Daily Archives: April 9, 2023

2023-04-09: News Headlines

Middle East Monitor (2023-04-09). Israeli Opposition Leader Lapid Blames PM Netanyahu for Putting Extremist over al-Aqsa Mosque as 140,000 Palestinians Defiantly Worship. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) — Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid on Friday accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of causing a disaster by assigning National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir responsibility for Al-Aqsa Mosque. Ma'an News Agency disclosed that Lapid accused Netanyahu of knowing that giving the National Security portfolio to Ben-Gvir, which made him …

teleSUR, JDO (2023-04-09). Militares ocupantes matan a otro joven palestino en Cisjordania. telesurtv.net Ayed Azzam Saleem, de 20 años, murió poco después de ser gravemente herido por disparos israelíes en el abdomen y el pecho.

teleSUR, nbb, JGN (2023-04-09). Al menos seis palestinos heridos por protestas en Kafr Qaddum. telesurtv.net Algunos de los heridos fueron tratados en el lugar, mientras otros fueron trasladados al hospital para recibir tratamiento.

teleSUR, DRL (2023-04-09). Palestina denuncia escalada violenta por parte de Israel. telesurtv.net "Las provocaciones israelíes contra Al-Aqsa son inaceptables y convertirán sus patios en un campo de batalla", dijeron desde la Autoridad Nacional Palestina.

teleSUR, JGN (2023-04-09). Gobernación de Jerusalén rechaza invasión de mezquita Al-Aqsa. telesurtv.net La entidad mencionó que las invasiones al recinto de oración no serán aceptadas por el pueblo palestino y las naciones árabes e islámicas.

Anonymous669 (2023-04-08). Ramming Attack In Tel Aviv Kills Italian Tourist, Leaves Seven Others Wounded (Videos). southfront.org Screengrab. Via Twitter. | Late on April 7, an Italian tourist was killed and seven others were wounded in a suspected ramming attack in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. | The attack took place between Kaufmann Street and the adjacent Charles Clore Park. The suspect reportedly attempted to access a weapon to open fire at bystanders before deciding to flee the scene. He was later identified as 45 year-old Palestinian Yousef Abu Jaber, a resident of Kafr Qassem. | According to the Magen David Ad…




Ramzy Baroud, Mintpress News. (2023-04-08). Palestine, Indonesia And Entitlement Of Western 'Human Rights' Activism. popularresistance.org Some readers were unimpressed when I excitedly shared the news on social media that Indonesia had refused to host the Israeli team as part of the Under-20 World Cup, scheduled from May 20 to June 11 in Indonesian cities. | Though any news related to Palestine and Israel often generates two sharply different kinds of responses, the latest act of Indonesian solidarity with the Palestinian people failed to impress even some pro-Palestine activists in the West. Their rationale had nothing to do with Palestine or Israel but the Indonesian government's own human rights record. | This supposed dichotomy is as omnipresen…

Saheli Chowdhury, Orinoco Tribune. (2023-04-08). Israel Bombs Gaza, Lebanon After Palestinian Retaliation. popularresistance.org Israeli warplanes bombed parts of the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon after the firing of rockets from those regions into Israel in retaliation against the apartheid regime's savage attacks on Palestinian worshipers inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied city of Jerusalem. | At midnight on Friday, April 7, Israeli occupation warplanes launched a series of missile strikes on various sites in the Gaza Strip, targeting a Palestinian Resistance site in the south of Gaza City, an observatory post in the east of the city, agricultural land in Al-Zeitoun neighborhood of southeastern Gaza, and other Resistance sites i…

Saheli Chowdhury (2023-04-08). Israel Bombs Gaza and Lebanon After Palestinian Retaliation Against Al-Aqsa Attacks. orinocotribune.com Caracas, April 7, 2023 ( At midnight on Friday, April 7, Israeli occupation warplanes launched a series of missile strikes on various sites in the Gaza Strip, targeting a Palestinian Resistance site in the south of Gaza City, an observatory post in the east of the city, agri…

Susan Jaffe (2023-04-08). [World Report] Hazardous train spills prompt calls for tougher safety rules. thelancet.com New bipartisan legislation has been proposed to protect health and safety following a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, USA. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.

teleSUR, JDO (2023-04-08). Denuncian que Israel bombardeó objetivos civiles de Gaza. telesurtv.net Ejército israelí confirmó que entre la noche del jueves y la madrugada del viernes arrojó 50 toneladas de bombas contra la Franja de Gaza.

Yumna Patel (2023-04-08). New Israeli National Guard Poised to Target Palestinian Citizens of Israel. truthout.org Itamar Ben-Gvir is one step closer to having power over his own "private militia," rights groups warned this week after the Israeli government advanced a decision to further the establishment of a National Guard. The decision came on April 2, less than a week after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to establish a National Guard under Ben-Gvir's purview as National Security Minister… |

Ramzy Baroud, Mintpress News. (2023-04-08). Palestine, Indonesia And Entitlement Of Western 'Human Rights' Activism. popularresistance.org Some readers were unimpressed when I excitedly shared the news on social media that Indonesia had refused to host the Israeli team as part of the Under-20 World Cup, scheduled from May 20 to June 11 in Indonesian cities. | Though any news related to Palestine and Israel often generates two sharply different kinds of responses, the latest act of Indonesian solidarity with the Palestinian people failed to impress even some pro-Palestine activists in the West. Their rationale had nothing to do with Palestine or Israel but the Indonesian government's own human rights record. | This supposed dichotomy is as omnipresen…

Saheli Chowdhury, Orinoco Tribune. (2023-04-08). Israel Bombs Gaza, Lebanon After Palestinian Retaliation. popularresistance.org Israeli warplanes bombed parts of the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon after the firing of rockets from those regions into Israel in retaliation against the apartheid regime's savage attacks on Palestinian worshipers inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied city of Jerusalem. | At midnight on Friday, April 7, Israeli occupation warplanes launched a series of missile strikes on various sites in the Gaza Strip, targeting a Palestinian Resistance site in the south of Gaza City, an observatory post in the east of the city, agricultural land in Al-Zeitoun neighborhood of southeastern Gaza, and other Resistance sites i…

Saheli Chowdhury (2023-04-08). Israel Bombs Gaza and Lebanon After Palestinian Retaliation Against Al-Aqsa Attacks. orinocotribune.com Caracas, April 7, 2023 ( At midnight on Friday, April 7, Israeli occupation warplanes launched a series of missile strikes on various sites in the Gaza Strip, targeting a Palestinian Resistance site in the south of Gaza City, an observatory post in the east of the city, agri…

Susan Jaffe (2023-04-08). [World Report] Hazardous train spills prompt calls for tougher safety rules. thelancet.com New bipartisan legislation has been proposed to protect health and safety following a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, USA. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.

teleSUR, JDO (2023-04-08). Denuncian que Israel bombardeó objetivos civiles de Gaza. telesurtv.net Ejército israelí confirmó que entre la noche del jueves y la madrugada del viernes arrojó 50 toneladas de bombas contra la Franja de Gaza.

Yumna Patel (2023-04-08). New Israeli National Guard Poised to Target Palestinian Citizens of Israel. truthout.org Itamar Ben-Gvir is one step closer to having power over his own "private militia," rights groups warned this week after the Israeli government advanced a decision to further the establishment of a National Guard. The decision came on April 2, less than a week after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to establish a National Guard under Ben-Gvir's purview as National Security Minister… |

Peoples Dispatch (2023-04-08). Israel strikes in Gaza, Lebanon following rocket fire in response to Al-Aqsa violence. peoplesdispatch.org On Friday, April 7, the Israeli military According to reports,…

Middle East Monitor (2023-04-08). Netanyahu Brought Israeli Extremists to Power and Seeks more Arab Recognition; He can't have Both. juancole.com Dr Adnan Abu Amer AdnanAbuAmer2 There are concerns in Israel that the path towards normalisation with more Arab countries is no longer smooth in light of the planned legislation to suit the extreme far-right in the coalition government. Added to this is the stepping up of action to annex the occupied West Bank, and …

FP Staff (2023-04-08). Attacks in Israel, West Bank kills three, injures at least seven as tensions rise. firstpost.com

Anonymous669 (2023-04-09). Israel Strikes Hit Southern Syria After Rare Rocket Attack On Golan Heights (Video). southfront.org File image. | Two salvos of rockets hit the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on April 8 and 9, in a rare attack from Syria amid escalating tension in the region. | The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said late on April 8 that three rockets were fired from southern Syria, of which one landed in an open area near the settlement of Meitsar. An incoming rocket alert was activated in an open area near the town shortly before. One of the other two rockets fell short in Syria, with the second landing in Jordan. The Iron Do…

Juan Cole (2023-04-09). Leaked Pentagon Report: Israeli Intel Agency Mossad Agitated against Netanyahu's weakening of Courts. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — John Hudson and Louisa Loveluck at the Washington Post report that a leak of Pentagon documents reveals that the U.S. is intensively spying on Israel and concludes that Israel's intelligence service, Mossad, has encouraged both its own employees and the Israeli public to join protests against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's …

teleSUR, jaa, JDO (2023-04-09). Israelíes continúan protestas contra reforma judicial. telesurtv.net Se trata de la decimocuarta semana de protestas contra la normativa. Se movilizan 250.000 personas, de ellas 145.000 en Tel Aviv.

teleSUR, JGN (2023-04-09). Defensas antiaéreas de Siria derriban varios misiles israelíes. telesurtv.net Las defensas antiaéreas sirias "interceptaron los misiles de la agresión y derribaron algunos de ellos… y la agresión provocó algunas pérdidas materiales".

Anonymous669 (2023-04-09). Egyptian Army Foiled Attempt To Fire Rockets From Sinai At Israel — Reports. southfront.org Illustrative image. | The Egyptian military has foiled an attempt to fire rockets from the Sinai Peninsula at Israel, Al Jazeera reported late on April 8, citing Hebrew media reports. | According to the reports, a multiple rocket launcher set up in an unspecified part of Sinai to fire in the direction of the southern Israeli port town of Eilat was uncovered and dismantled by the Egyptian military. Neither Cairo, nor Tel Aviv have commented on these claims yet. | The alleged rocket launch attempt…

_____ (2023-04-08). World's Most Dangerous Flashpoint: Israeli Forces Repeatedly Invade Sacred al-Aqsa Mosque, Beat, Expel Worshipers, on Behalf of Jewish Extremists. strategic-culture.org By Juan COLE | Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Israeli newspaper

Philip Weiss (2023-04-08). Biden administration refuses to condemn Israel storming Al-Aqsa mosque, blocks Security Council statement. mronline.org The Biden State Department refused to condemn Israel's storming of Al-Aqsa mosque, and blocked a U.N. Security Council statement criticizing the raids.

teleSUR, nama, JDO (2023-04-08). Líbano denunciará agresión israelí ante Consejo de Seguridad. telesurtv.net La agresión israelí se concentró en zonas agrícolas y en la llanura de Qulaila, pertenecientes a la región de Tiro.

teleSUR, SH (2023-04-08). ONU sostiene que el Líbano e Israel no quieren una guerra. telesurtv.net La Misión de la ONU en el Líbano llamó a Israel y al país árabe a cesar los ataques de forma inmediata.

Alastair Crooke (2023-04-08). Can Netanyahu 'Let go' the Syrian punchbag at a time of domestic crisis? thealtworld.com Has Syria truly entered the endgame? Certainly. The question, however, is, will Syria progress through the snakes and ladders of the endgame incrementally, or will Syria become again the theatre of conflict as 'incidents' flare, with "Israel" mounting repeated air attacks? | It is perhaps fitting that in the bloody tangle of US policy triggered by Yitzhak Rabin's assassination in 1995, and the elevation of Benjamin Netanyahu to the premiership in its wake, Syria was first and foremost the 'head' to this vicious conflict, and now fittingly, seems destined to be its final 'bookend' too — as the Russia—Ch…

Vanessa Beeley (2023-04-08). Syria rising from the ashes of twelve years hybrid war — with Kevork Almassian. thealtworld.com I talk with Syrian journalist and analyst Kevork Almassian about the recent seismic events in Syria starting with the earthquake on February 6th and culminating in some unexpected and positive geopolitical shifts towards a new Pan-Arabism in the region. | We discuss what the US, UK and Israel can do to prevent normalisation of trade and economic relations between Syria and former US/UK/Israel-allies in the destabilisation project that began in 2011. The US occupation will end sooner or later and while Israel flexes its military muscles for war it knows it is faced with an unprecedented Resistance unity and milita…

FP Staff (2023-04-08). Israel downs 'drone from Lebanon' day after major rocket attack. firstpost.com

FP Staff (2023-04-08). Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu mobilises army, police reserves after Tel Aviv attack. firstpost.com

Contemporary Jewish Museum (2023-04-08). Saturday 4/22: This Is Not A Gun Workshop with Cara Levine and Angela Hennessy. indybay.org Contemporary Jewish Museum | 736 Mission Street | San Francisco, CA 94103…

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