Debatt i Aftenposten om Gaza, ut fra denne lederartikkelen:
Min kommentar:
Skudeneshavn 30. oktober 2024
Jan Marton Jensen
Kilde:
30. oktober 2024
https://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/leder/i/OozBOE/israel-gjoer-galt-i-aa-hindre-unrwas-arbeid
Debattinnlegg i Aftenposten 27. oktober 2024, Kilde
Min kommentar i diskusjonen:
Skudeneshavn 29. oktober 2024
Jan Marton Jensen
Kilde:
27. oktober 2024
https://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kommentar/i/73Bq53/et-amerikansk-paradoks-hva-med-velgerne-som-setter-utenrikspolitikk-oeverst
Artikkel i Haaretz 27. oktober 2024 om Fornektelse og fortielse i Israel.
Både om det som foreår i Gaza nå .... og historisk:
"Headlines have shifted to Iran, but Israel is still starving, bombing and expelling the population of northern Gaza. While Israeli society as a whole has activated its denial mode, the horrifying images – and the policy, statements and reality behind them – are causing some Israelis to protest war crimes, or even utter the word genocide"
En dokumentasjon av den fortielsen og fornektelsen som skjer i Israel mht grusomhetene i Gaza.
Og med historisk tilbakeblikk om samme.
HELE artikkelen nederst under Kilde
Skudeneshavn 28. oktober 2024
Jan Marton Jensen
Kilde:
27. oktober 2024
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-10-27/ty-article/.premium/gaza-is-the-horror-that-cant-be-denied-but-israelis-will-try/00000192-cf22-d4a2-ab97-cf2fe1640000?lts=1730141329519
HELE artikkelen i Haaretz
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Palestinians
praying over bodies of relatives, killed in an overnight Israeli
airstrike, in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, on Sunday.Credit: AFP |
Trigger warning – and be grateful for it, because I didn't have one last week when a photo of a girl with half a head appeared on my feed one morning. Her fuzzy pink wrap was almost indistinguishable from the part that was once inside her head, now splayed out around her body. Her face, however, was mostly preserved, her frozen eyes half-closed and yet gazing back at me.
No
matter how much photographic, eyewitness and real-time documentation we
see, the battle over the truth rages full force. And nothing inflames
the debate more than the word "genocide."
For Palestinians, genocide is a descriptive fact – anything else is a lie. For international courts, it is a legal convention, the International Court of Justice is deliberating South Africa's charges, according to a high bar of evidence, while ruling that Palestinians have a plausible right to be protected under that convention. For many Israelis, the word is an antisemitic plot and a lie.
Israel's government already flatly denies lesser charges – war crimes, ethnic cleansing, a second Nakba. But the worse things get in northern Gaza, the more Israeli society activates its long-term modes of denial.
Nations rarely want to face their crimes. Israel has made long and elaborate efforts over the years to deny it worst deeds. It's already clear how this will work in the years and decades to come when thinking about the present.
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Palestinian casualties at Kamal Adwan hospital in Jabalya, northern Gaza Strip, on Saturday.Credit: Stringer/Reuters |
Israel's leadership classified the archives related to the Nakba during the War of Independence, while David Ben-Gurion painstakingly cultivated the idea that most Palestinians left at their leaders' instruction, according to the historian Shay Hazkani. Archives were declassified, scholars pieced together terrible truths, and Israel reclassified the material.
Fellow academics unleashed smear campaigns and interviewees retracted their testimonies to Teddy Katz, whose master's thesis chronicled a massacre by Israeli forces at Tantura in 1948 (that story is captured in an astonishing, eponymous film). The proto-fascist group Im Tirtzu ran a "Nakba-Bullshit" campaign in 2011.
In recent years, denial efforts often focus on individual cases, picking apart tiny details to prove Israel's innocence – hoping this adds up to a bigger picture exonerating the occupation at large. Examples of these micro-denials include a cottage industry that emerged over years to prove that 12-year-old Mohammed al-Dura was not killed by Israeli fire in 2000, during the second intifada; or the IDF denials that it had killed Jawaher Abu Rahma with tear gas in 2011, and any number of others.
Justification
is another denial strategy, and it's not unique to Israel. "There is no
crime, absolutely none, that cannot be condoned when 'our' side commits
it," wrote George Orwell in 1945, before Israel existed. He wrote that
nationalists in general employ "flagrant dishonesty" and self-deception.
Fabrication of motives happens too: In 2017, Israeli police claimed it
killed the Bedouin Israeli Yakub Abu al-Kiyan because he was an Islamic
State terrorist who tried to commit a car-ramming attack; he wasn't, and he didn't. If a terrible incident is wrongly attributed to Israel – such as the explosions at the Al-Ahli hospital early in the war, most likely by misfired munitions from Palestinian militias – this is leveraged as proof that Israel is innocent in all other cases.
Denialism kicks in when events are too terrible to admit. Headlines have shifted to Iran, but Israel is still starving, bombing and expelling the population of northern Gaza. Many suspect it is implementing the "General's Plan," which seeks to empty northern Gaza of Palestinians. Developed by former security officials, the plan orders the exit of 300,000-400,000 civilians, then calls to end humanitarian aid alongside bombardment to destroy remaining combatants – or anyone.
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Displaced Palestinians evacuating the northern part of Gaza last week.Credit: Hassan Al-Zaanin/Reuters |
This plan closely complements proposals advocated by the Misgav Institute (close with the Kohelet Policy Forum), calling for an Israeli military government in northern Gaza. Members of the governing coalition, including from the ruling Likud party, supplied the final aim, declaring yet again last week their intention to clear Gaza for revival of Jewish settlement.
Yet denialism is everywhere. Both Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and the IDF spokesperson claimed Israel is not implementing the General's Plan. But officers on the ground in northern Gaza told Haaretz the plan was being implemented openly.
Following months of legal proceedings on a petitions by Israeli
nongovernmental organizations for urgent humanitarian relief, the state
admitted to the court last week that, indeed, aid was blocked to
northern Gaza for weeks but some trucks are now being allowed into Gaza.
But the human rights groups observed
that trucks cannot reach the northernmost governate, and the
north-south route remains mostly blocked. The state pointed to its
cooperation with a polio vaccination effort. However, the World Health
Organization suspended the campaign in northern Gaza last week due to impossible security conditions.
The IDF says it has expanded the humanitarian zones for Gazans, but Tania Hary, executive director of Gisha, an Israeli NGO working on human rights in Gaza and the petitioner, rejects that term: "There is nothing actually humanitarian about the humanitarian zone ... there's not enough aid or shelter for people there, and airstrikes still take place in the zone," she said in an email. The conditions in Gaza are "fit only for human animals."
She adds: "Calling it the 'humanitarian zone' is a clever way of masking the reality for people who might be troubled if they understood what's really happening there."
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A displaced Palestinian woman in Jabalya last week.Credit: Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters |
The normative environment of suppressing knowledge includes the media.
Israeli television news editors have avoided showing the human death
toll and misery in Gaza all year, by choice. The Committee for the
Protection of Journalists counts 128 journalists killed in Gaza, with 15 cases being investigated for possible deliberate targeting due to their work. Israel has shut down Al Jazeera in the region, foreign journalists are unable to enter Gaza unless embedded with the IDF, and last week Israel marked a number of Gazan journalists as terrorists – presumably building a case for killing them.
To be sure, Israel is not alone in denial. Surveys repeatedly show that nearly 90 percent of Palestinians do not believe atrocities were committed on October 7, for example. Remote keyboard activists in faraway countries have entertained themselves denying Hamas' sexual violence. But right now, it's the Gaza horror that needs to stop.
Given these trends, perhaps the most stunning development of all is the waning of denial – as Israeli officials and individuals increasingly declare Israel's plans openly, sometimes proudly.
The South African government collected numerous statements by Israeli
officials signaling what they argued was genocidal intent in the
immediate aftermath of October 7. Yet officials have continued to make
them – including Religious Zionism minister Bezalel Smotrich, who said
starving Gazans would have been justified, in an August conference devoted to resettling Gaza. Influential media commentators
have called for mass killing, including of civilians. IDF units have
proudly stated and documented their own actions on social media
extolling (and executing) total destruction – easily harvested and
chronicled by Drop Site News investigators. It's not clear which is worse – denying these awful aims, or openly admitting them.
But maybe Israel's fanatics in power are doing the country a service. People of integrity might not see dismembered children on their feeds or televisions. It's harder not to hear your own leaders, your own soldiers, your own family members.
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National
Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, center, dancing during a conference
calling for Jewish resettlement of the Gaza Strip, near the Israeli-Gaza
border last week.Credit: Tsafrir Abayov/AP |
Israeli linguistics professor Idan Landau recently gathered overwhelming documentation available from open sources, and created one of the most damning reports yet about northern Gaza, in Hebrew. His blog is called "Don't die dumb."
Earlier this month, a group of Israelis wrote an open letter
calling on the countries of the world to pressure Israel with all
possible sanctions, because "we are horrified by the countless war
crimes that Israel is committing ... the constant massacres and
destruction must be stopped immediately!" Over 3,000 Israelis signed as
of this writing.
That letter was written largely by longtime anti-occupation activists. A different petition is now going around social media groups written by education professionals and democracy activists. They observed the accumulation of evidence of war crimes, starvation, expulsion, the "Israeli media obfuscation of the atrocities," and closed with a plea: "The blood of the children, women, the youth and the elderly of Gaza, who are not Hamas members, will haunt us for generations. We call upon the government of Israel and the IDF: Do not commit war crimes in Gaza." (Disclosure: I have signed this letter.)
Think tanks are publicly debating whether this is genocide. I have had quiet conversations with people not connected to the radical left, who believe that the combination of open statements and actions in northern Gaza fit the definition of genocide.
Ultimately, incremental steps among small pockets of society can't stop the carnage fast enough, but knowing is a start. Israel should spare itself the anguished truth debates for decades to come, and many lives, by ending the war in the present.
Debattinnlegg i Aftenposten 27. oktober 2024, Kilde
Min kommentar 1 i diskusjonen:
Justiceinfo 24. oktober 2024:
Reuters 25. oktober 2024:
Courthousenews 3. september 2024:
UK Lawyers for Israel argues that Karim Khan, the lead prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, is guilty of professional misconduct.
Politico 6. mai 2024:
‘You have been warned’: GOP senators caution ICC over Israeli arrest warrants
Skudeneshavn 26. oktober 2024
Jan Marton Jensen
Kilde:
25. oktober 2024
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/icc-replaces-health-grounds-judge-mulling-request-netanyahu-arrest-warrant-2024-10-25/
24. oktober 2024
https://www.justiceinfo.net/en/137454-pressure-mounts-icc.html
3. september 2024
https://www.courthousenews.com/icc-prosecutor-vows-threat-and-harassment-wont-sway-him-as-uk-lawyer-group-balks-at-israel-arrest-warrants/
6. mai 2024
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/05/06/congress/gop-senators-warn-icc-on-israel-00156232
"Barth Eide dypt bekymret over Israels angrep på journalister"
"Natt til fredag ble tre journalister drept i et israelsk luftangrep mot et gjestehus i Hasbaya sørøst i Libanon.
Bygningen, som ikke lå i det som omtales som Hizbollahs kjerneområde, huset mange journalister og medieansatte.
Libanons statsminister Najib Mikati kaller angrepet målrettet og «en krigsforbrytelse begått av den israelske hæren».
Libanons informasjonsminister Ziad Makary hevder Israel ventet til journalistene gikk til ro for kvelden, for så å angripe dem da de sov.
– Dette var en planlagt likvidering som skjedde etter overvåking og sporing. Det befant seg 18 journalister fra sju ulike medier der, skriver han på X.
På Gazastripen er 168 journalister og medieansatte drept i israelske angrep siden oktober i fjor, ifølge det palestinske journalistforbundet."
Og i Gaza meldes det at palestinske journalister TAR AV SEG presse-vesten, for å unngå å bli bombet.
Skudeneshavn 25. oktober 2024
Jan Marton Jensen
Kilde:
25. oktober 2024
https://www.abcnyheter.no/nyheter/verden/2024/10/25/196038871/barth-eide-dypt-bekymret-over-israels-angrep-pa-journalister
25. oktober 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/25/israel-airstrike-southern-lebanon-journalists-killed
25. oktober 2024
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpvz2rzm4k0o
Artikkel fra USA 24. oktober 2024:
"Google and Amazon Are Betting Big on Nuclear. No One Has a Plan for the Radioactive Waste."
Utdrag:
"Some experts who have studied designs for the small-module reactors, or SMRs, say they will produce more potent waste than their larger-scale older siblings—and more of it. They question whether SMRs’ spent fuel can be safely stored at the aboveground reactor sites.
A report last year by National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine cited a finding that units planned by the nuclear company working with Amazon, X-Energy, would produce almost 24 times as much spent fuel per year as many existing plants for an equivalent amount of energy.
“It’s irresponsible to go forward and build a whole lot more nuclear
power without solving the waste problem,” says Allison Macfarlane, who
served as chairwoman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission during
the Obama administration."
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Ingen spesielle planer mht atomavfallet:
"Google, which is a unit of Alphabet,
Kairos spokeswoman Ashley Lewis said in a statement that waste from its reactors can be safely handled using established methods.
“The
U.S. nuclear industry has safely managed used fuel for decades at sites
nationwide,” she said “Kairos Power will use the same proven methods to
store spent fuel securely until the United States finalizes a specific
strategy for management and ultimate disposal.”
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USA har ingen løsning for permanent lagring.
Påbegyt anlegg i Nevada ble stoppet.
Atomavfallet lagres defor ved det enkelte atomanlegg.
Og, speseielt for de nye planlagte SMR-atomanlegg:
Studier angir at disse produserer MER og FARLIGERE atomavfall enn tradisjonell atomkraft.
En fyldig artikkel, og skremmende.
Skudeneshavn 24. oktober 2024
Jan Marton Jensen
Kilde:
24. oktober 2024
https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/google-amazon-ai-nuclear-waste-16fb39ab?siteid=bigcharts&dist=bigcharts
Debatt i Aftenposten on Unifil basert på innlegg av stortingsmann Erlend Larsen fra Høyre.
Min komnmentar 22. oktober 2024:
Bjarte Bjellås fra MIFF har 21. okt 2024 innlegg i Aftenposten, se Kilde.
Her er mine kommentarer:
Kommentar 1
19. oktober 2024, artikkel i Haaretz, HELE artikkelen under Kilde:
Utdrag:
"According to medical staff, the IDF surrounded the hospital and cut off its electricity supply."
"Residents of Jabalya said Israeli tanks had reached the heart of the camp after pushing through suburbs and residential districts. They said the Israeli army was destroying dozens of houses daily, from the air and the ground, and by placing bombs in buildings then detonating them remotely. "
Det er tydelig at her i Nord-Gaza SKAL folk tvinges bort.
Ubeboelig for Gaza- folket ... hva planlegger Israel for Nord-Gaza?
Skudeneshavn 19. oktober 2024
Jan Marton Jensen
På X:
29. oktober 2024
https://x.com/janmarton/status/1847566809479762102
Kilde:
19. oktober 2024
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-10-19/ty-article/israeli-strike-on-hospital-in-northern-gaza-kills-33-including-women-and-children/00000192-a2e3-d475-a3d7-fee7bd480000
HELE artikkelen i Haaretz 19. oktober 2024:
The death toll in the strike on the Indonesian Hospital is expected to rise, as dozens are trapped under rubble, according to Hamas-run Gaza government media office
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People survey the destruction at Gaza's Jabalya refugee camp following Israeli strikes, earlier this week.Credit: Reuters TV |
33 people were killed and 85 wounded in an Israeli strike on the Indonesian Hospital in the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza, including at least 21 women and children, medics said.
According to medical staff, the IDF surrounded the hospital and cut off its electricity supply. The Hamas-run Gaza government media office and Palestinian news agency WAFA said the death toll from the strikes could rise because some people were believed to be trapped under the rubble, with rescue teams unable to reach them.
Medical sources in Gaza added that nearby homes were also targeted, and residents described Israeli tanks advancing toward the city center amidst ongoing airstrikes.
Other Israeli strikes killed at least 39 Palestinians across Gaza on Friday, 20 of them in Jabalya, the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said.
Residents of Jabalya said Israeli tanks had reached the heart of the camp after pushing through suburbs and residential districts. They said the Israeli army was destroying dozens of houses daily, from the air and the ground, and by placing bombs in buildings then detonating them remotely.
The Israeli military said its forces, which have been operating in Jabalya for the past two weeks, killed dozens of militants in close-quarters combat on Thursday, carried out aerial strikes and dismantled military infrastructure.
The Israeli military says its operation in Jabalya is intended to stop Hamas fighters regrouping for more attacks.
Residents said Israeli forces had effectively isolated the far northern Gazan towns of Beit Hanoun, Jabalya, and Beit Lahiya from Gaza City, blocking movement except for those families heeding evacuation orders and leaving the three towns.
They said communications and internet services had been cut, disrupting rescue operations.
Debatt i Aftenposten om dette innlegget av leder av Palestinakomiteen i Norge, Line Khateeb:
Min kommentar 1:
Washington Post 16. oktober 2024, se Kilde:
" Israeli siege plan for Gaza under scrutiny as U.S. demands urgent change"
"The so-called “General’s Plan” is being pushed by some members of Netanyahu’s far-right government, despite pushback from the Israeli military and the White House."
What has played out in this stretch of the enclave mirrors, at least in part, a controversial siege plan conceived by a former Israeli general to gain full control of northern Gaza and then larger swaths of the enclave. It envisions systematically emptying areas of civilians and starving out — or shooting down — anyone who stays.
The “General’s Plan” is being pushed by some members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government, despite pushback from the Israeli military, human rights groups and the White House. On Sunday, citing international and U.S. law, top Biden administration officials gave Israel a month to reverse course or risk losing American military assistance."
Videre:
"Israel officially denies that it is implementing the siege plan, which was presented to government leaders and a parliamentary committee by Giora Eiland, a retired major general and onetime head of Israel’s National Security Council.
But two Israeli officials and a person close to members of the security cabinet confirmed that some far-right ministers are advocating for its adoption. Like others in this report, they spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, in particular, have made no secret of their desire to see Israel permanently occupy Gaza and for Jewish settlements to eventually return there. The Eiland plan gives them a potential path, the officials said."
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Dette er utsulting for å drive folk ut av Nord-Gaza.
Etter 14 dager med slik "krigføring" av IDF satte USA endelig foten ned.
Men de ga 30 dagers frist, utrolig nok slik situasjonen er i området mht vann, mat, medisiner og drivstoff for sykehusdrift.
Det er tydelig at for IDF er der ingen grenser for krigføring.
Grensene må settes av verdenssamfunnet.
Skudeneshavn 17. oktober 2024
Jan Marton Jensen
Kilde:
16. oktober 2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/10/16/israel-northern-gaza-generals-plan-siege/
