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Worth 35 minutes listening to Israeli journalist, Gideon Levy, columnist for Haaretz, the longest running newspaper currently in print in Israel. With so much censorship, both direct and indirect, going on with mainstream reporting on events, it is good to hear views from someone still speaking out in the face of receiving 'death threats and being shunned by some of his best friends for his coverage of Israel’s operations in Gaza'. This takes some #courage and #gratitude to Gideon Levy. What is worth hearing in this interview, even as in my case I have heard it before, is the sort of information that Israelis hear from birth about Palestinians. I came across this when I visited Israel and Palestine, with many Israelis warning me people living in, e.g., Ramallah were terrorists, and they would never go there; and their general language of them being less than human. Margi Brown Ash and I, and one of our children who lived in Ramallah at that time, found Palestinians warm and friendly, not surprising as I have found this in all my travels. That's why I love to travel, to have conversations with people, of whatever race or creed, to understand our similarities and differences. As Gideon Levy observes, it may be because many Israelis have not taken the time to get to know Palestinians or ventured into the Occupied Territories, outside of their time in the military. This rings true when we think how #fear is all-too-often caused by lack of information, and increasingly today, misinformation and disinformation. When we have met and had #conversationsthatmatter with others, we get to realise their humanity and, like us, just want to get through each day with our loved ones.

They took Ismail. Palestinian Journalist Ismail al-Ghoul has worked tirelessly for the last five months. He and the other Palestinian journalists and worked to learn English, and translate their information to tell English speaking westerners what they are seeing. They have worked in spite of being ⚠️targeted⚠️ to tell their stories and the stories of people that have lived in their homes, in the same place for longer than the US has existed. The US is complicit. In the words of Aaron Bushnell "Free Palestine, Free Palestine, Free Palestine." C A L L 2️⃣ A C T I O N below 🛑Ceasefire on Gaza🛑 1️⃣ Buying U.S Treasuries funds the federal budget. 2️⃣ Budget funds arms contractors supplying weapons to Israel. 3️⃣ In the 3 months, October to December 2023, $452 billion U.S. Treasuries were purchased by non-US holders. 🚨🚨the fiscal deficit of the U.S. government was $510 billion.🚨🚨 ***The WORLD sustained the one government not only standing in the way of a ceasefire, AND is actually funding the fire, during it's peak.*** 👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿 W E M U S T U S E O U R L E V E R A G E: 🔹Insist on a PERMANENT ceasefire - given global governments hold significant U.S. debt. 🔹 Use the toolkit here www.iegen.pro/toolkit to send emails, call governments, financial regulators, and organisations. https://lnkd.in/e8-thvG5

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This is an editorial in Israel's Haaretz newspaper demanding that foreign journalists be allowed into Gaza. The piece argues that there's no excuse for keeping them out, except Israel wanting to hide what it is doing there. Have you ever seen such an article in the western press? Please feel free to amplify by liking, commenting and sharing. The link to the full article is the comments.

We need to listen to each other. In order to do so, we need to get the unmodified, factual, and as unbiased information as possible to listen to, directly from the ground. This is why free press, free speech and free social media communication are so important. www.pax.ngo & www.convergence.ngo

I select to read Israeli news for information and analysis. If you are really interested in the truth (or some truth) of what is going on in the Gaza war or inside Netanyahu's cabinet you are well advised to read: JERUSALEM POST or HAARETZ No, it is not a typo mistake. These are newspapers located and published from inside Israel. They are far independent middle-of-the-road, and less biased than our media here in America. But if you are interested in fake news, which are racist, fascist, news outlets that promote division, misleading narratives, and blessing the genocide war, here are your best sources: National Post New York Times Fox News Here you have it. Unbelievable, eh!!!!

Naman Bakaç spoke to Richard Falk, former UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine and Emeritus Professor of International Law at Princeton University, for Independent Turkish. In some parts of this insightful delving into Palestine issue Mr.Falk says:  civilized society is the court as a last resort ,when established legal processes cannot be used, or worse, violated. If the world order continues in its current form, it is possible that the genocide will be repeated in the future Preventing and punishing; it depends on an unprecedented movement from below , insisting on a framework of law that has the capacity and will of the peoples to adapt to both the strong and the weak, organized through civil society activism. This, in itself, can eliminate geopolitics, which is the defining characteristic of a managerial approach to global security that disregards law and morality and is in practice dedicated to the pursuit of strategic interests I would also like to point out that we are now living in a time when radical new technological and ecological challenges are being addressed, and even long-term thinking and solutions are not taken into account, and an unprecedented danger to species and humanity is being experienced Expropriating and exiling Palestinians is orientalist indifference to non-western social welfare.