US funds make Israel’s bombardment of Gaza possible. When will they be halted?

US public opinion seems to be swinging in support of Palestinian rights, but it must go further to begin real change

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Guardian: The headlines speak mainly of “clashes”, “conflict”, and “casualties on both sides”. The politicians recite bromides about Israel’s “right to defend itself”– a right that Palestinians seemingly do not have. The US government calls for “all parties to deescalate”, with no acknowledgment that it is US funds – $3.8bn a year – that, in part, make Israel’s bombardment of Gaza possible. This is the familiar American routine when Israel goes to war.

Yet before Israeli airstrikes and Hamas rockets came to dominate the news, what happened over the last week in Jerusalem was perhaps the most substantial Palestinian mass uprising in the city since 2017 – when Palestinian demonstrations led Israeli police to abandon their attempt to install metal detectors at the entrance to the Al Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem. Then, as now, it was an uprising centered in Jerusalem but about much more. And though US public attention has been diverted, the Jerusalem uprising is still ongoing. That is important not to forget.

It was not a coincidence that the uprising began in Jerusalem. Occupied East Jerusalem exemplifies in miniature the Israeli government’s endeavor to secure “maximum territory, minimum Arabs”, as David Ben-Gurion saw the goals of the Zionist movement. Israel has pursued this goal in East Jerusalem – which it occupied in 1967 and formally annexed in 1980 – by making it nearly impossible for Palestinians to obtain permits to build homes, leaving thousands of people vulnerable to displacement and their homes slated for demolition. East Jerusalemites, who are not citizens of Israel but legal residents, face stringent residency requirements that make their legal status precarious. The Israeli government has also empowered Jewish settlers to seize properties inside Palestinian neighborhoods such as Silwan, Abu Dis, a-Tur, and Sheikh Jarrah – part of an explicit strategy to “Judaize” the eastern part of the city.  Read more…



https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/13/us-funds-make-israels-bombardment-of-gaza-possible-when-will-they-be-halted

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  1. Remember what the late Congressman from Ohio, Jim TRAFICANT stated many times; “The US Congress is a BROTHEL!” Our Senators, Representatives are Prostituted! He was right on the MONEY! Money Talks! Money Makes the World Go Around! The Zio-Jewish Banksters, AIPAC , ADL et al, have close to,unlimited amounts of $$$s at their disposal! Our Congress is not serving the American People but the Zio-Rothschild International Financial Crime Syndicate the project ERETZ Israel, to rise from the Zionist Apartheid Talmudic-Supremacist terror State of Israel! What happened to Mr. Traficant for pointing out the TRUTH? The Zio-Jewish Powers to be have Framed Him Jailed Him after his release from Jail, He died under suspicious circumstances! Assassinations are the favorite ‘Modus Operandi’ of the Zionist Zealots along with ‘False Flag’ attacks: ‘Lavon Affair’, “USS LIBERTY” http://www.holocaustonthehighseas.com The Controlled Demolition pulling down, of the WTC. Towers #1,#2,#7 ,on ‘9/11/2001’! Demonic Creatures the Zionist Zealots! The ‘Land of the Free’ is the PLANTATION owned, Controlled by the Zionist Creatures, from where, the Blood and Treasure, our Military Personnel are the ‘Sacrificial Lambs’ on the Bloody Altar of Zionism, on the World Stage! DOWN with Zionism! Peace-Salam-Shalom!

  2. Never, Israel runs the US Government. The Boss would never stop his paycheck no matter how bad a boss is!

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