Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reported this week that the civil administrator of settlements in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank and the minister of finance, Bezalel Smotrich, broached the subject of whether it is legal and moral to starve over two million people to death. Smotrich, the head of the […]
Walz called Gaza situation “Intolerable,” sought ceasefire, praised Uncommitted; Shapiro did not
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Presumptive Democratic Party standard-bearer Kamala Harris’ pick of Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate has widely been implied to have something to do with his stance on the Gaza genocide. That proposition is likely almost entirely untrue. Governors of states don’t usually have much to say about international […]
Using US Tech Giants’ “Cloud” and A.I., Israel Bombed Schools, killing 24 Children, to hit 2 “Saboteurs”
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Sunday, the Los Angeles Times reports, “In Deir al Balah, Gaza, an Israeli strike hit a tent camp for thousands of displaced Palestinians in the courtyard of Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, killing four people and injuring others, Gaza’s Health Ministry said.” In addition, the Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports, […]
Iran condemns “medieval barbarity” of Israel’s Sde Teiman Camp, insists on Right to Deter further Aggression
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Iranian spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Nasser Kanani, condemned Israel on Saturday on “X” for practicing “medieval forms of torture” at the detention center for Palestinians at Sde Teiman, where it was revealed this week that rogue military police had engaged in gang rape and severe torture of detainees, […]
Israeli Total War infects 40,000 with Hepatitis A, threatens Polio Epidemic, Recalling Past Experiments on Human Subjects
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a 2011 exposé , Mike Stobbe of NBC news revealed a long history of federal physicians from the US deliberately infecting challenged persons or prisoners with diseases so as to experiment on them. For instance, Stobbe wrote, “In the 1946-48 study, American scientists infected prisoners and patients in a […]
Turkey’s Erdogan denounces killing of Haniyeh, blocks Israel at NATO, Boycotts it, and threatens Intervention
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The only Middle Eastern country that has taken significant political and administrative actions to protest Israeli war crimes is Turkey. President Tayyip Erdogan denounced the assassination of Hamas Politburo head Ismail Haniyeh at “X,” writing, “I vehemently denounce and anathematize (lanetliyorum) the perfidious assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, leader of the […]
Did Netanyahu Rub Out Hamas’ Haniyeh to counter the Rise of Kamala Harris and Demands he negotiate with… Haniyeh?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s assassination of Hamas civilian Politburo head Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran was a crime, and we all know from police procedurals that the investigator has to look for “means, motive and opportunity.” The government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu certainly had the means and the opportunity. It has assassinated […]
Civil War in Israeli Army, Parliament as MPs detain Soldiers for Gang Rape of Palestinian Prisoners at Vault of Horrors
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that on Monday, military police raided the Sde Teiman detention center where Palestinian prisoners are being held, detaining 9 Israel soldiers suspected of gang raping and severely sexually torturing detainees. One further suspect was not apprehended. The soldiers belong to the Force 100 unit, […]
The UK Labour Party drops opposition to Int’l Criminal Court Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant over Gaza War Crimes
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Labour Party in Britain announced that it would not submit a brief to the International Criminal Court arguing that the court has no jurisdiction over Israeli actions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The previous Conservative government of Rishi Sunak had pledged to make such a submission, but the new […]