STEEERIKE: Six thousand academic student employees (ASEs, aka teaching assistants) hit the picket line yesterday, the day after their union, United Auto Workers (UAW) 4121, announced the unanimous strike vote. That meant that until the University met their demands for better pay, ASEs wouldn’t attend class, hold quiz sections and labs, sit for office hours, or nothin’. Under the current contract, student employees make less than $2,700, a tough base wage in Seattle. Last night, the ASEs reached a tentative agreement with administrators, and will pause the strike until a ratification vote.
The ASE bargaining team announced that they had reached a Tentative Agreement (TA) with University administration the evening of May 14, via their Instagram. Striking will pause pending the ratification vote.
— Anna Hull (@anna_fph) May 15, 2024
Oh, and the city council approved the new police contract. Ashley has more to say about this. In fact, I can hear her screaming. *Ahem* ASHLEY?
Council gives cops a raise: On Tuesday, the Seattle City Council voted 8-1 to adopt a collective bargaining agreement struck between the City and the Seattle Police Department (SPD) officers and sergeants union. The contract costs the City an additional $96 million this year, and increases SPD’s salary budget by $39 million for the foreseeable future. The contract also stifles any possibility of the City civilianizing large sections of police work, meaning these raises go to some officers who spend their days looking at pictures of people committing traffic violations.
No accountability: Multiple council members justified the high cost as a way to stop officers from leaving, while also incentivizing the best candidates to apply to work for SPD. However, the council members who voted for this contract are being disingenuous in saying they care about ensuring the quality of Seattle officers. If they cared about employing good officers, they’d have pushed for the Seattle Police Officers Guild (SPOG) to accept new accountability measures, which this contract does not. To learn more about the officers the City plans to pay millions of dollars in back pay to, check out DivestSPD’s latest round up of some of the department’s frequent fuck-ups alongside their expected back pay.
Only Council Member Tammy Morales voted against the contract. She also pushed for the council to delay the vote to allow members of the public to weigh in. In response, Council Member Cathy Moore questioned the purpose of hearing from the public on the major decision.
I caught up with SPOG President Mike Solan after the vote. He called the vote and the contract a “sea change” toward a more moderate form of governance in the City. On the question of accountability, Solan emphasized that before the death of George Floyd and the protests that followed, the US Department of Justice viewed SPD as the model of a reformed police agency. Which does just go to show, reform can only take something so far. The City remains in negotiations with SPD over accountability measures. The contract the council voted on yesterday only covers the department up to 2024, and supposedly the City intends to push for more accountability measures in the next contract.
This is what the City bought today for an additional $96 million https://t.co/q9rXdk8OHW
— Ashley Nerbovig (@AshleyNerbovig) May 15, 2024
Thanks, Ashley. Okay, now back to me.
The King County Recorder’s Office oopsie: The Seattle Times reports that the recorder’s office, which handles important stuff like taxes on home sales, records of real estate deals, name changes, and marriage certificates, misallocated $7 million in six years and overcharged people another mil. An audit found unreliable financial reporting, outdated procedures, little accountability, and employees with unclear roles. The money troubles came from prepaid accounts, which constitute two-thirds of all the accounts they handle.
Possible conflict of interest in city council vote? Ahead of a vote to rollback a law requiring food delivery apps to pay their Seattle drivers the equivalent of a minimum wage, the City’s Ethics and Elections Commission is looking into Council President Sara Nelson. Nelson recently sold Fremont Brewing, the company she started with her husband, to one of the state’s largest hospitality companies, Seattle Hospitality Group. The independent ethics committee opened the investigation shortly after critics said she should recuse herself over ties to the restaurant industry. Others have also questioned Maritza Rivera, whose husband once owned Sound View Strategies, which consulted for DoorDash. Partner Sandeep Kaushik met with Rivera to talk about the ordinance.
Fire-starter: April Brown, 72, told KING 5 someone wanted to kill her as she slept Friday, and police say an arsonist hit her home. Surveillance footage from Brown shows a man spraying her home and car with an unknown accelerant in the early morning hours. Neighbors who saw her front door burning helped her escape. Police are not commenting on the incident, as the investigation is ongoing.
Request for Information: Arson
On Friday, May 10th, 2024, at approximately 6:30 am., officers responded to an arson that occurred in the 1600 block of N 183rd St. in Shoreline. If you have any info about this incident, please call 206 296-3311.@ShorelineWAGov @kingcosoPIO pic.twitter.com/vm6lSVhtYC
— Shoreline Police (@ShorelinePolice) May 13, 2024
Justice Department restarts Boeing prosecution: The last time Boeing fucked up big time and two 737 MAX crashes killed 346 people, the company struck a deal with the US Department of Justice: Fork over $2.5 billion and meet our safety conditions to avoid prosecution. Then a door blew off mid-flight because nobody put the bolts on, and it became clear, through a comedy of grievous errors, that Boeing may have violated that agreement. Funnily/not funnily enough, if that door had clung to life a few days longer, Boeing would be in the clear—the delayed prosecution was that close to expiration. Instead, in a sense, one door opened another, and that door that was wide enough for government lawyers with criminal claims against the company in their hands. Boeing has 30 days to explain itself, and the DOJ has until July to investigate the company for additional breeches of the agreement.
Speaking of Boeing, guess who was the top US munitions manufacturer for Israel 2021-2023? As Seattle students demand that schools divest from Boeing over Israel, KUOW wondered about the extent of their business connection. They found that Boeing made the most guided bombs for Israel of any US company, edging out Lockheed Martin by a hair. Of the 5,241 missiles the US delivered to Israel in 2021-2023, nearly 3,000 came from Boeing. A recent Amnesty International report found that in at least five strikes since October 7, Israel used Boeing’s small-diameter bombs and smart bomb kits in violation of international human rights law, killing more than 100 people in Gaza.
No, the UN did not halve the number of casualties in Gaza: Multiple news agencies published poorly thought-out headlines implying that UN numbers undercut Palestinian figures, cutting the number of dead women and children in half. No, no–the death toll in Gaza is still very much 35,000 people since October 7, and UN spokesperson Farhan Haq was quite clear about it, saying the overall number of fatalities in Gaza remains unchanged, and that Palestinian figures have proven generally accurate time after time. What happened was that the UN switched sources, citing more conservative figures from the Gazan Ministry of Health, rather than the government media office. The Health Ministry bases its totals on the deaths it can fully identify, and they’re still working to fully identify 10,000 bodies. Haq said the UN will establish how many women and children Israel has killed when that process is complete.
Michael Cohen cross-examined: Cohen, former President Donald Trump’s former attorney, is a star witness for the prosecution, so the defense needed to tear him a new one. Trump’s now attorney, Todd Blanche, characterized Cohen as a snake with selective amnesia, trying to pull one over on an old boss he hated. It didn’t really work, according to reporters at the New York Times and Politico. The Times’s headline for this next part was “Outside the courthouse, Speaker Mike Johnson attacked Michael Cohen,” which would have been more exciting than what actually happened, which was just Mike Johnson accusing Michael Cohen of being motivated by revenge. Most people who testify against someone aren’t motivated by love, Mike, but I know you have others considerations. Someone must speak for the gagged Trump, or he might explode.
Orcas take what’s theirs, again: This time, they sunk a yacht in the Strait of Gibraltar after an unknown number of whales rammed the side of the boat. There’s no scientific explanation we’ve found yet for the behavior. I’d suggest it’s their ocean, and we’re polluting it. Disgruntled young whales, tired of our bullshit, hit us where they think it hurts: thrashing boats owned by the wealthy. They do not know millions cheer them on.
Antony Blinken plays guitar? My snide headline for this blurb was going to be “Rockin’ in The Free World” until I read he’d actually played that song for Ukrainian soldiers with a Kyiv bar band. Look, it’s kinda lame, and he could try singing in the mic instead of just near it, but I still smiled at America’s top diplomat, a powerful man who makes like $226,300 a year, strumming a humble Epiphone 335 (not sure if it’s his, but the man could afford a Gibson, the genuine article). He’s not bad at all, and because of this video, I learned he releases Dad jams on Spotify as Ablinken. He’s got 1,294 monthly listeners, is into ’70s classic rock, and doesn’t mention his job in bio, which I respect. But if he really condemns Israel’s tactics, I call on him not to release another rockin’ tune until he convinces his boss to do something about it.
Who is the goodest girl, like, officially? If you know me, you know that my face breaks into a big stupid grin at the sight or sound of a dog. “Comfortably Numb” by Pink Floyd? That’s me when I’ve seen a dog (there is no pain, and I am receding). Anyway, the dogs at the 148th Westminster Dog Show were not playing. Winner Sage, the miniature poodle from Houston, Texas, was the first female dog to take the title since 2020, and she beat out more than 3,000 of her competitors.
Sage wisdom from the Miniature Poodle, your 148th Westminster Best in Show! #WestminsterDogShow pic.twitter.com/ydYSSD8MCT
— Westminster Kennel Club (@WKCDOGS) May 15, 2024
Portrait of a bad man on fire: Every image of King Charles is horrific, but the portrait he unveiled yesterday is beyond the pale. I mean, he has to know, right? It reminded me strongly of Ivan Albright’s Picture of Dorian Gray, like the actual painting from the 1945 movie housed at The Art Institute of Chicago. In this painting, however, Charles emerges from a chiaroscuro of either fire or viscera. ABC wrote kindly that the painting drew “mixed reactions online,” but they seemed clear to me. It looks like he’s in hell, surely a preview of the inevitable.
this the type of shit you see hanging on top of a guy’s throne in Elden Ring and then the dude’s called ‘Morgorem, Bloodrot Baron’ and he lives in the ‘Sanguine Temple of Decay’ https://t.co/jUn0Fs77wk
— RED🩸 (@DemonfireTanto) May 14, 2024
“Council Member Cathy Moore questioned the purpose of hearing from the public on the major decision.”
I don’t like her, and I don’t support the contract… but I applaud her honesty in questioning the need for a public hearing.
Everyone on the Council already knows how they’re going to vote, and nothing said in a public hearing is going to change their minds. Why waste time with a farcical hearing?
They could spend hours on a hearing, and there would still be someone left after the time runs out who complains that they weren’t given a chance to say the same thing an hundred other people already said.
Public testimony during government hearings is among the worst performance art there is.
It’s going to take years before Seattle gets over the ACAB typecasting that Seattle (and other West Coast cities) are stuck with.
When one can hear gunshots from their 1 million dollar Seattle house, something is seriously wrong.
It’s just a fluke that I was not on Capitol Hill light rail at 5:30 pm (or around then) on Sunday.
With salary raises mean more and better cops? I honestly don’t know. But the inmates are running the asylum, and positive change can’t come soon enough.
@4
Are Seattle and the other ‘progressive’ west coast cities even interested in shedding the ACAB typecasting?
They’ve worked so hard to cultivate that image that I’d be surprised if they wanted to leave it behind.
Re: Prince Charles chiaroscuro shading en flambèe:
Trogdor strikes again!
@6. And don’t forget that 90% of the arms used by ISIS/ISIL in Syria and Iraq were traced to the US who sold them to Saudi Arabia. Funny how that works, huh?
http://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2017/12/14/isil-weapons-traced-to-us-and-saudi-arabia
Pretty sure the orcas don’t have much of a concept of who’s rich or poor. And where are these millions “cheering on” attacks on boaters?
@6 Biden didn’t abandon Afghanistan. He implemented a withdrawal agreement with the Taliban negotiated by Master Negotiator(tm) Trump. And by the time the withdrawal was done, they had extended the US’ time in country significantly. Any further extensions would have upped the violence against US troops.
Biden did the best he could with the hand he was given on entering office.
It’s cute that people think west coast cities have any choice whatsoever in how they are “typecast”. Left-leaning cities have been serving as an object lesson for all the things conservatives hate/fear long before ACAB became a thing.
Seattle could become a police state tomorrow and it would still be spoken of as a safe haven for violent criminals and the softest blue-haired commies in the world, which makes no sense if you think about it, because the point is to feel these things and not think about them. That branding is baked into the culture and nothing you say or do will change it.
@11 are you honestly trying to say the shit show that was the withdrawl from Afghanistan where service members died, American citizens and Afghan allies were left behind and millions of dollars in equipment was allowed to fall into enemy hands was Trumps fault? That takes some real creative imagination there. Even if Trump did negotiate the agreement the execution was woeful and if it was so bad then last I checked Biden was the president and could have made a different choice.
@13 Well, yes. Trump negotiated a shitty agreement. Funny that you talk about leaving our Afghan allies behind. Trump negotiated directly with the Taliban, cutting the Afghan government out entirely. They were left behind before Biden took office. Among other things, Trump’s agreement with the Taliban severely limited US air support of government troops, so it’s not a great shock that they felt left behind and folded like a cheap suit as soon as it was clear that the US was leaving.
The withdrawal was rushed? The last troops left Afghanistan on August 30, 2021. Trump’s negotiated departure date was May 1, 2021. It would have been worse if we had followed Trump’s negotiated agreement. The lost equipment? That was largely captured by the Taliban from the collapsing Afghan army. Biden should have kept more troops in country? Tell that to your man who negotiated the exit and said we were all leaving.
Did we need to get out of Afghanistan? Absolutely, and that almost certainly would have led to the collapse of the Afghan army. Were there screwups? Sure, and people died as a result of those, as they do in nearly every evacuation. But Trump left Biden with a shitty hand, and there’s not much that Biden could have done that would have materially changed the results. Sure, he could have left more troops in Afghanistan. As it was, Taliban attacks after May 1 were up 70% over the year before. You would have been marching up and down demanding that Biden get our troops out of harm’s way by implementing Trump’s agreement to leave.
Of course, some of the loudest critics of Biden leaving Afghan allies behind also voted against increasing the number of visas for Afghan allies. But that’s not a surprise from the Hypocrite Caucus.
@15 Do you even read the stories at the links you post before you post them? The UN facility where the armed men were seen three days ago was abandoned by UNRWA last week after the IDF took the Rafah border crossing. So yes, the building was left unattended, and anyone could walk in and stand by the cars.
I’m impressed by Hamas’ telekinetic powers. They made an Israeli tank commander aim and fire on a marked UN car. The tank commander was completely without agency. He just couldn’t pull his finger off the trigger, no matter how hard he tried. Definitely 100% Hamas’ fault, though. No blame can be attached to the IDF.
Do you also say that the woman wouldn’t have gotten beaten up by her husband if only she’d been a little nicer and had made a better dinner?
@13 One more thing. You’re upset about Afghan allies being abandoned? Well guess who put their thumb on the scale to slow down Afghan allies being allowed into the US? Stephen Miller, Trump’s right-hand man.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/03/politics/trump-adviser-stephen-miller-afghan-allies-us-entry/index.html
The Trump administration admitted 1799 Afghan allies in FY 2020, 550 fewer than the year before the withdrawal agreement was signed. Trump left a backlog of 17,000 applications pending for Biden to process. Since 2021,the Biden administration has admitted 88,000 Afghan allies.
No doubt you’ll argue that 1800/year is more than 22,000/year for … reasons.
How in the world The Stranger thinks the City would be able to extract concessions from the PD in the midst of a national police hiring crisis when they’re represented by a union subject to binding arbitration is beyond me. The city already reached a TA with the union, public hearings would have opened the city up to bad faith bargaining and unfair labor practice claims. It amazes me how such an ostensibly pro-labor publication seems to either not know, or chooses to ignore, so many public sector bargaining basics when it comes to police unions.
https://apnews.com/article/philadelphia-police-hiring-crisis-nationwide-b4da67b472d43d734968bca04c0b98cd
@16. Whoops, thanks for fact checking and correcting the record! I retract my claim that 90% originated in the US, when it was actually 10%. Embarrassing, guess my personal credibility took a hit, but goes to show that our arms sales to other countries still end up in the hands of terrorists.
@16. I don’t want to blame America for everything, silly, I just don’t appreciate when we sell weapons to the Saudis who then resell them to terrorist organizations that target our troops with them. If that means I hate America, I mean, I would hate to see what you think loving America looks like.
@24 Oh, so UNRWA is required to remove vehicles from a conflict zone? Where does that requirement come from? Cite chapter and verse please.
And yes, you did explicitly blame Hamas for the IDF tank commander choosing to fire on a marked UN vehicle. Because no matter how many civilians the IDF chooses to shoot in cold blood you’ll always say it’s Hamas’ fault.
@26 Surely someone as devoted to mens rea as you would see that there is a substantial difference between abandoning equipment under fire and aiding a combatant.
Shorter @28: Israel can shoot anyone and it’s legal. Shocking conclusion from you, I know.
You know, Hamas isn’t the only one with the ability to end the conflict in an instant. Israel could withdraw from Gaza tomorrow. I know, that’s ridiculous of course. Just as ridiculous as thinking that Hamas will unconditionally surrender and give Israel everything they demand.
The culture war framework is where the whole depraved coastal city thing originated. They were calling Seattle a shithole on talk radio long before CHAZ.
https://youtu.be/oqMcWWFcliY
@33. We are. It is too much to process.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/5/16/the-evacuation-of-rafah-is-yet-another-form-of-israeli-torture
Genocide Joe has earned his moniker now. After his hollow warnings to withhold military aid, his administration is rewarding Israel for invading Rafah with a billion more in arms including half a billion in tank ammunition.
Just what the fuck are you doing?
@36. Why don’t you ask Netanyahu and his regime about the hostages whose lives are likely forfeit with this invasion? They do nothing but ignore ceasefire proposals to double and triple down on their eliminationist goals of leveling Gaza. How dare you claim Biden as your president chump meat, when all you post is in support of Trump’s policies. I don’t want a fucking Republican plant to tell me how the man I voted for should uphold my interests, scumbag!
@35: Biden is doing what the voters want him to do:
“At the same time, the poll [of Americans who are registered to vote] also found support for Israel to continue its military operation into the city of Rafah, where many Palestinian civilians have fled to after Israel’s offensive began. Israeli leaders have said that Hamas militants are in the city.
“More than 70 percent of respondents said Israel should move forward with the operation, including 57 percent of those 18 to 24 and increasing percentages with each older age group.”
(https://thehill.com/policy/international/4629597-americans-israel-hamas-gaza-student-protests-poll/amp/)
@37: From the first protests in Seattle in October, to the campus of Columbia University in New York, and then back on the UW Quad in Seattle, eliminationist rhetoric towards Israel has flowed from the pro-Palestinian protesters. Every time this was mentioned, you tried to claim it was a unique coincidence, not representative of the overall beliefs of the protesters. You eventually gave up playing endless rounds of whack-a-mole over the protesters’ clearly-stated eliminationist goals. Now you’ve finally found yourself some eliminationism you can indeed oppose, by mis-equating Israel’s attempt to destroy Hamas with an attempt to destroy Gaza.
America’s voters do not agree with you. They recognize Hamas as the problem here, and they understand that civilians in Gaza suffer because of Hamas. They are therefore ok with Israel’s destruction of Hamas. Continuing aid to the IDF supports American voters’ understanding of this sorry situation.
@32 Actually probably a significant number, just indirectly. Pressure from a variety of places (including from the US) has likely pushed Israel to modestly improve food supplies, leading to fewer people dying.
And I’m not sure where you got the idea that anyone here said that a modestly adverse ICJ ruling would stop the fighting and dying. There was some hope that the ICJ would order a cease-fire, but when that didn’t materialize, the general opinion in the maybe-killing-civilians-is-a-bad-idea camp* was that relatively little was going to change on the ground. Any injury to Israel was to its long-term reputation, not its conduct of the war.
And before you start, everyone here thinks it was a bad thing for Hamas to kill civilians on 10/7. It’s Israel’s actions afterwards that are in debate.
nyt:
The Unpunished:
How Extremists Took Over Israel
After 50 years of failure
to stop violence and terrorism
against Palestinians by Jewish ultra-
nationalists, lawlessness has become the law.
–by Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzetti
May 16, 2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/magazine/israel-west-bank-settler-violence-impunity.html
four readers’ comments:
If you’ve been wondering why the students have been protesting, here is your answer.
–Annie; Minnesota
Finally some real journalism. Thanks for this detailed account. It comes 6 months too late, but better late than never.
–Insia Fatima; Brooklyn
This is why I find American support for Israel’s current war so perplexing. People who despise right-wing strongmen like Trump and Orban seem to have bent over backwards to forget that on October 6th, Netanyahu was a right-wing extremist who’d cobbled together a coalition with even more extreme conservatives, and was in the midst of trying to dismantle the court system that might check his power.
If you opposed the Iraq War because you didn’t trust W. Bush, why on earth would you trust Netanyahu to do the right thing?
–NRW; Maine
I’m afraid these terrorists are running things here in Israel. They have a strong hold on prime minister Netanyahu, being the most important piece of his current coalition after everyone else refused to ally with him, and as such they exploit their power in order to bring forth their delusional biblical theories into reality.
These lawless people, these outcasts, who have been for years living in the outskirts of Israeli society, have taken an iron grip on Israel’s most fundamental institutions, and are now de facto in control.
US readers must understand that Israel is being run by these people and by them alone. Mr. Netanyahu is nothing but a mere puppet.
October 7th could have been avoided along with the consequential ongoing conflict we see now, if these war mongers were handled in the only effective way: imprisonment and trial on charges of treason against the Israeli state.
They are no better then Hamas – both being terrorists seeking destruction and death in martyrdom.
Keep that in mind when you read and listen to news about Mr. Ben Gvir, and Mr. Smotrich – both no more than mere hoodlums – they not only speak for the Israeli government – they control it.
I hope readers can remember that these people do not represent the entirety of the Israeli public, and that there at least 50% of the Israeli public who strongly oppose their rule.
Hopefully we can turn things around. Please, don’t give up on us.
–yon; israel
more
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/magazine/israel-west-bank-settler-violence-impunity.html#commentsContainer
This story is told in three parts. The first documents the unequal system of justice that grew around Jewish settlements in Gaza and the West Bank.
The second shows how extremists targeted not only Palestinians but also Israeli officials trying to make peace.
The third explores how this movement gained control of the state itself. Taken together, they tell the story of how a radical ideology moved from the fringes to the heart of Israeli political power. –nyt
And WE, the People
Of the USofA’re
SUPPORTING
This MASSACRE
and Some of us
Much more so
than others
the “right”
Never sleeps.
“If you’ve been wondering why the students have been protesting, here is your answer.”
That was answered awhile ago:
‘SJP [Students for Justice in Palestine] wasted no time after the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel to spring into action, organizing a “Day of Resistance.” Chapters of the group said the world had witnessed “a historic win for the Palestinian resistance: across land, air, and sea, our people have broken down the artificial barriers of the Zionist entity.”’
‘George Washington University suspended its SJP chapter this week after three of its members projected messages on a school building that included “Glory to our Martyrs.”
‘And Brandeis University has also banned SJP after saying the group “openly supports Hamas,” but the school indicated that the decision was tough because it is dedicated to upholding the principles of free speech.‘
(https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4311746-students-justice-palestine-antisemitism-free-speech-hamas-israel/amp/)
That was in November. What took you so long?
from the article, above
‘By the end of October, it was clear that no one was going to help the villagers of Khirbet Zanuta. A tiny Palestinian community, some 150 people perched on a windswept hill in the West Bank near Hebron, it had long faced threats from the Jewish settlers who had steadily encircled it. But occasional harassment and vandalism, in the days after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, escalated into beatings and murder threats.
The villagers made appeal after appeal to the Israeli police and to the ever-present Israeli military, but their calls for protection went largely unheeded, and the attacks continued with no consequences.
So one day the villagers packed what they could, loaded their families into trucks and disappeared.
Who bulldozed the village after that is a matter of dispute. The Israeli Army says it was the settlers; a senior Israeli police officer says it was the army.
Either way, soon after the villagers left, little remained of Khirbet Zanuta besides the ruins of a clinic and an elementary school. One wall of the clinic, leaning sideways, bore a sign saying that it had been funded by an agency of the European Union providing “humanitarian support for Palestinians at risk of forcible transfer in the West Bank.”
Near the school, someone had planted the flag of Israel as another kind of announcement: This is Jewish land now.
Such violence over the decades in places like Khirbet Zanuta is well documented. But protecting the people who carry out that violence is the dark secret of Israeli justice.
The long arc of harassment, assault and murder of Palestinians by Jewish settlers is twinned with a shadow history, one of silence, avoidance and abetment by Israeli officials.
For many of those officials, it is Palestinian terrorism that most threatens Israel. But in interviews with more than 100 people — current and former officers of the Israeli military, the National Israeli Police and the Shin Bet domestic security service; high-ranking Israeli political officials, including four former prime ministers; Palestinian leaders and activists; Israeli human rights lawyers; American officials charged with supporting the Israeli-Palestinian partnership — we found a different and perhaps even more destabilizing threat.
A long history of crime without punishment, many of those officials now say, threatens not only Palestinians living in the occupied territories but also the State of Israel itself.’
@ Wormtongue
your little Genocide
on Palestinians cum
Land Grab ain’t Going
so well. Better Get Busier
with your ‘facts’ Olde man:
you and bibi
still haven’t (yet)
brought down Israel.
nyt:
Israel Says It Will
Send More Troops to
Rafah, Defying Global Pressure
The announcement signaled that Israel intended to press deeper into the city, where more than a million displaced people had been sheltering.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/05/16/world/israel-gaza-war-hamas-rafah
plus
the IDF’s
gotta go Back
up North ‘cause
wouldn’tchya Know it
Hamas is Still Fucking There.
the only ‘Plan’
is the Leveling
of Gaza whilst
Hiding behind
Hamas. & why
Not? it’s worked
Quite well so far.
END THE GENOCIDE
and stop America’s
fucking Financing
of Massacre, Joe.
BOEING for BANKRUPTCY!
Southern resident orcas: 1
Wealthy yacht owners: 0
Go, Orcas, GO!!!
Quite honestly, although that would be one helluva shitstorm, sending septic tidal waves around the world, I’d love to see the Orange Turd explode, and that we’d all finally be done with it. Just as long as it happens before November 2024. Let’s flush the Orange Turd before it flushes US.