[🇧🇩] Israel and Hamas war in Gaza-----Can Bangladesh be a peace broker?

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Israel says it will ‘flood’ Gaza with aid as pressure mounts to do more

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Israel says it will ‘flood’ Gaza with aid as pressure mounts to do more​

15 Mar 2024, 12:00 am

Reuters :

Israel will try to “flood” the Gaza Strip with humanitarian aid from a variety of entry points, the main military spokesman said on Wednesday as international pressure mounted to address the growing problem of hunger in the besieged enclave.

After more than five months of war in Gaza, aid agencies have warned that the area’s 2.3 million population face a growing risk of famine unless food supplies are stepped up sharply and they have accused Israel of not doing enough to ensure sufficient aid gets through.

Israel says it has placed no limits on the amount of aid that it will allow in to Gaza, and blames failures by the aid agencies for delays but it has faced mounting demands even from its closest allies to do more.

“We are trying to flood the area, to flood it with humanitarian aid,” military spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari told a group of foreign reporters.

Earlier on Wednesday, the military announced that six aid trucks with supplies from the World Food Organization had entered the northern part of the Gaza Strip, where the hunger crisis has been especially acute, through a crossing in the security fence known as the 96th gate.

More such convoys would follow as well as deliveries from other entry points, complemented by air drops and seaborne aid cargoes, Hagari said.

“We are learning and improving and doing different changes so as not to create a routine but to create a diversity of ways that we can enter,” he said.

Hagari acknowledged, however, that getting supplies into the enclave was only one part of the problem and more needed to be done to solve the problem of how to distribute it fairly and efficiently to desperately needy people.
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Schumer calls Netanyahu "obstacle to peace".

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Sure Bangladesh can be a mediator.

But what makes you think Israel and Israel's friend USA would take Bangladesh seriously?

 

[Saif]

Sure Bangladesh can be a mediator.

But what makes you think Israel and Israel's friend USA would take Bangladesh seriously?

1. Bangladesh is one of the largest Muslim majority countries in the world with whom Israel wants to establish diplomatic relation. Israel's eagerness to establish diplomatic ties with Bangladesh has been displayed by top Israeli leaders in the recent time.

2. Israel would prefer a non-Arab Muslim country to mediate in the conflict between Israel and Hamas as they don't trust the Arabs.

3. Bangladesh is the largest troops contributor to the UN peacekeeping mission.

4. Bangladesh is one of the partners of the U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy. So, there is no trust deficit between the USA and Bangladesh.

 

[Saif]

Schumer calls Netanyahu "obstacle to peace".

He is not far from the truth.

 

[Saif]

Palestine is the world

THE Israeli invasion of Palestine is an act of aggression of such gravity that it is almost impossible for me to speak of anything else...

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Palestine is the world
Silvia Federici | Published: 00:00, Mar 14,2024

Palestinian children receive cooked food rations as part of a volunteer youth initiative in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 5, amidst widespread hunger in the besieged Palestinian territory. — Agence France-Presse/Mohammed Abed

THE Israeli invasion of Palestine is an act of aggression of such gravity that it is almost impossible for me to speak of anything else. When the population of six cities and many villages is tortured daily in front of the whole world, and when those perpetrating these crimes are granted total immunity, then we have to stop and speak up because new standards are being established as to what is permissible internationally, which put us all in danger.

My first point, then, is that we have to oppose this aggression, these Israeli war crimes, in any way we can and there is a lot we can do since it is our money that pays for them. Without the United States Israel could not even function as an economy, much less have tanks to occupy every street in Palestine.

At the same time, we should not make the mistake of thinking that the situation in Palestine is unique. Palestine today is the image of what, in different ways, is occurring across the world.

The Israeli invasion of Palestine is a classic example of colonial conquest. In fact, the very creation of the state of Israel was part of the British colonisation of the Middle East. This was acknowledged by Sharon when he told the president of France, Chirac, three weeks ago that: Palestine is our Algeria, with the difference (he added) that we are going to stay.

Over the last two decades the same colonial relations have been re-imposed by Europe and the US on every part of the former colonial world, this time in the name of the debt crisis, globalization or the war on drugs and, more recently, the war on terrorism. The slogans change but the objectives and the consequences are the same: uprooting the local populations, turning them into refugees, into cheap labour for the global market, appropriating their resources, their lands, their assets, their oil, their waters, their labour, either by the use of tanks and bombings or through trade agreements, structural adjustment programmes, currency devaluations, all means of waging war on the people and the lands.

Not surprisingly, the same destructive policies that Israel is implementing in Palestine, with the use of deadly force through land expropriation, the expansion of settlements, the theft of water, and now the systematic destruction of every infrastructure (like water pipes, roads, power plants, sewers, schools, houses) are also being implemented, with the same results, in Africa, Asia, Latin America.

What in Israel is destroyed by the IDF, in many African countries is destroyed by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization. In Palestine it is the Israeli tanks that bulldoze schools and houses. In Africa, it is structural adjustment, the defunding of the public sector, currency devaluation, but the effects are the same. In Palestine the sick, the wounded, the women giving birth cannot go to the hospitals because the Israelis shoot them. In Africa people cannot go to the hospitals, even without the Israeli bullets — although Israel has played havoc in Africa too, propping every dictator, from Mobuto to the white South African apartheid regime. In both cases, the results are populations of refugees, the transfer of lands from the local people to the new colonial powers, forwarding and protecting the interests of international capital.

Comparing the role of the Israeli government and the Israeli army with that of the World Bank, the IMF and WTO is not to underestimate what is taking place in Palestine or minimise its gravity, but it is to show the continuity between war and economic policy and between the aggression of Israel against Palestine and the many wars that are now bloodying the world.

President Bush has announced that 50 countries are on the US government list as candidates for bombings. But as a matter of fact an equal number has already experienced America’s warfare over the last two decades, to such an extent that it will take them decades to regain some degree of normalcy. Think of Chile, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Mozambique, Angola, Panama, Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan. Many of these countries have been so devastated that they are now economically dis-functional or have been placed under the UN trusteeship.

Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that we are witnessing a new, extensive process of recolonisation, with Palestine being the experimental field.

In the US as well, warfare is the rule with mass incarceration of black and Latino youth, the use of capital punishment mostly against black people, and the attack on healthcare, housing, welfare provisions, immigrant men, and women.

Capitalism is waging a war on the people of the world, a war that deprives us of all means necessary to reproduce our lives, a war that keeps seeking new names and justifications but at the core has one purpose: stripping us from our entitlement to the wealth of the world; turning us into refugees of one sort of another, homeless people who have no claim to this earth, allows us only to work and work when it suits our employers.

This is our destiny and the destiny of our children if we do not resist and if we refuse to become settlers, guards, policemen. Today the people of Palestine are being martyred, but we delude ourselves if we think that the destruction of their communities and their expulsion from their lands will have no consequences for our lives. Palestine is the world, and the blood it sheds — caused by the weapons and financial aid provided by the United States — will fall on us as well.

CounterPunch.org, March 12. Silvia Federici is a scholar, teacher and feminist activist based in New York. She is a professor emerita and teaching fellow at Hofstra University in New York State, where she was a social science professor. Her most recent book is Patriarchy of The Wage: Notes on Marx, Gender, and Feminism.​

 

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1. Bangladesh is one of the largest Muslim majority countries in the world with whom Israel wants to establish diplomatic relation. Israel's eagerness to establish diplomatic ties with Bangladesh has been displayed by top Israeli leaders in the recent time.

2. Israel would prefer a non-Arab Muslim country to mediate in the conflict between Israel and Hamas as they don't trust the Arabs.

3. Bangladesh is the largest troops contributor to the UN peacekeeping mission.

4. Bangladesh is one of the partners of the U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy. So, there is no trust deficit between the USA and Bangladesh.

In this respect - Bangladesh is equivalent to Indonesia and Malaysia, the other two moderate Muslim countries in East Asia.

 

[Bilal9]

He is not far from the truth.

When the highest elected Jewish person in the USA calls Netanyahu an obstacle to peace in the Middle East, this is a sign of things to come - the writing is on the wall. Netanyahu's days are numbered. I am positing that elections in Israel will be called soon and the extremists there will lose.