Saturday 20 January 2024

FROM this week’s news ON: the war in West Asia [Content Warning - links to reports on bigotry/hate, violence including SA & CSA/abuse/war, genocide, language. Reader discretion is advised]

Note: CONTENT WARNING - some of this content is about upsetting, disturbing or triggering events & attitudes. Seek competent help - including professional - if you need it. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that linked articles may contains names and/or images of deceased people. READER CAUTION IS RECOMMENDED! For anyone distressed by anything in this post, or for any other reason considering seeking support, resources are available in Australia here, here, and here. In other nations, you will have to do an Internet search using terms such as “mental health support - <your nation>” (which, for instance, may lead to this, this, and this, in the USA, or this, this, and this, in France [biased towards English-language - my apologies]), or perhaps try https://www.befrienders.org/. 

Note: in my “from the news” posts, quotes are shown italicised and blue, my comments are in a different shade of blue, and “good” items are shown in green. I have loosely grouped the posts where such seemed reasonable, but that is subjective (i.e., my opinion - others are free to disagree), and challenging, as some posts belong in multiple “groups”.

Reporting on recent and currently ongoing tragic events in West Asia, in imperialistic Israel, Gaza, and adjoining nations, includes the following: 

Note: as with other mass murderers/serial killers/and the like, violent extremists crave publicity, so I refuse to give that to them - I will avoid using their names (which is a policy adopted by good law enforcement and media for other mass murderers), and I will not give them the satisfaction of being described with the T word. 

This is explained further in my post at https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2023/10/from-news-on-war-in-west-asia-content_25.html. 

Note also that the genocidal intent of the VE group I refuse to name is, and has been for some time, clear, according to this from experts in that topic.

 

  • a very strong, strongly worded, and important opinion piece:   “Gaza”   https://theaimn.com/gaza/   “I have no time for those who fail to read or comprehend the sharp bite of the history that informs the current actions of both the Palestinian and Jewish People”   
  
  • “‘Different rules’: special policies keep US supplying weapons to Israel despite alleged abuses”   https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/18/us-supply-weapons-israel-alleged-abuses-human-rights   “Top US officials quietly reviewed more than a dozen incidents of alleged gross violations of human rights by Israeli security forces since 2020, but have gone to great lengths to preserve continued access to US weapons for the units responsible for the alleged violations, contributing – former US officials say – to the sense of impunity with which Israel has approached its war in Gaza”   


on human rights and human suffering (on both sides) aspects:    

 

  • This is just part of why the events on 7th October changed everything - this is NOT new news, it has been known and reported about from the start ... ALL of it - and warnings have been made about the ongoing risks for female hostages still being held! This is why I consider calls for a ceasefire will not be listened to - but imperialistic Israel’s reaction has also been appalling and, IMO, genocidal  

    [Content Warning - graphic descriptions of sexual assaults and other brutality, including on young and old]:   https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/18/evidence-points-to-systematic-use-of-rape-by-_____-in-7-october-attacks       “Evidence points to systematic use of rape and sexual violence by _____ in 7th October attacks”  

 

  • “Qatar and France send medicine for _____-held hostages in Gaza • FRANCE 24 English”   https://youtu.be/l6mvhRBKDoM?si=or__1nsPqvDIfYX0    “Gaza: Fewer than 1 in 4 aid missions given green light, says OCHA”   https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/01/1145557   “The Israeli authorities have continued to block lifesaving aid from reaching northern Gaza 102 days since _____-led terror attacks triggered the war, UN humanitarians have insisted, just as UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that “the long shadow of starvation” stalks the people of Gaza”  


on military aspects:    

regionally:    

internationally: 

 

My links for activism post may aid any activism you may decide to do on any/all of these. If you do, don’t get too fixated on specific instances of problems - important though they may well be: take a moment to also consider the broader issues these incidents and groups of incidents may suggest/reveal.

 

Assumptions / basis 

In writing this, I have assumed / started from the following: 

  • this blog states quite clearly that it is about political and human rights matters, including lived experience of problems, and thus I will assume readers are reasonable people who have noted the content warning in the post header;

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:

  • there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”; 
  • I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.

 

If they are of any use of interest, the activism information links from my former news posts are available in this post. 

 

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Remember: we need to be more human being rather than human doing, and all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering”.

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