There are six links in this entry. They are to reports from Reuters, the Associated Press, Tass, and National Public Radio, and to commentary from Tricontinental Institute for Social Research via Consortium News; others are accessible by clicking on their names below. (UKRAINE entry for this date is HERE.) — MCM
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Israel says Gaza war likely to last another seven months as tanks probe Rafah, by Nidal Al-Mughrabi | Reuters CAIRO — Israel sent tanks on raids into Rafah today and predicted its war on Hamas in Gaza would continue all year, after Washington said the Rafah assault did not amount to a major ground operation that would trigger a change in U.S. policy. READ MORE . . .
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A senior Israeli official offers a grim prediction for the war as fighting rages in Gaza’s Rafah, by Melanie Lidman, Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy| AP TEL AVIV — Israel’s war with Hamas is likely to last through the end of the year, a top Israeli official said today, a grim prediction for a war already in its eighth month that has killed tens of thousands, deepened Israel’s global isolation and brought the region repeatedly to the brink of a wider conflagration. READ MORE . . .
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Brazil president withdraws his country’s ambassador to Israel after criticizing the war in Gaza, by Eleanore Hughes and David Biller | AP RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva withdrew his ambassador to Israel today after months of tensions between the two countries over the war in Gaza. READ MORE . . .
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Erdogan accuses West of complicity in Israel’s atrocities in Gaza. From Tass. ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused the U.S. and Western countries of being complicit in the bloodshed in the Gaza Strip — and the UN of inaction. “No state will be safe until Israel abides by international law and considers itself bound . . . READ MORE . . .
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Where is the Biden administration’s red line when it comes Palestinian deaths in Gaza? Leila Fadel of NPR talks with Aaron Miller of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on whether an Israeli airstrike on a refugee camp near Rafah crossed a red line with the Biden administration. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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FROM MAY 2 Three evils, by Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental Institute for Social Research / Consortium News In a chapter from Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks (1952), called “The Fact of Blackness,” Fanon writes about the despair that racism produces, the immense anxiety about living in a world that has decided that certain people . . . READ MORE . . .