Are the protests for Palestine enough?
Progressive International
Are the protests for Palestine enough?
Progressive International
Sylvia Yacoub, a career foreign service officer who works on Middle East issues, has been outspoken on X, formerly Twitter, using the platform to bash her boss, President Joe Biden, and lash out at the administration’s support for Israel as it faces down Hamas, according to a Washington Free Beacon review of her social media activity.
Yacoub’s messages—which accuse Israel of “genocide” in the Gaza Strip, criticize U.S. military assistance to Israel, and accuse the Biden administration of fomenting Islamaphobia with its pro-Israel position—are said to be well known within the State Department and causing headaches among officials, according to two U.S. government sources who spoke to the Free Beacon.
Yacoub is one of several current Biden administration officials who have publicly griped about America’s robust support for Israel, including a Pentagon employee who has repeatedly called for an immediate Israeli ceasefire, undercutting the administration’s stated policy. U.S. officials, in private forums, have also raised concerns about what they see as the administration’s overly supportive stance towards Israel, according to one U.S. official familiar with the matter.

Democracy Now!
Ta-Nehisi Coates Speaks Out Against Israel’s “Segregationist Apartheid Regime” After West Bank Visit
Democracy Now!
“As Israeli forces began making limited ground incursions into northern Gaza over the weekend, reports proliferated that Israel was readying plans to expel much or all of the enclave’s population into the neighbouring Egyptian territory of Sinai.
In part, those fears were fuelled by a report last week, published in the Israeli outlet Calcalist, of a leaked policy draft from the intelligence ministry outlining just such an ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza.”
Noam Chomsky On Gaza
MIT Center for International Studies
What has the UN done and said on the Israel-Palestine conflict?
25 Oct 2023 :: The UN’s chief is at the centre of diplomatic tension with Israel, but all sides have been critical of the global body.
Israel and the United Nations are locked in a bitter spat, after UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday night said that the Hamas attacks of October 7 “did not happen in a vacuum”
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Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine | Lex Fridman Podcast #391
Lex Fridman
E85: Israel-Hamas: What’s happening, and what can we do?
DiEM25
Gabor Mate explains how he sees the Palestine Israël conflict
Hamid Acharrab
Yuval Noah Harari on CNN Amanpour – Hamas’ aim was ‘to assassinate any chance for peace’
However… see Amanpour’s questioning Beginning at minute 3:50