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US congresswoman denounces disturbing arrests of Palestinian children
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Rethinking Israel s Blank Check in Light of Palestinian Teen s Death with US Weapon
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Ali Abu Alia, from twitter
We all know that one of the most important events of this eventful year was the police murder last May of George Floyd in South Minneapolis, which, because there had been many George Floyds before George Floyd, set in train massive national protests, real legal reforms, and a cultural shift in attitudes towards structural racism.
2020
ought to be remembered, too, for the murder 10 days ago of a Palestinian boy protesting the Israeli occupation of his village land. Ali Abu Alia was shot in the stomach by an Israeli soldier wielding an American-made rifle. Ali was 15 that day. He was plainly an innocent child. I don’t care how many rocks that child was throwing. There was an occupying army in his village to steal his land for what Israeli law ennobles as “Jewish settlement.”
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Meet General Lloyd Austin
President-elect Joe Biden is set to nominate retired Army general Lloyd Austin as Defense Secretary. After retiring from the military in 2016, Austin joined the board of Raytheon. The defense manufacturer has sold billions of dollars worth of weapons to the Saudi coalition that’s been pummeling Yemen with bombs for years.
“After the Yemen war began in 2015 and the Obama administration made a hasty decision to back the Saudis, Raytheon booked more than $3 billion in new bomb sales, according to an analysis of available U.S. government records,” reported the
New York Times earlier this year, “Intent on pushing the deals through, Raytheon followed the industry playbook: It took advantage of federal loopholes by sending former State Department officials, who were not required to be registered as lobbyists, to press their former colleagues to approve the sales.”