That is what we must continue to expect if we continue along these same ideas of the old policy.

rose in anger at statements which Mr. Clarke made

"How can lines operating from Pacific ports be prevented from operating to Atlantic ports, and how can we check the same from walking over our own gradually built-up commerce?

the chief members of all the boards remained closeted discussing the situation and putting many questions to W. L. Clarke of the Pacific Steamship Company

Instead of looking for something to defeat this law, find something to sustain it

Cannot you trust it? Don't scare up bogeys

The Shipping Board says it won't do it

I do not want to drive foreign ships from our ports unless there are American ships to take their place

It is said this bill will drive foreign shipping from our ports. Granted. I want to do it

There is nobody nowadays to look after American interests except we Americans ourselves.

Our Canadian friends are looking after their interests

There are interests in this country that do not want it

"I want ships to fly the American flag on the Pacific

When you get an advantage do you give help to your competitor, I ask you?

Foreign lines gave the advantage to themselves

Before the war we had to depend on foreign ships for our business. We had to go to our competitors to get our goods to market. Do you help your competitor fight you?

We, the United States, should really lead the world's shipping

This may seem enormous, but England has 3,000,000 tons

The people of the country have a deep interest in the development of the merchant marine

Tacoma business men turned out in large numbers to attend the meeting: It is estimated that well over 1,100 members were present.

He declared that Congress would never alter the law on the basis of "opinions of reasons," but only if actual operation resulted in positive and tangible injury to American trade.

Whether they like it or not, I am prepared to carry it through. Later they will see the mistakes they have made by thus addressing me. I came here to explain myself in open forum. They have got to have a chance of expressing themselves as well, and a real chance to blow off steam

Commercial Club

This law will not be modified in any way to encourage our competitors

Senator Wesley I. Jones

Section 28 of the Shipping act

which is considered by most of the shipping and business men of this coast as a direct menace to the trade of coast ports.

Today, no one has an accurate figure of how many people have died in this war, how many deaths are those of Hamas fighters and how many of Gazan civilians.

Are today’s accusations antisemitic?

What is the difference? Few know the name Alice Wairimu Nderitu. From 2020 to 2024, the Kenyan human rights advocate was the U.N. special adviser on the prevention of genocide. Kofi Annan, secretary general from 1997 to 2006, created the office, which collects information on rights violations that might lead to genocide. After Israel began its response to the Oct. 7 attack, Nderitu would not say that it was committing genocide. Such a determination, she insisted, was legally and factually complex; it demanded detailed examination by a competent court with proper jurisdiction. Nderitu was pressured and received threats. One called her a “Zionist rat” who supported the “rape and murder of little kids by your bestial masters.” Her mandate was not renewed.

Why this insistence?

he United States would take over Gaza

But they have neither suspended arms shipments nor taken many concrete and meaningful economic or political steps that might deter Mr. Netanyahu’s government.

on Israel’s Democrat TV and in subsequent articles and interviews the attempt to clear northern Gaza of its population.

The I.D.F. says it investigates reports of crimes, although it has rarely made its findings public, and when breaches of discipline or protocol are acknowledged,

it often serves more to express outrage than to identify a particular crime.

and one that I resisted as long as I could. But I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.

Having grown up in a Zionist home, lived the first half of my life in Israel, served in the I.D.F. as a soldier and officer and spent most of my career

Mr. Netanyahu had urged his citizens to remember “what Amalek did to you,” a quote many interpreted as a reference to the demand in a biblical passage calling for the Israelites to “kill alike men and women, infants and sucklings” of their ancient enemy. Government and military officials said they were fighting “human animals” and, later, called for “total annihilation.” Nissim Vaturi, the deputy speaker of Parliament, said on X that Israel’s task must be “erasing the Gaza Strip from the face of the earth.” Israel’s actions could be understood only as the implementation of the expressed intent to make the Gaza Strip uninhabitable for its Palestinian population. I believe the goal was — and remains today — to force the population to leave the Strip altogether or, considering that it has nowhere to go, to debilitate the enclave through bombings and severe deprivation of food, clean water, sanitation and medical aid to such an extent that it is impossible for Palestinians in Gaza to maintain or reconstitute their existence as a group.

pattern of I.D.F. operations was consistent with the statements denoting genocidal intent made by Israeli leaders in the days after the Hamas attack.