Israel & Palestine

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How Israel planned the Gaza genocide decades ago

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An 11-year-old boy carried his dead baby brother, Ahmed, to a hospital in Khan Younis in a blue backpack. Blood dripped from it as he walked in.

The UN commission says he is one witness to more than 20,000 Palestinian children killed, and that their deaths at the hands of Israel were not accidents.

Here is what else UN investigators documented.

A 15-year-old was holding a white flag as Israeli snipers shot him with a .338-caliber round. His brother ran to help him, and they shot him. Their mother came, and they shot her too.

An Israeli soldier shot a 16-year-old boy and then drove a tank over his body.

A 14-year-old was shot while leaving his house when there was no active fighting and no threat. He fell to the ground badly wounded. A company of Israeli soldiers surrounded him, chatting and smoking. They stood over him for 45 minutes while he bled to death.

And in Washington this week, House Democrats held a closed-door meeting. Rank-and-file lawmakers expressed alarm, not about the killing, not about the genocide finding, but about having to vote on an amendment to cut off the weapons.

They were begging leadership to protect them from the political cost of doing the right thing.

Candidates who ran explicitly against arming Israel are winning up and down the ballot, including a sweep that shocked the establishment in New York this week.

The lawmakers taking AIPAC money, assuming there's no price to pay, are starting to find out there is.

74% of Democratic voters oppose military aid to Israel.

60% of all Americans disapprove of Israel's military assault.

Voters watching children get shot by snipers while holding white flags, and lawmakers are in a back room asking AIPAC's allies in leadership how to survive the vote.

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Shocking New Oct 7 Video Shows Israel Choosing To Use Hannibal Directive!

There’s shocking new video footage from inside Israel’s police command room as they decided to slaughter their own people on October 7th, 2023. The video was initially aired by Israel’s Channel 12, translated by B.M. on X, and also reported by Justin K.P. (You can watch it for free at "RealLeeCamp" on subs tack.)

In the video, one senior officer says:

“Right now, I would bomb the entire Gaza border with artillery, hit them with a blow so that they’d have a real problem.”

Another official says it appears they’re already on it. To which the first official responds:

“They’re not even getting fighter helicopters in the air. You think they’re on it?”

Then another official replies:

“Break it all apart. Along with the soldiers who got abducted.”

At that point Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir comes into the room, realizes the camera person is filming, and tells them to shut it off.

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Rep. Thomas Massie has introduced an amendment that would eliminate the entire $3.3 billion the United States provides annually to Israel through the Foreign Military Financing program. The proposal would prohibit funds in the current appropriations bill from being used for Israel and would remove the $3.3 billion allocation from the budget.
This is significant because the $3.3 billion package is the core of the long-term military aid agreement between the U.S. and Israel. The funding helps Israel purchase U.S. made military equipment, weapons systems, and defense technology. The amendment would not affect a separate $500 million annual funding stream for missile defense programs such as Iron Dome, but it would eliminate the much larger military financing component.
The proposal has attracted support from progressive Democrats such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Greg? Casar indicated they would support the amendment, despite their broader political differences with Massie. Their support stems largely from concerns over the humanitarian consequences of the war in Gaza.
Unfortunately, the amendment faces long odds. Congress has historically maintained strong bipartisan support for military aid to Israel, and similar efforts to reduce or condition aid have generally failed by large margins. Still, the vote is notable because it forces lawmakers to go on record regarding whether they support continuing billions in military assistance at a time when public debate over U.S. involvement in the conflict has become more intense than at any point in recent decades