Bobby Shriver wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter: “My cousin’s Super Bowl ad used our uncle’s faces- and my Mother’s.
His brother, Mark Shriver, quote tweeted the post adding: “I agree with my brother @BobbyShriver Simple as that.”
Mr Kennedy Jr’s views – including his anti-vaccine stance and belief in a raft of conspiracy theories – are at odds with the liberal stance of the rest of the family.
Why don't you shut up? You really are garbage, Michael Tracey. I get it, you don't matter to anyone. No one in your family will claim you. But for those of us who do care about our families, yes, it is offensive when other family members distort the person. Equally true, Baby Junior is destroying the family's legacy. Michael Tracey's an idiot and a fool.
"TV: The hate spreaders" (Ava and C.I., THE THIRD ESTATE SUNDAY REVIEW):
And let's address that so-called documentary and throw in faux feminist Sheryl Sandberg's 'documentary' as well. If you missed it, Sheryl's making a 'documentary' about those mythical 1000+ women raped on October 7th. Over a thousand women, according to the Israeli government, over a thousand rapes. And no proof of even one.
Some people get into arguments. We're remembering one with a man at a party a few years ago. He's an agent which means he talks a lot and rarely knows what he's speaking of. The topic was? The work of Tennessee Williams. He had no working knowledge at all. Contributions included a comparison of 27 WAGONS FULL OF COTTON and whether it works better as a one-act play or a short story which veered into a discussion of the televised production starring Leslie Ann Warren and Ray Sharkey that then steered around to CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF and how the role Elizabeth Taylor played in the film was originated on Broadway by Barbara Bel Geddes. At this point, the agent pipes up that Candice Bergen did a great job in the role.
Silence.
Candice Bergen.
All eyes on the agent, he gulped.
Uh
-- the agent insisted nervously -- he was talking about a TV
production that Candice did "years before that" of CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
with Treat Williams.
Oh, he meant Ann-Margret. It was suggested he was referring to the 1984 TV version that starred Ann-Margret as Blanche and Treat Williams as Stanley.
Offered the lifeline, he refused to take it. No, he continued to insist, it was Candice Bergen.
It was not Candice Bergen. It was never Candice Bergen.
And he could have admitted his mistake and we could all move on to something else.
But he dug in and wouldn't admit his mistake and made a fool of himself.
That happens all the time. We all make mistakes.
It's likely that a number of people who keep screaming against a cease-fire are people who realize that they made a mistake but are too vested in their image and too pig headed to admit it.
That's a real shame because there are a lot of lives involved. There are a lot of people being killed.
That includes innocent civilians in Gaza. That includes children. Last week, Gideon Levy (HAARATZ) noted at least 11,5000 children had been killed in Gaza. Even as crazed and bellicose as Debra Messing is and can be (remember, she killed the WILL & GRACE reboot with her on set b.s., NBC was happy with the ratings and wanted a fourth season of the reboot), she has to grasp that the 11,5000 children are not killers, are not Hamas, they are just children.
And because of the actions of adults, they are dead children.
Among the dead children? Six-year-old Hind Rajab.
She was in a car with her cousins. They were killed. She was the last one alive. She was on the phone asking to be rescued. The ICRC sent out an ambulance. The Israeli military that shot up the car she was in then attacked the ambulance and again attacked the car killing her and both paramedics Yusuf al-Zeino and Ahmed al-Madhoun. AP notes, "Palestinian Red Crescent spokesperson Raed al-Nims said Israel has killed 20 of its staffers and wounded about 30 others since the war began."
These are not honorable actions. They aren't ethical actions. They are War Crimes and go to building a strong case that genocide is taking place.
That's the side you've chosen. And you refuse to adjust course.
You're in no position to make a film on any aspect of this issue because you have chosen to defend the murder of children.
As
for Sheryl and her laughable film, no feminist with a working mind has
ever found her to be a feminist. She tried to market herself as that
and some celebrities helped her there but it never took because she's
not a feminist. If she wants to make her film about the mythical rapes,
she needs to be prepared for the response she will get about destroying
hospitals and attacking medical workers, leaving women to give birth in
unsafe conditions is not feminism. Margherita Stancati and Abeer Ayyoub (WALL STREET JOURNAL) reported last week:
There were more than 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza when the war began on Oct. 7, according to United Nations estimates. Gaza has one of the highest birthrates in the region.
Some 180 women in the enclave give birth each day on average, many now
with little or no medical help, sometimes in dirty, overcrowded
shelters, public bathrooms or cold, makeshift tents, according to the
U.N., healthcare workers and residents.
Giving birth in normal times can be a traumatic experience; going into
labor in a war zone multiplies the distress and danger. Gaza’s new
mothers and their babies are especially vulnerable to the fallout from
the conflict between Israel and Hamas taking place around them, where
the battlefield is sewn into civilian areas, from disease and
displacement to shortages of food and water.
Expectant mothers who make it to hospitals in Gaza rarely get the level of care they need, according to the U.N. and healthcare workers. With only 13 of the enclave’s 36 hospitals functioning, and those only partially, the facilities are short-staffed and overwhelmed by the number of war-wounded. Maternity services are low on the list of priorities for hospitals, and women in labor are often turned away, the workers and the U.N. say.
People like Debra and Sheryl refuse to face these realities. How do they do that?
You saw how Debra does it when she signed off on Selma's hate filled rant. Everyone is Hamas to these hate merchants. There are no innocents, insist the Debras and Selmas, they are all killers. Just like they deny the Christians in Gaza, these hate merchants deny the humanity to be found in the majority of Muslims. Denying people have humanity is the oldest and easiest way to justify racism and murder. It's always been that way so there's nothing new to Debra or Selma or the hate that they are spreading.
"Iraq snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights organization, today condemned anti-Muslim remarks made by actress Selma Blair and encouraged her to apologize and dialogue with the Muslim American community.
CAIR also called on film studios and talent agencies to stop punishing artists who express support for Palestinian human rights while ignoring hateful remarks by artists who support the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
In a comment on Instagram, Blair reportedly wrote: “Deport all these terrorist supporting goons. Islam has destroyed Muslim countries and then they come here and destroy minds.
They know they are liars. Twisted justifications. May they meet their fate.”
According to allegations posted online, Blair has also allegedly liked other posts on social media that expressed anti-Muslim and anti-migrant sentiment.
In a statement, CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said:
“No one is born a bigot, and we should never assume that someone is doomed to remain a bigot.
“Based on the hateful and ignorant remarks that Ms. Blair made, we doubt that she has ever engaged in any meaningful interactions with her Muslim colleagues in Hollywood or other members of the American Muslim community. We encourage Ms. Blair to apologize, and we also invite her to dialogue with our community.
“We also call on Hollywood studios and agencies to stop punishing artists who express support for Palestinian human rights while ignoring hateful comments by artists who support the ongoing genocide in Gaza.”
CAIR recently released new civil rights data showing that it has received 3,578 complaints during the last three months of 2023 amid an ongoing wave of anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian hate. Most recently, in Austin, Texas, a man screaming racist slurs attacked a group of Palestinian American Muslims who had just attend a pro-ceasefire protest.
On Monday, Feb. 12, (noon ET), CAIR plans to hold a news conference with the sons of Samaher Esmail, an American citizen and grandmother from New Orleans who was recently kidnapped, beaten, and denied access to medicine by Israeli forces in the West Bank.
Marcia Cross, known for her role as Bree Van de Kamp on the popular TV series Desperate Housewives, has written on her Instagram page: “I’m struggling to comprehend how to live among people with eyes that don’t water, hearts that don’t flinch, and voices that remain silent.”
She ended her statement with emojis of a broken heart and the flag of Palestine.
“There are no words for the horror that has and is being unleashed. And the silence has me believing I am deaf,” she wrote in the post.
Blair was joined by controversial actors Michael Rapaport, who commented on Hamra's video "Love it", and Debra Messing, who posted: "THANK YOU".
Messing herself received backlash for ridiculing the exit of Palestinian Journalist Motaz Azaiza from Gaza on Instagram, going as far as to question Azaiza's journalistic credentials.
They just blew him off and ignored him.
Other governments haven't been as weak as Joe. CNN’s Catherine Nicholls reports today:
The Netherlands must stop the export of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel within seven days, a Dutch court ruled on Monday, citing concerns that they could be used to violate international law as part of the Israeli campaign in Gaza.
“The court finds that there is a clear risk that Israel’s F-35 fighter jets might be used in the commission of serious violations of international humanitarian law,” The Hague Court of Appeal said in a statement.
“This means that the export of F-35 parts from the Netherlands to Israel has to be stopped.”
Three non-governmental organizations — Oxfam Novib, Pax for Peace, and The Rights Forum — appealed a previous Dutch court decision that allowed the continued export of F-35 parts to Israel.
On Monday, The Hague Court of Appeal said that under several international regulations that the Netherlands is a party to, the country must prevent the export of military equipment if there is a “clear risk of serious violations of international humanitarian law.”
The court said that Israel does not take “take sufficient account of the consequences of its attacks for the civilian population,” adding that its attacks on Gaza have resulted in a “disproportionate number of civilian casualties.”
Lisa O'Carroll (THE GUARDIAN) reports, "The EU’s chief diplomat, Josep Borrell, has said he is 'extraordinarily concerned' about Benjamin Netanyahu’s threats to launch attacks on Rafah with no evacuation plan and no prospect of refugee camps in Egypt."
Doctors Without Borders is also objecting:
Doctors Without Borders, a medical charity also known by its French initials MSF, has said that “Israel’s declared ground offensive on Rafah would be catastrophic and must not proceed”.
“As aerial bombardment of the area continues, more than a million people, many living in tents and makeshift shelters, now face a dramatic escalation in this ongoing massacre,” it said on X.
“Nowhere in Gaza is safe, and repeated forced displacements have pushed people to Rafah, where they are trapped in a tiny patch of land and have no options,” it added.
MSF also said that, since the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza, the organisation’s medical teams and patients have been forced to evacuate nine different healthcare facilities in the Gaza Strip.
It said the MSF facilities have come “under fire from tanks, artillery, fighter jets, snipers and ground troops, or being subject to an evacuation order”.
A top Biden administration aide privately admitted failures and "missteps" in the communication of US policy regarding Israel's ongoing war in Gaza in a closed-door meeting with Arab American and Muslim leaders in Michigan last week.
"We have left a very damaging impression, based on what has been a wholly inadequate public accounting for how much the President, the administration, the country, values the lives of Palestinians," Deputy National Security adviser Jon Finer was heard telling community leaders in a recording obtained by CBS News. "We are very well aware that we have misstepped in the course of responding to this crisis."
Finer also acknowledged that many in the Arab American community believe Mr. Biden doesn't empathize with Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
The audio recording was verified by a National Security Council official.
Connecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy responded to Finer's remarks Sunday during an interview on "Face the Nation With Margaret Brennan" and said the administration plans to make changes. He pointed to President Biden's Thursday statement that Israel has "gone too far" in Gaza, and a recent call by Secretary of State Antony Blinken for Israel not to dehumanize others as Israelis themselves had been dehumanized by Hamas during the brutal attacks on Oct. 7 that began the current conflict.
The decomposing body of a missing young Palestinian girl was found Saturday in Gaza surrounded by her dead relatives in a bullet-ridden, tank-crushed car near a blasted ambulance and the bodies of two paramedics killed by Israeli troops while trying to save the child.
The plight of 6-year-old Hind Rajab drew worldwide attention after the Palestine Red Crescent Society published a recording of a desperate phone call made by her 15-year-old cousin Layan Hamadeh to the PRCS as her family came under Israeli tank attack while trying to flee to safety in their car in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood of southern Gaza City at dusk on January 29.
Along with Hamadeh, Rajab's aunt, uncle, and two other cousins were killed. But Rajab—who was wounded in the back and hand—initially survived.
"Come take me. Will you come and take me?" she begged PRCS dispatcher Rana al-Faqeh over the phone, telling her that she was afraid of the dark. "I'm so scared, please come!"
An ambulance was dispatched to rescue Rajab. But it, too, came under Israeli attack, and crew members Yusuf Zeino and Ahmed Al-Madhoun were killed.
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