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At the dog market somewhere in #China. "The dog really doesn't want to leave his owner and hugs him tightly," says the text. Of course not. A dog wants to live & be with its owner. Although the owner is selling him to a butcher. So cruel and heartless. #wearenotfood #dogmeat

Hundreds of New Yorkers packed the subway to join the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University after commemorating Palestinian Prisoners' Day at Union Square.

Amal Clooney, human rights lawyer to the stars, and her Clooney Foundation are outspoken on rights abuses committed by the West's enemies – from Russia and Venezuela to Iran. Yet, peculiarly, she's completely silent on Israel's genocide in Gaza. More: mintpressnews.com/amal-clooney-s…

@Jonathan_K_Cook Will the US Gaza "temporarily pier" eventually be left for the Israeli genocidal regime to inflict further suffering on the Palestinians?

A few observations on President Biden’s building of a “temporary pier” – or what his officials are grandly calling a “port” – to get aid into Gaza: 1. Though no one is mentioning it, Biden is actually violating Israel’s 17-year blockade of Gaza with his plan. Gaza doesn’t have a sea port, or an airport, because Israel, its occupier, has long banned it from having either. Israel barred anything getting into Gaza that didn’t come through the land crossings it controls. Israel stopped international aid flotillas, often violently, from reaching Gaza to bring in medicine. The blockade also created a captive market for Israel’s own poor-quality goods, like damaged fruit and veg, and allowed Israel to skim off money at the land crossings that should have gone to the Palestinians in fees and duties. 2. It will take many weeks for the US to build this pier off-shore and get it up and running. Why the delay? Because every western capital, including the United States, has supported the blockade for the past 17 years. The siege of Gaza caused gradual malnutrition among the enclave’s children, rather the the current rapid starvation. By helping Israel inflict collective punishment on Gaza for all those years, the US and Europe were complicit in a gross and enduring violation of international law, even before the current genocide. With his pier, Biden isn’t reversing that long-standing collusion in a crime against humanity. He has stressed it will be temporary. In other words, it will be back to business in Gaza as usual afterwards: any children who survive will once again be allowed to starve in slow-motion, at a rate that doesn’t register with the establishment media and put pressure on Washington to be seen to be doing something. 3. Biden could get aid into Gaza much faster than by building a pier, if he wanted to. He could simply insist that Israel let aid trucks through the land crossings, and threaten it with serious repercussions should it fail to comply. He could threaten to withhold the US bombs he is sending to kill more children in Gaza. Or he could threaten to cut off the billions in military aid Washington sends to Israel every year. Or he could threaten to refuse to cast a US veto to protect Israel from diplomatic fallout at the United Nations. He could do any of that and more, but he chooses not to. 4. Even after Biden buys Israel a few more weeks to further aggressively starve Palestinians in Gaza, while we wait for his temporary pier to be completed, nothing may actually change in practice. Israel will still get to carry out the same checks it currently does at the land crossings but instead in Lanarca, Cyprus, where the aid will be loaded on to ships. In other words, Israel will still be able to create the same interminable hold-ups using “security concerns” as the pretext. 5. Biden isn’t changing course – temporarily – because he suddenly cares about the people, or even the children, of Gaza. They have been suffering in their open-air prison, to varying degrees, for decades. If he had cared, he would have done something to end that suffering after he became president. If he had done something then, October 7 might never have happened, and all those lives lost on both sides – lives continuing to be lost on the Palestinian side every few minutes – might have been saved. And if he really cared, he wouldn’t have helped Israel in its efforts to destroy UNRWA, the UN relief agency for Palestinians and a vital lifeline for Gaza, by freezing its funding, based on unevidenced claims against the agency by Israel. No, Biden doesn’t care about Palestinian suffering, or about the fact that, while he’s been busy eating ice cream, many, many tens of thousands of children have been murdered, maimed or orphaned – and the rest starved. He cares about the polls. His timetable for helping Palestinians is being strictly dictated by the schedule of the presidential election. He needs to look like Gaza’s saviour when Democrats are deciding who they are voting for. He and the Democratic party are betting voters are dumb enough to fall for this charade. Please don’t prove them right. This post is available in article form here: jonathan-cook.net/blog/2024-03-0…

@jjsmclaughlin Will the US Gaza pier eventually be left for the Israeli genocidal regime to inflict further suffering on the Palestinians? Why not just stop arming Israel?

Wait wait wait wait wait. So the US can bring machinery into Gaza over land to build a pier to receive aid. Bit they can't, you know, bring that aid in itself over land. Well that is curious. Any Western journos want to have a go at that one? Thought not.

🔴💜✍🏼🐘#Lucy 🙏🏻💜🔴 Please sign the petition to The City council of Edmonton and the Mayor to take immediate action for the first time in Lucy ’s history 2 out 3 assessments have confirmed that Lucy should be RETIRED and moved to a sanctuary chng.it/KPHWq4Qq via @Change

@CitysFElephants @Change Done ✍️

Currently we have 2 important new 🐘PETITIONS ✍🏼🙏🏻💔: 🔴💜✍🏼🐘#Lucy chng.it/KPHWq4Qq via @Change 🔴💔✍🏼 #NoorJehan thepetitionsite.com/de-de/975/299/…

@LEAPyeg @CityofEdmonton @AmarjeetSohiYEG @kerentangyeg @AndrewKnack @thestaredmonton @AwesomeEdmonton @Edmontonsun @_AnimalAdvocate @Ivy_MiddletonUK @ttsnoopy @zooinspectors @born2_wild @DailyHiveYEG Sometimes one doesn't need to be an expert to see #Lucy is suffering. The Climate is so unsuitable for an Elephant during Winter The Habitat is barren with no interaction with other Elephants

Dear @AmarjeetSohiYEG @CityofEdmonton Leaps position is clear #Lucy needs to move now and we agree with Dr Londons thoughts about moving Lucy. To delay any longer will put her at more risk, she has waited too long as it is. It’s clear the zoo has never met her needs #relocatenow

#Lucy playing piano -- a circus trick, not educational. And 👀 more closely: the 🎥 will always show you her "keeper" right in front of her, directing her, with the BULL HOOK always in view. @AmarjeetSohiYEG this is not 🏠 it’s a prison with a warden!

MICHELLE MONE Suella Braverman talked about millions in small boats Did she mean Michelle Mone’s yacht and £millions of OUR money? RETWEET to remind Baroness Mone to repay our money.

@Musconpol @John_Ravenn Truth?

@John_Ravenn Do not be fooled. If he was not in a position to make a stance and, if necessary, walk away to a job he could really use his platform, the BBC would have sacked him. They were scared of the truth being spoken. He deserves huge admiration for his stance & deep moral compass.

Gary Lineker is returning to MOTD. If you want a full apology and Richard Sharp’s resignation give this a RT/Like.

@BladeoftheS Wonder if the NHS staff and teachers should act like @GaryLineker and his gang @BBCMOTD @BBCMOTD2 @bbc5live? Not for the wages, of course not.

@TealeVroom @motd @GaryLineker @alanshearer @IanWright0 @NOT_MOTD @MOTDmag @BBCMOTD I believe that millions of people who don't use Twitter enjoyed last weekend's #motd better the way it was. All that salivating and nonsense "my club" opinions are not needed. Idea: Make it a podcast and charge for it. Make lots of money that way. Ah! it is already in place.

Am I the only one who enjoyed @motd without the commentary and over analysis? @GaryLineker @alanshearer @IanWright0 audience figures went up so maybe others enjoyed pure football rather than predictable babble @NOT_MOTD @MOTDmag @BBCMOTD #motd #football

@umyaznemo Stop #IsraeliTerrorState #IsraeliTerrorism killing Palestinians, #IsraeliApartheid and the land-grabbing thieves. #FreePalestine #bds #domicide #boycottisrael

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that Zionists who hide #IsraeliCrimes behind the holocaust are a reason for rising antisemitism. For the millionth time, one holocaust does not justify another!

@PalestineCultu1 #FreePalestine #bds #boycottisrael 🇵🇸

From the River to the Sea Palestine Will be Free

@CAZA_AZAC ⚠️ Unbelievable lies ‼️ Reads @CAZA_AZAC own words @Cosmicbrigade @lilacjay2 @cubanadeanna @MFrabone @Lucycrew7 @TJ2VEGAS @RileyinAlberta @LEAPyeg