India-Israel Alliance; Anti-War Demonstrations; Gaza Extermination Camp; West Bank Water; Call Your Rep; Rwanda’s War on DRC; Climate Crisis and Militarism; US Sanctions Kill; What did You Do to Stop It?”

July 30, 2025

“Forgive them not, Gaza
Not Europe that denies your children food
Not the Arabs who look away
Not the Trump administration that funds your starvation
Not the world that watches you suffer in vain”

  • Jamal Kanj

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Wednesday, 30 July, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (MT)

KGNU Radio, 88.5 FM, 1390 AM, and kgnu.org/

Alternative Radio: India-Israel Alliance

Today, India and Israel have forged an alliance. It wasn’t always that way. India became independent in 1947. Its first prime minister, Nehru, positioned his country as a champion of the Palestinian cause. As the leader of the non-aligned movement, India’s stance on Palestine had great influence among other post-colonial nations. In the 1990s, that shifted. India moved into the U.S. orbit and embraced neoliberalism. And at the same time, it moved closer to Israel. It was said if India wanted to be close to the U.S., it had to reshape its critical policy towards Israel. And that they did. The two countries have something in common: India’s military occupation and domination of Kashmiris and Israel’s military occupation and domination of Palestinians. And India, under the Modi Hindutva, Hindu nationalist regime, is the world’s largest buyer of Israeli weapons. Israel, in return, buys weapons from India.

Azad Essa is an award-winning journalist. He is a senior reporter for Middle East Eye. His articles have appeared in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and Foreign Policy. He is the author of Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel.

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Thursday, 31July and 4:30 – 5: 30 AND Saturday, 2 August, 10:00 am – live event 425 South College Ave, Ft. Collins 80524 (corner of college and Mulberry, by Lucky’s Market)

Weekly Solidarity Vigil, FORTCOLLINSCEASEFIRE

We stand for one hour each week in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

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Saturday, 2 August, 11:00 am – 12:00 noon (MT)

Broadway and Canyon, Boulder CO

Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center presents:

Anti-War Demonstration

Stand with us on the corner of Broadway and Canyon in Boulder this Saturday from 11am – 12 pm, as we call for an end to U.S. imperialism and war. You are encouraged to bring a sign, and signs are also available for you to use. A good way to meet others in the community and have honest human communication.

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Saturday, 2 August, 10 -11 am – live event

SE corner of 52nd Ave. & Wadsworth, Arvada – across from Costco

Weekly Peace Vigil – Ceasefire Now!

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Saturday, 2 August, at 2:00 pm

Colorado Springs Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression announces:

On Saturday, August 2nd at 2:00 pm will be our Hands Off Protest Panel, where our members facing criminal charges for protesting will hold a discussion about defending our movements and our freedom of speech. The event will be at the UCCS Academics Office Building (1420 Austin Bluffs Pkwy) on the fourth floor. Parking will be free day of and enter through the west entrance attached to the parking lot. Refreshments and masks will be provided.

Info: cospeoplescoalition@lists.riseup.net

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Sunday, 3 August, starts at 4:00 pm

Buckley Park, East 12th, and Main Avenue., Durango 81301

Rally for Palestine

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Sunday, 3 August, 12:00 – 1:00 pm

6th Ave & Main Street, Longmont

Join Longmont for Palestine every Sunday from 12:00 – 1:00 pm on 6th & Main St. in Longmont for a weekly Palestine vigil! Bring your signs and posters or just stop on by to ask any questions you may have and get to know us! We will have signs available, as well as informational flyers, postcards, and zines.

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Gaza Extermination Camp:

On the 659th day of the genocide war on Gaza… the famine crisis deepens. The number of victims of starvation has risen to 122 Palestinians, including 83 children. The World Food Program confirms the crisis has reached unprecedented levels, while UNICEF warns that malnutrition treatments are running dangerously low. Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation army has destroyed tens of thousands of tons of humanitarian relief supplies.

The Israeli enemy’s army destroyed the cargo of 1,000 trucks loaded with food and medical supplies destined for Gaza all under the pretext that the supplies expired!!!!

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West Bank Water:

The Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine, “Water Fact,” July 28, 2025:

On four occasions over the past month Israeli settlers have vandalized the infrastructure providing water from the Ein Samiyah spring near Ramallah to the pumping station serving 110,000 Palestinians in the West Bank.  Eighteen villages rely entirely on Ein Samiyah for their water and a further 14 others get part of their water from the spring. The settlers have repeatedly broken the pumps and pipelines and damaged the five wells fed by the spring which are operated by Jerusalem Water Undertaking. Settlers have attacked maintenance crews when they attempt to repair the damage. There has been no intervention by the army to prevent the attacks, or to stop the settlers from swimming in a pool fed by the spring which they have renamed ‘Shepherds Spring.’   

Full article:

https://us4.campaign-archive.com/?u=9871cd19ae034f7c764cb4234&id=852d12cd80

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Keep writing. Keep calling. Don’t stop. Stay loud.

We need to escalate global mobilization to stop the ongoing genocide against Palestinians

Demand that your elected officials take a stand and call upon Israel to honor the ceasefire and stop the bombardment immediately. As our representatives, they must apply all the power and pressure they have.

Use this tool to call and write your congressional representatives. Read our demands and send your email now.

https://fosna.good.do/gazahospital/handsoffGaza/

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CALL YOUR REP: ISRAEL IS STARVING GAZA TO DEATH.

Forced famine is here. Israel has blocked almost all humanitarian aid from entering Gaza since early March. This is not a natural disaster – it’s genocide. As Israel’s largest military funder, the United States has the power to ensure humanitarian aid access and stop the genocide.

TAKE ACTION NOW: Call Congress. It only takes 3 minutes. Tell your representatives to demand the immediate opening of ALL border crossings for unrestricted humanitarian aid and stop arming Israel with U.S. weapons.

After you fill in your info and click the “Call me” button, you’ll:

  • Be taken to the next page which has a suggested call script you can use
  • Receive a phone call on the number you provided and be patched through to your senators’ and representative’s offices, one after the other. After you speak to one office, press * (star) to be connected to your next representative, until you’ve called all three. If you don’t get through, leave a voicemail.

https://act.uscpr.org/a/letaidin?ms=AJP

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UN Group of Experts on DRC Report, June 2025

It’s long been obvious to anyone following Rwanda’s 30-year war of aggression in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that Rwandan President Kagame’s ultimate goal is to annex the mineral-rich Kivu Provinces bordering Rwanda. His project has come closer to fruition every year since his M23 militia re-emerged in a new push to claim territory and mines in November 2021. The June 2025 UN Group of Experts Report on DRC makes abundantly clear that he is now in de facto control of both provinces. His troops seized Goma, the capital of North Kivu Province, in January. They seized Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu Province in February.

No one could be honestly surprised, including the UN investigators, so the real question is why “the international community” let this happen. The UN Security Council has passed resolutions demanding that M23 withdraw from the territory it controls and that Rwandan troops withdraw from DRC, but no sanctions serious enough to force them to are ever imposed, neither by the UN nor by the big Western powers. The US and its NATO allies exclude Russia, North Korea, and Eritrea from the SWIFT system for conducting international financial transactions, but no one has ever proposed imposing this harshest of Western sanctions on Rwanda, not at any point in its 30 years of invasion, occupation, and plunder.

Full Article: https://blackagendareport.com/un-group-experts-drc-report-june-2025

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If We Respond to the Genocide in Palestine the Same Way We’re responding to the Climate Crisis, We Should Expect Many More Loss of Lives

The climate crisis and genocide in Gaza share the same root: capitalism’s willingness to sacrifice the masses. Yet, the institutions built to resist have instead become accomplices.

Extract:

The refusal of the larger climate “movement” to take a firm, principled, and consistent stance on ending the genocide and illegal occupation of Palestine is firmly rooted in its refusal to name imperialism, colonization, and militarism as driving forces of the climate crisis. And these refusals limit the effectiveness of the climate “movement” to secure a just transition from extractive economies that sectors that view the planet as a commodity and loss of life as collateral damage and necessary sacrifices.

Full article: https://www.blackagendareport.com/if-we-respond-genocide-palestine-same-way-were-responding-climate-crisis-we-should-expect-many-more

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‘Sanctions as deadly as war’: Lancet study finds US-led sanctions kill over 500,000 people annually

US-led sanctions have functioned as ‘silent killers’ in countries such as Iraq, Syria, and Venezuela

Broad economic sanctions, often portrayed as a less violent alternative to war, are responsible for an estimated 564,000 deaths each year – most of them children under the age of five – according to a new study published on 25 July in the Lancet Global Health.

The research analyzed data from 152 countries over a 10-year period and found the mortality toll of sanctions to be comparable to that of armed conflict.

Authored by economists Francisco Rodriguez, Silvio Rendon, and Mark Weisbrot, the study underscores the devastating impact of sanctions on public health and essential infrastructure. 

By targeting key economic sectors such as finance and energy, sanctions restrict access to critical imports like medicine, food, and parts for water and electrical systems, causing widespread suffering without the visible devastation of bombs and missiles.

 Source: https://thecradle.co/articles/sanctions-as-deadly-as-war-lancet-study-finds-us-led-sanctions-kill-over-500000-people-annually

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Can the Poorer Nations Build a New Architecture for Development and Sovereignty?:

A horrifying statistic hovers over the poorer nations: 3.4 billion people now live in countries that spend more on interest payments for public debt than on education or health. In 2024, according to a new report from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), global public debt reached $102 trillion – a third of which is held by developing countries. The impact on these countries is especially severe: credit markets charge poorer nations far higher interest rates than they do in richer nations, making debt servicing payments proportionately higher for the Global South. The United States, for instance, pays interest rates that are, on average, two to four times lower than those faced by poorer nations.

In 2023, according to the UNCTAD analysis, the poorer nations ‘paid $25 billion more to their external creditors in debt servicing than they received in fresh disbursements, resulting in a negative net resource transfer’. In more popular language: the social wealth of developing countries is being drained by wealthy creditors – mostly located in the Global North.

The theft of social wealth from South to North has framed the work of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research for the past decade. Following the Second Dilemmas of Humanity Conference (held in Brazil in 2015), our institute was founded to provide intellectual support to political and social movements and accompany them in the fight for emancipation.

Full article: https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/tricontinental-tenth-anniversary/

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Video from 2040: “What do you do to stop it?” Did you just watch it?

“Yes, we watched hundreds of thousands of children being killed, maimed, and starved—and we just kept watching,” one writer said in response to the powerful clip.

 To mark this anniversary of Israel’s yearlong assault on Gaza—which has killed, maimed, displaced, starved, and sickened millions of Palestinians with no end in sight—Palestine defenders shared a video set in the year 2040 in which children around the world ask their elders, “What were you doing during this genocide, Grandpa?”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-genocide-in-the-future

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 “You cannot heal from a hit on the head when you are still being hit on the head.”

Jessie Little Doe Baird, vice-chair of Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, Massachusetts.

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They can’t work toward peace in Ukraine because it will serve Putin. They can’t work toward peace in Yemen because it will serve Iran. They can’t end the US occupation of Syria because it will serve Assad. They can’t stop military expansionism because it will serve China.

Or: Maybe they’re just warmongers.

Caitlin Johnstone, Australian journalist

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Binarity

July 22, 2016

” Greenprof” has put into writing what I also am doing.  I was a registered member of one of the branches of the Endless War – Corporatist Party (left wing, right wing, no matter) for 45 years, nursing the misguided belief that from within, I could have some effect.

About 6 years ago, I realized the error of the “evils of two lessers” mindset and decided that whatever electoral debacle we are presented with in any given year, it is not the last one that the Republicrat – Demican monopoly on the political process will present us with.   Far better to commit to leaving the good old boy system to associate with a group that is far closer to having a restorative view of the world, and registered as a Green.

The capitulation of Sanders to Party Loyalty saddens me.  Was he always planned as a Judas Goat to lead the dissidents back to the corral, or did he just run out of fight or perhaps, dignity?

Yes. I can be a Green and find significant congruence between my values and those of my party.  This election is a loss, no matter which of these dreadful persons wins.  Fixing our decayed process is the priority.

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Is Israel preparing to annex most of West Bank?

September 26, 2012

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Jonathan Cook
The Electronic Intifada
Nazareth
18 July 2012

The recently published report by an Israeli judge concluding that Israel is not in fact occupying the West Bank — despite a well-established international consensus to the contrary — has provoked mostly incredulity or mirth in Israel and abroad.

Leftwing websites in Israel used comically captioned photographs to highlight Justice Edmond Levy’s preposterous finding. One shows an Israeli soldier pressing the barrel of a rifle to the forehead of a Palestinian pinned to the ground, saying: “You see — I told you there’s no occupation.”

Even Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, seemed a little discomfited by the coverage. He was handed the report more than a fortnight earlier but was apparently reluctant to make it public.
Downplaying the Levy report’s significance may prove unwise, however. If Netanyahu is embarrassed, it is only because of the timing of the report’s publication rather than its substance.
It was, after all, Netanyahu himself who established the committee earlier this year to assess the legality of the Jewish settlers’ “outposts,” ostensibly unauthorized by the government, that have spread like wild seeds across the West Bank.

He hand-picked its three members, all diehard supporters of the settlements, and received the verdict he expected — that the settlements are legal. Certainly, Levy’s opinion should have come as no surprise. In 2005 he was the only Israeli high court judge to oppose the government’s decision to withdraw the settlers from Gaza.
Legal commentators too have been dismissive of the report. They have concentrated more on Levy’s dubious reasoning than on the report’s political significance.

They have noted that Theodor Meron, the foreign ministry’s legal advisor in 1967, expressly warned the government in the wake of the war that year that settling civilians in the newly seized territory was a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Experts have also pointed to the difficulties Israel will face if it adopts Levy’s position.

Belligerent occupation
Under international law, Israel’s rule in the West Bank and Gaza is considered “belligerent occupation” and, therefore, its actions must be justified by military necessity only. If there is no occupation, Israel has no military grounds to hold on to the territories. In that case, it must either return the land to the Palestinians, and move out the settlers, or defy international law by annexing the territories, as it did earlier with East Jerusalem, and establish a state of Greater Israel.

Annexation, however, poses its own dangers. Israel must either offer the Palestinians citizenship and wait for a non-Jewish majority to emerge in Greater Israel; or deny them citizenship and face pariah status as an apartheid state.
Just such concerns were raised recently by forty Jewish leaders in the United States, who called on Netanyahu to reject Levy’s “legal maneuverings” that, they said, threatened Israel’s “future as a Jewish and democratic state.”
But from Israel’s point of view, there may, in fact, be a way out of this conundrum.

In a 2003 interview, one of the other Levy committee members, Alan Baker, a settler who advised the foreign ministry for many years, explained Israel’s heterodox interpretation of the Oslo accords, signed a decade earlier.
The agreements were not, as most assumed, the basis for the creation of a Palestinian state in the territories, but a route to establish the legitimacy of the settlements. “We are no longer an occupying power, but we are instead present in the territories with their [the Palestinians’] consent and subject to the outcome of negotiations,” Baker said.
On this view, the Oslo accords redesignated the 62 percent of the West Bank assigned to Israel’s control — so-called Area C — from”occupied” to “disputed” territory. That explains why every Israeli administration since the mid-1990s has indulged in an orgy of settlement-building there.

Groundwork for annexation?
According to Jeff Halper, head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, the Levy report is preparing the legal ground for Israel’s annexation of Area C. His disquiet is shared by others.
Recent European Union reports have used unprecedented language to criticize Israel for the “forced transfer” — diplomat-speak for ethnic cleansing — of Palestinians out of Area C into the West Bank’s cities,which fall under Palestinian control.

The EU notes that the numbers of Palestinians in Area C has shrunk dramatically under Israeli rule to fewer than 150,000, or no more than 6 percent of the Palestinian population of the West Bank. Settlers now outnumber Palestinians more than two-to-one in Area C.

Israel could annex nearly two-thirds of the West Bank and still safely confer citizenship on Palestinians there. Adding 150,000 to the existing 1.5 million Palestinian citizens of Israel, a fifth of the population, would not erode the Jewish majority’s dominance.

If Netanyahu is hesitant, it is only because the time is not yet ripe for implementation. But over recent weeks, there were indications of Israel’s next moves to strengthen its hold on Area C.
It was reported that Israel’s immigration police,which have been traditionally restricted to operating inside Israel, have been authorized to enter the West Bank and expel foreign activists. The new powers were on show the same day as foreigners, including a New York Times reporter, were arrested at one of the regular protests against the separation wall being built on Palestinian land. Such demonstrations are the chief expression of resistance to Israel’s takeover of Palestinian territory in Area C.

And it emerged that Israel had begun a campaign against OCHA, the UN agency that focuses on humanitarian harm done to Palestinians from Israeli military and settlement activity, most of it in Area C. Israel has demanded details of where OCHA’s staff work and what projects it is planning, and is threatening to withdraw staff visas, apparently in the hope of limiting its activities in Area C.

There is a problem, nonetheless. If Israel takes Area C, it needs someone else responsible for the other 38 percent of the West Bank — little more than 8 percent of historic Palestine — to “fill the vacuum,” as Israeli commentators have phrased it.

Bailing out the PA
The obvious candidate is the Palestinian Authority, the Ramallah government-in-waiting led by Mahmoud Abbas. Its police act as a security contractor for Israel, keeping in check Palestinians in the parts of the West Bank outside Area C. Also, as a recipient of endless international aid, the PA usefully removes the financial burden of the occupation from Israel.

But the PA’s weakness is evident on all fronts: it has lost credibility with ordinary Palestinians, it is impotent in international forums, and it is mired in financial crisis. In the long term, it looks doomed.
For the time being, though, Israel seems keen to keep the PA in place. In June, for example, it was revealed that Israel had tried — even if unsuccessfully — to bail out the PA by requesting a $100 million loan from the International Monetary Fund on the PA’s behalf.

If the PA refuses to, or cannot, take on these remaining fragments of the West Bank, Israel may simply opt to turn back the clock and once again cultivate weak and isolated local leaders for each Palestinian city.
The question is whether the international community can first be made to swallow Levy’s absurd conclusion.

Jonathan Cook won the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. His latest books are Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East (Pluto Press) and Disappearing Palestine: Israel’s Experiments in Human Despair (Zed Books). His website is http://www.jkcook.net
A version of this article first appeared in The National, Abu Dhabi.

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