What do you think about what is happening in the Middle East?
The mainstream media is siding with Israel. The narrative is anything Israel does is justified in response to the horrific attacks by Hamas on October 7. Ignoring 75 years of oppression by Israel against the Palestinian people. Ignoring that Hamas is separate from the Palestinian people.
Empire
Nothing can justify the relentless bombing of Gaza. The United States believes and acts otherwise. Sending U.S. military might to the region. Besides sending additional billions of dollars to Israel, the U.S. has vetoed calls for a ceasefire at the United Nations.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.S. vetoed a U.N. resolution Wednesday to condemn all violence against civilians in the Israel-Hamas war and to urge humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza, saying it was too early to craft an appropriate Security Council response to the crisis.
US vetoes UN resolution condemning all violence against civilians in Israel-Hamas war by Edith M. Lederer, AP News, Oct 18, 2023
What the U.S. and Israel are doing is a blatant display of empire, which highlights the contrast with those who have been struggling against empire for centuries.
The settler states that dispossess and occupy our lands support Israel in dispossessing and occupying Palestine.
The Red Nation
Indigenous Solidarity with Palestine
The past two weeks of horrific violence in Gaza resulted from 75 years of Israeli settler colonial dispossession, 56 years of military occupation, and 16 years of an open-air prison for 2.2 million people, half of whom are children. The atrocities of the Israeli apartheid regime in Palestine are relentless, illegal under international law, and consistent with settler-colonial projects globally.
The settler states that dispossess and occupy our lands support Israel in dispossessing and occupying Palestine.
Indigenous Solidarity with Palestine by The Red Nation, October 27, 2023
132 Indigenous activists, artists, and intellectuals, including WPLC Executive Director Natali Segovia, condemn Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians. They call for an end to U.S. and Canadian military aid to Israel, an immediate ceasefire, uplifting the Palestinian call to Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) Israel and Israeli institutions complicit in apartheid and settler colonialism, freedom for political prisoners, land back, and the right of return.
Solidarity from Des Moines Mutual Aid and Des Moines Black Liberation Movement Collective
…to issue solidarity statements and Mutual Aid for Palestine and organize Mutual Aid for Gaza
Indigenous Solidarity with Palestine, The Red Nation
Quakers and Mutual Aid 