Twenty-two months into Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza, the death toll rising, famine has now been formally declared by the UN agency that declares such things – the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC.

It’s a “worst case scenario,” the IPC declared at the end of July.

No news for those who follow the media.

Skeletal toddlers and non-lactating Gazan mothers crowd TV screens and online news platforms day after day.

All “blood lies,” says criminal fugitive Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, under arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court.

Still, Israel’s fast friends seem moved, and are now declaring the horror show has to stop.

“Dangerous,” a couple of dozen Western officials recently declared. “Inhumane,” “unacceptable,” “egregious.”

Outrageously unlawful? No. No Western state has gone that far. No mention of the G-word, nor the A-word.

But a sea change seems to be underway, in places you’d least expect – the UK, the Netherlands … Germany.

And Canada, long time Israeli Bro when Stephen Harper was Prime Minister.

Justin Trudeau vowed a more nuanced, Palestine-friendly policy. Displaying true Liberal colours, Trudeau’s Foreign Minister, Chrystia Freeland, vowed Canada would be Israel’s “asset” at the UN Security Council — should it win a seat. It didn’t.

Now, in the Red Chamber of the Canadian Parliament, the Senate, sturdier voices are calling for justice and action.

In late June, then again in late July, Canadian Senators called on Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to uphold international law, urging the Canadian government to implement a half dozen punitive measures against Israel. The GPM spoke with one of them, Canadian Senator from the Province of Manitoba, the Honorable Marilou McPhedran.

Marilou McPhedran is a Canadian lawyer and human rights advocate. She was the Dean of the University of Winnipeg’s Global College, in Manitoba, between 2008 and 2012, and has been a member of the Senate of Canada since October 2016.

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War and police repression — land and climate destruction. The two go hand in hand.

Twenty-two months into Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza, US bombs and missiles have reportedly generated about 40 million tonnes of concrete rubble, liberally seasoned with the toxic residues of US, British and German munitions.

Cleaning up Israel-USA’s mountain of poisonous detritus, reducing it to a finer grade of carcinogenic rubble, trucking it all off (underlying terrain replaced by Trump/Witkoff real estate), will generate an estimated 90,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases.

By some estimates, rebuilding Gaza (if this can be imagined) will generate thirty million tonnes of Earth-warming gases — and a shit-load of cash.

Meanwhile, in Israel-USA — intellectual co-author/perpetrator of Israeli mass murder and destruction — Donald Trump’s One Big Billionaire Bailout Bill pulverizes America’s fledgling renewable energy industry. Wind turbines and solar panel farms have been slashed. They kill birds and mar the landscape, the NYC/Florida-based sociopath says.

Not far beneath the surface of his ten-thousand-word pile of vicious legislative rubble, Trump’s OBBB allocates $150 billion to ICE – Immigration Control & Enforcement. Trump’s Brown Shirts are now terrorizing black, brown and Latino communities coast to coast. The GPM talked about all this with is Aaron Kirshenbaum, War is Not Green organizer for the US antiwar and justice organization CODEPINK.

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