For today, links to reports from National Public Radio, the Associated Press, Al Jazeera, and the Intercept, and to commentary from Z Network; others are accessible by clicking on their initials or names below. (UKRAINE entry and a DIPLOMACY entry are HERE and HERE.) — MCM
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House set to vote on aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Reported by Scott Simon and Claudia Grisales | NPR The U.S. House is poised to vote on a series of bills that would give additional aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. The funding for Ukraine is causing divisions among House Republicans. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza city of Rafah kills at least 9 Palestinians, including 6 children, by Mohammad Jahjouh and Samy Magdy | AP RAFAH, Gaza Strip — An Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza’s southernmost city killed at least nine people, six of them children, hospital authorities said today. According to Gaza’s . . . READ MORE . . .
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Burials for children after air strikes on Rafah, by Virginia Pietromarchi and Stephen Quillen | Al Jazeera The bodies, mostly children, of those killed in Israeli air attacks on residential homes in Rafah city were collected from al-Najjar Hospital and taken to be buried. An Al Jazeera correspondent said Israeli forces continue to . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM APRIL 15 Leaked NYT memo tells journalists to avoid words ‘genocide,’ ‘ethnic cleansing,’ and ‘occupied territory,’ by Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Grim | The Intercept The New York Times memo, written by the newspaper’s standards editor Susan Wessling, international editor Philip Pan, and their deputies, “offers guidance about some terms and other issues we have . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM APRIL 18 Cruelty of language — the NYT’s leaked Gaza memo, by Ramzy Baroud | Z Network / Consortium News The New York Times coverage of the Israeli carnage in Gaza, like that of other mainstream U.S. media, is a disgrace to journalism. This assertion should not surprise anyone. U.S. media . . . READ MORE . . .