Entries by Patrick Cleburne

Friday in Gaza: “The balance of power in [Netanyahu’s] Cabinet is held by maniacs who want to seize and colonize Gaza”

Getting Friday news from Gaza has proved almost impossible. Anyone suggest a better news search engine than Google News? Aljazeera which clearly has the best news gathering operation in Gaza reports at least 18 deaths from “Israeli strikes’ today. Israel’s Ynet has a gung-ho report seemingly confirming action today: https://www.ynetnews.com/article/byzdmiargl#autoplay But several US MSM outlets have at last picked up […]

Thursday in Gaza: The most moral army in the world to build the most moral concentration camp in the world

An almost complete shutdown on actual Gaza news Thursday across the anglophone world makes NBC‘s running of a brief video particularly commendable: https://www.nbcnews.com/video/children-killed-in-multiple-israeli-airstrikes-on-gaza-242922053718 At least 15 people, including several children, were killed in an Israeli strike near a health clinic in central Gaza. The BBC report on this has a longer video they have verified https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gd01g1gxro It adds “They […]

Wednesday in Gaza

Almost total silence in the US MSM on what happened in Gaza on Wednesday. So PBS deserves praise for carrying the AP story: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/israeli-strike-kills-40-palestinians-in-gaza-as-netanyahu-and-trump-meet-over-a-ceasefire At least 40 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, hospital officials said Wednesday. Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis said the dead included 17 women and 10 children. . AlJazeera‘s evening wrap puts […]

Tuesday in Gaza

On Tuesday in Gaza 5 Israeli soldiers were killed in a bomb attack. This was widely reported in the US MSM, breaking through the chatter about the Trump/Netanyahu meetings. However few included the full AP story. Salute to the Cumberland Times-News https://archive.is/Jo1ls Health officials in the Palestinian territory said 51 people were killed in Israeli strikes. one strike targeted […]

Saturday in Gaza

Notwithstanding Israeli PM Netanyahu’s DC visit starting Monday, Israeli airstrikes and shootings in Gaza have continued at a furious pace. The Israeli outlet Haaretz reports https://archive.is/d11AB At least 138 Palestinians were killed and 452 wounded in the Gaza Strip on Friday, according to a statement from the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry. Today’s activity may in the end prove […]