Caitlin Johnstone on the Gaza genocide

The Gaza holocaust will be a litmus test for high-profile figures for decades.  Everyone’s comments or lack thereof on Israel’s genocidal atrocities will be looked up and amplified whenever their name rises to public attention.  It will be the first step in determining whether anyone deserves to be listened to, taken seriously, or voted for.  Their comments on Gaza in the mid-2020s will be the first gate through which they must pass to be considered worthy of attention by normal people. 

Someone asked me, “Why do you care so much about Palestine?” 

I told them ultimately it’s not even especially about Palestine.  I care about humanity.  I don’t want my kids and grandkids living in the kind of world that would watch civilians get ripped to shreds in full view of the entire planet with the support of my government and its allies.  I think that’s pretty reasonable.

~ Caitlin Johnstone, "They Seriously Expected Parades and Trophies For Pausing a Genocide," LewRockwell.com, October 14, 2025

 

Alan Futerman on Israeli attempts to limit civilian casualties in Gaza

Israel, it's been what, six months into the operation and they killed 24,000 of which 14,000 are Hamas terrorists.  And so it's obvious that Israel is doing whatever it can in order to reduce civilian casualties.  Because, of course, any person of goodwill in the world don't want to see people dying and war is horrible, and what is going on is terrible.  It's a human tragedy, of course, but who is responsible for that?  It's Hamas...  It's obvious that the official policy of the state of Israel is not to commit genocide.  Figures prove it.  But it is the official policy of Hamas to commit genocide.

~ Alan Futerman, "THE CASE FOR ISRAEL - FULL SHOW," Visions of Freedom, 3:12:10 mark, June 11, 2024

Peter Ford on Israel and UNRWA

The Israelis love to make up any propaganda they can about UNRWA, and they try to limit UNRWA funding. They use any method to try to stymie, block, or make more difficult the operations of UNRWA. They really do want to bring an end to this agency.

 

In a way, you can understand it because the agency is synonymous with Palestinian rights and in particular with the right of return. This implies the Palestinians have a right to return to those towns and villages from which their forebears were expelled back in 1948. 

So this is why UNRWA is a thorn in the side of Israel and one they would love to destroy completely. Their ambition has no limit. And we’ve seen this during the Gaza crisis. They have used this to try to exclude UNRWA, make propaganda against UNRWA, and create substitutes for UNRWA. Creating a substitute is the latest strategy. The organization that had some of its staff killed by the Israelis is one of these. In fact, that organization was particularly friendly to the Israelis and the Israelis facilitated its entry to Gaza. And it was a tragic irony that the Israelis ended up killing employees of this agency, World Central Kitchen. The Israelis aim to replace UNRWA with organizations they can control like this. That’s part of the plan with the port to be created by the Americans and the British in northern Gaza. It would be serviced by organizations other than UNRWA.

~ Peter Ford, Special Representative to the Commissioner General of UNRWA, "The Future of UNRWA and Hamas in Gaza" by Rick Sterling, LewRockwell.com, June 6, 2024

Arwa Damon on the precarious mental health of the survivors in Gaza

Christiane Amanpour: I want to ask you about what you witnessed also because I think you're focusing a lot on the children and particularly on mental health.  And you wrote in an op-ed for CNN, essentially everybody appears to be a zombie on the brink of insanity.  Here's what you wrote: "The constant bombardment is a dagger plunged repeatedly into the gaping wound of a crushed psyche.  The soundtrack of every night and day is the relentless buzz of drones that taunts, 'Oh, you think you've survived?  Just wait, death can still come.'"  So, how did that show up in the children or the parents who you spoke to?

Arwa Damon: You see it in their face.  People's eyes are dead.  That spark isn't there.  Movements are very lethargic.  They're very mechanical.  And the children and the activities that we do, it all centers really around play so you're trying to kind of coax that back a little bit, but then you also see it in people's tone of voice.  There was this one mother I met and she comes up and says, "Listen, I don't know what to do about my 7 year old son because he's screaming every night.  He's rocking back and forth.  And he's been this way ever since he saw his sister decapitated.  Her head was blown off by a bomb."  And what she was saying was horrific, but what was even more jarring was the fact that she was there.  She saw this happen to her daughter and she delivered the story in a monotone.  And that's when you realize that she has had to shove all this pain down so deep that she can't even let emotion crack through because if she does, she's going to shatter into a million pieces.  And so many people there have had to do that.  They've had to shove this all down.

~ Arwa Damon, "''People's eyes are dead,' former reporter and humanitarian Arwa Damon no the trauma in Gaza," 4:10 mark, June 4, 2024

Tom DiLorenzo on faux libertarians defending the bombing of Gaza

The faux “libertarians” who are praising Netanyahu as “heroic” and “courageous” for having orchestrated the killing of more than 30,000 civilians in Gaza (while demanding the killing of even more civilians) would obviously disagree with Rothbard but are in complete, 100 percent agreement with every one of the Washington, D.C. neocons.  They are defending the undefendable.

~ Tom DiLorenzo, "'Above All, Don't Target Civilians'," LewRockwell.com, May 21, 2024

"Above All, Don't Target Civilians" - LRC Blog (lewrockwell.com)

Lindsey Graham justifies Israel's bombing of Gaza and U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in WWII

Q: Why does Israel need the most massive bombs that can potentially level an entire block in order to wage this war?  Why can't it be more precise?

Lindsey Graham: Listen, here's what I would say about fighting an enemy who wants to kill you and your family.  Why did we drop two bombs, two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?  To end a war that we couldn't afford to lose.  You don't understand, apparently, what Israel is facing.  They're facing three groups: Iran, who has received 80 billion dollars in aid.  When Trump left office they were exporting 300 [thousand] barrels of oil a day.  Now they're at 1.3 million a day.  They've been enriched by Biden.  They're taking that money to kill all the Jews.

So when we were faced with destruction as a nation after Pearl Harbor, fighting the Germans and the Japanese, we decided to end the war by bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons.  That was the right decision.  Give Israel the bombs they need to end the war they can't afford to lose and work with them to minimize casualties.

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My problem is not with the weapons Israel is using.  My problem is with the tactics Hamas is using.  And the idea that America is not sending a nickel of aid, echoed by United States senator, when all the Jews are trying to be killed by radical Islamic groups, tells us where we are at as a nation.  The Republican Party is with Israel without apology.

~ Senator Lindsey Graham, "Sen. Lindsey Graham says Israel should do 'whatever' it has to while comparing the war in Gaza to Hiroshima and Nagasaki," NBC's Meet the Press, May 12, 2024

Norman Finklestein on Benjamin Netanyahu: "He's an obnoxious, narcissistic, Jewish supremacist"

If you read the liberal commentators or commentators of the West, every few months they're predicting the end of Netanyahu's rule.  It doesn't happen because Netanyahu, he is a reflection and a representation of Israeli society.  He's an obnoxious, narcissistic, Jewish supremacist who thinks that only Jews [howth, inaudible] in God's grand design.  Everybody else - the Goyim, as they're called - they have no place in God's grand design except where Israel decides to situate or place them.

So the first fact is we have to bear in mind he remains, even now, very popular in Israel.  The claim is his standing up to Iran has increased his popularity, but as a general rule.

Number two: Israel is a democracy.  Were it true that his policies were unpopular, another candidate would emerge.  That's the nature of a democracy.  Have you heard of another candidate who has emerged by dissociating himself with or denouncing Netanyahu's policies.  The answer is "no."

Number three: It's not just the Israeli state.  If you look at the Israeli society - I'm not talking about the people at the helm of the state - the Israeli society overwhelmingly, overwhelmingly supports the genocidal war in Gaza.  It's about 95% of the Jewish Israelis...  I have the statistics right here...  "About 60% of Israeli Jews oppose any humanitarian aid to Gaza..."  In polls on the issue of the war, only 1.8% (that was in October), 7% (that was in December) and 3.2% (that's January) of Jewish Israelis believe the IDF was using too much firepower in Gaza.

~ Norman Finklestein, "Norman Finklestein: All you know about Israel is wrong," PoliticsJOE, 0:15 mark, May 2, 2024

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: "The IDF has protected civilians better than any army in history"

People die in war.  In every war that's going on today, there are civilians dying and the average death rate - civilian-combatant death rate according to the United Nations and the Institute for the Study of Urban Warfare - is about 9-to-1, but in Gaza is about 1-to-1...  The IDF has protected civilians better than any army in history.

~ Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., video clip on Twitter/X, May 15, 2024

Walter Block: "I would say that 75% of libertarians favor Israel" regarding the Gaza invasion

I regard the Mises Institute as the preeminent Austro-libertarian group.  However, that's only the Mises Institute.  There's the Cato Institute which is much more pro-Israel, Reason Foundation is much more pro-Israel...  I would say that 75% of libertarians favor Israel and 25% don't, which is roughly my assessment of the overall population of the U.S.

~ Walter Block, "Is Zionism a Libertarian Movement?," Gilad Alper, 1:01:00 mark, May 18, 2024

Major Harrison Mann on resigning from the U.S. Army over the invasion of Gaza

My work here — however administrative or marginal it appeared — has unquestionably contributed to that support.  The past months have presented us with the most horrific and heartbreaking images imaginable… and I have been unable to ignore the connection between those images and my duties here.  This caused me incredible shame and guilt...  This unconditional support also encourages reckless escalation that risks wider war...  It is clear that this week, some of you will still be asked to provide support — directly or indirectly — to the Israeli military as it conducts operations into Rafah and elsewhere in Gaza...   At some point — whatever the justification — you’re either advancing a policy that enables the mass starvation of children, or you’re not.  And I want to clarify that as the descendant of European Jews, I was raised in a particularly unforgiving moral environment when it came to the topic of bearing responsibility for ethnic cleansing. 

~ Maj. Harrison Mann, "Army officer resigns in protest of U.S. support of Israel in Gaza," The Washington Post, May 14, 2024

(Mann was a U.S. Army officer working at the Defense Intelligence Agency who resigned, citing his objection to Israel’s war in Gaza, according to an open letter he published online Monday saying he is distressed that his work has contributed to the deaths of Palestinian civilians.)

Kevin Duffy on how baby boomers oppose the pro-Palestinian student protests

To have zero empathy for 2 million people in Gaza, two-thirds women and children, having their lives utterly destroyed over the past 6 months is appalling.  At least 1 in 70 Palestinians have died so far.  Let that sink in. 

I am ashamed of my generation.  This is the same generation that grew up with the Vietnam War and the heroic student protests, the same generation that saw the national guard sent in to Kent State where they killed four protesters (Neil Young's "Four Dead in Ohio"). I was 9 years old when that happened. 

Our generation witnessed the government and the establishment for what it was: a criminal organization wrecking lives halfway around the world as well as at home. Now we have BECOME the establishment. "Throw the protesters in jail! Turn on the water cannons!" All you Republicans out there, can't you see the Biden administration is SENDING MORE WEAPONS AND AID TO ISRAEL? This isn't about left vs. right, it's about us vs. the state.

~ Kevin Duffy, Facebook comment, May 9, 2024

Kent State - May 4, 1970

Rabbi Barclay on the killing of Palestinian children

Candace Owens: Do you think it is sad when an innocent Palestinian child dies?

A: Candace, I cry every day.  And it's not just for Israel.  And this is one of the things you clearly do not understand!  The same when most don't who are antisemitic don't get it.  I cry for what's going on in Israel.  I cry just as much for what we are forced to do.  Golda Meir had a great quote.  She said that "One day we may be able to forgive them for killing Israeli children.  We will never be able to forgive them for making us kill their children."

~ Rabbi Barclay, interview with Candace Owens, Candace Owens Podcast, 30:20 mark, March 18, 2024

Jeremy Hammond: Biden's concerns for humanitarian situation in Gaza is a cynical PR ploy

Under the administration of President Joseph R. Biden, the US government has been portraying itself as being seriously concerned about the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, where Israel has been waging a devastating military assault that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on January 26 judged to be a plausible genocide...  Biden also said that his administration had been “working non-stop to establish an immediate ceasefire” that would “ease the intolerable humanitarian crisis”. 

“We have been very, very clear about our concerns over the humanitarian situation there and how unacceptable it is that so many people are in such dire need,” White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby told reporters.

But the reality is that the US government has been fully supporting Israel’s military assault on the civilian population of Gaza, including by arming Israel and repeatedly blocking ceasefire resolutions in the United Nations (UN) Security Council aimed at enabling the delivery of urgently required humanitarian aid.  Transparently, the Biden administration’s proclaimed desire to help the people of Gaza is a cynical public relations effort aimed at trying to create an illusion that the US government is not complicit in Israel’s ongoing crimes against humanity.

The Biden administration is seeking to distance itself from responsibility for the humanitarian catastrophe because of the support he has been losing among members of his own Democratic party, and with the ICJ already having judged the situation to be a plausible genocide, US government officials are undoubtedly motivated by a desire to avoid potential future charges of complicity and failing in its own moral and legal obligation under the 1948 Genocide Convention to act to prevent genocide.

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The objections to the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s months-long assault on the civilian population of Gaza coming from within his own political party have created a public relations problem for the White House during an election year, but American voters should not delude themselves into the belief that the US government is a part of the solution rather than a part of the problem. The American people have the power to change the course of history for the better, but they have to actually use it. A simple first step would be to recognize that there are certain positions that ought to automatically disqualify a presidential candidate from consideration—and supporting a genocide is certainly one of them. 

If upholding basic moral values this way rules out all three of the top contenders in the presidential race—Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.—then so be it. 

~ Jeremy R. Hammond, "US Humanitarian Aid to Gaza Is a Cynical PR Ploy," Foreign Policy, March 20, 2024

Mahmoud Issa on the economic costs of the Gaza invasion

Israel's retaliation has killed more than 33,000 people, with thousands more still unrecovered in the rubble, according to Gaza health authorities. Most of the territory's 2.3 million people are now homeless.

Long blockaded by Israel, Gaza's economy had struggled for years before the current conflict, suffering one of the world's highest unemployment rates.

The economic shock inflicted by the latest war - the deadliest in decades of Israeli-Palestinian conflict - is one of the largest observed in recent history, the World Bank and the United Nations said in a recent report.

As of Jan. 31, it said, the enclave had suffered some $18.5 billion of damage to critical infrastructure - equal to 97% of the GDP in 2022 of Gaza and the West Bank, where Palestinians exercise limited self-rule under Israeli military occupation. 

~ Mahmoud Issa, "A life's work destroyed - Palestinian counts cost of Gaza war," Reuters, April 5, 2024

Palestinian owner of a mobile phone business
holds phones inside his shop which was
destroyed in an Israeli strike

Colonel Douglas Macgregor on Chuck Schumer's speech on the Gaza invasion

Cyrus Janssen: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, he did come out a couple of weeks ago and say Netanyahu is the biggest obstacle to peace in the Middle East.  He had a very powerful speech that obviously not supported by the Netanyahu regime.  He was very upset about that, immediately came out blasting him.  Of course you have some people within our Senate and our Congress who had pushed back against Schumer.  Do you think that was really the Democrats trying to somehow save some face here?  Because at one point we just passed a bill for an additional $3.8 billion to Israel and at the same standpoint we are blocking now foreign aid to the UNRWA, which is the only relief agency which actually provides humanitarian assistance to the people in Gaza...

Colonel Douglas Macgregor: Well, first of all I don't think Chuck Schumer was terribly serious about any of it.  That was sort of a smokescreen designed to give, as you say, the Democrats and President Biden some cover.  It wasn't taken seriously in Israel because they know he's not serious.  You heard him speak: "I've supported Israel all my life.  There's no one more supportive of Israel than I am.."  Effectively declaring himself an Israeli.  

~ Colonel Douglas Macgregor, interview with Cyrus Janssen, 12:20 mark, April 3, 2024

Alex Kane on the Democrat fantasy about blaming Netanyahu for the Gaza catastrophe

[Senator Chuck] Schumer’s address is the most notable of several recent public statements in which Democrats have positioned Israel’s ongoing genocidal assault on Gaza—which has killed at least 32,000 Palestinians and engineered a looming famine for over a million—as “Netanyahu’s war.” ... 

But despite Democrats’ repeated suggestion that Netanyahu is the impetus for Israel’s war, political analysts say that in reality the prime minister’s actions are in step with Israel’s political mainstream.  “Schumer is operating in this fantasy that if you get rid of Netanyahu, you might be able to get somebody else who’s more moderate who could then save the relationship between the US and Israel under the pretense of support for progressive values and democracy,” said Omar Baddar, a Palestinian American political analyst.  But this narrative ignores how Israeli politicians almost across the board agree with Israel’s conduct in Gaza, as do the majority of Israelis.  Yair Lapid, the former prime minister and head of the Israeli opposition, supports the ongoing assault, as does war cabinet member Benny Gantz, Netanyahu’s main political rival and the man who, according to polling, would become prime minister if Israel held elections today...

Instead of constituting a substantive shift in US support for Israel, experts say, Democrats’ emboldened critique of Netanyahu should be understood as an attempt to respond to growing voter frustration without changing policy, as the Biden administration remains unwilling to use US aid and arms exports to Israel as leverage to demand a change in behavior.  In this context, the choice to focus on Netanyahu “is a political decision to avoid outright criticism of Israel’s war conduct,” said Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace.  For Schumer, in particular, blaming Netanyahu as an individual was a way “to avoid the implication that he is lessening his support for the Israeli state or the Israeli people,” she said. “Instead, Schumer is focusing on a man who is unpopular among Democrats to say, ‘See, we are standing up for our values, so voters should stop being mad at us.’”

~ Alex Kane, "Chuck Schumer and Democrats’ New Line on 'Netanyahu’s War' The majority leader’s recent speech exemplifies his party’s effort to isolate Netanyahu and pacify voters without changing policy," Jewish Currents, March 26, 2024

Schumer speaks at November 14th
"March for Israel" in Washington, DC

Caitline Johnstone on Israel's targeting of hospitals in Gaza

Why would Israel want to destroy Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure?  The answer to that question has been clear for months: to make the land uninhabitable for the Palestinians.  The same reason they’re deliberately starving Gazans, destroying their homes, continually moving them from place to place and bombing every “safe zone” they create. 

This is naturally giving rise to a situation in which the inhabitants of Gaza will either die or flee to some other country — which just so happens to be exactly what Israel wants them to do. 

It’s so obvious what’s happening here.  Painfully obvious.  Poke-you-in-the-eyeballs obvious.  But we’re still subjected to a western political-media class who keeps forcefully telling us that this blatant ethnic cleansing campaign is not what it looks like.  Telling us that all this starvation and destruction and elimination of healthcare services and the way it directly places pressure on the Palestinians to leave their homeland is just a series of coincidences arising from Israel’s “war” of “defense,”  That only by pure happenstance does it look exactly the same as the advancement of an agenda that Israelis have sought to advance for generations. 

Well I personally am through with having my intelligence insulted, and I hope you are too.  The sky is blue, a spade’s a spade, the emperor has no clothes, and Israel is conducting a very obvious ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza.

~ Caitline Johnstone, "Israel's Savage Destruction Of Gaza's Healthcare System Is Exactly What It Looks Like," Caitline's Newsletter, April 1, 2024

The Economist on the failure of Israel's invasion of Gaza

If you are a friend of Israel this is a deeply uncomfortable moment.  In October it launched a justified war of self-defence against Hamas, whose terrorists had committed atrocities that threaten the idea of Israel as a land where Jews are safe.  Today Israel has destroyed perhaps half of Hamas’s forces.  But in important ways its mission has failed. 

First, in Gaza, where its reluctance to help provide or distribute aid has led to an avoidable humanitarian catastrophe, and where the civilian toll from the war is over 20,000 and growing.  The hard-right government of Binyamin Netanyahu has rejected plans for post-war Gaza to be run by either the Palestinian Authority (pa) or an international force.  The likeliest outcome is a military reoccupation.  If you add the West Bank, Israel could permanently hold sway over 4m-5m Palestinians.

Israel has also failed at home.  The problems go deeper than Mr Netanyahu’s dire leadership.  A growing settler movement and ultra-Orthodox population have tilted politics to the right and polarised society.  Before October 7th this was visible in a struggle over judicial independence.  The war has raised the stakes, and although the hard-right parties of the coalition are excluded from the war cabinet they have compromised Israel’s national interest by using incendiary rhetoric, stoking settler violence and trying to sabotage aid and post-war planning.  Israel’s security establishment is capable and pragmatic, but no longer fully in charge. 

Israel’s final failure is clumsy diplomacy.  Fury at the war was inevitable, especially in the global south, but Israel has done a poor job of countering it.  “Lawfare”, including spurious genocide allegations, is damaging its reputation.  Young Americans sympathise with it less than their parents do.  President Joe Biden has tried to restrain Mr Netanyahu’s government by publicly embracing it, but failed.  On March 14th Chuck Schumer, Israel’s greatest ally in the Senate, decried Hamas’s atrocities but said Israel’s leader was “lost”.

It is a bleak picture that is not always acknowledged in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv. Mr Netanyahu talks of invading Rafah, Hamas’s last redoubt, while the hard right fantasises about resettling Gaza. Many mainstream Israelis are deluding themselves, too. They believe the unique threats to Israel justify its ruthlessness and that the war has helped restore deterrence. Gaza shows that if you murder Israelis, destruction beckons. Many see no partner for peace—the pa is rotten and polls say 93% of Palestinians deny Hamas’s atrocities even took place. Occupation is the least-bad option, they conclude. Israelis would prefer to be popular abroad, but condemnation and antisemitism are a small price to pay for security. As for America, it has been angry before. The relationship is not about to rupture. If Donald Trump returns he may once again give Israel a free pass. 

This seductive story is a manifesto for disaster.

~ "At a moment of military might, Israel looks deeply vulnerable," The Economist, March 23, 2024

Charles Schumer on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and a two-state solution

Gaza is experiencing a humanitarian catastrophe.  Entire families wiped out, whole neighborhoods reduced to rubble, mass displacement, children suffering.  We should not let the complexities of this conflict stop us from stating the plain truth: Palestinian civilians do not deserve to suffer for the sins of Hamas and Israel has a moral obligation to do better.  The United States has an obligation to do better.  I believe the United States must provide robust humanitarian aid to Gaza and pressure the Israelis to let more of it get through to the people who need it.  

Jewish people throughout the centuries have empathized with those who are suffering and who are oppressed because we have known so much of that ourselves.  As the Torah teaches us, every human life is precious.  Every single innocent life lost, whether Israeli or Palestinian, is a tragedy, as the scripture says, "destroys an entire world."  What horrifies so many Jews, especially, is our sense that Israel is falling short of upholding these distinctly Jewish values that we hold so dear.  We must be better than our enemies lest we become them.

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And now, as a result of those inflamed tensions in both Israeli and Palestinian communities, people on all sides of this war are turning away from the two-state solution, including Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who in recent weeks has said out loud repeatedly what many have long suspected by outright rejecting the idea of Palestinian statehood and sovereignty.  As the highest ranking Jewish elected official in our government and as a staunch defender of Israel, I rise today to say unequivocally: this is a grave mistake, for Israel, for Palestinians, for the region and for the world.  The only real and sustainable solution to this decades-old conflict is a negotiated two-state solution, a demilitarized Palestinian state living side-by-side with Israel in equal measures of peace, security, prosperity, dignity and mutual recognition.

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Jews have a human right to their own state just as any other people do, Palestinians included.  As I have said, there are also some Israelis who oppose even a two-state solution with a demilitarized Palestinian state because they fear that it might tolerate or be a harbor for further terrorism against the Jewish state.  I understand these fears, but the bitter reality is that a single state, controlled by Israel, which they advocate, guarantees certain war forever and further isolation of the Jewish community in the world to the extent that its future would be jeopardized.  Let me elaborate.  They say the definition on insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.  If Israel were to not only maintain the status quo, but to go beyond that and tighten its control over Gaza and the West Bank, as some in the Netanyahu administration have suggested, in effect creating a de facto single state, then what reasonable expectation can we have that Hamas and their allies will lay down their arms?  It would mean constant war.  On top of that, Israel moving closer to a single state entirely under its control would further rupture its relationship with the rest of the world, including the United States.  Support for Israel has declined worldwide in the last few months, and this trend will only get worse if the Israeli government continues down its current path.

~ Sen. Charles Schumer, speech before Senate, March 14, 2024

The Jerusalem Post: Israeli environmentalists shocked by Greta Thunberg's position on Gaza

More than 100 Israeli environmental leaders and activists have sent a letter to Greta Thunberg after she posted a pro-Hamas thread on X, formerly known as Twitter. 

Today we strike in solidarity with Palestine and Gaza.  The world needs to speak up and call for an immediate ceasefire, justice and freedom for Palestinians and all civilians affected. 

Israel’s environmental leaders told her over the weekend that they are “deeply hurt, shocked and disappointed with your tweets and posts regarding Gaza, which are appallingly one-sided, ill-informed, superficial and are in complete contrast to your ability to deep dive into details and get to the bottom of complex issues.”

They accused Thunberg of “[taking] sides with terrorists, with the worst and darkest representatives of humans, and plainly - with the wrong side of history.” 

The letter was spearheaded by Rony Bruell, founder of the Israeli Forum of Women in the Environment. In just a few hours, Bruell captured more than 200 signatures from like-minded individuals nationwide, many in top roles at their institutions.

~ Maayan Jaffe Hoffman, "Israel environmentalists slam Greta Thunberg for ‘Stand with Gaza’ post," The Jerusalem Post, October 21, 2023

The Education Ministry has said it will remove any reference to climate activist Greta Thunberg after she published a post over the weekend holding an anti-Israel sign reading "stand with Gaza."

~ Maayan Jaffe Hoffman, "Israel removes Greta Thunberg from school curriculum over anti-Israel post," The Jerusalem Post, October 22, 2023