War criminal, devotee of human sacrifice, and on-trial Binyamin Netanyahu pushed pedophile, grifter extraordinaire, and twice-impeached, 34 times convicted criminal Donald “Jesus H.” Trump to go to undeclared and illegal war with Iran so that Israel could resume murdering at large in Gaza and Lebanon, in addition to its criminal behavior in the West Bank, Syria, and elsewhere.
Bibi lying about the Iranian nuclear programwarincontext.org
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For many residents unable to return to southern Lebanon amid Israel’s invasion and demolition campaign, satellite imagery has become the only way they can find out the state of their homes.
The Contranian: The Humanitarian Crisis in Lebanon is Getting Worse
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/the-humanitarian-crisis-in-lebanon
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Iran’s Foreign Minister to visit Pakistan, Russia, and Oman in regional tour. Third U.S. aircraft carrier arrives in Middle East. Israel threatens to return Iran to the “Stone Age.” President Donald Trump claims Iran’s oil infrastructure will “explode” within days without a deal.
Analysis: Less than a third of buildings hit in Tehran linked to military. NYT says Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei gravely wounded and governing via handwritten messages. The Iran war has eaten into U.S. stockpiles: report.
Israeli strikes continue in Lebanon despite ceasefire extension. Hezbollah targets Israeli troops and downs drone. Trump says Lebanon ceasefire to be extended by three weeks.
Israeli attacks continue across the Gaza Strip. Parents describe Israeli attack that killed their children. Gaza’s amputee crisis deepening.
Israel approves new settlement-linked school in occupied East Jerusalem. Israeli minister says West Bank settlement expansion has Trump’s support. Netanyahu treated for early-stage prostate cancer.
Bernie Sanders e-mail:
On Wednesday, I and other progressives in the Senate took a major step forward in reversing one of the ugliest and most dangerous aspects of American foreign policy. As you may know, I have, for several years, been trying to stop our government from sending military aid to Israel. A nation that — under the leadership of right-wing extremist Benjamin Netanyahu — has committed genocide in Gaza, has started an illegal and horrific war in Iran and has been bombing civilian neighborhoods in Lebanon should not be supported by U.S. tax dollars.
When we began this effort, the first resolution that I offered to stop U.S. military aid to Israel only received 11 votes in the Senate. The next resolution received 18 votes, followed by a resolution that won 27 votes. On Wednesday, a resolution that I offered received 40 votes – over 80% of the Democratic caucus, an all time high. We received no Republican support. While we still have a long way to go, we are making progress in this important area. The simple truth is that when working people are struggling to put food on the table and pay for housing and health care, they do not want billions of their hard-earned tax dollars to be spent on killing innocent men, women and children in the Middle East. We must end U.S. military aid to Israel.
On March 31, Mark Carney called Israel’s Lebanon operation an illegal invasion and a violation of their territorial sovereignty. The sharpest statement by a Canadian prime minister on Israel. A contrast to Harper’s 2006 description of Israel’s previous Lebanon invasion as “measured.” #cdnpoli
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From Surveillance State to Kill Machine: Has the Line Already Been Crossed?
by thomhartmann
To understand what’s coming unless Congress steps in to stop it now, you must first know about what’s already been built in Gaza that’s the template for the Trump regime. An Israeli intelligence whistleblower told the Israeli magazine +972 in April 2024 about an AI system called Lavender that ranked the entire population of Gaza by “probability of militant affiliation.”
Lavender then automatically generated a “kill list” of roughly thirty-seven thousand people living in Gaza, based on things like intercepted cell phone metadata and social media activity. It fed that list to human officers who spent an average of twenty seconds rubber-stamping each name before the Israeli Air Force bombed each target’s home, killing those “militants” and their families.
The system had a reported error rate of about ten percent, which, in a population of two million Gazans, translates to thousands of civilians killed because the AI computer was mistaken or drew the wrong conclusions from their social media, phone, or travel activity.
Even more brutal, a companion Israeli system called “Where’s Daddy?” tracked those flagged men so they could be bombed when they were home with their wives and kids, because, as one officer told the reporters, it was “much easier” to bomb a family’s home than to try to target a military or business site.
And what about the families of these “militants”? Israeli command approved up to twenty civilian deaths — men, women, children — per low-ranking “militant” killed, and more than a hundred dead when bombing to take out a “senior commander.”
This is how automated killing at industrial scale actually works in real time, how it works right now as you’re reading these words, and it is not science fiction.
This is one of those stories where no matter how much you know, the reality is far worse.
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