the 80th and 81st Great March of Return protests

PCHR Gaza: 95 Civilians Shot And Injured, Including 43 Children, At 80th Great March Of Return’, By Staff, Imemc.org, Oct. 26, 2019

“In Gaza on Friday, 95 Palestinian civilians, including 43 children, a woman, 2 paramedics and a journalist, were shot and injured by Israeli forces, who fired live rounds against peaceful Palestinian protesters at the 80th Great March of Return.

Israeli forces continued to use excessive force against peaceful protesters, wounding 36 civilians with live bullets and shrapnel in addition to other injuries in the upper body due to direct targeting with rubber bullets and tear gas canisters.

Thousands of civilians took part in this week’s peaceful protests entitled: “For our Prisoners in Israeli Jails and al-Aqsa Mosque”, raising the Palestinian flag and chanting national slogans.” [snip]
“The protests lasted from 3:00 to 6:30 pm, and involved activities such as speeches and theatrical performances. Hundreds of civilians protested at varied distances from the border fence across the Gaza Strip, where some protesters set tires on fire and a few of them attempted to throw stones, Molotov Cocktails and firecrackers at the Israeli forces, who responded with excessive force.”

The following is a summary of today’s events along the Gaza Strip border:

Northern Gaza Strip
Gaza City
Central Gaza Strip
Khan Younis
Rafah

PCHR provides brief descriptions of the injuries in the above locations; some include photos.

Information wars abound: ‘Thousands of Gazans take part in weekly border protests, rioters attack troops; Army says soldiers respond to bombs, Molotov cocktails and rocks with riot dispersal measures and in some cases live fire; Palestinians report at least 60 injured, By TOI staff, November 1, 2019 timesofisrael.com

“The army said rioting was taking place, with troops being attacked with improvised explosive devices, Molotov cocktails and rocks. In once instance a military vehicle was hit with a firebomb, but none were hurt.

Soldiers responded with less-lethal means as well as live fire against main instigators, the military said.

The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry reported at least 60 people had been wounded in the protests.

Since March 2018, Palestinians have been holding weekly “March of Return” protests on the border, which Israel has accused Gaza’s Hamas rulers of using to carry out attacks on troops and attempt to breach the security fence. Hamas, an Islamist terror group, seeks to destroy Israel.

‘A Public Relations Scam: J Street Conference Attracts War Criminals and Zionist Liberals Alike’;  J Street was designed to make Zionists, particularly Israeli liberals, feel good about themselves and look good to the outside world without actually having to commit to peace’, Miko Peled, mintpressnews.com, Oct. 25, 2019  (Creative Commons)

“On its website, J Street states that it “organizes and mobilizes pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans who want Israel to be secure, democratic and the national home of the Jewish people.” In other words, it is an organization that perpetuates one of the biggest public relations scams in the world today: that one can be pro-Israel and pro-peace, and that Israel can be democratic.

Furthermore, J-Street claims that it advocates “policies that advance shared US and Israeli interests as well as Jewish and democratic values, leading to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” The keywords to note here are “two-state solution.”

This so-called solution is the mastermind of Zionist strategists who knew from the very beginning that presenting a solution to the Palestinian issue would allow Israel to present itself as a peace-loving state that recognizes Palestinians rights, albeit limited ones, and then to blame the Palestinians when the plan fails.

The honest thing to do would be to admit that the “two-state solution” is little more than a public relations stunt. However, being a Zionist organization, J Street promotes this lie, and it is by no means the only lie perpetuated by this fig leaf organization.” [snip]

“This year’s J Street conference features hawkish former Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak as well as a cadre of liberal US politicians.”  [Peled includes 13 names and photos]

“J Street, and particularly its conference, maybe the most shameless expression of “normalization” to date. By bringing Israeli and Palestinian groups and individuals together to a pro-Zionist, pro-Israel conference, they promote a false equivalency between occupied and occupier, oppressor and oppressed, those who fight to resist and survive and those who kill to impose apartheid laws. It is clear why this is good for Israeli war criminals and Zionist apologists, but why are “peace” and “goodwill” groups willing to participate in this charade?

The normalization industry is a fig leaf that hides the illegitimacy of the Zionist state with heartfelt stories of courage and personal loss. And while the initial attempt to bring people together to hear one another may have been sincere, it is clear today that the result was a miserable failure and a nightmare for Palestinians. Although the goal, at least in part, is to improve the lives of both Palestinians and Israelis, at the end of these meetings Palestinians return to their endless nightmare and Israelis to their well-paved neighborhoods with limitless water, electricity, and freedom.”

(cross-posted from Café Babylon)

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this is from mondoweiss, as in: jews who oppose zionist israel:

‘The theme of the J Street conference was conditioning aid to Israel, but where’s the action?’, October 28, 2019, mondoweiss.net

yeah, bernie said the same shit at last year's conference, but sorry, pal: the ISSUE isn't 'where's the action', but why the fuck the US gives israel any of the publicly stated $3.8 billion in 'military aid'. remember: israel is an undeclared nuclear regime.

who's the client, who's the state again?

this is virtue-signaling white-washing bullshit.

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but i've lost the tweet w/ the photo.

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but baffled. is it the message or the messenger?

tonight's closing song is from sweet honey in the rock:

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6Uus--gFrc]

g'night, and thanks for the 6 thumbs.

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nor the messenger, just not much to add.
It's all bullshit out of our control so do what you can locally.

I read damn near everything here I have time for, I just don't comment much anymore, not for any of the reasons edg posted about, just its All so bleak ya gotta break away. Don't be discouraged at the lack of response, my usual reaction to seeing 'Israel' in the title of an essay is ' Wtf have they done Now?!?'

Roll with it. . .

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Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .

Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .

If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march

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@Tall Bald and Ugly

we can do is bear witness to the evils that the western hegemon is doing on 'our names', and of course apartheid israel is part of that group. might add that i'd had to take a few nausea breaks, myself, when compiling this piece.

but yes, i'll roll with it, and thank you for the suggestion, TB &U.

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@lotlizard
right-wing white supremacists in Germany and pointing out how connected they are to US white supremacists, is called racist on both sides of the pond.

Nobody wants to be called a racist, and in Germany especially not an anti-semitic racist.

A thicker skin might be helpful of dealing with those kind of people, best to avoid them, I would say.

Sigh. Be as well as you can be, lotlizard.

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@mimi

crime drama series by jim leonard (elmore leoneard's son) featuring a skinhead organization calling themselves (with tats to prove it) 'the zyclon b's). art anticipating life?

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@wendy davis
the real thing is way more horrifying. I just am not equipped to manage translations fast. And also, I feel healthier to ignore. May be one day, but for now I can't.

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@mimi

but ignoring dark thigs don't mean they go away, yes? in germany, person to person, though, i do understand that confrontation could be fraught with peril.

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@mimi
don't forget that me having lived in the US for the last 35 years, means I have had no clue what happened in Germany during these 35 years. Now that I am back for three years, I have to fill in the void all at once and it is and was overwhelming to me. I learn from lots of documentaries I watch and start slowly to get an idea.

For example today I watched on ARD alpha the documentary D-Mark, Einheit, Vaterland - Das schwierige Erbe der Treuhand and I was deeply shocked. I learn slowly to understand.

As one can't communicate personally and openly online, I leave it at that. If I would know you in person, I could learn so much from you.

Good night.

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@mimi  
only now am I learning, little by little, how people who grew up here in East Germany experienced their lives over the last 40 or 70 years.

And as I’ve said elsewhere, even though I was born and reared in Hawaii, only much later did I begin to understand how Hawaiians have experienced the past and perceive the present.

Not to mention continually being reminded what a huge shift it is between my having been able to take eyesight for granted my whole life and my two friends’ never ever having known what the sensations of sight and light and color even mean.

It’s all good.

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@lotlizard

both house and senate to the AIPAC resolution, with very few dissenting votes. neo-nazis (die linke and AfD) have gained more power in germany lately, yes? blink, blink.

thanks, miz lizard. nice to see you.

on edit: also this.

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@wendy davis  
shunning the AfD, and anyone with a good word to say about the AfD, or who is even just seen going to lunch with an AfD official, risks being made an “unperson” sharing that shunning.

So the AfD may be winning votes, but this has gotten it less than zero power, as the other parties are not above bending or even simply flouting rules to deny it things it would normally be entitled to as a legal political party.

As for the Left Party, some people still think it should likewise be shunned. In their view, as the “heir” of the Socialist Unity Party that ruled East Germany the Left Party is still morally liable for the crimes of that regime. Yet, like its fellow actors on the Green and alternative-Left side of the spectrum, a sufficiently infiltrated Left Party has now de facto made its accommodation with NATO warmaking and neoliberal EU capitalism.

With German elites now prioritizing a drive to “unite against the Right,” one can anticipate that the Left Party too will soon be absorbed into the Atlanticist deep-state “Blob” and become just another of its appendages (if indeed it has not been already!). Any last objections on either side to that happening can be expected to evaporate.

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@wendy davis  
by Max Aschenbach of the satirical group Die PARTEI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_PARTEI

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=max+aschenbach+partei+satire

Notice that The Times of Israel — presumably because it has an interest in stirring concern about Nazis and anti-Semitism and wants readers to take the phenomenon seriously — cleverly mentions both Max Aschenbach as having initiated the resolution and the satire group The Party (= Die PARTEI) as having supported it, yet omits the key fact that Max Aschenbach is the satire group’s representative on the city council and originally introduced the resolution as a joke to make a point.

Hmm. Typically, declaring an emergency justifies suspension of civil liberties and short-circuiting of normal due process. So that could backfire. Even more censorship, more left-right sectarian violence, and less freedom for everyone of every school of politics in Dresden except the moderate centrist mainstream middle-of-the-road blessed by the Wessi elites?

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@lotlizard

mein freunde! thank you for debunking it.

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