Israel’s bombing of Lebanon has killed more than a thousand civilians this year. Israel also drove out more than a half million civilians from southern Lebanon… Past Israeli attacks on Lebanon…Israel has been dragging the US into Lebanese quagmires since the 1980s…
A combat surgeon who volunteered in Gaza during the genocide is one of the surprise leaders in the Democratic Party race to replace Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman in New Jersey’s 12th district.
Immigrants can now be denied a green card for expressing political opinions, such as participating in pro-Palestinian campus protests or posting criticism of Israel on social media.
Israel has failed to halt a wave of violence against Palestinians, prompting military officials to urge the government to intervene.
Despite what appears to be mounting obstacles, it is the ordinary people who choose to take part in the face of all the odds that give this movement its power.
Rabbi Michael Henkin, one of the leaders of “the religious left,” whose members are in contact with Christian clergy in Jerusalem and the West Bank, says that a new ethos has developed in Israeli society, according to which anything perceived as different is a threat. Hence, while street signs say “Armenian Patriarchate Street,” some call it “Spitting Street.”
This is a relationship without parallel in which the largest economic & military power the world has known, subordinates itself to a tiny country that would otherwise be almost entirely inconsequential. Not only systematically redistributing its own wealth to that tiny, well-off country, but unconditionally embracing that country’s geopolitical agenda, and taking extreme actions on behalf of that country in a way that causes immense harm to its own interests, while also inflicting death, displacement and despair on millions of innocents.
Thousands of people have received amputations since October 2023, but only eight prosthetic technicians, and restricted entry of prosthetic materials. It could take five years or more to meet their needs
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Lebanese rescue workers now wait 15 minutes after each strike before responding, the only way, they say, to stay alive long enough to reach the wounded amid Israel’s implementation of its Gaza “double-tap” policy in Lebanon.