Palestine Talks: In Conversation with Josie Guilbeau
Wow. Very interesting TRT interview with an amazing American with a background in the military, first as a combat medic, then in intelligence. She talks about her political awakening and her trip to Palestine.
Sad fact: 22 daily suicides in American military personnel
phrase of the day: the economic draft
Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Öztürk was targeted by the Trump Administration even though she was legally there on a student visa.
Ms Öztürk was picked up by masked men in what looked like a kidnapping, but turned out to be an ICE apprehension.
(I guess even ICE is embarrassed by what they are doing.)
The former Fulbright scholar is being deported for co-writing a school paper Op-ed in the country formerly known as "the land of the free."
Seems President Trump sees the whole world as his to command.
After posting a bunch of comments on this, I am furious about the supposed "Green Party" candidate in my riding (Kitchener—Conestoga) who has not campaigned at all — except for showing up at this debate to endorse the NDP candidate.
Can you say "ringer"?
What people get wrong about #ClimateChange
#CDNpoli #onpoli
The people who convinced BBC to take down "Gaza: How to Survive a War zone" weren't worried about the deputy Minister of Agriculture.
They didn't want us to see the children.
They were afraid we would see they are children like our own. They worried we could see them as human beings.
Seeing the world in which they live through their eyes humanizes them.
That is what they don't want us to see.
https://www.instagram.com/damegh/reel/DF5fBMIIirv/
#BBC #Gaza #CDNpoli #HowToSurviveAWarzone #FreeSpeech #HumanRights
One of the things I have seen over and over in video coming out of Gaza has been systemic targeting of civilians, health care workers, paramedics, hospitals, humanitarian aid workers, and civilian infrastructure by the IDF. These are all crimes under international law.
Yet the only fault they could find with this documentary is that one of the featured children is related to the Deputy Agriculture Minister. #AdHominem
Gaza is an Occupied Territory. Palestinians are a captive population denied self determination & a sovereign state, subject to Israeli Martial Law.
The Hamas political wing is effectively a municipal government.
Since around 2 million Palestinians live in the tiny Gaza Strip, there's never been enough agricultural land to feed its people. Their fishing boats are limited to a "safe zone." If they stray too far from shore they are shot.
This is why Gaza has been called "the world's largest open air concentration camp."
When this "war" started, more than half the population was made up of children... none of whom were alive, much less able to vote in that election that Israel insisted on holding.
My understanding is that voters in Gaza chose Hamas politicians over the Palestinian Authority politicians because of systemic corruption in the PA.