Quote Originally Posted by jon1959 View Post
There will be Gaza fatigue - the news coming out is just more and more of the same. The shock value has gone, although hopefully the anger hasn't died down. There has also been a Christmas - New Year pause in most of the international protests. There have been constant local events in Europe and the USA (Jewish led bridge blockades in support of Palestine in several US cities in the past few days) with a co-ordinated UK Day Of Action on Saturday and the next big London demonstration on 13 January.

The latest Gaza death toll is close to 21,500 with nearly 60,000 injured and 7,500 missing (buried under rubble!). 85% of Gazans are displaced and homeless. Disease is rife. Food, clean water and electricity are scarce and famine is starting to show in some pockets. The aid trucks are trickling in but contain only a fraction of what is needed. Civilians continue to be maimed, dismembered, burnt and crushed on an hourly basis under IDF bombs and shells. Settlers are still killing and vandalising in the West Bank with IDF support, and the UN is producing reports that reference claims Israel has carried out murders and torture of prisoners.

Netanyahu is giving Biden the finger and settling in for the 'long genocide' in an attempt to stave off his fall from power and probable criminal conviction. Israel is fast losing the international struggle for hearts and minds - and seems not to care. 'Normalisation' of relations has ended. The Israeli public still seem to be behind Netanyahu - but that is fracturing. There is little or no enthusiasm amongst Palestinians for Abbas and the Fatah old guard (who are Biden's preferred Palestinain leadership) and although Hamas has gained support (in anger and desperation) there is still scope for a new, dynamic, secular Palestinian leadership to emerge. But Israel would have to let them out of prison (mostly administratively detained without charge) for that to become possible.
IMO, I believe that 99.999999999999% of any particular race are just good people, we are in a time unfortunately where we have the rotten one, BN is IMO, just pure evil, and the whole goings on there too complicated to draw the definitive conclusion, however i find the current situation quite disturbing. The imagery online far too horrific to post, the bad is not all one sided however, and I would expect a so called legitimate (sic) government to handle this more humanely. I'm not even sure that the change of US president in 2024 would solve this, believing that the incumbent president would achieve anything different to the current resident, his MAGA supporters would disagree pointing to the abraham accords.

The Q drops said
"We are saving Israel for last"

My drops say
"You should have started with Israel 1st"