A list of sources will be added to this text if I am able to continue writing. I cannot confirm that my watch has been sent by Invicta to the Gaza strip in Israel.
I have just received the return receipt for the most recent package sent to Invicta signed (if undated) by "Adriana Ponce." The latest return receipt for the items sent to Letitia James has yet to be received by me.
I wonder whether Carl Rove has read any of my writings or visited my sites? If so, when and/or at whose request has Mr. Rove done either or both of these things?
I noticed Mr. Rove strolling near me at Penn Station not long ago. I wonder whether Mr. Rove has worked for Marco Rubio and/or Iliana Ros-Leghtinen? Bob Menendez?
Jodi Rudoren, "Quest for Demilitarization of Gaza Is Seen Getting Netanyahu Only So Far," The New York Times, July 31, 2014, p. A8. (Keeping 1.8 million persons on the edge of starvation -- intellectual starvation included -- is not sanctioned by the word "demilitarization.")
Stephanie Clifford, "14 More Convictions in Brooklyn Are Examined," The New York Times, July 31, 2014, p. A20. (Brooklyn Detective Luis Scarcella is under investigation for framing people and procuring the conviction of innocent, mostly, African-American defendants. The retired detective is considering a move to Missouri. "John McGill, Esq., the OAE, and New Jersey Corruption.")
Nicholas Kristoff, "Don't Dismiss the Humanities," (Op-Ed) The New York Times, August 14, 2014, p. A23. ("Whatever" and "Whatever happened to the liberal arts?" and "Why Jane Can't read" then "Nihilists in Disneyworld.")
Jeremy W. Peters, "Missouri Unrest Leaves the Right Torn Over Views On Law Versus Order," The New York Times, August 15, 2014, p. A11. (Ted Cruz and Rand Paul are the G.O.P.'s Abbott and Costello. "Who's On First!")
Manny Fernandez, "Texas Governor Indicted in Case Alleging Abuses: Vetoing a Foe's Funding," The New York Times, August 16, 2014, p. A1. (Gov. Rick Perry said there were three reasons why he should be acquitted. However, he forgot two of them.)
Salvador Rizzo, "Tab For GWB Lawyers Exceeds $6.5 MILLION: As taxpayers foot the bill, ongoing investigation could add more to the tally," The Star Ledger, August 16, 2014, p. 1. (The attorneys representing Mr. Christie, who will be paid from N.J.'s treasury, are billing $6.5 million to conclude that Mr. Christie "didn't know nothing." Surely, we knew of Mr. Christie's ignorance already.)
Richard Kharine & Anthony G. Altrino, "Cop Quits After Saying On Video That he Doesn't Have to Follow the Constitution," The Star Ledger, August 8, 2014, p. 1. ("Obama has decimated the friggin Constitution, so I don't give a damn!" These were the words of a police officer in N.J. who has become spokesperson for many of his colleagues in N.J.'s state police and Office of Attorney Ethics. "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")
Bill Wichert, "Court Upholds Ruling Over Inquiries From Chase: Man was run over by Irvington officer," The Star Ledger, August 8, 2014, p. 12. (Police often express disdain for the danger -- or even actual harm -- to innocent people as a result of their efforts to apprehend perpetrators by dismissing such harm as "collateral damage." "An Open Letter to My Torturers in New Jersey, Terry Tuchin and Diana Lisa Riccioli" and "Psychological Torture in the American Legal System.")
Steven Strunsky, "Port Authority Confirms Grand Jury Subpoenas: Bond Prospectus Reveals Probe by Manhattan D.A., SEC," The Star Ledger, August 8, 2014, p. 12. (The PA may have "deceived" investors in its bond offerings through non-disclosure of all relevant facts which is amounts to LYING by their legal department: "David Samson Resigns" and "New Jersey Lawyers' Ethics Farce" then "Lawyers Have No Ethics!")
Christopher Baxter, "Ex-Inspector Admits Taking Cash Bribes," The Star Ledger, August 8, 2014, p. 18. (Logan Holt, 55, of Galloway Township, New Jersey admitted taking $1,000 cash bribe on the ground that, if it is good enough for Trenton's politicians and judges, it should be fine for inspectors. "Bribery in Union City, New Jersey" and "Is Bob Menendez For Sale?")
Jodi Rudoren & Isabel Kershner, "Gaza Rockets and Israeli Response Break the Quiet," The New York Times, August 20, 2014, p. A11.
"JERUSALEM -- As the latest short-term cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian militants [children are "militants"?] in the Gaza strip collapsed Tuesday, rockets from Gaza reached Tel Aviv and Jerusalem[,] and Israel resumed airstrikes in Gaza. But the most telling move came in Cairo, where Israel yanked its team from talks aimed at a more durable truce."
There were few expectations that a meaningful result, or lasting peace, would emerge from the Cairo talks.
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have announced "bottom-line" demands that have been rejected by their opposite numbers before discussions began in Egypt. This is a strange attitude to take to the concept of negotiation.
The U.S. is not hosting -- or even participating -- in these talks because America is seen as "biased" (by the Palestinians) and "insufficiently loyal" when it comes to Mr. Obama's administration (by Israel).
The inconsistency in these views seems not to have occurred to anyone. It is difficult for the U.S. to favor, illicitly, both sides in negotiations.
Israel does not wish to "reward" Hamas for bombing attacks that have killed 64 Israeli soldiers and wounded many others. As I type these words it is reported that children have been killed in Israel by Hamas attacks. The continued killing of innocents is regarded as the only alternative to "rewarding" Hamas with a peace that ends the current hostilities, even if the "siege" of Gaza is not lifted by Israel.
As a result, more innocent persons along with the guilty will be killed, more homes will be destroyed (it will take nearly twenty years under current constraints to rebuild the lost housing in Gaza), and further devastation of lives must be expected. As many as 350,000 persons are expected to be homeless in Gaza when the military hostilities end, if they ever do. Displacement alone will constitute a humanitarian crisis.
This is the human suffering that the global community -- including America -- finds appalling, regardless of the merits in the respective negotiating positions of the parties to the underlying dispute.
Global outrage is not about who is right or wrong, but about ending the killing and suffering of INNOCENT persons.
For Palestinians the suffocating conditions of an occupation that starves and stifles the hopes of a very young population must be ended. All decent people agree on this much.
Hamas is under great pressure to deliver "something" more "substantial" after so much suffering. Israeli severity is designed, allegedly, to produce a permanently enslaved Palestinian population that is utterly pacified (drugs are among the few things that are plentiful in Gaza).
Risking one's death seems not all that terrible to people who have lost loved-ones, entire families in some cases, and everything they own.
The actual goals of the Israeli government for the short term are a matter for speculation: 1). Netanyahu is said to "wish to be feared" by Palestinians, obviously, but also by his Israeli political opposition which will see him, after this Gaza operation, as unbeatable in future elections because he is a self-proclaimed "strong man" who will keep Israel safe no matter the cost and regardless of world opinion; 2). by using his "friends" in the U.S. media, Netanyahu wishes to intimidate the few American politicians who are not on the payroll of the Israeli lobby in order to make it clear to the Islamic world, especially, that even the U.S. cannot control Israel. 3). Finally, there is the ongoing push to get Palestinians out of the area entirely, possibly to steal their land: "Let them go to Jordan," Mr. Netanyahu has said on more than one occasion.
"Israel's walking away from the talks leaves Hamas -- and the broader Palestinian leadership that has been negotiating in Cairo -- with little to show for its war effort. Gaza is devastated: about 2,000 residents were killed; [10,000 wounded persons, many severely wounded very young individuals;] and perhaps 100,000 rendered homeless as neighborhoods were reduced to rubble." ("The Audacity of Hope" and "Israel Heightens Gaza Crisis.")
Sanitary conditions already pose a danger of widespread diseases further threatening local children; access to drinking water and medical care as well as food are more of a problem than ever; and there are few prospects for the material improvement of people's lives. Is this ethical?
Perhaps the refusal to lift the siege by Israel is intended to instill a sense of hopelessness among young people from among whom Hamas recruits fighters.
Apathy among young persons who have witnessed the horrors and deaths of the past month is unlikely. There will be no shortage of suicide bombers now, some of them may be coming to America.
Under circumstances that can only be called "oppressive" (UN), Palestinians will either be destroyed or they will become harder than steel in their commitment to the struggle for social justice and self-determination, dignity, equality, and human rights.
Even UN locations provide no safety. A number of UN officials have also been killed. To my knowledge, Israel has not apologized for the deaths of UN personnel who are deemed "collateral damage."
A similar struggle is taking place in Missouri (and elsewhere in America) for recognition of human rights and dignity, most of all for the truth from officials who are fooling no one by including a few token dark faces among their ranks in uniform making doubtful decisions about curfews and security applicable, exclusively, to African-American neighborhoods.
"No justice, no peace!" -- has become a universal slogan for oppressed people in the world. The one thing on which anyone who surveys global politics today can agree is that world peace is not likely in our time.
