 Hello, welcome to this edition of Ableton on Air, the one and only program that focuses on the needs, concerns, and achievements of the differently able. I've always been your host, known as Salah Arlene, and is not here today. She is recuperating in the rehab center from a diabetic abrutation. We would like to, you know, first point out on this edition of Ableton on Air that this is the second part of an Israel series that we have done on what's going on in Israel and with people of special needs and the war. And I'm going to start off by reading my commentary for this. Major sponsors for Ableton on Air include Washington County Metal Health, Where Hope and Support Come Together. Media sponsors for Ableton on Air include Park Chester Times, Muslim Community Report, WWW, this is the Bronx.info, Associated Press Media Editors, New York Parrot Online Newspaper, U.S. Press, Core, Domestic and International, Anchor FM, and Spotify. 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I'm your host Lawrence Seiler, hello viewers of Ableton on Air, for 30 years I have been a journalist, despite the challenges that I've always managed to persevere. I don't like to see suffering of anyone, war is never good, people get seriously hurt. My wife and I, my wife Arlene and I have joined together as well as the Ableton on Air team to eradicate all terrorism. It must be eradicated and we must bring these perpetrators in Israel, we must bring Hamas and these perpetrators of evil to justice. Getting rid of a whole race doesn't solve anything. It makes it worse and worse, and makes the problem worse and worse. Being Jewish and proud makes us stronger than ever. Freedom is an act of cowardice and killing children, hurting elderly and the disabled and more vulnerable populations doesn't solve anything. It's sometimes hard to be Jewish and challenged, but between you and me there are prejudices for both and it's sometimes a double-edged sword. If we stand together as one we can accomplish more than you think. We at Ableton on Air will always stand for Israel and with Israel to make a common goal where we can live together in peace. That's easier said than done. You know, there have been war atrocities all throughout history in America and even overseas. The Spanish-American War, the Civil War, war started back in the Middle East when the Middle East was being formed. So in the Bible itself, King Herod of Antipas wanted babies killed under two years old. So all throughout biblical history this has been happening. We need to stop the madness and figure a way to get together, to work together for a common goal. This cannot happen anymore. Too many families are passing away, too many people are losing their house, you know, too many people are running scared because missiles are missiles on both sides, but missiles are firing at people. We just need to figure a way to live in peace. And we hope and pray that Israel, you know, that we figure a way as a global community to work together. We must do this. And you know, people with special needs are passing away, services are being not given because of what's going on, you know, services being given, but, you know, people need food. The bread lines are forming. This madness needs to stop during war. And we just need to come together to have common ground. And now let's take a look at, let's take a look at the 2023 Israel Hamas War. Numbers have been climbing, but I'll give that a little bit later on in this show. During the ongoing conflict between Hamas and the Palestinian military groups and Israel, Israel military forces began on the 7th of October, 2023 on the morning of Shemini Asret, which is a Jewish holiday, 50 years after the start of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Hamas's coordinated surprise offensive, codenamed, codenamed Al, Al Saif flood, began on the morning of, on the morning barrage, at least 5,000 rockets launched from the Gaza Strip against Israel. While some 2,500 Palestinian militants breached the Gaza-Israel border and massacred to set fire to civilian communities and attacked the Israel Defense Forces, IDF military bases near the Gaza Strip. For 1,400, at that time, Israel, Israelis, mostly civilians were killed. Two hundred and sixty people were at a music festival in Reim, and two hundred people, two hundred people unarmed civilian hostages were captured. Israel forces were taken to Gaza Strip. Israel military forces began conducting military strikes before the Israel government forming the clearing war on Hamas later that day. The 2023 war is the fiercest since the Yom Kippur War, and it is part of the Israeli Palestinian conflict which started originally on May 1948, and which, in 2005, saw most of the military extortions taking place, taking place, not to fall from the Gaza Strip. Hamas had been the ruling party of the Gaza Strip since 2007, avoiding major engagements with Israel in 2022 and most of 2023. However, in 2023, before the offensive started, an uptick in Israel, an Israeli Palestinian violence, saw at least 247 Palestinians, 32 Israelis, and two foreigners, Israeli Palestinians, killed. Some sources say Hamas culpably prepared for a major offensive. Despite suspicions of Iranian involvement, both Israel and the U.S. stated that there was no concrete evidence of Iran's involvement, and Iran has denied the role in Hamas' attack. Hamas stated their attack was in response to the desecration of the al-Azir mosque and a blockade of the Gaza Strip continued Israeli settlements and Israeli settlement of violence. After clearing Hamas' forces from southern Israel, the IDF constructed airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, which killed over 6,000 Palestinians. The number has climbed. According to Hamas' run health ministry, fears of a humanitarian crisis were heightened, and Israel cut off food after Israel cut off food, electricity, and fuel supplies to Gaza. And it's been blockaded by both Egypt and Israel. Israel urged 1.1 million Gazans to evacuate northern Gaza, where Hamas called residents to stay in their homes and block roads leading south. The United Nations reported around 1 million Palestinians nearly half of the Gaza Strip population has been internally displaced. The United Nations and many countries called for immediate ceasefire. Human rights groups called for the intake of Gaza refugees caused by war. There has been a widespread killing of civilians and a panel of United Nations special reporters among human rights groups that have accused both Israel and Hamas of war crimes. At least 44 nations nearly Western denounced Hamas and explicitly condemned its conduct of terrorism and joint statement of the United States. The United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Germany, in contrast, countries across the Middle East called for a de-escalation and decried and decreased Israel's decade-long occupations of Palestinian territories as a root cause, including a joint statement by United Arab Emirates, Jordan Bahrain, Saudi Arabians, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Egypt, and Morocco. The UN warned Israel immediately to stop all military things against Gaza, saying that its allies would inflict a huge earthquake by opening new fronts and threatening to intervene the Israeli military launched a ground invasion of Gaza. For more information on this, you can go to www.wikipedia.org, forward slash wiki 2023 Israel Hamas war. Let's go to the casualties, the current casualties of the war. The total now is 7,028 Palestinians, including 2,913 miners. According to the ministry, the ministry is the only official source of Gaza casualties. Israel has sealed Gaza's borders, barring foreign journalists and humanitarian workers. So according to the Associated Press, they have a death toll here, and okay, here we go. Israel's Hamas war upends years of conventional wisdom. Leaders give few details on what's coming next. Palestinians plead to stop the bombs at UN meeting, but Israel insists Hamas must be obliterated. The ministry is the only official source of Gaza casualties. Israel has sealed Gaza's borders, barring foreign journalists and humanitarian workers. The Associated Press is among a small number of international news organizations. For those, while those journalists cannot do a comprehensive count, we've reviewed large numbers of bodies at the sites of airstrikes, mosques and funerals. October 26th, 2023, which was yesterday, according to CNN, there's Israel's war news, things are not great. Israel's military has carried out a targeted raid overnight over northern Gaza using tanks. The move came hours after President Netanyahu said Israel was preparing for a ground offensive following a deadly November 7th Hamas attack. The United Nations, aiding Palestinians on Wednesday, has said that they'll have to halt operations within a day of fuel that's not delivered, saying that it would mark the end of lifeline for civilians. Pressure is building on the international community to get Israel to allow desperately needed aid into Gaza, with more countries advocating for humanitarian pause. In fighting new satellite images, revealed the devastation wrought by Israel's bombs. Israel forces have been, say they have killed the deputy head of Hamas intelligence directorate and say that this is particularly responsible for planning attacks last month. For more information on how to, it gives right here, on how to help with humanitarian aid. Okay, according to CNN, it says how to help with humanitarian aid. It says you can give to several websites, and according to CNN's website, you can, there's several non-profits, according to this website that you can give to, you just have to choose which one. According to CNN, a deadly fighting between Israel and Hamas continues. So, to does a diet, a dire humanitarian crisis in the area, at least 1400 people have been killed in Israel and the numbers keep climbing, so on and so forth. The international committee of the Red Cross ICRC, which suffered damage to one of its buildings in Gaza, is calling for the protection of aid workers, civilians and critical infrastructure, calling for the situation of horrific doctors, situation horrific, and doctors with our borders, doctors with our borders, sand frontiers, is urging to restrain after medical facilities have been destroyed in the fighting. Impact Your World has gathered a list of vetted organizations on the ground, in responding you can support by clicking on the website for more information, you can go to www.cnn.com forward slash world how to help in the humanitarian effort. Again, that website is once again www.cnn.com forward slash world forward slash again how to help humanitarian efforts in Israel and Gaza, because even though we have family in Israel and we support Israel, it is not fair that both sides are getting hurt, people are dying, we really need to send humanitarian efforts, we need to send food, we need to send clothes, we need to send supplies. For more information on sending supplies, you can go to www.americanredcross.org. That website once again is www.americanredcross.org and for more information on sending supplies to Israel also, you can go to www.morgandavid.org. That's www.morgandavid.org. Like I mentioned in the last show with David Wecker a couple weeks ago on Israel, morgandavid, a dumb is a situation where you can go to Israel and or log on and send supplies, supplies such as food, such as clothes, such as shoes, boots, socks, things like that that people need. Don't send bullets, do not send anything harmful through the mail, that is not a good thing to send during this time. We want to send care packages, not any more things that will harm people. And please check with your local post office on how to send something through the mail, especially a care package. You're not allowed to send any aerosol cans, send toothpaste, toothbrushes, anything like that that can can help. And there is an organization that does help during this time. Okay, there's an organization called Samaritan's Purse. Samaritan's Purse is an organization that is that is responding to Israel's situation right now. It's called Samaritan's Purse. Yes, it is a Christian organization, but everybody is helping right now. And we really need to send things to help people. So if you need to send food, clothes, anybody that is hurting right now, family members, you can send it through here. So the website is Samaritan's Purse, International Relief, www.Samaritan's Purse.org. That is W-W-S-A-M-A-R-I-T-A-N-S Purse.org. And if you want more information on this organization and what they're doing for Israel, please, we must all help each other to make sure that people with even people with disabilities have food, clothes, and any other services that they may need at this time. Again, this is senseless killing that needs to stop. We just need to come together, all of us, for one common goal, and that is to save a life, not take a life. And if you would like to give also, if you would like to give anything for Israel in terms of food and clothes, you can, Habad of Burlington is an organization. It's called Habad C-H-A-B-A-D.org. So that's www.habad.org, www.habad C-H-A-B-A-D.org. Habad.org is a Jewish organization that accepts food and clothes during this time. They have an office in Burlington, Vermont. Just log on to the website and check it out. Again, this has been the second episode of the Israel conflict. For more information, please log on to www.orgamedia.net. And please support Ableton on air with many of the topics that we have done so far, especially things on the Israel War that's extremely important. Again, for more information on anything that you have seen today, you can go, once it airs, you can go to www.orgamedia.net. And again, Samaritan's Purse is www.samaritan's purse.org. S-A-M-A-R-I-T-A-N purse.org and forward slash disaster relief response deployed to Israel. I'm Lauren Seiler. We must love each other, not harm each other. I'm Lauren Seiler. See you next time on the next edition of Ableton on air. Let's bring everybody home safe and sound to their families. I'm Lauren Seiler. See you next time. Muslim Community Report, www, this is the Bronx.info, Associated Press Media Editors, New York Parrot Online Newspaper, U.S. Press Corps Domestic and International, Anchor FM and Spotify. 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