May 28, 2025

Subject line: Burning Children Alive in Gaza

MASTER LIST of Articles DWF NEWS 5/28/25

 They are burning children alive in Gaza

Children, Civilians Burned Alive as Israeli Warplanes Target School, Home in Gaza

Palestine Chronicle staff

 'Can't Remain Silent' on Jewish Atrocities: Malaysian Foreign Minister Says at ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting

Aamir Latif       Anadolu Agency

Is taking the moral high ground too much to ask?

Palestine and the Conscience of China

Kim Petersen      The Greanville Post

Why China deserves more honesty & respect from the West

Living in China

Walt King        The Unz Review

The Politicization, Coercion & Disabling of the International Criminal Court

Alfred de Zayas & Peter Koenig | Global Research - TMS    

Sorry If This Is Antisemitic But I Think It's Wrong To Burn Children Alive 

Caitlin Johnstone

WELCOME TO WORLD PUBLIC INTEREST JOURNALISM

What does the world community do when Bully nations openly refuse to accept for themselves international law and order? When mass murder of innocent civilians including children is repeated, again and again?

The USA didn't stop Nazi Germany as Jews were taken to the gas chambers. Now the USA doesn't stop Israel from bombing and starving to death Palestinians in full public view. In shameful fact, the USA helps Israel commit mass murder. The world community watches in horror. The other nations complain, but do nothing substantial. The United Nations is helpless because its Charter is fatally flawed as pointed out years ago by world federalists.

If the Charter is obviously defective, why not replace it? This column has stated time and time again that it is time for the UN General Assembly to activate the EARTH CONSTITUTION, drafted by the visionary World Constitution & Parliament Association. WCPA's Provisional World Parliament has plans for meetings in India in December, 2025. Ideally, nations will send representatives to these meetings to learn how the EARTH CONSTITUTION could be a game changer. -- R. Kotila, PhD

They are burning children alive in Gaza

Children, Civilians Burned Alive as Israeli Warplanes Target School, Home in Gaza

Palestine Chronicle staff

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A medical source told Anadolu news Agency that the death toll from the strike on the Fahmi al-Jarjawi School in Gaza City’s al-Daraj neighborhood had risen to 30. The school had been sheltering dozens of displaced families.

Eyewitness videos circulated online showed horrifying scenes of burned bodies—many of them children—as tents surrounding the school were engulfed in flames. 

Al-Aqsa TV and other local sources reported that a fire swept through the shelter following the bombing. One report described the scene: “Charred corpses and the screams of displaced people engulfed in flames were seen and heard from the site.”

Al-Jazeera: At least 30 civilians, including children, were killed in an Israeli massacre at Al-Jarjawi School in Gaza City, where displaced families were sheltering. "The Israeli occupation forces make no distinction, killing men, women and children." READ MORE

 'Can't Remain Silent' on Jewish Atrocities: Malaysian Foreign Minister Says at ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting

Aamir Latif       Anadolu Agency

Top diplomats from 10 ASEAN member states meet ahead of bloc's 46th summit in Kuala Lumpur

Malaysia on Sunday condemned Israeli atrocities in the Gaza Strip, saying it reflected “indifference and double standards” on the plight of Palestinian people.

“They are a direct result of the erosion of the sanctity of international law,” Foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan said in his opening statement at the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting that opened in Kuala Lumpur ahead of the bloc’s 46th summit on Monday.

“ASEAN cannot remain silent. We have a voice in world affairs, and we must use our voice to speak up for the oppressed and offer solutions grounded in principles and international law,” he said.

[ASEAN is an international intergovernmental organization consisting of Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, Brunei, Thailand, Myanmar, the Philippines, Cambodia, Singapore and Malaysia.] READ MORE

https://www.theinteldrop.org/2025/05/25/cant-remain-silent-on-jewish-atrocities-malaysian-foreign-minister-says-at-asean-foreign-ministers-meeting/

Is taking the moral high ground too much to ask?

Palestine and the Conscience of China

Kim Petersen      The Greanville Post

True morality in the conduct of foreign affairs is the mark of great nations

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A lot of people across the global majority are asking the extremely serious question: why the BRICS, and especially why Russia and China, are not doing more than what they’re doing on behalf of Palestine and to defend Palestine. This is an extremely serious question and it’s not being addressed by Russia and China. We have to be straightforward about that, right? The only ones who are actually doing something, once again, are the Houthis in Yemen. ...

Especially concerning, is the case of Chinese state-owned companies doing business for an occupier in occupied territory. This is morally magnified when the occupier, Israel, is under scrutiny by the World Court for committing genocide. Genocide is an act that morally upstanding countries will emphatically denounce as reprehensible; in addition, morally upstanding countries will take measures to publicly distance their state from such an evil-doer until such time as it sincerely atones for its crime against humanity. Highly moral countries — for example, Yemen — will make sacrifices to bring an end to such horrific crimes.

Professor and author T.P. Wilkinson, a keen China observer, remarked, "Non-interference is China's top principle -- business comes first. If there is any morality it only applies in China."

China does not interfere in the culture and politics of other nations. That is understood. Nonetheless, morally centered people do not wish to see their country or any other country engage in violence against other nations in the world. And morally centered people do not wish to see their country abetting violence, not borne of self-defense, by another country. For allying with unrepentant rogue actors such as the United States and Israel, vassal states in Canada, Oceania, and Europe deserve to be regarded scornfully.

As an emerging superpower, China has increasingly garnered respect for pledging and delivering peaceful, win-win relations with other countries. That needs to be across the board. China is now faced with serious allegations, and it needs to come clean on what its companies are doing in occupied Palestine. ... However, when sordid facts come to the fore, a leader must lead. It is morally incumbent that chairman Xi deal forthrightly and promptly with any Chinese involvement in ignoble business affairs or crimes against humanity.

Why, one may ask, is such atonement not demanded of Canadians, American, and European interests in Mandate Palestine? It is and should be, but western governments have been unabashed in supporting colonialism, imperialism, and racism abroad. This speaks to the nature and conscience of Western governments that were so quick to fallaciously accuse China of genocide in Xinjiang, and yet they are loathe to acknowledge the factually undeniable genocide in Palestine. China, on the other hand, is viewed by much of the world's people as a cut above the western governments.

If China aspires to genuine global leadership, then it must lead not just in development and diplomacy — but in conscience.  

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https://www.greanvillepost.com/2025/05/22/palestine-and-the-conscience-of-china/

Why China deserves more honesty & respect from the West

Living in China

Walt King         The Unz Review

The reality behind the myths, the lies and the distortions

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I have to laugh when British people accuse China of being undemocratic. The UK has an unelected head of state (a king), an unelected upper chamber, and in the recent past had as prime minister an MP elected to the post by nobody (he was unopposed), and a foreign secretary a “lord” who wasn’t even elected as an MP at all. ... The electoral system enabled the present ruling party to win a landslide with one vote from every five electors, so the vast majority of voters are completely unrepresented: ... The two major parties are like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, so the idea that there is some choice is pure fantasy. This, then is the benchmark against which I study the Chinese system.

China is Communist in name only. The private sector is huge: half of GDP, 80% of urban workers, and 70% of industrial output. Communist, China is no longer. Socialism, yes. With Chinese characteristics!

How to organize a democracy in a population of 1.4 billion, some 20 times that of the UK? China does it by arranging successive layers of government, each one more or less selected by the layer below. I had a rough idea of how it works, but I asked Deepseek to give me a summary of how representation works in practice...

No multiparty competition: all candidates are approved by the Communist Party of China (CPC) or its united front organisations. ...

And how the Politburo is chosen is something of a mystery. So now we arrive at the heart of the matter: all power truly rests within the Party. Not very democratic: but this no different at all from the way affairs are run in the UK where:

Same as China inasmuch as the public has no say in any of these matters.

... But finally it has to be said when considering their performances in recent decades that China’s governance demonstrably works, and the UK’s clearly doesn’t.

... Democracy works pretty well at the local level, you can go to the local community office in China and try to sort out local issues, but, well like the UK and probably the rest of the world, the further up the chain you go the murkier it gets. So in that respect I would say that Chinese democracy is in effect much the same as in the “democratic” world, no better, no worse.

People here live normal lives, just like you. We eat, sleep, work, shop, and have fun. Otherwise, perhaps, the surprises:

Within ten minutes walk we have a McDonalds, a KFC and three Starbucks. ... A little bit further a Sam’s Club, I am just reading that it opened in 1996 and there are 53 in China, where there are also a total of 305 Walmarts, 6,800 McDonalds, 7,500 Starbucks, and 11,600 KFCs (will the US somehow avoid bombing all of them?).

There are no people sleeping on the streets.  You can walk the streets any time of day or night in perfect security.

Nobody carries guns. Not even the police. There are just one or two mass killings in China each year, mostly stabbings.

... And I live here because I choose to. I have tried to be objective, and while China is not perfect, in my opinion it is one of the best countries in the world in which to to live. It has a government which works for its people: how else to spring from destitution in 40 years and take 800,000,000 people out of absolute poverty? 

... If you want to see what China is not, but perhaps once was, visit the Philippines. ... It is a corrupt, failed state with poor governance, dismal infrastructure, unsatisfactory health system, with an unhealthy, undernourished ill-educated population, many consigned to live in squalid leaky sheds barely fit to house chickens. Then you will truly appreciate what China has achieved.  READ MORE

https://www.unz.com/article/living-in-china/

The Politicization, Coercion & Disabling of the International Criminal Court  Alfred de Zayas & Peter Koenig   Global Research - Transcend Media Service

UNITED NATIONS, 26 May 2025

23 May 2025 – This is the body of a response by Alfred De Zayas to an inquiry he has received on how to contact the ICC. Alfred clearly outlines the difficulties one faces in attempting to contact it, pointing to the political nature of the Court.

Professor De Zayas goes, however further, by focusing at the international crimes committed, to which the ICC does not or only haphazardly react – because the powers-that-be prevent it from taking actions. Prosecutors and judges are scared to do what they are supposed to do.

Many quit their jobs for fear of reprisals.

Please see for yourself [below] the extraordinary account by Professor De Zayas, former Acting UN Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva.

— Peter Koenig, 23 May 2025

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The Politicization, Coercion and Disabling of the International Criminal Court

By Prof. Alfred de Zayas

If you are lucky enough to establish contact with the ICC, or the International Court of Justice (ICJ), as laymen and laywomen we can only send information to the Prosecutor [of the ICC under article 15 of the ICC Statute].

The Prosecutor has full authority to act thereon, but he also has full discretion and may ignore it.

The latter was his reaction to our [Geneva International Peace Research Institute] recent legal brief of 22 May 2024; 29 pages, signed by quite a few professors of law, on the complicity of the European Commission in genocide.

The ICC prosecutor did not act either on previous legal briefs submitted by top professors, e.g. against Tony Blair for violations of articles 6, 7 and 8 of the ICC statute in connection with the 2003 Iraq war; nor has he investigated the legal briefs submitted on behalf of the victims of war crimes committed by the US in Afghanistan.

Today it is all the more urgent to speak out, because what we are witnessing in Gaza is not only Apartheid, not only war crimes, but full-scale ethnic cleansing, already at the level of genocide within the meaning of the text of the 1948 Genocide Convention.

The ultimate crime is being perpetrated openly, in front of our eyes, despite three orders by the International Court of Justice (ICJ). And the governments of the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, etc. are all complicit in the crime (Article III e of the Genocide Convention) by providing military, economic, political, diplomatic and propagandistic support to the genocidal state.

The media also bears responsibility for whitewashing the crimes, downplaying the murder of civilians, the destruction of civilian infrastructure, hospitals, schools, churches, and temples, attacking medics, engaging in “apology of genocide.”

The jurisprudence of the international criminal tribunal for Rwanda gives us examples of “incitement” to genocide that are also relevant in the Gaza context. Some political statements by our own representatives and by journalists surely go over the threshold and constitute a violation or article III c of the Genocide Convention.

NEVER AGAIN — we must all protest and send copies of our protests to our representatives in Parliament, to politicians and journalists. We must go out in the streets and demonstrate — as I did 50 years ago against the Vietnam war; “Not in our name” — “If the government does not stop the Vietnam war, we will stop the government.”

Every day, every hour more innocent people are being massacred, even as I write these words.

In solidarity with humanity and all victims of war.    READ MORE

 Sorry If This Is Antisemitic But I Think It's Wrong To Burn Children Alive 

Caitlin Johnstone 

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 Israel is burning children alive in Gaza. And call me an antisemitic Jew-hating Nazi terrorist lover if you must, but I happen to believe that’s wrong.

Now that it’s been made clear that Israel’s goal in Gaza is the complete ethnic cleansing of all Palestinians, Israel apologists have been shifting from bleating about hostages and Hamas to arguing that ethnic cleansing is actually fine and good. Which makes sense; that’s really the only argument they can make at this point.

Never forget that the US Congress gave Netanyahu dozens of standing ovations during a single speech while he was in the middle of perpetrating history’s first live-streamed genocide. This is who they are. It will always be who they are.

Israel has done more to promote hatred toward Jews in the last year and a half than Stormfront has in its entire existence. No white supremacist propaganda will ever be as effective at spreading hatred against Jews as openly mass murdering children under a Star of David flag.

Gaza is such an easy moral issue to get right that there’s no way anyone who gets it wrong isn’t a shitty person in other areas of their life as well. I feel sorry for anyone who has interpersonal relationships with Israel supporters, because they’d suck to be around.

The US has reportedly delivered some 90,000 tons of weapons to Israel since October 2023. 

I mostly focus on the Gaza genocide these days, but sometimes figures like this make me zoom out a few clicks and think about how bat shit insane our civilization is as a whole. Just think how much good we could do in the world if we weren’t pouring resources into evil shit like this.

According to the official western narrative, Americans becoming violently radicalized by a US-backed genocide is a bigger issue than the US-backed genocide.

According to the official narrative, university protests against a transparent ethnic cleansing operation are a greater concern than the transparent ethnic cleansing operation.

According to the official narrative, western Zionist Jews feeling emotionally upset about opposition to a modern-day holocaust is a more urgent problem than a modern-day holocaust.   READ MORE

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/05/28/sorry-if-this-is-antisemitic-but-i-think-its-wrong-to-burn-children-alive/