Pro-Palestinian Demonstration
26Apr2024
Our usual line-up on the sidewalk in front of Senator Fetterman's
office.
The Friday@Fetterman's group has a website here.
There was indeed some civil disobedience on April 11th that resulted in
a dozen arrests. There
were about 50 people in the demonstration as a whole, but only a
dozen were arested fo their action.
All aound the country,collge students are protesting. Why?
Bayreuth,
Germany (Special to Informed Comment- Feature) – Lisa Hajjar has
compared what is happening in Gaza to the Killing Fields of Cambodia.
Yet where she argues that “Unlike the Khmer Rouge, the Israeli
government’s exterminationist policy is not fueled by an ideological
vision to remake Gaza anew. Total destruction is the goal.”
Al
Jazeera:
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Northern Gaza is now experiencing “full-blown famine”, the head of the
UN World Food Programme says, as Israel continues to restrict the flow
of humanitarian aid.
In other words, where Israeli troops have already passed and areas are
allegedly pacified and free of Hamas, residents still can't get adequae food!
On the way to the subway, which transported us close to President
Biden's Philadelphia office.
How are things on
the Southern side of Israeli troops, in Rafah?
Catherine Russell, the head of UNICEF,
said this week that of the 600,000 children in Rafah, southern Gaza, all
of them are either injured, or sick, or malnourished.
So yeah, it's not
terribly surprising that US students are upset enough that 2,300
of them have been arrested nationwide.
The NYPD, surveying the people who were arrested at protests at
Columbia University and at City College of New York in Harlem, said
they found large numbers of non-students there. Were they
"influencers," assigned to cause trouble or were they thrill-seekers? A
commenter suggests
how that number came to be.
Also, we've seen lots
of counter-protesters whose behavior has
been less than civil.
In front of Biden's office.
We really have to understand the terrifyingly high stakes of the 2024
presidential election! Time Magazine conducted
an interview with Trump. Near the end of this piece, the NY Times
shows that they really don't
understand or don't care that Biden's failing to give the Times an
in-depth interview is a very minor point compared to Trump's being
a wannabe fascist dictator who wants
to use the power of the US for his own personal benefit! The Times'
Executive Editor gives
the very strong impression of Trump vs Biden being a contest of
"Ehh, six a one, half dozen of the other, no real difference between
the two.”
Here is, by the way, very
strong evidence that the two parties are very different and that it really makes a differenc which one
wins in November!
Oh, and by thr way, will Trump concede if he loses the election? Well, it depends. If HE thinks the election was "honest," sure. Who decides upon the honesty of the election? Why, he does, of course!
Terry Rumsey speaks.
Songs and speeches.
This blogger tends to write very lenghty posts, but he put this point right
in the beginning of this one.
The US wants to advise Ukraine on how to fight Russia. Very
commendable, but US tactics are based on having "something between air
superiority and air dominance," which is usually true for US
operations, but has never been true since 2014 for Ukraine. The US
needs to listen and supply them with what they
say they need! Later on, the post explains that the Patriot air defense
system is an extremely effective one. The US has 60 such systems.
Israel is retiring some of its own systems. These are very urgently needed in Ukraine!
American General Ben Hodges, in an interview with RBC-Ukraine,
says the US must commit to
Ukraine's victory!
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem apparently really wanted to be Donald Trump's
Vice-Presidential candidate! Her hoped-for candidacy has been a
hilarious crash and burn! The latest tidbit from her
recently-written autobiography is that she
alleges to have met the North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. As Kim
doesn't travel very much, her story was not difficult to debunk. Which
makes one wonder what other
whoppers her book publisher was too derelict to catch!
Your narrator/photographer, co-congregants Marion and David Brown.
Representative Jim Jordan, the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee,
is under great pressure from right-wing media to keep the utterly-failed investigations of President Biden going. The people there are very upset at Jordan's and Representative Comer's (House Ovesight Committee) failure to produce results!
Lined up in fron of Senator Casey's office.
Tblisi, Georgia is showing signs of rebellion against Russia. Back
during the final year of the youngr George Bush, Georgia (On the Black
Sea between Russia and Turkey) fought and lost a short war with Russia
over two of its provinces. The Atlantic
Council concludes that NATOs muted response gave a green light to
Russia that invading Crimea, Ukraine in 2014 would be similarly
trouble-free. I suspect no one in 2008 wanted to give Bush any
encouragemen to start another
war after he had started the Iraq and Afghanistan wars early in his
term!
The political parties Georgin Dream and its allies
dominate Georgia and
are seen as Russian-controlled.
Giorgi
Revishvili "Tens of thousands of
Georgians continue [protesting] against the Russia-inspired
foreign agents bill and the Kremlin-style authoritarian rule."
British woman is
rather annoyed that the West has permitted as much Russian
interference as it has. Ukrinform
says the Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili is against Russia and
says Georgians must make "an 'existential' choice between Russia and
Europe."
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