Tag: Gaza
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Hamas Won’t Go
A British band, called. Sweet, released the song. ‘Little Willy’, in the UK in 1972. The song was released in the US in 1973 and went as high aa number three in the Billboard charts. It ended up as the 18th top song in 1973. The following is part of the lyrics to that song.…
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Give Him Credit
Donald Trump is a narcissist. Many think that he is destroying democracy, in America, and replacing it with an autocracy. In his immigration battles, he has separated children from parents. He is threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act, in order to send troops to cities such as Chicago and Portland. He is weaponizing the justice…
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Needs To End
A floatilla of 40 boats containing food and medicines for the people of Gaza was intercepted by Israel military. The second image shows the Israeli take on it. Gaza is in famine. People especially children are dying of hunger. No two ways about it, the Israeli war on Gaza has turned into genocide. All the…
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Trump Nobel Prize?
Donald Trump has let it be known that he wants the Nobel peace prize. He may actually get one if this Gaza peace plan comes to fruition It is a 20 point peace plan. A number of Muslim countries and European countries are in favour of the plan. The Muslim countries who support the plan…
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Same Difference?
Yesterday, Canada, Britain, and Australia, officially recognized a Palestinian state. Portugal followed later in the day and France is expected to do so today. This puts Canada in conflict with the US who has no intention of doing so. This will be an interesting week at the UN assembly this week where both Mark Carney…
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Gaza Is Burning
In my much younger days, the holocaust was still fresh in the minds of the world’s population. Israel had stood up against the entire Arab world, it seemed, in wars in 1967 and 1973. Israel had a lot of world sympathy at that time. One of my favourite authors back, then was Leon Uris. He…
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Occupy What?
The Israeli security cabinet approved a plan, last night to occupy Gaza. Close to 50,000 Palestinians have already died in Gaza. Israel plans to do this in phases. The first phase would be occupying Gaza city and increasing food distribution by October 7. October 7 is significant because that was the date when Hamas attacked…
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Two State
The world was fairly unified behind Israel, after the October 7, Hamas attack . With all the stories of famine, in Gaza, of late, and of children dying from starvation this unification has broken down. In the US, support for the Israeli incursion, in Gaza, is down to a level of 32%, within independents it…
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Pariah?
The following is a portion of a joint statement issued by the government of the UK, France, and Canada, in response to Israel’s escalation of its offensive into Gaza “We strongly oppose the expansion of Israel’s military operations in Gaza. The level of human suffering in Gaza is intolerable. Yesterday’s announcement that Israel will allow…
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Death Sentence
A few weeks back, Donald Trump issued a warning to Hamas. Trump war that Hamas had better release all hostages by Saturday of that week, or else. It was taken as bluster. Saturday passed. Nothing happened. Donald Trump repeated this warning a couple weeks later. It was little reported. Life went on. Trump went back…