Why should we care about Palestinians, Kashmiris, Rohingya, Uyghur, Syrians, Afghans, Iraqis, Yemenis, Somalians, Libyans as much as we do about the citizens of our own countries? Partly because most of our governments are involved in those wars, occupations, genocides up to their bloody eyeballs. But mostly because they are human beings & we recognize no national boundaries as a division between us. No human being is illegal or alien to us.

This would be a good time for Bernie Sanders to express his solidarity with Palestinians against what he called Israel’s racist government. Or will he equivocate by talking about Hamas rockets & how the US should have “an even-handed approach” to Israel & Palestinians? As if there were two sides in a genocide.

We should demand more of our politicians than mealy-mouthed, two-faced support for Palestinians. We should demand nothing less than fearless, unequivocal solidarity with Palestinians against Israeli colonialism, apartheid, genocide. That’s the least Palestinians deserve from us.

The Israeli military reported that 600 rockets fired from Gaza provoked Israel to bomb Gaza to smithereens & media reports that in banner headlines like it’s the gospel truth when they know it’s a pack of damn lies. Can they show us any credible forensics from where those rockets dropped? Can they explain why the Iron Dome antimissile system bankrolled by US taxpayers failed to intercept any of those 600 rockets from Gaza? That system costs $100 million for each battery (Israel currently has ten) & it costs about $80,000 to intercept each rocket. Is the US paying for a white elephant system that doesn’t work? When did it stop working since media routinely reports that the Iron Dome system efficiently protects Israel from massive damage & casualties? Does it only not work when Israel has to justify a genocidal bombing campaign over Gaza?

Why have there been no banner headlines over the past year as Israel has combined bombing sorties over Gaza with snipers using live ammunition against unarmed protesters at the weekly Great Return March? In the past year of protests, almost 300 Palestinians, including kids, medics, & journalists, have been shot at & killed & over 30,000 have sustained injuries often requiring amputation. Gaza is being made a land of one-legged men because of Israeli snipers. Any reputable news agency would be covering that story of genocide & shouting indignation from the rooftops in banner headlines. That they don’t even report it is how you know that concerning Israel media has become an agency of propaganda rather than news.

Israel claims four civilians were killed by rockets that the white elephant Iron Dome system did not manage to intercept. We’d like to see some credible documentation that they were killed by rockets from Gaza & not from some other cause. Palestinians are burying 25 people, including a 4-month-old girl, 14-month old girl, a 12-year-old boy, & two pregnant women in addition to the four young people that Israeli snipers killed on Friday at the Great Return March. Media is reporting that many of those killed were “Hamas militants” but there’s no way in hell they could know that since it’s unlikely Gaza health officials would identify those killed by their political status.

Media can lie through its ass but the truth is known even by ardent supporters of Israel. The question is “which side are you on”? That of justice or that of genocide?

The photo is baby Saba & her father. She was killed last night by an Israeli airstrike.

(Photo from Reuters)

If anyone wants to initiate a rally to demand Israel stop the bombing of Gaza but don’t know where to begin, the easiest way is to contact any mosques that may be in your area & ask the imams if they’d like to lead one. We have two mosques here that have many, many times organized & brought huge numbers to rallies for Syrians, Egyptians, Palestinians, the Rohingya. And to boot, they bring fabulous placards.

The images of death, especially those of small children, coming from Israel’s bombing siege in Gaza are just like those from Israel’s November 2012 & summer 2014 bombing sieges of Gaza. Most of us sustained PTSD just from witnessing the horrors so it must be beyond a living hell for Palestinians to endure. It’s been a long while since we hit the streets in massive numbers to stand with Palestinians but now is the time to change that. In 2014, over a million protested in every city & small village all over the world. We need to dwarf those protests in size demanding Israel stop the bombing.

“Palestinian father gives last kiss on the radiant face of his 14 months old daughter Seema abu Arar who was killed yesternight by Israeli war planes ,,,,,stay doomed oppression !
stay doomed Zionism !”

–Kashmiri Azhar Shabir

“There’s is no war between Gaza and Israel. It’s a pure massacre. Israel is killing, bombing, occupying, torturing Palestinians. To call it a war would be injustice. Israel is criminal and so are those who support it’s colonial policies. What Nazis did with Jews, state of Israel is doing with Palestinians. Let no one sugarcoat it. It ended bad for Nazis and it’ll end bad for the Apartheid infested Israel. Viva Palestine.

**This is reportedly 4 month old Mariah Gazali who was killed in Israeli Airstrikes on Gaza as Benjamin Netayahu pledges to massively strike Gaza**

**Current reports suggest 27 Palestinians have been killed with hundreds injured**”

–Kashmiri Zachriah Sulayman