On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM Donna Wallach
wrote:
> Martin Wasserman you are as despicable as all the other Zionists who
> refuse to open your eyes, your mind and your hearts. You are the same as
> the hateful Klu Klux Klan who murdered and continue to murder Black
> Americans just because they are Black. There is so much truthful online
> information about the War Crimes, genocide, starvation that the Israeli
> govt is committing in full live stream view for the entire world to see.
> Israeli journalists are reporting about it, i.e. Gideon Levy and Amira
> Hass. Other Israelis are reporting about it, Ilan Pappe is one, right now
> Im forgetting the name of the other one.
>
> Tens of thousands of young American Jews protested on campuses across the
> USA along with tens of thousands of other students against the genocide,
> many of them sacrificed their diplomas.
>
> JVP has issued many statements and calls for ending the genocide, calling
> for a ceasefire.
>
> The Palestinians have done nothing to deserve this genocide, Ethnic
> cleansing and starvation, that recently Ralph Nader is calling an Omnicide
> meaning that the intent of Israel is to eliminate the entire Palestinian
> population living there from the face of the earth. The Israeli govt
> continues to say that their goal is to make Gaza Jewish and to annex the
> entire West Bank and to remove by force each and every Palestinian
>
> Martin get your head out of your butt! You disgust me beyond words!
>
> The Palestinans are one of the most kindest, lovingest, generous people I
> have ever met and lived among.
>
> Free Palestine! Long Live Palestine!
>
> *"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by
> appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."*
> Assata Shakur
>
>
> *Books you must read: *
> *"Against Our Better Judgement: The hidden history of how the U.S. was
> used to create Israel"*
> by Alison Weir
> https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fwww.againstourbetterjudgment.com%2f&c=E,1,vWS0zLEIbn8s8zxeWmaicR3Ws0CnPBshW0_SK5mlvKTlDUb2pRnODJ6hniXOlBZ2WeoP4WZ45qVgEY3f_mIXJBd1YJHg1lahfgKdjkU4f_ECPeJj1xQdEA,,&typo=1
>
> *"State of Terror: How Terrorism Created Modern Israel" *
> by Thomas Suarez
> https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fthomassuarez.com%2fSoT.html&c=E,1,-3aAJsJE2kdcNCWvQ_OU2oWQcKQQ18G6A9UEJzg2rRwCTpSpomlv38GTwhR_vbzO3_g4y0qmQhVLY5PapOEixoJqyht2tlbDKs013bsVfypHcKDGv7xc&typo=1
>
> *"The Hundred Years War on Palestine"*
> by Rashid Khalidi
>
> *"The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine"*
> by Illan Pappé
>
>
> *Free Palestine!*
> *Right of Return to Palestine for all Palestinians!*
>
> *Free all political prisoners!*
> *Mumia Abu-Jamal* @mumiafreedomtour
> *The Holy Land Five:*
>
> *Shukri Abu Baker*
>
> * Ghassan Elashi*
>
> * Mufid Abdulqader*
>
> * Abdulrahman Odeh*
> * Mohammad Elmezain*
>
> *https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.mintpressnews.com%2fthe-trial-and-conviction-of-the-holy-land-foundation-five%2f237440%2f&c=E,1,ycF8sa3Nc_EanhG4kX-sYkGUcoAhCVHOu87X4c64SDfEhm72_F-1lVX3SdYSXEjOEPAO6FNk5RRkMDlMN6h7ccRE8sgvyMJaxO9ba22R-wv6Ly4wttj7yvE8KdA,&typo=1
> *
> *and thousands more*
>
> *End Solitary Confinement*
> https://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com
>
> *California Prison Focus https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fnewest.prisons.org%2four_story&c=E,1,u32DJXNtzJeO0v1Lm4ROYCzIwHRYlmM4oV8BUZWpfsQiIVOiA1iV3ac8i1PgCk3c1hpmkWzQ4p8fCFbq9xqZJsjbEsBETfCUEN32WTW-WFFpSo4sZA,,&typo=1
> *
>
> *End United $tates of Amerikkka invasions and occupations*
> *U.S. Government and UN Occupation Force Soldiers - Hands off Haiti!*
> https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fwww.haitisolidarity.net%2f&c=E,1,rCer9mQxt64WnjaPzGhS61dYy0SfkZn3NgC3gKtLYnh0IRM9CKfxwRQqo-OHoGPYQkrXW9ze0KpWQdgkYygc9U4Qt0y5XV8BlyVF2hqNcwA,&typo=1
>
> Syria Solidarity Movement, Solidarity with the Syrian people
> https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fsyriasupportmovement.org&c=E,1,gcW4SKcseGU7X3g2anrMtnL1W4dzMkARFC6e0gutflExZ2XfluE34KNoaeXBG31J7xQDMQ3oiAyFHlJ6xM707mPlBgbTTRqoXxX9ET5-3Ks_olytjN5E&typo=1
>
> Donna Wallach
> DonnaIsAnActivist@gmail.com
> Instagram: @palestine_is_and_will_be_free
> Instagram: @donnawallach1
> Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/donna.wallach
> Twitter: @PalestineWillBe
> (cell) 408-569-6608
>
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2025, 12:26 Martin Wasserman wrote:
>
>> Hamas could end the suffering anytime it wants just by laying down its
>> arms and releasing the hostages. But it has no interest in ending the
>> suffering. As part of a culture that defines itself as revering death
>> rather than life, Hamas believes that any Gazan who dies of starvation will
>> go straight to heaven as a martyr, so theres really no problem. And it
>> also serves as good anti-Israel propaganda.
>>
>>
>> Martin Wasserman
>>
>>
>> On Jul 25, 2025, at 8:26 AM, Aram James wrote:
>>
>> Why Is the World Letting It Happen?”: U.K. Surgeon, Back from Gaza, on
>> Starving Children
>>
>> | Democracy Now!
>> https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.democracynow.org%2f2025%2f7%2f25%2fnick_maynard_gaza&c=E,1,JxHsPdd38sdlp-8qg8RrTq5m0AUv7UrGWvx9B8A79t0R_6_iex2zFNFsHSJcoa9Gr4oUul1EBv87JOMjJ_xpC-sBnbPLyEOTtWFxKYpNAKYR4ZTv2w,,&typo=1
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM Sean Allen wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Good evening, Martin,
>>>
>>> I want to start by expressing my apologies before we delve into today’s
>>> discussion. Unfortunately, several major U.S. media outlets have reported
>>> perspectives that contradict your position. I find that your argument lacks
>>> substantial logic. Given the global perception of the United States as a
>>> superior military power, it raises the question of how the people of Gaza,
>>> even under Hamas leadership, could pose a significant threat to any country
>>> supported by U.S. military resources. The attached photos speak volumes and
>>> challenge the validity of your position.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Sean
>>>
>>> [image: image0.jpeg][image: image1.png]
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Jul 24, 2025, at 6:36 PM, Martin Wasserman
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This is utter nonsense. If Israels modus operandi has always been
>>> "maximal violence and aggression with little to no regard for the sanctity
>>> of lives of civilian non-combatants,” why did they sign the 1993 Oslo
>>> Accord which brought Yasser Arafat and the PLO out of exile and gave them
>>> sovereignty of Arab areas in Judea and Samaria? And why did they forcibly
>>> evacuate all Jewish settlements in Gaza in 2005 instead of strengthening
>>> those settlements and digging in? The reality is, it was always the Arab
>>> leadership that sought to exterminate the Jews, giving the Jews no choice
>>> but to fight back.
>>>
>>> When Israel goes to war, it goes to great lengths to avoid civilian
>>> casualties, but groups like Hamas go out of their way to target Israeli
>>> civilians, and the Palestinian Authority gives large cash rewards to any
>>> Arab who murders any Jew, whether civilian or otherwise.
>>>
>>> Right now, people in Gaza are starving, not because of Israel, but
>>> because Hamas refuses to lay down its arms and release the hostages. The
>>> conflict would be over tomorrow if Hamas would do these simple things. In
>>> fact, Hamas tries forcibly, often with gunfire, to prevent Gazans from
>>> receiving life-giving aid that doesnt come through them, saying that
>>> receiving such aid amounts to "collaborating with the enemy.”
>>>
>>> The truth is, Israel has displayed more concern for the lives of Gazan
>>> civilians than the Gazans’ own leaders have. Perhaps the reason for this is
>>> that Israeli culture is based on reverence for life, while Hamas culture
>>> defines itself as revering death, and seeking martyrdom in battle as the
>>> highest possible goal.
>>>
>>> Martin Wasserman
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 24, 2025, at 2:45 PM, Salem Ajluni wrote:
>>>
>>> As a modest contribution to a better understanding of the thinking and
>>> practices of the Israeli state, past and present, I recommend a very useful
>>> and short book that I read more than 40 years ago. It was written by Livia
>>> Rokach, the daughter of Israel Rokach who was the Israeli Interior Minister
>>> in the government of Moshe Sharett, the latter being the second prime
>>> minister of the new state (1953-1955). She translated and published her
>>> fathers diaries, as well as parts of Sharetts diaries, both of which give
>>> us insights into the private elite thinking, planning and actions of main
>>> actors in the Israeli state vis-a-vis its neighboring countries in the
>>> 1950s (and vis-s-vis the U.S. and European powers) (see
>>> https://ia804501.us.archive.org/17/items/sacred-terrorism/Sacred-Terrorism.pdf
>>> ).
>>>
>>> The resonance and parallels between Israeli leadership thinking and
>>> actions in the 1950s (as explained by Rokach) and in the 21st century with
>>> regard to the states and peoples of Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank, Gaza and
>>> Egypt (and, by extension, Iraq, Yemen and Iran) are instructive. There are
>>> considerable continuities across time and space: aggressive and domineering
>>> (supremicist?) thinking and behavior; an expansionist impulse; a
>>> sociopathic and homicidal (genocidal?) animus towards Arabs, especially
>>> Palestinians. It was all there in the 1940s and 1950s, as Rokach tells us,
>>> and its all there now, as we witness on a daily basis.
>>>
>>> Israel certainly didnt need Hamas to induce such thinking and behavior.
>>> In fact, the Hamas movement wasnt formally inaugurated until late 1987,
>>> almost two generations after the establishment of the state of Israel.
>>> Reading historical accounts of the conflict teaches us that only the
>>> bugaboo changes (e.g. Nasser, the PLO, Saddam Hussein, Hizballah, Hamas,
>>> the Houthis, Iran, etc.)—the Israeli *modus operandi* is more or less a
>>> constant--maximal violence and aggression with little to no regard for the
>>> sanctity of the lives of civilian non-combatants.
>>>
>>> The Israeli state was ushered in and made possible by the intial
>>> displacement of the majority of Mandate Palestines Arab population during
>>> 1947-1949 (on these events, see Ilan Pappes book based in large part on
>>> official Israeli archival sources
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ethnic_Cleansing_of_Palestine). It
>>> behooves us to remember that about two-thirds of Gazas population are
>>> themselves refugees from Madate Palestine or the offspring of those
>>> refugees. No disconinuities there either.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Salem
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From:* Martin Wasserman
>>> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 22, 2025 10:23 PM
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>>> *Subject:* Re: Famine Expert: Israels Starvation of Gaza Most
>>> Minutely Designed and Controlled Since WWII
>>>
>>> The bias of the author is evident in the fact that the entire article
>>> mentions Hamas only once, in passing. Hamas could end the suffering
>>> tomorrow just by laying down their arms and releasing the hostages. But
>>> they care more about scoring propaganda points against Israel than about
>>> saving the lives of their own people.
>>>
>>> Martin Wasserman
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 22, 2025, at 3:08 PM, Aram James wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Famine Expert: Israels Starvation of Gaza Most Minutely Designed and
>>> Controlled Since WWII
>>>
>>>
>>> Famine Expert: Israels Starvation of Gaza Most Minutely Designed and
>>> Controlled Since WWII | Common Dreams
>>> https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.commondreams.org%2fnews%2ffamine-expert-israel-s-starvation-of-gaza-most-minutely-designed-and-controlled-since-wwii&c=E,1,H5g9IBGgrur_qx2DdAb-yveDmPVdTdCYO7EellEDgB44Wv8vzt3ZVD-LYXWvvmVHXqd155a6ki0sOslwmIH1A8CFzm6mjoFI7Vx6SVEljvlEoMJpz10E4bjakAY,&typo=1
>>>
>>>
>>>
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