Weekend Quotables
Israel heeds Jake Sullivan's call to use more "precise" weapons by writing the names of intended targets on their missiles and artillery shells.
Marwan Bishara, senior political analysist for Al Jazeera.
“Gaza has been the target of this war, not Hamas." — Democracy Now
Pope Francis
"Some are saying, 'This is terrorism and war,'" the Pope said. "Yes, it is war. It is terrorism." — UPI
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
"The issue really is, when does Israel shift from the high-intensity military operations that are under way today to a different phase of this conflict. One that's more precise, more targeted," Sullivan said on Israel's Channel 12 television. — US News
D.T. doing his best Hitler.
On Saturday, in Durham, New Hampshire, Trump echoed Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s attacks on immigrants. “They’re poisoning the blood of our country. That’s what they’ve done,” Trump told the crowd.
“They poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world, not just in South America … but all over the world.
“They’re coming into our country, from Africa, from Asia, all over the world.” — Guardian
Maya Lecker
I want to believe the IDF won't shoot unarmed civilians holding a white flag.
I don't know how many people believe Halevi when he says the IDF doesn't shoot those who surrender. The bombs falling on Gaza have also killed thousands of people begging for their lives. A white flag wouldn't stop them. — Haaretz Today
David Azoulay, Israeli local leader
The head of an Israeli local authority called for the Gaza Strip to be "flattened completely, just like Auschwitz today," and for its Palestinian residents to be forcefully transferred to refugee camps in Lebanon. — Haaretz
Yousef Munayyer, head of the Palestine/Israel program at the Arab Center in DC
Unlike the Second Red Scare, which was a particularly American phenomenon, the intensifying repression against Palestine advocacy isn’t limited to the US but is happening in Canada and across Europe as well. That’s because this hysteria is not a reaction to the debate on American college campuses but rather the product of a calculated and global transnational strategy backed by the Israeli government since 2015. — Guardian
A good batch of quotables, Mike. We know, in an immediate way, what to do: demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, paired with self-determination for Palestine, with actions of all sorts. Adherence to the UN resolutions is also in order. But somehow, something more is required--driving a split in the Biden camp, driving splits in Israeli politics, enhancing the PLO, and its left parties, over or within the PA, and so on. But this is beyond our reach, no? Here's piece in FA exploring some ideas, but what they might mean in real life, I don't know. But this has to end on places other than the grave. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/palestinian-revival