While we're at it: using language that downplays genocide is a form of genocide denial.
Joe Biden isn't doing a bad job, Joe Biden is providing material support for genocide.
Israel isn't handling the situation badly, Israel is committing genocide.
Employing euphemisms minimizes the reality of this genocide. It's disrespectful and dangerous.
If you are more uncomfortable with the word genocide than you are with the reality of genocide, then you are not prepared to be part of any serious discussion. Work on that on your own time.
If you're having trouble keeping up with what's going on in Palestine because of US news coverage of university protests, here are some articles you can read and a video you can watch:
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While CNN & all the other mainstream media try to paint the university protests as "pro terrorism" (which they're not, they're literally anti-war protests.) Palestinians are being slaughtered by the minute.
ā[ā¦ M]any of us have never had a good role model on how to have civil and productive disagreements. I took a great class that helped me a lot when it comes to having difficult conversations. 1. focus on the behavior, not the person, not their motives. 2. donāt assume you know why somebody is doing something. (I.e they are coming in late because they are lazy). Because then you get stuck in a moral judgment scenario, not a problem solving scenario. Ask questions and remain curious before you decide you āknowā something. 3. You donāt have to get to mutual agreement that behavior X is a problem/wrong/shouldnāt happen, etc . Then you are stuck in the problem. What you have to get to is an agreement about a mutual solution. 4. It is possible to have a solution to a problem without either party having to admit they are wrong. They just have to agree that they will do X instead of Y. 5. It is even possible to resolve an issue and still think the other person was being ridiculous/overreacting, whatever. As long as you have a solution that both parties agree to, you can feel however you want to about it, as long as you honor the agreement. 6. And remember that somewhere there is somebody who is having a problem with you. Yes, you. How do you want them to approach you about it? Try that.ā
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Palestinian banks could be cut off from the Israeli banking system starting next week following a decision by Israelās finance minister to cease dealings between the two financial institutions, according to a report on Thursday by Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has two days to convene a cabinet meeting to discuss reversing plans by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to isolate Palestinian banks from both the Israeli and international banking systems.
The Palestinian economy is based on the Israeli currency, the shekel, making it reliant on ties to Israel and its financial dealings with the rest of the world must go through the Bank of Israel and Israeli banks.
I do not want to be my momās age and still freaking out about trying to get skinny. I gotta keep up the work at trying to love and take care of myself despite almost LITERALLY EVERYTHING telling me otherwise.
unicef estimates that a thousand children in Gaza have become amputees since the conflict began in October. āThis is the biggest cohort of pediatric amputees in history,ā Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a London-based plastic-and-reconstructive surgeon who specializes in pediatric trauma, told me recently. I met him in the waiting room of his plastic-surgery clinic on Londonās Harley Street, and we walked to a nearby pub for a glass of water. Abu-Sittah, a fifty-four-year-old British Palestinian with an angular face and tender, deep-set eyes, has treated child survivors of war for the past thirty years in Iraq, Yemen, Syria, and elsewhere.
Abu-Sittah is the author of āThe War Injured Child,ā the first medical textbook on the subject, which was published last May. In October and November, he spent forty-three days in Gaza, conducting emergency surgeries with Doctors Without Borders. He shuttled between two hospitals: Al-Shifa and Al-Ahli, which is also known as the Baptist hospital. The casualty rate was so high that, during some intense periods, he didnāt leave the operating room for three days. āIt felt like a scene from an American Civil War movie,ā he said.
In Gaza, Abu-Sittah was performing as many as six amputations a day. āSometimes you have no other medical option,ā he explained. āThe Israelis had surrounded the blood bank, so we couldnāt do transfusions. If a limb was bleeding profusely, we had to amputate.ā The dearth of basic medical supplies, owing to blockades, also contributed to the number of amputations. Without the ability to irrigate a wound immediately in an operating room, infection and gangrene often set in. āEvery war wound is considered dirty,ā Karin Huster, a nurse who leads medical teams in Gaza for Doctors Without Borders, told me. āIt means that many get a ticket to the operating room.ā
To mark the gravity of these procedures, and to mourn, Abu-Sittah and other medical staff placed the severed limbs of children in small cardboard boxes. They labelled the boxes with masking tape, on which they wrote a name and body part, and buried them. At the pub, he showed me a photograph heād taken of one such box, which read, āSalahadin, Foot.ā Some wounded children were too young to know their own names, he added, telling the story of an amputee whoād been pulled from rubble as the sole survivor of an attack.
THE NEW YORK TIMES instructed journalists covering Israelās war on the Gaza Strip to restrict the use of the terms āgenocideā and āethnic cleansingā and to āavoidā using the phrase āoccupied territoryā when describing Palestinian land, according to a copy of an internal memo obtained by The Intercept.
The memo also instructs reporters not to use the word Palestine āexcept in very rare casesā and to steer clear of the term ārefugee campsā to describe areas of Gaza historically settled by displaced Palestinians expelled from other parts of Palestine during previous IsraeliāArab wars. The areas are recognized by the United Nations as refugee camps and house hundreds of thousands of registered refugees.
The Times memo outlines guidance on a range of phrases and terms. āThe nature of the conflict has led to inflammatory language and incendiary accusations on all sides. We should be very cautious about using such language, even in quotations. Our goal is to provide clear, accurate information, and heated language can often obscure rather than clarify the fact,ā the memo says.
āWords like āslaughter,ā āmassacreā and ācarnageā often convey more emotion than information. Think hard before using them in our own voice,ā according to the memo. āCan we articulate why we are applying those words to one particular situation and not another? As always, we should focus on clarity and precision ā describe what happened rather than using a label.ā
Despite the memoās framing as an effort to not employ incendiary language to describe killings āon all sides,ā in the Times reporting on the Gaza war, such language has been used repeatedly to describe attacks against Israelis by Palestinians and almost never in the case of Israelās large-scale killing of Palestinians.
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š People trying to blame Iran for this measured and calculated āescalationā conveniently ignore the facts. The real question is why are the UK and US so quick to condemn Iran for its attacks tonight, but so unwilling to condemn the Israeli attack on Iranās embassy in Syria?
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