i'd prefer to be presenting puppies and pretty girls here but the pages of www are filled with israeli crimes we've avoiding paying attention to so now the effects are coming home;

“What Israel is doing to the Palestinians equates to writing one of the darkest pages in genocide history,” said Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, on The Electronic Intifada Livestream for 12 June.

She praised grassroots efforts and said UN member states must take action to stop the genocide. Europeans in particular need to “pop the colonial bubble and to be different,” she said.

But Albanese finds the silence and complicity of Arab states “jaw-dropping.”

”If you don’t stand against this slaughterhouse, you are complicit,” she tells them.

The Madleen flotilla – which Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, French Palestinian European Parliament member Rima Hassan and others participated in – “has achieved as much as no one else – other than the Palestinians,” according to Albanese, “in shedding light on what’s happening to Gaza.”

The thousands who attempted to deliver aid to the besieged territory with the Global March to Gaza and the Sumud Convoy were “proof” of what she has thought for years: “Palestine has triggered a global revolution.”

Albanese urged states to follow the lead of the Madleen and send ships to Gaza with “food, baby formula, medicines, doctors and nurses,” adding that politicians could go themselves to eliminate any perceived threat to Israel.

“What is at stake is not Israel’s security. It’s Israel’s impunity,” she added.........more........