Israel Prime Minister Says Country Is "At War" (W/ Palestine)

The world’s Arab countries for the first time have joined unanimously in the call for Hamas to lay down its weapons, release all hostages and end its rule of the Gaza Strip, conditions that they said could help the establishment of a Palestinian state.

The surprise declaration, endorsed on Tuesday by the 22 member nations of the Arab League, also condemned Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, which set off the devastating war in Gaza. The statement came at a United Nations conference in New York on a two-state solution to end the decades-long conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

“In the context of ending the war in Gaza, Hamas must end its rule in Gaza and hand over its weapons to the Palestinian Authority, with international engagement and support, in line with the objectives of a sovereign and independent Palestinian state,” said the declaration. It was also signed by all 27 European Union states and 17 other countries.

The declaration called for the deployment of “a temporary international stabilization mission,” invited by the Palestinian Authority, which administers part of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and “under the aegis of the United Nations.”

Many Arab leaders have working relations with Hamas and rule over populations that are deeply committed to the Palestinian cause. That has made them reluctant to break publicly with the group and to normalize relations with Israel, despite pressure from Western allies like the United States. Qatar hosts Hamas’s political office and some of its political leaders, and has acted as a mediator between the group and both Israel and the United States.
 
For years, Democrats have warned that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, with his right-wing politics and policies, was undermining their party’s backing for Israel that dates to the nation’s inception in 1948.

In recent days, amid mounting scenes of starvation and devastation in Gaza, it has become clearer than ever that the longtime bipartisan consensus in support for Israel is, at least for the moment, in tatters.

Democrats have long objected to Mr. Netanyahu’s policies, in particular his efforts to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, and his far-right government’s conduct of the Gaza war. But some supporters of Israel fear that the hatred of the prime minister — Israel’s longest-serving leader, who has been in power with only one interruption since 2009 — is metastasizing into a broader rejection of Israel.

Support for Israel’s military action in Gaza has plunged into the single digits among Democrats. Across the country, local Democratic officials are pushing for embargoes on military and financial support of Israel. And long-boiling anger over the Gaza war among the party’s activists is manifesting in striking new ways in the halls of Congress.

On Wednesday night, a majority of the Senate Democratic caucus, including more moderate lawmakers, voted for a resolution calling to block the export of automatic assault rifles for use by the Israel National Police, which is overseen by Itamar Ben-Gvir, perhaps the most extreme right-wing member of the government.

A slightly smaller group voted for a measure urging the blocking of the sale of some bombs.

The measures failed, but they amounted to an extraordinary rebuke of the Netanyahu government and its handling of the escalating humanitarian disaster in Gaza.
 
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Sydney Harbour Bridge pro-Palestine protest so busy it was 'perilous', police chief says

Some of those attending the march, called by its organisers the March for Humanity, carried pots and pans as symbols of the hunger in the besieged enclave of Gaza.
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The horror of Gaza called and an army of rain-soaked Sydney Harbour Bridge marchers, young and old, came in full force

They were armed with umbrellas and ponchos and waterproof prams. One man even carried a surfboard. This is Sydney, after all
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These people are something else.

Israel is starving nearly 2 million people in Gaza. But yesterday Hamas released video of a hostage looking real thin and Israelis are outraged.

So images of starving Gazans are fake, but those of starving Israeli hostages are real.



 
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