Things are really deteriorating faster than I can keep up with, let alone post about, so TLDR:
US sending 40,000 more troops as US citizens are encouraged to evacuate Lebanon due to continual bombardments of Israeli airstrikes,
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-send-troops-ready-help-evacuate-us-citizens-lebanon-rcna172367Killing 550+ Lebanese civillians in airstrikes which in one day is more than double the total casualties from the last several month long invasion Israel launched against Lebanon in 2006
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/world/middleeast/lebanon-civilian-death-toll-israel.htmlas Israel preparing a ground invasion of their neighbor country, Lebanon,
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xe8nkj9wyoand has been conducting strikes now in Syria as well
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/syrian-air-defences-confront-aggression-central-region-2024-09-08/But for more specifics, So far in September:
Week of Sep 1st - 7thIsrael recovered the bodies of 6 hostages, including one American-Israeli
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israeli-bodies-found-in-gaza-rcna169125Protestors in Tel Aviv, Israel, Demand Netanyahu end the war and accept the hostage deal to bring the remaining hostages home safely. Bibi, of course, refuses to cave in to these demands.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/02/middleeast/israel-general-strike-hostage-deal-intl-hnk/index.htmlRaids on the city of Jenin in the West Bank increase in intensity leading to even more deaths at the hands of Israeli soldiers
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-west-bank-jenin-hamas-militants-c1618cc024d8a5269486e266593b5434US Pushes yet another new Ceasefire Proposal
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-negotiators-racing-present-new-gaza-ceasefire-proposal-sources-say-2024-09-04/Netanyahu refuses pull out of the area bordering Rafah and Egypt where Gazans have been trying to flee the ongoing genocide
https://www.nytimes.com/article/what-is-philadelphi-corridor-gaza.htmlSidebar into the stuffshow of American Politics
Donald Annoying Orange claims that Israel will cease to exist if Jewish Americans don't vote for him,
https://www.timesofisrael.com/vote-for-me-or-israel-will-be-annihilated-Annoying Orange-says-in-pitch-to-republican-jews/
And has said that if Republicans lose the election because the Jewish population of Philidelphia doesn't vote for him, it will be their fault.
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/g-s1-23859/Annoying Orange-jewish-voters-israel-election-2024
Which is an extremely dangerous dogwhistle to use when most of your supporters think Neo-national socialists are perfectly fine people as it is.
Also, this brings me to
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Get the forget out of my thread with your anti-semetic bait.
This thread is criticizing the acts of a xenophobic colonialist far-right government. Posts like that attempt to shift the discussion towards the very bullstuff that causes people to equate anti-zionism with anti-semitism.
Anyways,
Week of Sep 8th-14thProtests continue in Tel Aviv, with the Israeli Security Cabinet meeting to discuss whether to accept the most recent deal to release the hostages.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/security-cabinet-meets-in-tel-aviv-as-anti-government-activists-protest-outside-idf-headquarters/Israeli Airstrike on area that the Israeli Military designated as a safe zone that they would not bomb in Al-Mawasi, kills at least 19
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/09/middleeast/gaza-khan-younis-israel-strike-intl-latam/index.htmlTurkish-American, Aysenur Eygi, was shot in the head by the IOF during a protest. Israeli forces first tried to claim that this was while they were being assaulted by the protestors but video evidence confirms that they fired into a crowd that was peaceful at the time and Aysenur had been walking away from the soldiers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/11/american-activist-aysenur-eygi-killed-idf-west-bank/US Presidential Debates happened. Annoying Orange said he would help Israel wipe out Palestine. Kamala said that she "is working non-stop for a ceasefire", but will not stop sending Israel military support which most people agree would be the only way at this point we could actually pressure Israel to stop their genocide.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/gaza-debate-kamala-Annoying Orange-israel-palestine/
Israel bombs another school that had been converted into a refugee shelter, killing civillians and United Nations Aid Workers
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/9/12/headlines/israel_strikes_gazas_al_jaouni_school_for_5th_time_kills_18_palestinians_incl_6_unrwa_staffersBy 9/13, the WHO has managed to vaccinate half a million children against Polio in Gaza
https://www.who.int/news/item/13-09-2024-around-560-000-children-vaccinated-in-first-round-of-polio-campaign-in-gazaThe UAE says that it will only support a post-war plan that involves an independent Palestinian State
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/gulf/2024/09/14/uae-says-not-prepared-to-support-plan-for-post-war-gaza-without-palestinian-state
Week of Sep 15-21Yemeni militant forces, Houthis, manage to launch a missile that gets through the Iron Dome, starts a brush fire but no casualties.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/missile-fired-yemen-set-off-sirens-central-israel-military-says-2024-09-15/Israel confirms that 3 Israeli hostages found dead in December were killed by Israeli airstrike
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/3-hostages-likely-mistakenly-killed-idf-airstrike-rcna171197Airstrike on residential building in Nuseirat Refugee Camp kills 16
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/16/israeli-airstrikes-gaza-houthis-netanyahu-gallant"Unauthorized Leaflets" were dropped by Israeli Forces over Lebanon, encouraging the citizens to evacuate. (This is a known form of psychological warfare with an intent to destabilize a region in advance of an invasion, which as mentioned above in the summary, has since been confirmed is imminent)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-military-investigating-unauthorised-leaflets-ordering-lebanon-evacuation-2024-09-15/Israeli causes a mass-casualty event in Lebanon with the simultaneous detonation of pagers, radios, walkie talkies, fingerprint devices, laptop and phone chargers, tablets, and other electronics, https://abcnews.go.com/International/israel-hand-manufacturing-pagers-exploded-lebanon-source/story?id=113851347https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-israel-exploding-pagers-hezbollah-syria-ce6af3c2e6de0a0dddfae48634278288This is a clear war crime (as explained in the previous post) and a pre-meditated one.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/taiwan-firm-denies-making-pagers-used-lebanon-explosions-rcna171594These devices have been in circulation since 2020, meaning that this attack was prepared for Four Years Ago, before this current conflict in Gaza had even been started.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/21/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-exploding-pagers/A combined 42 people were killed and 3500 injured by these terrorist attacks conducted by Israel.
The UN General Assembly demands Israel end its occupation of Palestinian territories with a vote of 124 to 14, with 43 abstentions.
https://press.un.org/en/2024/ga12626.doc.htmHezbollah leader calls the pager attack an act of war in a televised speech while Israeli fighterjets buzzed the city with non-stop sonic booms.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/19/israel-lebanon-attack-explosions-hezbollah/Citizens in Lebanon try to make light of the continuous and stressful sonic booms with website to rate the quality of the sonic booms on a scale of 1-10
https://jidarsot.com/Israel announces it is entering a "new phase of war" after it's pager attacks, and begins further bombing of Lebanese cities.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/walkie-talkie-blasts-lebanon-japan-icom-israel-new-phase-war-hezbollah-rcna171773Israel launches airstrike on Lebanese capitol of Beirut, killing a militant commander
https://apnews.com/article/israel-hezbollah-rocket-attack-mideast-tensions-a6a95169a21b45dc86d86182e255fa7eThe US has basically determined it is unlikely to be able to achieve a ceasefire deal that Israel and Hamas will agree to
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-ceasefire-deal-unlikely-bidens-term-wsj-reports-2024-09-19/Israel conducts more attacks on Beirut suburbs in Lebanon, killing at least 38
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-lebanon-attacks-09-21-24/index.htmlIsraeli soldiers are recorded pushing tied and bound men off of rooftops
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-soldiers-push-bodies-off-roof-west-bank-raid-qabatiya/
This Week so far, Sep 22-26Israeli forces shut down Al Jazeera offices in West Bank, prompting outcry from Federation of International Journalists
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8rd5z17px4oExtensive strikes in Lebanon kill over 500 in one day of massive airstrikes
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/24/middleeast/israel-strikes-lebanon-hezbollah-explainer-intl-hnk/index.htmlIsrael hacks Lebanese telecomunications networks
https://www.wired.com/story/amid-air-strikes-and-rockets-an-sms-from-the-enemy/90,000 Lebanese are displaced as Israel continues bombardment of its norther neighbor and prepares for its ground invasion.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live-blog/israel-hezbollah-live-updates-lebanon-gaza-war-rcna172605So far this week over 700 have been killed in Lebanon
https://apnews.com/article/israel-hezbollah-hamas-latest-mideast-26-september-2024-5b9819b5d3bd7b1c3da9268affb82b31The US and France, seeking to avoid a larger war throughout the whole of the middle east, try to hold a 21-day ceasefire before things escalate too quickly
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/lebanon-temporary-ceasefire-plan-hezbollah-israelAlso, Netanyahu gives a bizzare speech supposedly to the people of Lebanon:
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/netanyahu-tells-lebanon-citizens-to-get-out-of-harm-s-way-amid-hezbollah-clashes-219953221601Where he claims that Israel's war isn't with the Lebanese people, but with insurgents who have hidden bombs pointed at Israel in civilian's homes and garages, and that Israel has the right to bomb the citizens homes in self-defense. This speech justifying Israels aggression, supposedly directed at the Arabic-speaking Lebanese people, was given in English with only English captions, which is the language that most Americans speak...
And as of two hours prior to this write-up:
Benjamin Netanyahu rejects the proposal for a ceasefire with Lebanon and launches more airstrikes against the capital city of Beirut.This is while the Israeli Prime Minister is currently in New York City to address the United Nations General Assembly
https://abc7ny.com/post/benjamin-netanyahu-un-speech-protest-general-assembly-israel-hamas-lebanon/15358326/
Update as of morning of 9/27
Benjamin Netanyahu is currently giving a speech at the United Nations in New YorkMany delegates including those from Turkey walk out in protest.
He declares that Israel will continue its war until "total victory".
Just imagine if terrorists turned El Paso and San Diego into ghost towns. How long would the American government tolerate that? Yet Israel has been tolerating this intolerable situation for almost a year. Well, I've come here today to say: Enough is enough.
As Rafah, (which I will remind our readers was the supposed safe zone designated by Israel for evacuees of Gaza) has been shelled and obliterated to the state where it has been called a "Ghost Town" itself.Our enemies seek not only to destroy us, they seek to destroy our common civilisation and return all of us to a dark age of tyranny and terror.
These claims are made as the confirmed death toll in Gaza exceeds 41,000 and
700 in Lebanon.
The Israeli leader says singling out his country is "a moral stain on the United Nations", making the institution "a swamp of anti-Semitism".
"I say to you, until Israel - until the Jewish state - is treated like other nations, until this anti-Semitic swamp is drained, the UN will be viewed by fair-minded people everywhere as nothing more than a contemptuous farce," he said.
He also spoke about the arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court, a UN body, against him and Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, linking the measure to anti-Semitism.
Related but unrelated:
In the face of the peaceful student protests against the ongoing Genocide in Gaza, the University of California schools have been approved more military weapons in order to combat the threat that is non-violent student encampments in solidarity with a non-white country. Great look UC.