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News & Views | 5/17/21

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Then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on March 9, 2010 in Jerusalem.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Approving more weapons to Israel would add fuel to the fire and would only embolden Israel to continue its bombardments on Gaza."

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U.S. Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett arrive for the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States at the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. on January 20, 2021. (Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Let's be explicit: Anti-abortion extremists made it clear that this was the goal all along. It's why they couldn't wait to rush Amy Coney Barrett onto the Supreme Court before the November election."



A Palestinian toddler wounded in an Israeli airstrike receives care at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on May 16, 2021. (Photo: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"I have not seen this level of destruction through my 14 years of work—not even in the 2014 war," said one emergency rescue official.




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The cruelty is the point. Abolish the death penalty," said Rep. Ayanna Pressley.



A volunteer carries the body of a child, 5-month-old Pari, who died due to the coronavirus pandemic for the last rites at a cremation in New Delhi, on May 12, 2021

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on "high-income countries that have contracted much of the immediate global supply of vaccines to share them now."




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
More than half of the Senate Democratic caucus said a cease-fire is urgently needed "to prevent any further loss of civilian life."



A pedestrian walks by an AT&T retail store on May 17, 2021 in San Rafael, California. AT&T, the world's largest telecommunications company, announced a deal with Discovery, Inc. which will spin off AT&T's WarnerMedia and be combined with Discovery to create a new standalone media company. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

by Julia Conley, staff writer
"The merger does not even begin to register on the scale of the public interest.”



An IDF artillery unit near the Israel-Gaza border in Southern Israel on May 13, 2021.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It is illegal for U.S. aid to support human rights violations," said the Vermont senator.




by Julia Conley, staff writer
"Nurses follow the precautionary principle, which means that until we know for sure something is safe, we use the highest level of protections, not the lowest."



Nina Turner, the former Ohio state senator and national campaign co-chair for Sen. Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign, scored the endorsement of the youth-led Sunrise Movement on May 17, 2021. (Photo: Bastian Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
The youth-led climate campaign called the former Ohio state senator a "champion for people everywhere on a myriad of issues impacting our communities."


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A group of South Africans hold banners during a demonstration to protest Israeli attacks on Palestinians at Masjid al-Aqsa in Jerusalem and Gaza Strip, on May 11, 2021, in Sandton district of Johannesburg, South Africa. (Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

by Ronnie Kasrils
South Africans, along with international humanity,​ ​raise the battle cry Mayihlome in solidarity with the Palestinian people's just resistance— our anger rises for the battle . There can be no neutrality in the fight for freedom and justice.



President Joe Biden, who has a long history of supporting Israeli crimes, responded to the latest massacre by insisting on Israel’s "right to defend itself" and inanely hoping that "this will be closing down sooner than later." (Photo: Ron Adar / Echoes Wire / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
U.S. policy has perpetuated the crisis and atrocities of the Israeli occupation by unconditionally supporting Israel in three distinct ways: militarily, diplomatically and politically.



Relatives mourn during the funeral of Tareq al-Qadi, killed a day earlier in an Israeli air strike, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 17, 2021. (Photo: Said Khatib/AFP via Getty Images)

by Phyllis Bennis
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political troubles—and an arms industry eager to battle test new wares on Gazans—may help explain the latest escalation of violence.



Fire billows from Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, on May 10, 2021. Israel launched deadly air strikes on Gaza in response to a barrage of rockets fired by the Islamist movement Hamas amid spiralling violence sparked by unrest at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. (Photo: Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images)

by Richard Eskow
Lamentations for the dead and dying in Gaza from the Biden administration are nothing more than crocodile tears.



Health insurance and health care costs have increasingly moved out of reach for many in the past few decades. (Photo: Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

by Laura Packard
The American Families Plan will make the Affordable Care Act subsidies permanent—ensuring that millions of Americans can keep their care. And the top 1% of taxpayers will pay for it.



Palestinians from the same family evacuate young children, women, and the elderly alive and dead from under the rubble of their destroyed home and search for others after an intense Israeli air raid on Gaza City, May 16, 2021. A total of 174 people were killed in the Israeli raids on Gaza, including 47 children and 29 women. (Photo: Momen Faiz/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

by Patrick Gathara
The fallacy of the colonial 'right to self-defense.'


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