The U.S. embassy in Jerusalem suppressed a February 2024 report on northern Gaza because it “lacked balance.” These photos from the UN fact finding trip are visual evidence of the conditions.
It’s horrifying that the world allowed this to happen. For those who cared, it was easy to figure out that Israel was using disproportionate brutality and that the goal was to destroy both the land and it’s people. Those US government employees who withheld information should be held accountable. Joe Biden are you proud of what your administration allowed to happen ? It’s called genocide.
He did say that. These two need to be exposed, they are just as bad as Trump. If Biden had actually tried to stop the genocide instead of supporting it yet not acknowledging that it was happening, maybe the hellscape it now is could have been stopped.
Trump wouldn’t be POTUS if Biden had fulfilled his oath of office. Btw, I just read this in Drop Site’s daily report. “Chuck Schumer, not up for re-election till Jan 2029, said at a gathering this weekend ‘We delivered more security assistance to Israel, our ally, under my leadership than ever, ever before. We will keep doing that… I have many jobs as leader and one is to fight for aid to Israel.’”
This effort is prompted by two things. The first is the genocide in Gaza; the second is the proposal put forth by the Trump Administration to rebuild Gaza as a real estate development with literally no reference to the Palestinians. These events underscore the fact that the world is now run by a lawless oligarchy that has officially abandonned international law and, in the voice of Steven Miller, proudly proclaims the fact.
There is only one path out of the catastrophe that the planet has sleepwalked into as the United Nations has effectively looked the other way. There are more of us than there are of them. The question is how to mobilize those numbers.
The goal of this proposal is the establishment of an entity of undetermined form in the territory that can be referred to as Israel/Palestine. That entity, in whatever form it takes, will be democratic and its laws and government will treat all of the people living there as equals.
A Blueprint for Peace in Israel-Palestine by Omer-Man and Whitson sets out a mechanism by which the above-stated goals can be met. It is assumed that the current government of Israel and its allies, most notably the United States, will not voluntarily take the steps outlined in the The Blueprint. Further, no government or individual that has aided or abetted in any way the genocide to which the Palestinian people have been subjected, should be allowed to be a part of the rebuilding of Israel/Palestine. To ensure that these goals are met, the world’s great numbers must demonstrate their power.
The consequences of failing to follow the path outlined here are unbearable to conceive of. What will those consequences be if the forces of oligarchy are allowed to achieve their vision?
Israel will be permitted to continue to exist as a lawless, murderous apartheid state. Palestinians, five million of whom live in Israel outside of Gaza, will continue their lives of oppression and degradation at the hands of a police state.
Palestinians living in Gaza, having already had 90 % of their homes destroyed will be forced to live elsewhere while the Trump Peace Board seeks to make Gaza into a dreamlike seaside resort for the benefit of those who can afford it. Remembered in this regard must be the fact that the plans articulated for Gaza do not include the word “Palestinians.”
No mention has yet to be made of any efforts to create a prosperous home for the two million Palestinians trying to survive in Gaza right now.
The situation as envisioned by the oligarch planners guarantees one thing for certain: there will never be a peaceful existence in Israel. Eighty years of Palestinian resistance have proven that there is no end to the Palestinian desire for freedom or the Palestinian willingness and commitment to fight, in any way they are able. In addition, the lack of humanity demonstrated by the genocide and to be demonstrated if the present plans are instituted will make the export of violence to Israel from around the world a certainty.
Further, each measure taken to execute the plan will be additional affronts to the dignity of all peoples and more inspiration to violence against Israel and Israelis.
Therefore, the only power known to the world capable of stopping what is planned for Israel/Palestine is the power of the masses.
The proposed mechanism of coercion to put an end to the disaster is the boycott.
This proposal envisions a Peace Conference to be attended by an extremely limited number of religious and political leaders from around the world. The qualifications for attendance should be the absence of any activity abetting the genocide, a demonstrated committment to peace and justice, and an umblemished notoriety for decency and the quality of leadership. As examples, the Pope, the Dalai Lama, and Bernie Sanders are suggested with no more than 10 others with the same characteristics. The Pope should be the convening authority.
At the conference, the participants shall agree upon a straight forward statement outlining the notions contained in this document. A timeline for the implementation of the Blueprint shall be set out and initiation of a worldwide boycott of Israel in the case of the failure to act established.
The goal of this proposal is a just Israel/Palestine. Recognition of the profoundly racist nature of a great majority of Israelis is essential. The Peace Conference should petition the United Nations to act as it should have been acting for as long as the Palestinians have lived under Israeli oppression. That petition should include the possibility of the use of force to prevent the activities that the Oligarch planners have outlined, and to oversee the dictates of the Blueprint.
Very good article- besides one point: this ought to be Palestine! It always was Palestine!
Israel has no right to exist as a state after what has been done to Palestinians who are their landlords! This is all Palestinian land!
Why would anyone give a state, where 42% of its people said that they were just fine if all the Palestinians were killed and 84% were fine with all Palestinians being chased off their land, any right to exist? Not in its present form, I say.
And, yes, there are a lot of people who need to "gather" in The Hague- it will be a gathering of the worlds worst and it will be led by Americans! That is the only place where we will be #1.
96% of Israelis, according to polls, are perfectly fine with what has been done to Gaza. And the US is completely complicit, beginning with Obama, who lost his nerve with Netanyahu and completely capitulated to him, including in the farce known as Operation Cast Lead, which was a trial run for the destruction of Gaza; following with Biden, who years ago told Netanyahu he would be fine with Palestinian women and children being killed by Israel, and who repeatedly has lied about both supposed Hamas crimes and actual Israeli crimes, and now Trump, who is personally and financially owned by Israel via Jeffrey Epstein. The most recent tranche of Epstein documents shows that Trump was intertwined with Epstein and his sick empire to an appalling degree. In a sane world, there would have been UN peacekeepers sent into Israel right after the Nakba to prevent what deceitful Britain had unleashed on the world, but Harry Truman was a pitiful coward who was harrassed on all sides by American Zionists and his own party, afraid to lose an election. The only two presidents who have had any backbone at all with Israel have been Eisenhower and Kennedy. One was assassinated. All the rest have been morally vacuous weaklings or, like Lyndon Johnson, actual traitors.
Most ordinary U.S.A’ ans are also uninterested in doing anything about it. I say this with regret after months (make that years now) of trying to generate some interest in the subject on the part of fellow community activists, whose focus has been almost exclusively on Trump and ICE. Yes, a minority of us cares, but we’re small and relatively powerless. And not because of the politicians, but because of the general apathy among the public. I’ve fought this feeling for quite awhile. Where do we go from here?
The US and the Europeans could have prevented this horror from happening. The moral failure of these countries is unforgivable. These same countries are also responsible for the Nakba that took place in 1948. In any sane world, efforts to protect the Jewish people cannot be used to justify genocide against the Palestinian people!
The Biden administration allowed this to happen. There needs to be accountability for this for both Trump and Biden administration people who allowed this to happen.
This is why Democratic leaning voters don't trust the Democratic Party. Democrats like to talk about civil rights and human rights, except when it comes to Palestinians. If they can't be trusted to speak out on a genocide, how can they realistically be trusted on other matters?
Time Warp - Imagine, really, try to imagine watching today on TV:
Hitler's Nazis persecuting Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto or sending them to the "showers" at Auschwitz.
Would we watch these atrocities on TV for over 2 years AND DO NOTHING TO STOP IT ??? Would we just watch ? Send more weapons ? No money for paid family leave, but Billions for Genocide weapons almost instantly. That is exactly what our elected "representatives" (who represent Israel) are doing for decades.
When I was a 20 yr old, in 1950, my father , who was working with Palestinian refugees, would bring home bullet casings from Palestinian villages, recently destroyed by the Irgund who were making room for Israeli settlers. To me, Zionism is one of the great evils of the world and helps to perpetuate anti-Semitism. And, until Israel and the U.S. allow real Palestinian leadership to emerge, I see little hope for any real and lasting progress toward peace.
This administration helped turn Gaza into rubble. They see it as saving money on demolition. They want to make it a Trump playground for all the rich, powerful and evil with beachfront property.
Who in the Biden administration said that USAID reports had to be vetted by the U.S. ambassador to Israel? Given who is typically appointed ambassador, the results were a foregone conclusion. Country ambassadors do not normally screen USAID reports. The order to do so must have come from a higher official (such as the Secretary of State) in order to gaslight the situation in Gaza.
Two million people were already starving after genocide Joe’s war on Christmas in its birthplace in February of 2024 while he disdained the Palestinian Health Ministry’s manufactured undercount of casualties through healthocide.
No money should be sent to Israel - Trump just did it without Congress - Everyone in Congress should raise the roof about that
It’s horrifying that the world allowed this to happen. For those who cared, it was easy to figure out that Israel was using disproportionate brutality and that the goal was to destroy both the land and it’s people. Those US government employees who withheld information should be held accountable. Joe Biden are you proud of what your administration allowed to happen ? It’s called genocide.
Joe Biden’s exact words were, “I’m a Zionist first…”. And Harris agreed with him. I have no words to express how much I loathe these two people.
He did say that. These two need to be exposed, they are just as bad as Trump. If Biden had actually tried to stop the genocide instead of supporting it yet not acknowledging that it was happening, maybe the hellscape it now is could have been stopped.
Trump wouldn’t be POTUS if Biden had fulfilled his oath of office. Btw, I just read this in Drop Site’s daily report. “Chuck Schumer, not up for re-election till Jan 2029, said at a gathering this weekend ‘We delivered more security assistance to Israel, our ally, under my leadership than ever, ever before. We will keep doing that… I have many jobs as leader and one is to fight for aid to Israel.’”
Agree about Biden. He should burn in hell.
When ‘balance’ means burying evidence of mass starvation and destruction, the problem isn’t the report—it’s the policy it exposes.”
This effort is prompted by two things. The first is the genocide in Gaza; the second is the proposal put forth by the Trump Administration to rebuild Gaza as a real estate development with literally no reference to the Palestinians. These events underscore the fact that the world is now run by a lawless oligarchy that has officially abandonned international law and, in the voice of Steven Miller, proudly proclaims the fact.
There is only one path out of the catastrophe that the planet has sleepwalked into as the United Nations has effectively looked the other way. There are more of us than there are of them. The question is how to mobilize those numbers.
The goal of this proposal is the establishment of an entity of undetermined form in the territory that can be referred to as Israel/Palestine. That entity, in whatever form it takes, will be democratic and its laws and government will treat all of the people living there as equals.
A Blueprint for Peace in Israel-Palestine by Omer-Man and Whitson sets out a mechanism by which the above-stated goals can be met. It is assumed that the current government of Israel and its allies, most notably the United States, will not voluntarily take the steps outlined in the The Blueprint. Further, no government or individual that has aided or abetted in any way the genocide to which the Palestinian people have been subjected, should be allowed to be a part of the rebuilding of Israel/Palestine. To ensure that these goals are met, the world’s great numbers must demonstrate their power.
The consequences of failing to follow the path outlined here are unbearable to conceive of. What will those consequences be if the forces of oligarchy are allowed to achieve their vision?
Israel will be permitted to continue to exist as a lawless, murderous apartheid state. Palestinians, five million of whom live in Israel outside of Gaza, will continue their lives of oppression and degradation at the hands of a police state.
Palestinians living in Gaza, having already had 90 % of their homes destroyed will be forced to live elsewhere while the Trump Peace Board seeks to make Gaza into a dreamlike seaside resort for the benefit of those who can afford it. Remembered in this regard must be the fact that the plans articulated for Gaza do not include the word “Palestinians.”
No mention has yet to be made of any efforts to create a prosperous home for the two million Palestinians trying to survive in Gaza right now.
The situation as envisioned by the oligarch planners guarantees one thing for certain: there will never be a peaceful existence in Israel. Eighty years of Palestinian resistance have proven that there is no end to the Palestinian desire for freedom or the Palestinian willingness and commitment to fight, in any way they are able. In addition, the lack of humanity demonstrated by the genocide and to be demonstrated if the present plans are instituted will make the export of violence to Israel from around the world a certainty.
Further, each measure taken to execute the plan will be additional affronts to the dignity of all peoples and more inspiration to violence against Israel and Israelis.
Therefore, the only power known to the world capable of stopping what is planned for Israel/Palestine is the power of the masses.
The proposed mechanism of coercion to put an end to the disaster is the boycott.
This proposal envisions a Peace Conference to be attended by an extremely limited number of religious and political leaders from around the world. The qualifications for attendance should be the absence of any activity abetting the genocide, a demonstrated committment to peace and justice, and an umblemished notoriety for decency and the quality of leadership. As examples, the Pope, the Dalai Lama, and Bernie Sanders are suggested with no more than 10 others with the same characteristics. The Pope should be the convening authority.
At the conference, the participants shall agree upon a straight forward statement outlining the notions contained in this document. A timeline for the implementation of the Blueprint shall be set out and initiation of a worldwide boycott of Israel in the case of the failure to act established.
The goal of this proposal is a just Israel/Palestine. Recognition of the profoundly racist nature of a great majority of Israelis is essential. The Peace Conference should petition the United Nations to act as it should have been acting for as long as the Palestinians have lived under Israeli oppression. That petition should include the possibility of the use of force to prevent the activities that the Oligarch planners have outlined, and to oversee the dictates of the Blueprint.
Very good article- besides one point: this ought to be Palestine! It always was Palestine!
Israel has no right to exist as a state after what has been done to Palestinians who are their landlords! This is all Palestinian land!
Why would anyone give a state, where 42% of its people said that they were just fine if all the Palestinians were killed and 84% were fine with all Palestinians being chased off their land, any right to exist? Not in its present form, I say.
And, yes, there are a lot of people who need to "gather" in The Hague- it will be a gathering of the worlds worst and it will be led by Americans! That is the only place where we will be #1.
96% of Israelis, according to polls, are perfectly fine with what has been done to Gaza. And the US is completely complicit, beginning with Obama, who lost his nerve with Netanyahu and completely capitulated to him, including in the farce known as Operation Cast Lead, which was a trial run for the destruction of Gaza; following with Biden, who years ago told Netanyahu he would be fine with Palestinian women and children being killed by Israel, and who repeatedly has lied about both supposed Hamas crimes and actual Israeli crimes, and now Trump, who is personally and financially owned by Israel via Jeffrey Epstein. The most recent tranche of Epstein documents shows that Trump was intertwined with Epstein and his sick empire to an appalling degree. In a sane world, there would have been UN peacekeepers sent into Israel right after the Nakba to prevent what deceitful Britain had unleashed on the world, but Harry Truman was a pitiful coward who was harrassed on all sides by American Zionists and his own party, afraid to lose an election. The only two presidents who have had any backbone at all with Israel have been Eisenhower and Kennedy. One was assassinated. All the rest have been morally vacuous weaklings or, like Lyndon Johnson, actual traitors.
Most ordinary U.S.A’ ans are also uninterested in doing anything about it. I say this with regret after months (make that years now) of trying to generate some interest in the subject on the part of fellow community activists, whose focus has been almost exclusively on Trump and ICE. Yes, a minority of us cares, but we’re small and relatively powerless. And not because of the politicians, but because of the general apathy among the public. I’ve fought this feeling for quite awhile. Where do we go from here?
I harangued people about it in our Christmas letter. No lie.
Shame.....beyond Shame!
What does this say about our so-called leaders and our lack of determination that this should end and Israel punished and sanctioned. It’s sickening!
The US and the Europeans could have prevented this horror from happening. The moral failure of these countries is unforgivable. These same countries are also responsible for the Nakba that took place in 1948. In any sane world, efforts to protect the Jewish people cannot be used to justify genocide against the Palestinian people!
The Biden administration allowed this to happen. There needs to be accountability for this for both Trump and Biden administration people who allowed this to happen.
This is why Democratic leaning voters don't trust the Democratic Party. Democrats like to talk about civil rights and human rights, except when it comes to Palestinians. If they can't be trusted to speak out on a genocide, how can they realistically be trusted on other matters?
Brought to you LIVE on TV - GENOCIDE !!!
Time Warp - Imagine, really, try to imagine watching today on TV:
Hitler's Nazis persecuting Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto or sending them to the "showers" at Auschwitz.
Would we watch these atrocities on TV for over 2 years AND DO NOTHING TO STOP IT ??? Would we just watch ? Send more weapons ? No money for paid family leave, but Billions for Genocide weapons almost instantly. That is exactly what our elected "representatives" (who represent Israel) are doing for decades.
When I was a 20 yr old, in 1950, my father , who was working with Palestinian refugees, would bring home bullet casings from Palestinian villages, recently destroyed by the Irgund who were making room for Israeli settlers. To me, Zionism is one of the great evils of the world and helps to perpetuate anti-Semitism. And, until Israel and the U.S. allow real Palestinian leadership to emerge, I see little hope for any real and lasting progress toward peace.
Religious fanaticism knows no bounds. I think most Jews are heartbroken by what the fanatics under Bibi have wrought.
I force myself to remember that many of the World's Jews remember why Nazi Germany put so many in the camps.
"Imagine" by John Lennon said it best.
We continue to destroy ourselves over myth, magic and medicine.
Will we wake before it's too late?
Doesn't seem likely.
This administration helped turn Gaza into rubble. They see it as saving money on demolition. They want to make it a Trump playground for all the rich, powerful and evil with beachfront property.
Who in the Biden administration said that USAID reports had to be vetted by the U.S. ambassador to Israel? Given who is typically appointed ambassador, the results were a foregone conclusion. Country ambassadors do not normally screen USAID reports. The order to do so must have come from a higher official (such as the Secretary of State) in order to gaslight the situation in Gaza.
Two million people were already starving after genocide Joe’s war on Christmas in its birthplace in February of 2024 while he disdained the Palestinian Health Ministry’s manufactured undercount of casualties through healthocide.
Jonathan, what took you 2 years to release your pics?
Those pics are no good now- they just seem to drive home the point that it was still much better then than now!