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HeartDoc Andrew wrote:
> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>>
>>>> https://reason.com/2025/07/14/u-n-report-blames-israel-and-
apitalism-for-the-conflict-in-gaza
>>>>
>>>> U.N. Report Blames Israel and Capitalism for the Conflict in Gaza
>>>> The report includes no mentions of Hamas’ attacks or hostages.
>>>> J.D. Tuccille | 7.14.2025 7:00 AM
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>>>> U.S. $100 dollar bills surround a sniper scope, through which a war zone
>>>> is visible. | Illustration: Eddie Marshall | Caleb Sheridan |
>>>> Millafedotova | Rafael Ben Ari | Dreamstime.com
>>>> (Illustration: Eddie Marshall | Caleb Sheridan | Millafedotova | Rafael
>>>> Ben Ari | Dreamstime.com)
>>>> We can rest easily, folks: The inaptly named United Nations Human Rights
>>>> Council (UNHRC) has closely examined the aftermath of Hamas' attack on
>>>> Israel and found the culprit: It was settler colonialism and capitalism
>>>> what done it! In a masterful mishmash of leftist gibberish, the report
>>>> assumes Israel's culpability and combines antisemitism with hostility to
>>>> free markets. The report should make Americans happy that the U.S. has
>>>> disengaged from the UNHRC and bears no responsibility for its actions.
>>>>
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>>>> Forget Hamas, It's All About Settler-Colonialism and Racial Capitalism
>>>> "The role of corporate entities in sustaining the illegal Israeli
>>>> occupation and its ongoing genocidal campaign in Gaza is the subject of
>>>> the present investigative report, which is focused on how corporate
>>>> interests underpin the Israeli settler-colonial twofold logic of
>>>> displacement and replacement aimed at dispossessing and erasing
>>>> Palestinians from their lands," asserts Francesca Albanese, Special
>>>> Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian
>>>> territories occupied since 1967, in the introduction to the July 3
>>>> report. The document concludes, in part: "The enduring ideological,
>>>> political and economic engine of racial capitalism has transformed the
>>>> Israeli displacement-replacement economy of occupation into an economy
>>>> of genocide."
>>>>
>>>> The report comes over a year and a half after the brutal October 7
>>>> invasion of Israel by Hamas terrorists during which, as the
>>>> Congressional Research Service summarizes, "more than 1,200 Israelis and
>>>> foreign nationals (including 46 U.S. citizens in Israel) were killed…and
>>>> Hamas and other groups also seized some 251 hostages." The report
>>>> references "October 2023" 30 times, but in a bizarre way. That date
>>>> somehow becomes a mysterious turning point during which Israel and its
>>>> corporate capitalist accessories became pointlessly meaner than ever
>>>> towards the seemingly peaceful people of Gaza.
>>>>
>>>> "Had proper human rights due diligence been undertaken, corporate
>>>> entities would have long ago disengaged from Israeli occupation," the
>>>> report asserts. "Instead, post-October 2023, corporate actors have
>>>> contributed to the acceleration of the displacement-replacement process
>>>> throughout the military campaign that has pulverized Gaza and displaced
>>>> the largest number of Palestinians in the West Bank since 1967."
>>>>
>>>> "Hamas" is mentioned only as part of the URL in a link to a Washington
>>>> Post story in a footnote. There is no mention of "hostages." The word
>>>> "antisemitism" is used exactly one time, in a dismissive manner when
>>>> Albanese "acknowledges the vital work of students and staff in holding
>>>> universities to account. It casts a new light on global crackdowns on
>>>> campus protesters: shielding Israel and protecting institutional
>>>> financial interests appears a more probable motivation than fighting
>>>> alleged antisemitism."
>>>>
>>>> A U.N. Official's History of Antisemitism and Support for Terrorism
>>>> Albanese and her staff elide any events during October 2023 that might
>>>> have precipitated a change in policy by Israel towards Gaza, and they
>>>> wave away any possible hostility towards Jews. Of course, Albanese
>>>> herself was the subject of a 2024 report from Geneva-based watchdog
>>>> group UN Watch that found she is ill-disposed towards Israel and most of
>>>> its inhabitants. Titled Wolf In Sheep's Clothing: Why Democracies Should
>>>> Sanction UN Rapporteur Francesca Albanese For Propagating Antisemitism
>>>> and Supporting Terrorism, that report documented a series of concerning
>>>> facts about Albanese. These include her accusation that the United
>>>> States has been "subjugated by the Jewish lobby"; that her husband, who
>>>> compares Palestinians to Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto, formerly worked for
>>>> the Palestinian Authority; that in her role as a U.N. official, she told
>>>> attendees at a Hamas-organized conference "you have a right to resist
>>>> this occupation"; and that she responded to Hamas's October 7 atrocities
>>>> by insisting "today's violence must be put in context."
>>>>
>>>> Based on her conduct, statements, and connections, the UN Watch report
>>>> found that "Francesca Albanese knowingly supports Hamas and other
>>>> terrorist groups."
>>>>
>>>> Accordingly, Albanese's reappointment to her position in April was
>>>> opposed by the United States, Argentina, Hungary, Israel, the
>>>> Netherlands, and members of the European Parliament from Bulgaria,
>>>> Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Slovakia, and Sweden, among other
>>>> interested parties. Nevertheless, she was granted another three-year
>>>> term in her position.
>>>>
>>>> Sanctions Beget More Sanctions
>>>> That vote of confidence may have encouraged Albanese to let her freak
>>>> flag fly—more than in the past, that is. The July 3 report insists
>>>> "colonial endeavours and associated genocides have historically been
>>>> driven and enabled by the corporate sector, Commercial interests have
>>>> contributed to the dispossession of Indigenous people of their lands – a

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