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SvennoJ on 27 February 2024
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Netanyahu bragging about his successful propaganda campaigns

Netanyahu ‘signals’ he will not listen to White House as long as US public supports Israel

Benjamin Netanyahu clearly [is] signalling that as long as he enjoys American public support – as long as Israel enjoys support in the US public sphere – he does not have to do what the White House or what President Joe Biden says with regards to curbing the conflict or trying to bring an end to the war in Gaza.

Just on Sunday, on the US talk shows, Netanyahu was also quoted as saying that deal or no deal, an assault on Rafah – on the besieged area of Rafah where so many people are sheltering, so many displaced Palestinian are sheltering – will carry on regardless of how the deal does or does not go forward.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "Since the start of the war, I have been leading a diplomatic campaign to block pressure designed to end the war prematurely, and to secure strong support for Israel.

We have had considerable success. Today, a Harvard CAPS -Harris poll was published, which shows that 82% of the American public supports Israel, meaning that four out of five US citizens supports Israel and not Hamas. This will help us continue the campaign until total victory.

The poll doesn't say that, it posed the question, Do you favor Israel or Hamas, no alternatives. Comparing a country to a political resistance group designated as a terrorist group by the US. (Which they are, yet so is the IDF) Still it does show 51% of Americans support Israel.



Arab-Americans feel ‘betrayed’ by Biden over Gaza as they go to polls in Michigan primary

US President Joe Biden faces a crucial test in Michigan as people go to the polls to vote for the Republican and Democrat presidential candidates in the crucial swing state. In Michigan, the US state with the highest number of Arab-American voters, an “uncommitted” campaign has grown in recent months, fuelled by a sense of anger and betrayal in Arab and Muslim communities over Biden’s failure to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.

People like Yemeni-American businessman Kalid Sharjah in Dearborn are calling on voters to refrain from casting a ballot in Tuesday’s primary for an incumbent Democratic administration as they seek to send a message to the Biden administration.

“We feel that we’ve been betrayed by President Biden. In 2020 we were his soldiers. We went campaigning, we knocked on doors, and when his team met with us, they said he’s going to be just, he’s going to be inclusive, and he’s going to be fair. What we have seen in the past 120 days or so is the opposite,” Sharjah told Al Jazeera.

Asked whether he was concerned that not voting for Biden would only increase the chances of Donald Trump returning to the White House, Sharjah said the Arab-American community doesn’t “see a whole lot of difference between the two”.“Every day, there’s still killing, and if one person can stop the killing of children, it’s President Biden. All he has to do is listen to over 60 percent of US voters who are saying ceasefire and he would be a hero…. He has refused to do that,” he said.

Biden calls on Congress to pass funding bill to ‘help Israel defend itself’

The US president has renewed his call for legislators to approve a foreign aid bill that includes $14bn for Israel as well as assistance for Ukraine and Taiwan. “The costs of delaying a vote on the bipartisan national security supplemental rise every day,” Biden wrote in a social media post. “This bill would arm Ukraine, invest in our defense industrial base, help Israel defend itself against Hamas, and get more humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians.”

The Senate approved the bill earlier this month but it is yet to pass in the House. While the Biden administration has been emphasising that the measure includes aid for Palestinians, the proposal only sets aside a fraction of the amount of aid to Israel for humanitarian assistance, some of which can go to Palestinians.

Moreover, the bill would ban funding for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), which provides vital services for millions of Palestinians across the Middle East.

I would say let the USA have Trump again. At least nobody takes him serious. Two faced snake Biden has to go.



Aid groups ‘systemically denied access’ to areas of Gaza, says UN

The UN humanitarian agency, OCHA, says aid organisations “have been unable to reach northern Gaza and increasingly parts of southern Gaza safely”.

It said the organisations had been unable to deliver aid because:

  • their “aid convoys have come under fire”.
  • they have been “systematically denied access to people in need”.

OCHA also raised concerns about the “protection of civilians” amid continued “allegations of shooting by Israeli forces at Palestinians waiting for humanitarian aid in Gaza city”.

Hungry Palestinian toddler dies from poisoning in northern Gaza

A two-year-old Palestinian child called Khaled has died after eating bread made from animal feed in the northern Gaza Strip. “The older children vomited what they had eaten and recovered”, Khaled’s grandmother Ibtisam Al-Kahlout said.

“As for the younger children, their condition worsened after they ate the bread,” she said. “The doctors said he was poisoned by bread, fodder and barley that we ate.” Ashraf al-Qudra, a spokesperson for the Gaza Health Ministry, has called on international agencies to urgently provide food and drinking water throughout Gaza to avert an enormous humanitarian catastrophe.

“This escalating famine could kill thousands of citizens due to malnutrition and dehydration in the coming days in front of the eyes of the world,” he said.

PRCS footage shows paramedics searching for survivors in Deir el-Balah attack

The Palestine Red Crescent Society has released footage of its ambulance teams searching for survivors under the rubble at the scene of an Israeli air attack in the city of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.

Israel has increased its attacks on Deir el-Balah as it prepares for ground operations in Rafah.

On Saturday, an Israeli attack on a home sheltering dozens of displaced Palestinians in the city killed at least 24 people.