state, anything.

In their own words:

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Ehud Olmert, deputy leader under Sharon:

> There is no doubt in my mind that very soon the government of Israel is going to have to address the demographic issue with the utmost seriousness and resolve. This issue above all others will dictate the solution that we must adopt. In the absence of a negotiated agreement – and I do not believe in the realistic prospect of an agreement – we need to implement a unilateral alternative... More and more Palestinians are uninterested in a negotiated, two-state solution, because they want to change the essence of the conflict from an Algerian paradigm to a South African one. From a struggle against 'occupation,' in their parlance, to a struggle for one-man-one-vote. That is, of course, a much cleaner struggle, a much more popular struggle – and ultimately a much more powerful one. For us, it would mean the end of the Jewish state... the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem... Twenty-three years ago, Moshe Dayan proposed unilateral autonomy. On the same wavelength, we may have to espouse unilateral separation... [it] would inevitably preclude a dialogue with the Palestinians for at least 25 years.

(Landau, D. ‘Maximum Jews, Minimum Palestinians’: Ehud Olmert speaks out. Haaretz. November 13, 2003.)

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Dov Weissglass, senior adviser to Sharon:

> The significance of the disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process, and when you freeze that process, you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, and you prevent a discussion on the refugees, the borders and Jerusalem. Effectively, this whole package called the Palestinian state, with all that it entails, has been removed indefinitely from our agenda. And all this with authority and permission. All with a presidential blessing and the ratification of both houses of Congress. That is exactly what happened. You know, the term 'peace process' is a bundle of concepts and commitments. The peace process is the establishment of a Palestinian state with all the security risks that entails. The peace process is the evacuation of settlements, it's the return of refugees, it's the partition of Jerusalem. And all that has now been frozen... what I effectively agreed to with the Americans was that part of the settlements would not be dealt with at all, and the rest will not be dealt with until the Palestinians turn into Finns. That is the significance of what we did.

(Shavit, A. Top PM aide: Gaza plan aims to freeze the peace process. Haaretz. October 6, 2004.)

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But by all means, please: tell me again how Israelis really genuinely want a "two state solution".