James Bond 26, or Bond 26 as
it’s more commonly known, still remains an absolute mystery to the
world at large. Though we do have some inklings of what to expect in
some cases, and hunches on who’ll be cast, in the upcoming continuation
of the James Bond movie legacy.
But that’s kind of part of the fun when it comes to anticipating something as exciting as the first film in the era succeeding Daniel Craig’s James Bond. So join us as we get shakin’, not stirred, over what Bond 26 has
in store for the world! But be sure to check back here often, as the
upcoming James Bond movie could change course at any given moment.
Interestingly enough, 2027 is a particular threshold to keep in mind. That’s because if Bond 26 is
released after that year passes, it’ll officially be the longest delay
between James Bond movies. That honor is currently held by the roughly
six years between both License to Kill and Goldeneye, as well as Spectre and No Time To Die.
No Time to Die had its world premiere at the Royal Albert Hall in
London on 28 September 2021, and was released in cinemas on 30
September 2021 in the UK and on 8 October 2021 in the US in 2D, RealD 3D, 4DX, ScreenX, Dolby Cinema and IMAX.[175][176] The
film also opened the same week in September in South Korea and the
following week in October in Brazil, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy,
the Netherlands and Russia. China and Australia would see the release
later in October and November 2021. The film had the highest box office
opening weekend takings in the UK for any Bond feature.[177][178]
No Time to Die was
originally scheduled for release in November 2019, but was postponed to
February 2020 and then to April 2020 after Boyle's departure.[53][60][g] The premiere in China and a countrywide publicity tour, planned for April 2020, were cancelled due to the early outbreak of COVID-19 in the country.[181] By March 2020, the global spread of the virus and the declaration of a pandemic by the World Health Organization prompted a joint open letter from two Bond fan sites addressed
to the producers. The letter asked that the release be delayed to
minimise the risk of spreading the disease and to ensure the film's
commercial success.[182][183] On
4 March 2020, MGM and Eon Productions announced that after "thorough
evaluation of the global theatrical marketplace" they had postponed the
release until 12 November 2020 in the UK and 25 November 2020 in the US.[184][185][h] No Time to Die was the first major film affected by the pandemic.[179] According to Deadline Hollywood,
MGM and Universal needed to assure a strong performance across all
international markets. It was hoped that the rescheduling to November
would ensure all cinemas, particularly those in China, South Korea,
Japan, Italy, and France that were closed due to the pandemic, would be
open and operational.[179]
Let me wind down with a ranking of my own. My pick for Martin Scorsese's top ten films.
10) BOXCAR BERTHA
9) THE DEPARTED
8) NEW YORK NEW YORK
7) THE KING OF COMEDY
6) THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
5) ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
4) CAPE FEAR
3) THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
2) AFTER HOURS
1) GOODFELLAS
Okay,
GOODFELLAS has to be number one. It's his greatest film. I will argue
the rankins from number eight to number two with you. But I think
eight to two are really strong films and I could understand someone else
wanting to juggle the choices. Nine is the last film he's done that's
impressed me and made me feel alive. His Leo films are more tired and
sad than anything else.
I
don't include the bad films on the list and he has a lot of bad films.
That includes CASINO which sorely needed to lose at least forty minutes
of footage.
Going out with C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"
Wednesday, July 24, 2024. Jill Stein has her Joe Biden moment in
an interview that should alarm everyone (not just the Green Party), CNN
says it practices journalism -- says that anyway, polio concerns grow in
Gaza and much more.
Did
you see that hideous Jill Stein on Jordan Chariton's equally hideous
STATUS QUO yesterday? Jordan was sputtering away about the DNC
convention and the delegates and the vote and offering, "It's been
cancelled. They can say there's going to be an open convention but I
haven't seen anything like this --" Well whores gotta whore and whore
gotta eat and Jordan will put his mouth around anything.
Which
is how you got him presenting Jill as the Green Party's presidential
nominee despite the fact that the party has no nominee until their
convention in August.
Yes, that's right. He's
slamming the Democratic Party and their process while he advances a
tired old liar who is not yet the nominee for her party.
Whore's gotta whore and Jordan and Jill were giving a 2-for-1 special.
"It
looks like the anti-democratic party is doubling down on its
ant-democratic [. . .]" 74 year old Jill Stein croaked out. Explaining
-- as she launched one attack after another in an 27 minute segment why
she never gets anywhere and why her party never does -- Bitchy is not a
campaign platform. Trying to woo potential voters, Jill spent 27
minutes offering nothing -- but that's all she's ever offered: Nothing.
While
America was looking elsewhere in the fall of 2012, Barack Obama was
running for re-election on delivering his promise to get US troops out
of Iraq when, in fact, he was actually sending US troops back in and
then Tim Arango (NYT) reports on that reality and 'anti-war' Jill says .
. . nothing.
For those who don't know, she was
the Green Party's 2012 presidential nominee -- and refused to raise the
issue of the Iraq War -- and she was the same party's 2016 nominee.
Eight years later, she's pushing to be the nominee again.
She
wants to talk about undemocratic? Her entire public life has been
about destroying democracy and how sad for The Green Party that they're
about to stand on the national stage and say: We got nothing.
That's what her becoming the nominee of the party will say.
It'll
also say: We hate young people, we use them for our volunteers as
unpaid workers but Kat Swfit and the younger Greens are never going to
stand a chance at being presidential nominees because we are the true
party of failed vision and gerontocracy.
.
Jill
really turned on the bitchy and racism because that is Jill Stein.
This is known within the Green Party, by the way. She is a racist and
she is a bitch. But on the show she attacked Kamala and wanted to talk
about the votes Kamala got during the 2019 to 2020 race for the
Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
Hmm.
Long before Jill was failing as a candidate for president, she failed as a candidate for other offices.
In 2002, she ran for office and lost. In 2004, she
ran for office and lost. We'll skip her Town Meeting 'credentials' and
move on to her run for governor 2002 where, yes, she lost. In 2006,
she ran for Secretary of the Common Wealth and . . . she . . . lost.
2010 found her again running for governor and again losting -- distant
fourth place. 2012 found her running for president of the United States
because five losing races in a row screams "I can do the job!" and
besides serial plagiarist Chris Hedges endorsed her. Maybe that
endorsement is why she lost? In 2016, she again ran for president
because, well, honestly, she didn't have anything else to do -- or
anything else to do with her pathetic life. She lost again.
For
some perspective, in 2000, Ralph Nader was the Green Party's
presidential candidate and received 2,882,955 votes. The best Jill's
ever done was in the 2016 with 1,457,216.
That's bad but for those who don't really get it, population increases
(except in war torn countries). In 2000, there were 209.1 million US
adults but in 2016, the figure rose to 249, 372,462. That was forty
million more adults -- forty million more voters -- that a real
candidate could have picked up. Sloppy Jill didn't though. She's never
been able to match -- let alone exceed -- the number of voters Ralph
Nader won.
She's just that pathetic and just that awful.
But, hey, waste everyone's time and make her the presidential nominee for the third time.
Unlike
Jill - -the wacko doctor that preached the anti-vaccine screed until it
became a media liability for her -- Kamala held office. Kamala won
elections.
In 2003, she won the election for
San Francisco District Attorney. In 2010? Elected Attorney General of
California and re-elected in 2014. 2016 saw her elected to the US
Senate. 2020's election resulted in her becoming the vice president of
the United States.
See, unlike Jill, Kamala is electable.
It must be sad for Jill that the only slugline by her name is "Putin's pal." Where there are butchers, there is Jill Stein.
She
snarled -- Jill, check and see if you've had an early stroke, "What
does it say about the Democratic Party that they best they can do is Joe
Biden or Kamala Harris?"
I think that's the question for your party: What does it say about the Green Party that they keep making you their nominee.
You're 74 years old, grandma, shouldn't you have retired long, long ago.
Her
mind says she's already sitting on the porch in her rocker which
explains her speaking of Ralph Nader running for president and Democrats
challenging him in court "in I think it was the 2004 or 2006 election
to deplete his resources."
You think it was 2004 or 2006?
Ralph
Nader ran for president. There was no 2006 presidential election. We
all question your sanity and your slide into senility unless this is
just another lie form you, Jill
She
insists the Democrats are bad and "tying us up with trivia." Isn't it
always great to hear a whore talk? That's not trivia, dear, they're
called laws.
She could have dedicated her many
failed runs for office to the issue of ballot access but that wouldn't
let her whine about what the Democrats are doing.
Here's
the reality on that: She benefits from it. The Republicans back her
campaign. They give money to it because the hope is that, as in 2016,
she'll get just enough votes to help a Republican into the White House.
And while she whines about herself and her friend Robert Kennedy
Junior, the reality is it's Republican Party money that's keeping both
campaigns afloat. They're non-starters and two losers, but thanks to
the Republican Party, they can pretend they're real candidates.
The
Democrats are not inventing rules and regulations to apply to you,
Jill, they're insisting that you abide by the legal requirements in
place.
Boo-hoo that you can't. Boo-hoo that
you hired people to, for example, gather signatures and because they're
hired that don't do the quality of work that actual volunteers would do
for you.
I believe in ranked choice voting.
Maybe Jill should have spent the last 20 or so years working on that
issue. Wouldn't have gotten her into elected office, no, but none of
her campaigns for elected office got her into office either.
Not
being able to make the ballot because you didn't abide by the rules is
not "authoritarianism" or "fascism" and you look like an idiot when you
claim otherwise. Around the world, real people struggle with fascist
regimes and authoritarian ones and your whines come off as ridiculous
and fake as everything else that has ever come out of your damn mouth.
She
then made it worse. Challenging her petition signatures or other
requirements? Jill informed, "This is as bad as Trump undermining the
balance of power after the election."
Donald
Trump led a failed coup, a violent coup, against the United States and
Jill wants to say that legal challenges are "as bad"?
She
showed further stupidity by claiming the US could do what France just
did. No, that's not possible because the US doesn't have the French
parliament system. She's an idiot and that is her Joe Biden moment by
the way, she's visibly stressed trying to come up with the term "united
front" and she scratching her face in panic and doing something weird
with her eyes and then trying to recover from her senility slip by
mumbling, "There's a member of -- a former member of the Panthers.
Dhoruba -- I forget his last name."
Of course you do, White Karen, of course you do.
I
believe she's speaking of Dhoruba al-Mujahid bin Wahad. But who
knows? This was her Joe Biden moment and she looked as old and senile
as she could.
She says Donald Trump and Kamala
Harris are the same. And then she slips into another Joe moment where
not only does she stumble over words, she also has we
Kamala
Harris, the genocider, the uhm cop uh protector uhm you know the uh
the uh mmmmh censorship advocate, the assault on our civil liberties.
Everything, you know. Whether it's Kamala Harris leading the charge
here or Donald Trump, in my view, it's not much different. I see this
very much as uhm Malcom X described it, you know, with the wolf at
least, uh -- No, I'm sorry the wolf -- the wolf -- it can be hard to
read uhm [long pause while she looks to her right}. No, I have it
backwards.
You have so much backwards, Jill, so much.
If
you're not getting how senile Jill has become. Seconds later, she will
speak of this November's election and declare the need to fight them
"remembering this is a three-way race among genociders. You have RFK,
Trump and Biden who are all leading the charge for genocide."
Uhm, no.
Someone
call from granny's nurse. She thinks RFK is in the race. RFK died,
granny Jill, sixty years ago. Junior is the one running. As for
Biden? Joe dropped out Sunday. So you've lost your long term memory
and your short term memory both.
And don't
claim it was a one time slip. Seconds later she repeated this
nonsense, "We have two greater evil choices or rather three. Three
greater evil choices between RFK, Trump and Biden."
If
they nominate her next month, the Green Party is over as a political
party but they can certainly continue as a comedy improv troupe.
She
also attacked Cornel West and that was what I was planning to write
about when I streamed the video last night; however, this morning, as
I'm dictating the snapshot, the things above are what come back to me.
Cornel
is a real candidate. Jill is not. She liked Cornel when she planned
to control him. Cornel thought she was a friend. Realizing the truth
about her was hard for Cornel because he's too trusting. But it was a
learning experience for him and he's a better candidate for it. She
wants him to drop out but won't call for that because she doesn't
believe in making that call, she says. Then she whines, "Would you
please think strategically here and take a look at France and see how we
beat back the fascist chance."
Again, that's not how it works in the US. She's an idiot and she's senile.
Let's change topics, I'm sick of that useless liar.
Okay,
An
author whose novel about book banning was removed from a Florida school
district’s library shelves has asked the school board to reinstate his
book, saying that its removal is “erasure of the highest order.”
Alan Gratz, author of “Ban This Book,”
said in a letter read during the Indian River County school board
meeting Monday night and obtained by CNN he was “disappointed” by the
book’s removal. The school district’s decision to disregard a local
review committee’s earlier recommendation to keep it on library shelves
indicates it was “motivated by politics, and not what is best for the
students and families,” Gratz also wrote.
I
understand what Alan Gratz is stating. And I believe him. The record
supports his claim. But CNN's report doesn't. Apparently, CNN is no
longer doing journalism and that's how we get garbage like this:
In
February, the chair of the county Moms for Liberty chapter submitted a
challenge of Gratz’s book to the district’s book objection committee,
claiming the novel “depicts or describes sexual conduct.” The chapter
president, Jennifer Pippin, also told CNN she challenged the book
because “basically it’s promoting banned books to children ages 4-12.”
The
committee reviewed the book and voted in April to keep it on school
library shelves, but the Indian River County school board in May voted
3-2 to remove the book from school libraries, agreeing with Pippin that
the book was inappropriate.
Jacqueline
Rosario, another school board member, said the decision to remove the
book “had nothing to do with politics” but “everything to do with what
was appropriate.”
“We
have the legal right. Each district school board is responsible for the
content of all – not some – all instructional materials and any other
material used in a classroom made available in a school or in a
classroom library,” she said, citing a Florida statute.
“At the end of the day, it is the board’s responsibility that if any of
these items are included … it is up to this board to take final action
and vote. And we did.”
See
the problem? Moms For Bigotry are banning books. And who is
this Jacqueline Rosario? Why she's a Moms For Bigotry quota. Ray McNulty (VERO NEWS) explains what CNN couldn't or wouldn't:
Hours
after Rosario received her education on the bylaws, she was at it
again, this time putting on another clown show for her friends in the
local chapter of the Moms For Liberty, the uber-conservative group that
pretends to advocate nationally for parental rights and endorsed her
candidacy in the 2022 election.
Rosario,
for no good reason, pelted Moore with a series of questions – about the
district’s planned implementation of the new state-approved
“African-American history standards,” the Moms’ influence on the
curriculum, and banning books that contain critical race theory – that
nobody should’ve taken seriously.
There’s little doubt Rosario already knew the answers.
Moore,
at best, appeared to tolerate the snarky tone and ridiculous content of
her disrespectful barrage. He should’ve walked out.
That
shameful scene, though, provided all the evidence needed to prove
Rosario isn’t worthy of any leadership role on the board. And we’ve seen
such boorish behavior before from her.
Don’t take my word for it.
Mara
Schiff, who served on the board for four years before opting to not
seek re-election in 2022, stated that she “never” considered voting for
Rosario for chair during her term.
In
an email sent in response to a request for comment from Vero Beach
32963, Schiff wrote of Rosario: “Her capacity to disrupt board
processes, interfere with the work of the superintendent, misunderstand
her role as a board member, and presume to act as a de facto legal
counsel is a recipe for perpetual board dysfunction.
“Moreover,
Mrs. Rosario caters to special political and religious interests at the
expense of other community voices,” she added. “The chair’s job is to
maintain a cohesive nonpartisan board, working together with the
superintendent, as a policy governance team serving the interests of the
Indian River County community, the school district, the staff and, most
of all, the students.
So
Moms for Bigotry attacked the writer's book and pushed to have it
removed and then you're quoting a council member but forgetting to note
that she plays a clown for Moms For Bigotry and that she is endorsed by
them and works with them and . . .
Let's look at what CNN published one more time:
Jacqueline
Rosario, another school board member, said the decision to remove the
book “had nothing to do with politics” but “everything to do with what
was appropriate.”
“We
have the legal right. Each district school board is responsible for the
content of all – not some – all instructional materials and any other
material used in a classroom made available in a school or in a
classroom library,” she said, citing a Florida statute.
“At the end of the day, it is the board’s responsibility that if any of
these items are included … it is up to this board to take final action
and vote. And we did.”
That
is what she said. That is not what she is. CNN should have reported
her connection to Moms For Bigotry and the fact that 2024's biggest
political failure Ron DeSantis endorsed her. Instead, they leave out
pertinent information which makes it appear that it's a he-said-she-said
and who can ever know what's actually going on? They do that by hiding her actual record.
That's not journalism.
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González.
Israel’s military says it’s begun vaccinating its soldiers against
polio after the paralytic virus was found in a number of wastewater
samples in Gaza. The World Health Organization warns the risk of further
spread remains high while Gaza’s children go unvaccinated during
Israel’s assault, which has devastated Gaza’s water and sanitation
infrastructure. Public health officials have called it a major setback
for global efforts to eradicate polio.
For more, we’re joined in Be’er Sheva in Israel by Dr. Dorit Nitzan,
professor and director of the masters program in emergency
medicine-preparedness and response at Ben-Gurion University. She’s also
the former regional emergency director for the World Health
Organization’s European office. She co-authored a piece by eight Israeli doctors in Haaretz on Sunday headlined “Cease-fire. The Only Way to Prevent a Polio Epidemic Among Gazan and Israeli Babies.”
Thank you so much for being with us, Doctor. If you can start off by
explaining what the situation is in Gaza right now and what you’re
calling for?
DR. DORIT NITZAN: Thank you very much. And really, thank you for paying attention to this important public health risk and issue.
In Gaza now, we don’t — we are not there, and it’s hard for us to
imagine what both babies, newborn babies, their mothers, kids are going
through. But what we know is that sewage samples that arrived to Israel,
collected in Gaza for analysis, revealed the existence of a
vaccine-derived polio there. And this is something that is expected in
such conditions.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And,
Doctor, could you talk about what that potentially means, especially
given the fact that infected individuals can show no symptoms for weeks?
DR. DORIT NITZAN:
Yes. So, right now we don’t know — fortunately, we don’t know of any
polio patients in Gaza. But we anticipate that it will come. We know
that behind each polio patient, there are about hundred and more people
that are not symptomatic, meaning that it takes time for the symptoms to
appear. This sewage system is a very good, sensitive marker for that.
So, knowing that it is there and it might appear, then the circumstances
and the conditions of the healthcare, the health services is so bad
that we are really, really worried for these kids.
AMY GOODMAN:
Dr. Dorit Nitzan, the Israeli government has begun a major vaccination
campaign for Israeli soldiers. They say there are some vaccines
available for Palestinians, but throughout Gaza, hospitals have been
destroyed, have been bombed. The healthcare system is in shambles. Talk
about why you say that the prescription right now for what’s happening
is a ceasefire.
DR. DORIT NITZAN:
Yeah, the prescription is ceasefire, vaccines and good public health
conditions. This is — you know, it’s a full prescription that comes in.
What we know, that for the past 20 years, with Israel’s support, Gaza
and the West Bank have succeeded very high rates of vaccinations,
including for polio. So, the older kids should be OK. Those who were
born just before October 7th and after are at risk. And for that,
ceasefire is needed, because we need to get — the humanitarian workers,
the health workers, the nurses need to get to each and every baby and
each and every adult that has not been vaccinated in the past, and
vaccinate them. And that should be done under secure conditions. It
cannot be done under war.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And you
mentioned other global conflicts that have demonstrated the potential
for the spread of polio. Can you talk about some of those conflicts that
have occurred?
DR. DORIT NITZAN:
Yes. We know that in every country where there is a conflict, there is a
risk for outbreaks, including polio, cholera, other foodborne diseases,
respiratory diseases, as well as exposure to chemicals and others. But
polio is one of them. And we saw it in Ukraine, in Ethiopia and in many
other countries, in Syria, etc. We know that the viruses and the
bacteria and the toxic materials know no borders, and they actually go
across borders, as we saw in Iraq from Syria, etc. Therefore, it’s not
only the kids in Gaza. It’s also the Israelis. And it is important to
vaccinate the kids as soon as possible, those who are exposed to them,
the humanitarian workforce, the health workforce in Gaza and here in
Israel.
AMY GOODMAN:
As we wrap up, Dr. Nitzan, as you know, your prime minister is in the
United States. He’s going to give an address, joint session of the U.S.
Congress. And I’m sure you follow the politics here. Now Kamala Harris
is the presumptive Democratic nominee for president. Your message to her
and to him?
DR. DORIT NITZAN:
Yes, my message is to go beyond politics. We do understand that there
are deep, deep divides here. The 7th of October was terrible, and I do
understand. Right now we do not want to risk the kids on both sides and
in every place, in any place. We want to take a break and stop it and
make sure that every child has access to the vaccines.
AMY GOODMAN:
Dr. Dorit Nitzan, we want to thank you for being with us, director of
the masters program in emergency medicine-preparedness and response at
Ben-Gurion University, former regional emergency director for the World
Health Organization’s European office. We’ll link to the article
you co-wrote with a number of Israeli doctors headlined “Cease-fire.
The Only Way to Prevent a Polio Epidemic Among Gazan and Israeli
Babies.”
'
The clock had not yet struck
midnight on October 9, when Said Al-Taweel fell into a deep sleep in his
office in al-Ghefari Tower, Gaza City’s tallest building. Alaa Abu
Mohsen, Al-Taweel’s colleague, heard him snoring.
It was the early days of Israel’s war on Gaza, and Al-Taweel wasn’t
getting much sleep. Neither, for that matter, was Abu Mohsen.
Al-Taweel, the 37-year-old editor-in-chief of Khamsa News Agency, had
been more or less living in his high-rise office, working constantly,
late into the night, to cover the Israeli onslaught.
More than an hour after Al-Taweel drifted off to sleep, sometime
after 1 a.m., word began to spread that Haji Tower, another high-rise
near the al-Ghefari building, was going to be attacked by the Israelis.
Haji Tower is home to local and international media offices, including
Agence France-Presse. The rush of people leaving the 12-story tower came
after an Israeli military officer spoke by phone to at least four
people to order the evacuation of Haji Tower, according to the accounts
of two direct recipients of warnings as well as video of a call.
As people streaming from the building scrambled to get into their
cars and flee, several of the journalists in the area instead drew
nearer to Haji Tower. They wanted to get the story: An Israeli attack on
a building known to house so many reporters would resonate
internationally.
Abu Mohsen had by then drifted off to sleep himself and, when he
awoke, he didn’t see Al-Taweel, he later recalled. He glanced at his
phone. He had missed two calls from Al-Taweel. “I’ll see him
downstairs,” Abu Mohsen thought to himself, resolving to go down to
check things out at street level.
Though many Israeli attacks come unannounced, the military also
sometimes issues warnings before striking buildings where civilians
could be present. In the early hours of October 10, such a warning was
issued, but what unfolded nonetheless proved tragic.
When the airstrike finally came, it did not hit al-Ghefari nor Haji
Tower. Instead, it destroyed a third structure: a six-story residential
building called Babel that lay directly on the road between the two
towers. As Babel collapsed into rubble, at least nine people were
killed, including three journalists who had moved into the building’s
vicinity to report on Haji Tower from a safe distance.
“The bodies of the journalists flew into the air from the intensity
of the bombing,” said Mansour Khalaf, the owner of Babel, who witnessed
the attack from the street.
In a written statement, the Israeli military said that, on October
10, a “facility” used by a senior Hamas member was targeted “in the area
in question.” It had issued “a warning to residents of the building and
the area to evacuate,” the military spokesperson said. “Any claim that
the IDF led people to evacuate to a strike zone is baseless and absurd.”
The statement said that the case is being investigated.
International humanitarian law encourages armed forces to provide
advance warnings prior to an attack when circumstances permit, but the
warnings must be “effective.” In the Babel building attack, the call
contained false information.
The following minute-by-minute account of the airstrike — based on
analysis of videos, audio recordings, and photographs from the attack
and its aftermath — is part of the monthslong investigation by Arab
Reporters for Investigative Journalism. The investigation is being
published in partnership with The Intercept as part of the Gaza Project,
a collaboration of 50 journalists from 13 media organizations
coordinated by Forbidden Stories to investigate attacks on journalists
in Gaza.
Gaza remains under assault. Day 292 of the assault in the wave that began in October. Binoy Kampmark (DISSIDENT VOICE) points out, "Bloodletting as form; murder as fashion. The ongoing campaign in Gaza
by Israel’s Defence Forces continues without stalling and restriction.
But the burgeoning number of corpses is starting to become a challenge
for the propaganda outlets: How to justify it? Fortunately for Israel,
the United States, its unqualified defender, is happy to provide cover
for murder covered in the sheath of self-defence." CNN has explained, "The Gaza Strip is 'the most dangerous place' in the world to be a child, according to the executive director of the United Nations Children's Fund." ABC NEWS quotes UNICEF's December 9th statement, ""The Gaza Strip is the most dangerous place in the world to be a child.
Scores of children are reportedly being killed and injured on a daily
basis. Entire neighborhoods, where children used to play and go to
school have been turned into stacks of rubble, with no life in them." NBC NEWS notes, "Strong majorities of all voters in the U.S. disapprove of President Joe
Biden’s handling of foreign policy and the Israel-Hamas war, according to the latest national NBC News poll.
The erosion is most pronounced among Democrats, a majority of whom
believe Israel has gone too far in its military action in Gaza." The
slaughter continues. It has displaced over 1 million people per the US
Congressional Research Service. Jessica Corbett (COMMON DREAMS) points out, "Academics and legal experts around the world, including Holocaust scholars, have condemned
the six-week Israeli assault of Gaza as genocide." The death toll of
Palestinians in Gaza is grows higher and higher. United Nations Women noted,
"More than
1.9 million people -- 85 per cent of the total population of Gaza --
have
been displaced, including what UN Women estimates to be nearly 1 million
women and girls. The entire population of Gaza -- roughly 2.2 million
people -- are in crisis levels of acute food insecurity or worse." THE NATIONAL notes, "Gaza death toll reaches 39,145 with 90,257 wounded." Months
ago, AP noted, "About 4,000 people are reported missing." February 7th, Jeremy Scahill explained
on DEMOCRACY NOW! that "there’s an estimated 7,000 or 8,000
Palestinians missing, many of them in graves that are the rubble of
their former home." February 5th, the United Nations' Phillipe
Lazzarini Tweeted:
April 11th, Sharon Zhang (TRUTHOUT) reported, "In addition to the over 34,000 Palestinians who have been counted as
killed in Israel’s genocidal assault so far, there are 13,000
Palestinians in Gaza who are missing, a humanitarian aid group has
estimated, either buried in rubble or mass graves or disappeared into
Israeli prisons. In a report released Thursday, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
said that the estimate is based on initial reports and that the actual number of people missing is likely even higher."
As for the area itself?
Isabele Debre (AP) reveals, "Israel’s
military offensive
has turned much of northern Gaza into an uninhabitable moonscape. Whole
neighborhoods have been erased. Homes, schools and hospitals have been
blasted by airstrikes and scorched by tank fire. Some buildings are
still standing, but most are battered shells."
Kieron Monks (I NEWS) reports, "More than 40 per cent of the buildings in northern Gaza have been damaged or destroyed, according to a
new study of satellite imagery
by US researchers Jamon Van Den Hoek from Oregon State University and
Corey Scher at the City University of New York. The UN gave a figure of
45 per cent of housing
destroyed or damaged across the strip in less than six weeks. The rate
of destruction is among the highest of any conflict since the Second
World War."
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