This month’s issue of JOHNSTONE is dedicated to the Palestinian poet, academic and activist Refaat Alareer who was recently assassinated by a surgical strike on 7 December 2023 as a part of the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing attempt being committed in Gaza.
Everything Israel is doing is an absolute outrage. A people subjected to a holocaust, then given the land of Palestine that belonged to another, Now after their years of barbarity in the treatment of Palestinians they are implementing their final solution, and the US is abetting their despicable crime that one should never forget or forgive.
Thank you Caitlin, with love, I just ordered all of your newsletters, and your Woke Book-Amazon. You give US hope. Your clarity, passion, truth, justice. I'm beyond thankful for you. A true journalist. Tears writing this.
There seems to be an outrage at the number of Palestinians being neutralized. Like, it's outrageous that Israel is killing "at an outrageous number, an unprecedented number, by the thousands, etc." This seems to me that there is a call for limiting IDF to some sort of reasonable number, maybe beginning with a stepped rollback to just the normal rate before 10/7? A bag limit on civilians.
I realize this would raise all sorts of troubling questions, such as, How many women? How many children? And should the limits be per day, per week, especially should large massacres be allowed, as long as followed by pauses of no raids, so that it all averages out? Complex and difficult, to be sure. However, continued reporting of large numbers is giving the Israeli victims a bad name, even causing some to question how Israeli defense differs from NAZI tactics and American atrocities in Afganistan and Iraq, etc. Clearly, carefully enacted bag limits could be useful in preventing Israel from seeming brutal and unreasonable. The sooner they demonstrate that they are limiting necessary collateral damage, the sooner
the good name of Israel can be restored, and only reasonable numbers of Palestinians will be neutralized. Bag limits: They're a win/win!
Make Palestine Palestine again. Free Free Palestine. From The River To The Sea. Wage Peace & Justice.
R.I.P. .Free Palestine.
Thank you, Caitlin, for specifically honoring Refaat. His assassination was a tragedy and an outrage beyond words.
Everything Israel is doing is an absolute outrage. A people subjected to a holocaust, then given the land of Palestine that belonged to another, Now after their years of barbarity in the treatment of Palestinians they are implementing their final solution, and the US is abetting their despicable crime that one should never forget or forgive.
Thank you Caitlin, with love, I just ordered all of your newsletters, and your Woke Book-Amazon. You give US hope. Your clarity, passion, truth, justice. I'm beyond thankful for you. A true journalist. Tears writing this.
This Refaat portrait feels warm, alive, with a quietude that is spacious, inviting the
unknown to become known, into presence and, poetry. Thank you Caitlin Johnstone,
for sharing your poetry of image. Gratefully, Selina
There seems to be an outrage at the number of Palestinians being neutralized. Like, it's outrageous that Israel is killing "at an outrageous number, an unprecedented number, by the thousands, etc." This seems to me that there is a call for limiting IDF to some sort of reasonable number, maybe beginning with a stepped rollback to just the normal rate before 10/7? A bag limit on civilians.
I realize this would raise all sorts of troubling questions, such as, How many women? How many children? And should the limits be per day, per week, especially should large massacres be allowed, as long as followed by pauses of no raids, so that it all averages out? Complex and difficult, to be sure. However, continued reporting of large numbers is giving the Israeli victims a bad name, even causing some to question how Israeli defense differs from NAZI tactics and American atrocities in Afganistan and Iraq, etc. Clearly, carefully enacted bag limits could be useful in preventing Israel from seeming brutal and unreasonable. The sooner they demonstrate that they are limiting necessary collateral damage, the sooner
the good name of Israel can be restored, and only reasonable numbers of Palestinians will be neutralized. Bag limits: They're a win/win!
I begin to see the "war" on Gaza as Netanyahu's War. Why do the Israeli's support him? Cannot they kick him to the curb?