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Welcome back to another podcast newsletter for The Village Oak Tree.
I am bringing more agitation towards the western world over their treatment of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank again. I bash the United States in particular but I also bash the U.K. and the EU for sucking up to the U.S. and enabling Israel to continue with their ethnic cleansing.
I decided to talk about this after the events in the news last week over all the furor when the IDF killed those food aid workers. It took the deliberate targeting and murder of these seven people for Biden and company to finally put their foot down to Israel.
As I say in the podcast, too little, too late.
Why did it take the deaths of six white people and one interpreter for the west to tell Israel to back off and let the aid trucks in? And even then, only a few. They withdrew some soldiers from south Gaza, leaving two brigades in place. Big whoop.
All the while, making big threats about gearing up to invade Rafah at some undisclosed date as of yet. In today’s news, someone said that they are bluffing. What do you think?
In other news, I have a treat this week. I talked my favorite Brit, Martin Morrison, into reading his own story for me and I added it to the end of my monologue, with pictures of Palestine. Not the touristy ones.
I also added in a revised advertisement at about the fifteen minute mark. Fair warning. And you thought this was all for free. Gotcha’
Listen to the podcast by clicking the play icon and see for yourself.
Watch the show and let me know what you think. If no one has guessed yet, I am very pro-Palestinian. Have been for years. Much like I have been a supporter of Sinn Féin for four decades now. It seems we Irish like to root for the underdogs. Something about being kicked while we were down for the last eight hundred years may have had something to do with it.
I have my own personal stories of British and American prejudice towards me as well, just for being of Irish descent. That kind of treatment tends to shape a person.
As always, I present the stories I used for today’s show for everyone to read. None are paywalled for medium subscribers, even the one I have from a Substack writer.
References:
US says Israel has not violated international law during Gaza war
After Israel killed seven aid workers in Gaza, the US says it has not found any incidents of Israel violating international humanitarian law in the past six months. An Al Jazeera probe concluded the World Central Kitchen vehicles were deliberately hit.
Biden rebukes Israel, says he’s ‘outraged’ over killing of Gaza aid workers
US president issues some of his strongest criticism of Israel yet after killings of seven World Central Kitchen workers.
Israel’s rules of engagement seem looser than ever – if they are followed at all
The deaths of seven aid workers add credence to allegations by observers that commanders on the ground in Gaza may ‘do as they please’
UN rights body demands Israel be held accountable for possible ‘war crimes’
UN Human Rights Council also backs call to halt all arms sales to Israel, highlighting warnings of ‘genocide’ in Gaza
Six months on, how close is Israel to eliminating Hamas?
Israel’s message: ‘Don’t feed the Palestinians’
The killing of the seven aid workers in Gaza is a direct consequence of Israel’s brutal ‘rules of engagement’.
Andrew Mitrovica
Al Jazeera columnist
Israel reduces troops in south Gaza, Egypt to host new talks
By Ari Rabinovitch and Nidal Al-Mughrabi
Germany faces genocide case over Israel weapon sales
By Matt Murphy, BBC News
Russia accused of using chemical gas attacks against Ukrainian soldiers
Ukraine soldiers describe ‘almost daily’ illegal gas attacks as invaders seek to dislodge them from embedded positions
US Secretary of State Blinken says Ukraine will be NATO member
By Reuters
Al-Ibāda — الإبادة
The Annihilation
They Will Say They Didn’t Know
That is all I have for everyone this week. Return again next week as I interview a gentleman who ran afoul of some type of radical Christian sect and lived to tell about it.
Please share this podcast with your friends and relations. The more you share, the more we can convince enough people to make the world a better place to live in.
As a Seanchaí, I hope you will continue to let me travel to your village to bring you some news from the world outside that might make you think a little after we part for the day.
As I say good bye this week, I wish to leave you with this Irish blessing as you go about your day. “May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.” Slán go fóill — which means goodbye for now in Irish.
T. Ó Domhnaill — Gaelic Seanchaí
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