Health And Wealth

Without health, there is no wealth is the kind of folksy saying that I sort of agree with especially after a month of being sick and confined to home. The thing I know is that the relative wealth of a white boomer retiree makes being sick a very different experience for me than for many people in my country; I've got food, secure housing, plenty of firewood, wifi, streaming movies, etc. to comfort me in my affliction. Oh and did I mention great health care? I've known my doctor and family practice for decades, it's in one wing of a teaching hospital where my family has always received excellent care, and I have both retired teacher health insurance plus, at my age, Medicare (at least for now).

If I were living in my car and eating uncooked ramen noodles, relying on the emergency room to see a doctor, I might not have survived walking pneumonia. Or the allergic reaction to one of the medicines I was prescribed. As it is I'm on the mend and can waltz in without an appointment and get a follow up chest x-ray when the appointed day arrives.

Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

What if I lived in another country?

I've experienced minor health challenges in a few different countries. In Australia, which has a public health system that is barely adequate buttressed by a private system that some can afford, I saw a nice doctor that my aunt knows and my out of pocket cost was not high enough to be memorable.

Tokyo street scene, March 2023 Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP via Getty Images

In Tokyo, where I lived for four years, I had two babies, mastitis from a staph infection, and the kids had the usual viral infections. There were doctors and midwives right in our neighborhood who charged an infinitesimal co-pay (like $2.50), and we were in the public health system by virtue of working and paying taxes (10% flat) even though we weren't Japanese. The doctors gave us prescribed medications on the spot but maybe only a couple of days worth so I would bring the baby back for follow up.

Japanese people at the time (early 1980s) did not vaccinate until age 2, but I was able to get the standard childhood vaccinations for my kids earlier than that by asking around. Whooping cough was still a thing if not measles, tetanus, diphtheria, or polio.

In India I contracted dysentery while about three weeks pregnant and was very, very sick for a long time while my husband bounced back quickly from the same ailment. I saw one of the many woman doctors trained in India and was given antibiotics and powdered electrolyte mix. Again, the out of pocket cost was so small I cannot remember it.

Now that I've lived through Covid and the anti-vax movement on steroids that it fueled, I have a few thoughts.

The body of scientific knowledge is based on data, not anecdotes. All of the above I've just shared is anecdotal. Being a boomer, I remember a time when the prevailing sentiment was that vaccines save lives and doctors usually know best. Being someone with chronic digestive problems that started at birth, I also know that Western medicine is far from the definitive authority on how to get or stay well. A G/I specialist finally diagnosed what was wrong with me, but it took a naturopath and an acupuncturist to get me back on the path to decent health.

All of that is background for me to say that the profit motive has infected health care in the U.S. and a profound lack of trust in medical authorities stems from this root cause.

After we were told that Covid vaccines would stop transmission (they don't) -- and that we were criminals if we questioned that orthodoxy -- public faith in medical authorities began to disintegrate.

After we were told that Covid couldn't possibly have originated in a lab (it could, possibly with Mossad's involvement) -- and that we were criminals if we questioned that orthodoxy -- public faith in our government's commitment to our health began to disintegrate.

Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images  Source: "Newly sworn-in HHS Secretary RFK Jr. vows to tackle physical, as well as spiritual 'crisis' in the country"

Enter RFK Jr.

Kennedy is easily the most bizarre Secretary of Health & Human Services that we've had in my lifetime. One of the original "vaccines cause autism" advocates, he now appears to have walked that back somewhat -- or at least that's what he told senators in his confirmation hearings.

When I ran for the U.S. Senate in 2020 there was a large contingent who were intent on weaponizing anti-vax sentiment against me. Either trying to falsely paint me as anti-vax (as they had successfully done to pediatrician Dr. Jill Stein in 2016) or organizing opposition because I had made clear my position that parents are free to not vaccinate their kids, but in my opinion those kids should not be admitted to public schools. 

To really understand the concept of public health, you might have to work in a setting like public schools for a few years. Many anti-vax parents are against schools, too, and they homeschool with widely varied results. One such parent commented online, "I am only responsible for my family's health" which is a sentiment that would probably get you sent to a re-education camp in China (kidding).

China was set up to be seen as the bad guy during Covid. The virus was clearly developed with U.S. financial and logistical backing, but it "leaked" in Wuhan. Hmmm,  interesting. China went into overdrive to address the public health crisis, as did Cuba. The U.S. made sure a lot of very wealthy Big Pharma executives became even more wealthy, and withheld the patents for various early Covid vaccines.

China is not the bad guy here. Health care for profit is the bad guy. It is an oxymoron. It has eroded our faith in public health directives, and our faith in health advice from people who went to medical school.

If you haven't seen the mini-series Apple Cider Vinegar you might want to check it out. It's a recreation of the true story of an Australian health "influencer" who died of cancer after rejecting medical advice and instead attempting a fresh juice cure. Her mom also bought in and also died of a different type of cancer. Just today I learned that super model Elle Macpherson is another health "influencer" in Australia who rejected chemo for breast cancer and publicized it. 

I like fresh squeezed juice as much as the next person. But I also like my friend in town who is still alive after chemo to treat bladder cancer. In fact, they are in remission and were given a clean bill of health over a year ago. Honestly, they were the last person I expected to go the conventional route based on their lifestyle up to that point. But they have a family who loves them. So they talked it over and came to the decision to let the doctors try their best. I'm sure being so healthy heading into self-poisoning to kill the cancer cells made a difference.

In what direction will Secretary Kennedy lead us? As long as Congress fails to take the profit out of health care, it probably won't matter much. 

Am I too old to move to China?

Ukraine War Continues As Divisive As Ever

Original collage by James Fangboner (left image), modified by me (right image)

All U.S. presidents campaign on promises of ending whichever quagmire(s) the nation is floundering in. It plays well with voters.

Walking the walk is a lot harder than talking the talk, though.

For one thing, Ukraine represents a propaganda effort by Western corporate media that was so sudden and so comprehensive that I'll admit it smacked me upside of the head in 2022. (Full report here.) It completely split the "peace" or antiwar groups I was part of, with the Democrats of the former vilifying the anti-imperialists of the latter. Among the things I was called: a mouthpiece for Putin, and a parrot of Tucker Carlson (who I literally never watch). Veterans for Peace members locally turned their backs on me for carrying signs like "NO WAR WITH RUSSIA". A statewide coalition that holds monthly protests attracted a diverse list of co-sponsors that included the Libertarian Party of Maine, the Maine Communist Party, and the Party for Socialism & Liberation. But no Democratic Party.

Topsham, Maine February 5, 2023

How many times did President Zelensky travel to the U.S. to be valorized by Biden's crew and Congress? Now Z is in the dog house, and he and 47 are engaged in a flame war on social media. In Riyadh this week, it appears Russia and the U.S. made considerable progress toward a comprehensive agreement that would include a negotiated end to the war in Ukraine. 

This would never have happened under a Harris administration because Biden et al. owned the Ukraine war. Hunter Biden and "the big guy" made millions from its money laundering services, and it's no secret that dad shielded himself while extending a pardon for Hunter that stretches infinitely into the future.

Now 47 threatens to audit Ukraine to see where all the money went. That's got to be making some people nervous.

Among the lies we were told by corporate press throughout the war:

• It wasn't a proxy war with the West that aimed at weakening Russia using Ukraine as a cat's paw. 
• Russia blew up the Nord Stream pipeline carrying gas to Germany.
• Russia tried to blow up the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, in an area under its control. And, more recently, fired a missile into the Chernobyl nuclear power plant entombed in concrete.
• Russia was losing, barely had any troops or equipment, and would be forced to surrender any day now.
• Ukraine's government and military were not full of Nazis
• Ukraine was winning. 

On the eve of the third anniversary of Russia's special military operation, Ukraine has lost much of its eastern flank after referenda in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions indicated the residents overwhelmingly preferred to be Russian.

Elections Zelensky should have held a year ago would have been a referendum on his conduct of the war with Russia, and he would be expected to lose mightily.

So now the sticking point in negotiations appears to be: should elections be held before or after an agreement is reached? Russia has pointed out that once Zelensky declared martial law which precludes elections, and once March 2024 -- his term's end date -- had passed, they cannot negotiate with him. He's no longer a legitimate president.

47 appears to be holding out for a negotiated end to the war with elections to be held afterwards.

Who will blink first?

I often get feedback from readers who point out mistakes or suggest other interpretations, and I often get warm feedback as well. One I cherish is that after posting about how the vilification of Putin was deliberately morphed into the Russiagate nonsense by Democrats, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern sent me an email that simply said: Good, Lisa.

Whenever and however the Ukraine war ends, it's safe to say that the U.S. will never claw back any of the $119.2 BILLION that went into Zelensky's coffers. Because isn't that the real point of wars these days -- big profits for the weapons industry?

Ceding To Fascism With Pre-Anticipatory Obedience

A squadron of 6 U.S. Air Force bombers has reportedly been flying over the Mediterranean Sea. The squadron includes B-52 Stratofortresses i.e. nuclear-capable bombers, among others. The aircraft took off from an American base in England on Monday.

Meanwhile, officials in both the U.S. and the Zionist entity threatened to "unleash hell" on Gaza if they don't submit to being permanently displaced from their homeland. Hamas had this to say about that:

"Trump must remember that there is an agreement that must be respected by both parties and this is the only way to return the prisoners," Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri told AFP, referring to the hostages. He added, "The language of threats has no value and further complicates matters."

I recall President Theodore Roosevelt, the architect of U.S. imperialism, explained his strategy as "speak softly and carry a big stick." Now that we are ruled by small stick energy we boast and bluster on the world stage. Does the language of threats have no value? Probably not at the negotiating table where Hamas and Israel are poised on the brink of Phase 2 of their ceasefire agreement.

But, 47 and the elongated muskrat and their ilk think the language of threats plays well at home.

Speaking of threats, my friend and fellow organizer Bruce Gagnon received a threat from my alma mater yesterday. A resident of Brunswick, Maine where Bowdoin College is located, Bruce had local police at his door yesterday with a document promising to arrest him for criminal trespass if he sets foot on campus for the next 12 months. Here in a blog post he explains why his entirely nonviolent support for the recent student encampment led to Bowdoin enlisting local police to threaten him.

It's not a threat it's a promise when I say that I joined fellow Bowdoin alumni in boycotting the college's big fundraising day that's coming up, and have sent letters to a slew of administrators explaining why. Their refusal to address the Bowdoin Solidarity Referendum results nine months after its passage is shameful. Their persecution of students of conscience and the college's failure to live up to its oft vaunted commitment to pursue "the Common Good" is hypocritical.

A senior who was suspended for participating in the peaceful occupation of a student union that is supposed to be open 24/7 for student use but was instead locked down by college security forces told the Portland Press Herald what she thought was behind Bowdoin's cowardice:

[Oliva Kenney] characterized the college’s response as “pre-anticipatory obedience” to the Trump administration.

"I do believe that the college is concerned about how the Trump administration will react to colleges that have demonstrated any form of sympathy to Palestine protesters, but what they’re doing, really, is ceding to fascism before the true consequences of fascism have even descended upon them.”

Some community supporters have expressed disappointment that the students didn't hold out for longer than five days. It can be challenging to put yourself in the shoes of someone whose family has invested around a quarter of a million dollars in your degree only to be suspended, kicked out of your dorm and off the meal plan, and barred from attending classes -- all of which were paid for in advance. 

Do Bowdoin students have the support of their parents? Some do, some don't. One thing I can say for sure: most of these families have deep pockets and probably a lawyer or two in the mix. Will the college ultimately get away with trampling their progeny's access to education they paid for in defense of an indefensible genocide and ethno-state? Color me doubtful. 

I'm joining other alumni, including parents, in withholding donations to Bowdoin until they see their way clear to walking the walk, not just talking the talk, of "the Common Good." Estate planners may need to revise some decisions previously made.

Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank has been repeatedly bombed this month, displacing 17,000 people  Source: Al Jazeera

Zionists continue bombing Lebanon, gobbling up land in Syria, and shooting at children in Gaza and the West Bank. In fact, violence in the West Bank has ramped up significantly during the "ceasefire" in Gaza with 

Creating Israel was a mistake, but the Anglo-American imperialists who did so to create a permanently Western-aligned entity in occupied Palestine thought they had a big stick. They were wrong in thinking that indigenous Palestinians would cede to fascism with pre-anticipatory obedience (I'm excepting Palestinian Authority quislings here). 

Gazans and Palestinians in the West Bank won't back down, and neither will their supporters. Free Palestine!

Film Review: QUEEN & SLIM

It's Black History Month and I just watched a film about police violence against Black people that was so fine I will be thinking about it for a long time. It was as if GET OUT, the novel Les Misérables, and a prescient biopic on Luigi Mangione were rolled into one. 

Daniel Kaluuya played the lead in both QUEEN & SLIM (2019 release) and in the 2017 psychological thriller GET OUT, a story built atop a "meet the parents" structure. No parents are getting met in Q&S -- though the film is also a love story, a tragic love story along the lines of Romeo & Juliet.

Q&S also reminded me of a Hitchcock film with its prolonged and artfully sustained horror. The Hitchcockian theme of the "guilt of the ordinary person trapped in a criminal situation" is used to great effect by writers Lena Waithe and James Frey, and director Melina Matsoukas makes the most of it. 

Starting from a meet cute date between two unlikely Tinder users, the story gives Queen and Slim ample time to grow into their relationship. Each has a different approach to navigating the world, a different belief system, and little consistency in the way they handle an encounter with law enforcement. At least that's true at first. By the time they run across an unexpected sheriff their approaches start to converge. Jodie Turner-Smith turns in a star performance developing from a rigid, prissy attorney into a grieving family member capable of exercising nuanced moral judgment. 

Slim's father is forced to make a similar moral judgement in a brief scene that will stay with you long after the film concludes.

There is so much going on here: it's also a road trip movie, and the plot is eventually strongly driven by an unspoken shared bucket list.

Slim's choice of response to the moronic howling of a cop with a bullhorn surprised me. I suspect it will surprise you, too.

Throughout the story runs the thread of white privilege. I've always explained this to my fellow white people who deny its existence by asking, Did your teenage kid ever do anything that brought them into contact with police and, if so, were you afraid they would die? No? That's white privilege.

Don't miss this film!

What's In A Name?

What's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Wm Shakespeare

The Associated Press announced that it had been banned from covering the White House because its style guidelines continue to call the body of water west of Florida and east of Mexico the "Gulf of Mexico" instead of the "Gulf of America" as directed by 47.

https://x.com/TaraCopp/status/1889429565619183940

Much of what 47 says/does is purely for show intended to stir up controversy i.e. give his opponents easy targets to vent their spleen. Threatening to annex Canada, Mexico, and Greenland would fall this in this category.

Why stir up faux controversies? To create a smokescreen of chaos obscuring the more deadly and authentic plans afoot e.g. "taking over" Gaza, whatever that is supposed to mean. Buying it from Hamas or individual owners who have no desire to sell? Invading it with U.S. boots on the ground (already there) and occupying it in perpetuity? Sending all Gazans to Egypt and Jordan who have emphatically stated they will not accept them?

Renaming is just getting rolling though because now comes word that the warriors of anti-wokeness are overturning names that had replaced racist namesakes with more admirable ones.

Pentagon head Hegsweth directed the Army to stop calling the former Fort Bragg in North Carolina "Fort Liberty" and return to calling it "Fort Bragg." Previously named after Confederate General Braxton Bragg (a traitor to the U.S., by definition, and a slave holder to boot), it's now named for Pfc. Roland Bragg.

I heard about this because Pfc. Bragg was a WWII veteran from Maine where I live. Who could make up something this absurd? 

It could be because I'm reading Eli Valley's Museum of Degenerates right now, but I often feel like I'm living in a Mad Magazine satire.

On that note, I'll leave you with a funny meme about Hegsweth and the war on DEI.

Gaza Hostage Exchanges On Hold As Israel Repeatedly Violates Ceasefire Terms

Students and community members outside the Shabab Al-Dalou encampment yesterday chanting their support for campers inside. Photo source: Brianna Soukup/Portland Press Herald

Awakening to news that Bowdoin's Shabab Al-Dalou encampment concluded yesterday evening in a deal between Students for Justice in Palestine and college administration, I don't have many details yet. While we await word of the details of the deal and next steps, you can check out the student newspaper's coverage and this article in the nearby Portland Press Herald.

Meanwhile, the Gaza ceasefire deal is unraveling and 47 is threatening to unleash "hell" there. Clearly he has only a vague understanding of what that word means. What in fact could be more hellish than the past 15 months of bombardment, starvation, and torture inflicted on Gazans?

Here is a blog post on Palestine Will Be Free on the subject of how the Zionist regime has specifically not honored the terms of the ceasefire, and what Hamas leadership have decided to do about it.

Gaza ceasefire collapse imminent? Hamas suspends prisoner release due to Israeli violations, Trump says 'let hell break out'

Israel has violated the ceasefire agreement in Gaza dozens of time since it came into effect on January 19.

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Feb 11, 2025

Hamas has indefinitely postponed the scheduled release of Israeli prisoners in exchange for Palestinian hostages in Zionist dungeons, citing repeated ceasefire violations and “non-compliance with the terms of the agreement” by Israel. Hamas’s decision has seen the Israeli regime intensify drone surveillance over Gaza and put its military on alert, increasing the likelihood of its genocidal war resuming soon with the full backing of its primary arms dealer, the United States.

On Monday night, Abu Obeida, the spokesman of Hamas’s military wing, Al-Qassam Brigades, issued a statement announcing the resistance’s decision:

Over the past three weeks, the resistance leadership has monitored the enemy’s violations and non-compliance with the terms of the agreement, such as delaying the return of displaced persons to the northern Gaza Strip, targeting them with shelling and gunfire in various areas of the Gaza Strip and the failure to bring in relief supplies of all kinds as agreed upon, while the resistance fulfilled all its obligations.

Accordingly, the handover of the Zionist prisoners who were scheduled to be released next Saturday, February 15, 2025, will be postponed until further notice, until the occupation commits and compensates the benefit of the past weeks and retroactively, and we affirm our commitment to the terms of the agreement as long as the occupation commits to them.

Later, Hamas issued a statement listing all the ways the Israeli occupation has reneged on the terms of the agreement and how no action has been taken to redress its concerns despite repeated protestations:

Hamas affirms its commitment to the terms of the agreement as long as the Zionist occupation abides by them.

Hamas has fulfilled all its obligations precisely and within the agreed deadlines.

The occupation has not adhered to the terms of the agreement and has committed multiple violations, including:

1. Delaying the return of displaced persons to northern Gaza.

2. Targeting our people with bombings and gunfire, killing many across various areas of the Strip.

3. Obstructing the entry of essential shelter supplies, including tents, prefabricated homes, fuel, and rubble removal equipment needed to retrieve bodies.

4. Delaying the entry of medical supplies and necessities required to restore hospitals and the healthcare sector.

Hamas has documented the occupation’s violations and continuously provided them to mediators, yet the occupation persists in its breaches.

Hamas calls for strict adherence to the agreement and not subjecting it to selectivity, by prioritizing less critical matters while delaying and obstructing the most urgent and important ones.

The postponement of prisoner releases serves as a warning message to the occupation and a means of exerting pressure for precise compliance with the agreement’s terms.

Hamas deliberately made this announcement five full days before the scheduled prisoner exchange in order to give mediators sufficient time to pressure the occupation into fulfilling its obligations and to keep the door open for implementing the exchange on time if the occupation adheres to its obligations.

Trump, who has doubled down on his statement about ethnically cleansing Palestinians from Gaza to turn the enclave into a “Riviera of the Middle East,” has termed the Hamas statement “terrible.” Speaking from the Oval Office on Monday, Trump gave Hamas a Saturday noon deadline to release all Israeli prisoners at once, not in “dribs and drabs” otherwise “all bets are off and let hell break out”.

“But as far as I’m concerned, if all of the hostages aren’t returned by Saturday 12 o’clock — I think it’s an appropriate time — I would say cancel it and all bets are off and let hell break out,” Trump said.

As Hamas outlined in its statement, it is abiding by the rules of the agreement. What Trump labelled as “dribs and drabs” is exactly how the prisoner exchange was supposed to be done in a deal brokered by none other than his incoming administration. The potential unravelling of the agreement further underlines the vacuity of the deals and promises made by the United States.

“Trump must remember that there is an agreement that must be respected by both parties, and this is the only way to bring back the prisoners,” senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri reminded the American president. “The language of threats has no value and only complicates matters.”

After brokering a deal between the Lebanese resistance and Israel that was meant to see the Zionists withdraw from the Lebanese territories by January 26, the Trump administration extended the withdrawal deadline by another 30 days as the usurping Zionists dragged their feet on the agreement. The Israelis continue to violate the terms of the deal with impunity, having killed dozens of Lebanese civilians and detonated private property at will.

Trump appears to be dealing with the Palestinians in the same American spirit.

The first of the three-phase Gaza ceasefire deal came into effect on January 19. Over the following 42 days Hamas was supposed to release Israeli prisoners at regular intervals in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian hostages in Israeli dungeons. Hamas has released 16 Israelis in five batches so far and was scheduled to release more this Saturday before its sudden announcement. Talks for the second phase of the ceasefire deal were set to begin on February 3, but the Israelis have been dragging their feet on it. Netanyahu ultimately sent a negotiating team “without the ability to do anything,” according to one Israeli source. It is anticipated that the Israeli side instead of negotiating the terms of the second phase — which would have seen high-ranking Israeli military personnel exchanged for popular Palestinian leaders serving multiple life sentences, and complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza — is eager to extend the first phase of the deal beyond the agreed 42 days in a bid to retrieve all its prisoners and resume the genocidal assault on the besieged Palestinians in Gaza.

Emboldened after a visit to the White House where he gifted Trump two replicas of pagers that were used to conduct a mass terror attack in Lebanon in September last year (was it a hint for Trump?), Netanyahu is set to make demands that would never be acceptable to Palestinians. According to Yedioth Ahronoth, Netanyahu wants the Hamas leadership to be expelled from Hamas, its military infrastructure to be dismantled, and all Israeli prisoners be released. In effect, Netanyahu wants the Palestinians to give him on a platter all the things he couldn’t achieve through 15 months of genocidal assault on Gaza. This is a surefire way to scuttle the ceasefire deal and restart the genocide.

Meanwhile, the Jewish supremacist leaders in Israel are smacking their lips at the prospect of the collapse of the deal and resumption of the genocide.

Soon after Hamas’s announcement, the Israelis, ever ready for slaughter, increased preparedness for “any possible scenario in Gaza”. “I instructed the IDF to prepare at the highest level of alert for any possible scenario in Gaza and to protect the [border] communities”, declared Israel Katz, the Zionist war minister.

“Open the gates of hell on them,” finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has proclaimed. “We need to re-arrest the terrorists who were released and announce — if anything happens to any of our hostages — we are imposing sovereignty over another 5 percent of the territory of the Gaza Strip. We have international backing for this.” He went on to add: “The territory will once again be part of the state of Israel, because it is ours and because this will ensure the security of the state.”

Others in Israel see the current climate as an opportunity to annex yet more Palestinian land beyond Gaza. “It is time to impose Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank,” said education minister Yoav Kisch. “The presence of the new US administration is a historic opportunity to impose sovereignty over the West Bank.”

Meanwhile, Palestinians in Gaza have continuously highlighted the dozens of violations of the ceasefire deal since it came into effect on January 19. The influx of aid isn’t at the level agreed to in the deal. The severe shortage of tents and mobile houses (not even one mobile house has been allowed in the enclave) has left the Palestinians facing inclement weather with no protection over their heads.

Some of the Israeli violations of humanitarian clauses in the ceasefire deal.

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The Government Media Office in Gaza published a summary of Israeli violations of the humanitarian clauses of the ceasefire agreement:

• 12,000 aid trucks should have entered the Gaza Strip by now. Only 8,500 have entered. The Zionist entity has fallen short of its end of the agreement by 3,500 trucks.

• 50 fuel trucks were supposed to enter the Gaza Strip daily. Only 15 have entered daily. The Zionist entity has violated the ceasefire to the tune of 35 fuel trucks every day.

• 60,000 temporary mobile housing units were supposed to enter the Gaza Strip. Not a single unit has entered, preventing hundreds of thousands of Gazans from obtaining temporary shelter.

• 200,000 tents were supposed to enter the Gaza Strip. Only 20,000 have entered. The Zionist entity has failed to implement the ceasefire agreement, as 180,000 more tents are supposed to enter the Strip.

Moreover, even the Zionist guns haven’t fallen silent. Israeli snipers have killed at least two dozen Palestinians since the ceasefire came into effect. Dozens more have perished due to denial of medical services by the genocidal occupation.

The Geneva-based Euro-Med Monitor has recorded six deaths per day due to Israeli violations. “Euro-Med Monitor has documented the killing of at least 110 Palestinians since the ceasefire, with an average of about six deaths per day,” the human rights organisation said in a report last week. “These victims include both new fatalities, killed directly by the Israeli army, and individuals who succumbed to their prior injuries after Israel denied the right to travel abroad for treatment. Additionally, 901 Palestinians have been injured since the ceasefire, averaging 47 injuries per day.”

These violations notwithstanding, the Palestinian side has been still going through with the terms of the first phase of the deal. But with no end to the Israeli-American bloodlust and bombastic rhetoric in sight, they appear to have had enough.

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