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Israel and Iran
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Nora Neus Thu 26 Oct 2023 17.30 EDT At a foundry last weekend, with fire blazing and anti-racist activists watching, the statue of the Confederate general Robert E Lee that sparked the deadly 2017 Charlottesville white nationalist riot was cut into pieces and melted down to liquid brass. “It felt like an execution,” said Jalane Schmidt, co-founder of Charlottesville Black Lives Matter and a professor at the University of Virginia. Charlottesville Robert E Lee statue to be melted down and turned into art Read more Along with other activists, Schmidt traveled from Charlottesville to watch the melting at the foundry, which organizers will only identify as being “somewhere in the south” out of concerns for the physical safety of the foundry workers. “It was very solemn. Nobody cheering, nothing like that. It was very quiet. People weren’t even talking,” she said. The melting was the culmination of a years-long effort to remove the Confederate statue from downtown Charlottesville. The issue became a flashpoint in 2016, and sparked a deadly white nationalist riot a year later, in 2017, which resulted in the death of the counter-protester Heather Heyer and two police officers, whose helicopter crashed. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/26/charlottesville-robert-e-lee-melted-confederate-statue
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Impact of Dobbs and Abortion Laws
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Every ten seconds a child is killed in GAZA "pro-life" people: Good! -
As Janet Paulsen prepared to leave her husband, who had become increasingly volatile over their 15-year marriage, she slipped down to his gun safes one night while he slept to try to change the combination locks. “There were 74 firearms in my house,” said Paulsen, who was stunned by how many guns she found, but could not figure out how to change the codes. “When I went to get my protection order, I brought pictures of all of those firearms with me.” Georgia, where she lives, is not among the 21 states with gun surrender laws that can force people to relinquish their weapons while they are deemed a risk to themselves or others. So Paulsen’s husband, whom she accused of threatening and erratic behavior, was only ordered to stay away from her and their 13-year-old twin boys until a court hearing. That changed a few days later when she said he tried to track them through a phone locator app, a violation of the protection order that prompted a misdemeanor charge, two hours in jail and a court order to confiscate his guns. As Paulsen and the boys rode out the week at a motel where they had taken refuge while he moved out, deputies removed more than 70 firearms from their home, a modern Craftsman nestled in a lakeside community about 30 miles northwest of Atlanta. Police, though, left a handgun in a pickup truck parked in the driveway, unsure if the order covered Scott Bland’s vehicle, she said. Five days later, Bland ambushed Paulsen in the garage as she stopped home with groceries. He used the 9 mm semiautomatic pistol to shoot her six times, as she tried to flee, before killing himself. “It took me five years to get up the courage to divorce him, because I knew I would pay a price. And you know what happened when I did? He shot me,” said Paulsen, 53, a former property manager and endurance athlete who was left partially paralyzed in the 2015 shooting. https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/abuse-victims-gun-surrender-laws-save-lives-supreme-104506698 A federal appeals court, in a Texas case, deemed the practice unconstitutional. The Supreme Court has agreed to review the issue on Nov. 7 — but no one knows if it’s to overturn the Fifth Circuit ruling or double down on it. The Supreme Court seems to have a growing interest in gun rights cases. The conservative 6-3 majority voted last year to overturn New York’s longstanding restrictions on concealed weapons. That has led lower courts, sometimes begrudgingly, to overturn more than a dozen state and local gun safety measures. Domestic violence advocates worry that so-called “red flag” laws, which keep guns away from people in crisis, may be next.
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Impact of Dobbs and Abortion Laws
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BEAVERCREEK, Ohio — Leesa Howard thinks abortion should be rare and not used for “birth control.” She’ll readily vote next year for Donald Trump, backing the man who remade the Supreme Court to end Roe v. Wade. Keeping up with politics is easy with The 5-Minute Fix Newsletter, in your inbox weekdays. But Howard, 53, also knows a woman who got pregnant in high school and said an abortion kept her life on track. She plans to vote “yes” this week on an Ohio ballot measure that would enshrine access to the procedure in the state constitution. “I don’t think the government should be able to tell us what we should do with our own bodies,” Howard said on a break one recent evening from her shift at Target. “We give that right away, might as well give all our rights away.” People like Howard could soon deliver an abortion rights victory in a Republican-leaning state, underscoring how a new era of abortion bans have stoked a backlash from voters — even in places that helped elect Trump and pave the way for an end to nationwide access. The results of Ohio’s Issue 1 vote, which ends Tuesday, will test support for abortion in a state where GOP leaders passed a ban after about six weeks of pregnancy. It will also offer a new data point on the politics of abortion ahead of the 2024 elections. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/06/ohio-abortion-vote-issue-1/ -
Israel and Iran
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This is good: John Stewart on Israel/Gaza https://www.the-express.com/news/world-news/116168/daily-show-jon-stewart-clip-israel-resurfaces -
Israel and Iran
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Netanyahu's son 'highly vulnerable target' in US as he avoids Israel military duties EXCLUSIVE: Yair Netanyahu has come under fire for staying in Miami, Florida while thousands of reserve soldiers have been called to fight in the Israel-Hamas war. By CLAIRE ANDERSON 10:01 ET, Sat, Nov 4, 2023 0BOOKMARK Yair Netanyahu has come under fire for staying in Miami during the Israel-Hamas war (Image: Instagram Yair Netanyahu) Benjamin Netanyahu's Miami-based son, Yair, is at risk of being kidnapped amid high tensions globally, according to a former White House insider. The 32-year-old is said to be working on "non-profit charity work" in Florida while around 360,000 reserve soldiers have been mobilized to join the Israeli army, temporarily leaving their commitments elsewhere. Questions are being raised about why he has not joined his countrymen - and Howard Stoffer, an international affairs expert who spent 25 years working for the US government, says he must take security seriously. Professor Stoffer believes it is "foolish" for Yair to be in America - if he's not under protection by the likes of the Israeli intelligence services, Shin Bet or Mossad. He told Daily Express US: "He will be a target. I would absolutely expect that and if he is not protected by Shin Bet or officers, taking away resources from the country that needs him now. https://www.the-express.com/news/us-news/117250/benjamin-netanyahu-son-yair-israel-war-florida -
“Russian occupiers … forced families to listen as they raped women next door, members of a U.N.-mandated investigative body said.” — Reuters In March 2022, three weeks into the war, the Russians dropped two 500-kilogram bombs on a theater in Mariupol, Ukraine, where hundreds of civilians, their homes having been destroyed, were sheltering. On the pavement on each side of the theater was painted in giant Cyrillic letters the Russian word for “children.” Perhaps 600 people died. The implausible idea that this was an accident became even more so 23 days later when, after a missile attack on refugees at a railway station, the words “for children” — up to 9 children were among the up to 63 people killed — were found painted on fragments of the missile. Did this mean revenge for children killed, according to Russian propaganda, by Ukrainian military actions in Russian-occupied portions of Ukraine? Retired Army Gen. David Petraeus and historian Andrew Roberts think not. In their new book, “Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine,” they ascribe the missile attack not to revenge but to “a truly depraved psychology.” A Russian military consistency has been barbarism: Remember the explosive toys Russians scattered to maim Afghan children who would thereafter be burdens for adults too distracted to fight. This is the Russia that some congressional Republicans would, by ending aid for Ukraine, rescue from the criminal misadventure Vladimir Putin began on Feb. 24, 2022. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/03/house-republicans-putin-barbarism/ Russia’s war crimes — targeting civilians, kidnapping children, mass executions, torture, rape — are not incidental to, they are premeditated tactics in, the war that some congressional Republicans seem eager to help Putin win. He knows the help he needs. “If Western defense supplies are terminated tomorrow,” Putin said on Oct. 5, “Ukraine will have a week left to live as it runs out of ammunition.”
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Israel and Iran
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In a rare announcement, the US military said a guided missile submarine has arrived in the Middle East, a message of deterrence clearly directed at regional adversaries as the Biden administration tries to avoid a broader conflict amid the Israel-Hamas war. US Central Command said on social media Sunday that an Ohio-class submarine was entering its area of responsibility. A picture posted with the announcement appeared to show the sub in the Suez Canal northeast of Cairo. The social media post did not name the sub, but the US Navy has four Ohio-class guided missile submarines, or SSGNs, which are former ballistic missile subs converted to fire Tomahawk cruise missiles rather than nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles. Each SSGN can carry 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles, 50% more than US guided-missile destroyers pack and almost four times what the US Navy’s newest attack subs are armed with. Each Tomahawk can carry up to a 1,000-pound high-explosive warhead. “SSGNs can deliver a lot of firepower very rapidly,” said Carl Schuster, a former director of operations at the US Pacific Command’s Joint Intelligence Center told CNN in 2021. “One-hundred and fifty-four Tomahawks accurately deliver a lot of punch. No opponent of the US can ignore the threat.” The magnitude of that firepower was shown in March 2011, when the guided missile sub USS Florida fired almost 100 Tomahawks against targets in Libya during Operation Odyssey Dawn. The attack marked the first time the SSGNs were used in combat. The military rarely announces the movements or operations of its fleet of ballistic and guided missile subs. Instead, the nuclear-powered vessels operate in near-complete secrecy. Read more about the sub. https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-11-06-23/h_15248e80c11c42370a04e3c99405f97c -
Israel and Iran
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*******. The land grab of 1848 being repeated? https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/11/03/israel-nakba-history-1948/ Jewish mortars and loudspeaker trucks shook Arab neighborhoods in early 1948 as sectarian fighting consumed the newly partitioned land that would soon become Israel. Amid the prolonged shelling, the trucks would broadcast the threatening sounds of wailing sirens, fake screams and evacuation warnings. Returning home would prove impossible for an estimated 750,000 Palestinians and their millions of descendants. When Israeli archives opened in the 1980s, records showed how Israeli operations, including psychological-warfare broadcasts, helped drive the exodus. “The element of surprise, long stints of shelling with extremely loud blasts, and loudspeakers in Arabic proved very effective when properly used,” reads an Israel Defense Forces intelligence report from June 1948 that called Jewish combatants “the main factor” in the exodus. “Each and every district underwent a wave of migration as our actions in that area intensified and expanded,” the report stated, adding later that sometimes Arabs would attempt to return home shortly after fleeing, “which forced us to engage, on more than one occasion, in expelling residents.” Descendants of Arabs who fled during these events ultimately formed the Palestinian refugee population — 70 percent of today’s Gaza Strip residents are considered refugees. The event, known as the “Nakba,” or “catastrophe” in Arabic, remains a heated topic on both sides. “There’s academic quibbling about the details — to what degree was it planned, to what degree was it the circumstances of war, to what extent was it ideologically central to Zionism — but nobody denies that huge numbers were driven out,” said Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University and author of “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine.” -
Israel and Iran
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Clean water was already hard to come by in Gaza before the war. Now, as fuel runs out and only small amounts of aid are allowed in, it is becoming nearly impossible to find. Palestinians in Gaza spend their days figuring out where to get water and how to divide what they have among family members, as they seek shelter from Israeli airstrikes. The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees has warned that “people will start dying without clean water.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/05/israel-war-hamas-gaza-live-news-palestine/ When asked about a humanitarian pause to the fighting , Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, “I want to protect innocent people as much as possible.” He appeared alongside Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), who said he supported a pause. Asked about an Israel aid package, Graham said he would support a bill that sent funding to not only Ukraine and Israel but also the United States’ southern border. ****** By Ben Brasch General Assignment reporter Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called Sunday morning for a pause in bombing so Gazans may receive humanitarian aid, while also saying Israel has a right to defend itself. When asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” about a bill to send American aid to Israel, Sanders said Israel must stop killing innocent civilians. “I think it’s terribly important that, as we debate that, to say to Israel, ‘You want this money, you got to change your military strategy,’” he said. “The other point is, we have to give hope to the Palestinian people.” also waspost