Netanyahu's rule in Gaza has been disastrous for both Arabs and Israelis. War in Gaza has plunged Israel’s tourism industry into a crisis it will struggle to recover from Published: May 7, 2024 10.51pm AEST https://theconversation.com/war-in-...risis-it-will-struggle-to-recover-from-229151 .....There will eventually exist a tourist audience in the future. But the receptiveness of this audience to a Zionist narrative is questionable. International supporters of Israel are becoming aware of the violent settler-colonial aspect of Zionism. Many are being swayed to support Palestine along with vast swaths of the global population who had never spared a thought for Israel or Palestine before October. And the average tourist or pilgrim is now aware of the propagandist language and framing of narrative that previously they would have accepted at face value and never questioned. The global surge of support for Palestinians may transition to these people wishing to visit and meet them to show solidarity and witness the suffering and oppression with their own eyes. Israel has effectively destroyed one of its historically most effective tools in the continuation of its settler project by destroying Gaza for the world to see.
Keep up the trolling propaganda. Israel, always the victim. Why is there such a word antisemitism and anti-american?
Fact check: $50 million for condoms in Gaza? Five big reasons to be skeptical Trump’s story is true By Daniel Dale, Alex Marquardt and Jennifer Hansler, CNN Wed January 29, 2025 https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/29/politics/gaza-condoms-fact-check/index.html White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds her first news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Tuesday in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Washington CNN — During her first official White House briefing as President Donald Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt announced thatTrump had prevented a “preposterous waste of taxpayer money.” Trump’s team, she said, used the president’s pause on foreign aid to thwart a plan in which “there was about to be $50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza.” Leavitt’s Tuesday comments made headlines around the world. And the president himself told an even more dramatic version of the story in a speech on Wednesday, saying that “we identified and stopped $50 million being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas.” But there are at least five big reasons to be skeptical that the story is true. The White House offered no evidence for the story: Leavitt provided no proof for her claim that there was ever a federal plan to spend $50 million on condoms in Gaza. In three previous years under Biden, USAID spent no money on condoms in the entire Middle East: A detailed federal report published last year said USAID did not provide or fund any condoms in the Middle Eastin the 2021, 2022 and 2023 fiscal years. Total worldwide USAID condom spending is far less than $50 million: In the 2023 fiscal year, USAID provided or funded a global total of about $7.1 million worth of male condoms and about $1.1 million worth of female condoms, overwhelmingly to countries in Africa, according to the federal report. A former senior Biden official who worked on Gaza aid issues told CNN that Leavitt’s story about a $50 million condom expenditure for Gaza was “imaginary.” The former official said: “It’s a lie, they are making s*** up.” Matthew Kavanagh, director of Georgetown University’s Center for Global Health Policy and Politics, said that after doing some digging into Leavitt’s claim, “It seems clear to me there was no $50 million in condoms going to Gaza. That is, at best, a mischaracterization.” And Jeremy Konyndyk, president of the advocacy organization Refugees International and a USAID official during the Biden and Obama administrations, said, “This is total garbage. Either fully invented, or someone who doesn’t know how to read a spreadsheet.”
A good start to Catholic Karoline Leavitt's career on her first official White House briefing as President Donald Trump’s press secretary, talking bullshit.
Coming soon... American military contractors in Gaza. You know this is going to turn out to be a mess. Gaza checkpoint to be staffed by scores of armed American contractors https://www.reuters.com/world/inside-us-security-firms-risky-gaza-mission-2025-01-30/
Bye Bye UNRWA... Don't let the door... Israel says UN aid agency UNRWA 'riddled' with Hamas operatives Israel alleged on Wednesday that the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) is full of Hamas operatives and reaffirmed its commitment to end ties with the agency this week. https://www.france24.com/en/live-ne...id-agency-unrwa-riddled-with-hamas-operatives
Welcome, step right in the pig pen. Not that many years ago; "we need to get out of Afghanistan, we need to get out of forever wars". Somehow Israel is different. Oh I forgot, b'jezus lives there.