Tag: critical commentary

Making Gaza Unliveable: Economic dimensions of the war on the Gaza Strip according to international humanitarian law

Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute – MAS – Year: 2023 Today, MAS issued the first edition of the “Economic Summary of the War on Gaza”, monitoring the comprehensively destructive approach adopted by the Israeli military forces in their war on the Gaza Strip. It focuses on Israeli policies and practices that affect the basics of human… Read More Making Gaza Unliveable: Economic dimensions of the war on the Gaza Strip according to international humanitarian law

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Saudi prince slams Hamas, Israel with India praise: ‘Prefer civil disobedience’

NB: I am not an admirer of the Saudi regime, which I believe to be a brutal pseudo-religious despotism; but I appreciate this statement by their former intelligence chief. I couldn’t agree with him more. On the West’s shameless hypocrisy and double standards; their irredeemable racism and practice of collective vengeance on subjugated peoples; the… Read More Saudi prince slams Hamas, Israel with India praise: ‘Prefer civil disobedience’

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Peacekeepers, Fatah or anarchy: what would follow an Israeli ‘victory’ in Gaza?

Emma Graham-Harrison, Julian Borger and Ruth Michaelson in Jerusalem For two weeks Israel has pounded Gaza with missiles, as it gathers tanks and troops for a ground invasion with one stated goal, to destroy Hamas. It is a deceptively simple target, one which sounds urgent and necessary to many in a nation profoundly traumatised by the massacres of 7 October,… Read More Peacekeepers, Fatah or anarchy: what would follow an Israeli ‘victory’ in Gaza?

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We owe it to humanity to see the rules of war are observed – no matter how tough a test the Israel-Hamas conflict proves

George Monbiot We owe it to humanity to see the rules of war are observed – no matter how tough a test the Israel-Hamas conflict proves George Monbiot For almost 4,000 years, some governments have insisted that if wars must be fought, there should be rules. The first known code, by the Babylonian king Hammurabi,… Read More We owe it to humanity to see the rules of war are observed – no matter how tough a test the Israel-Hamas conflict proves

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Toxic Netanyahu could drag Biden down in his fight for political survival

Simon Tisdall Is that it? Is that the best western leaders can do as the midnight hour approaches? Kindly Joe Biden doled out sympathy and dollars in a seven-hour visit to Israel. Tiny amounts of aid are dribbling into Gaza. Two hostages out of 200 have been released. But there is no ceasefire, no “humanitarian… Read More Toxic Netanyahu could drag Biden down in his fight for political survival

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‘A textbook case of genocide’: Israeli Holocaust scholar Raz Segal decries Israel’s assault on Gaza

Raz Segal, an Israeli expert in modern genocide, calls Israel’s assault on Gaza a textbook case of “intent to commit genocide” and its rationalization of its violence a “shameful use” of the lessons of the Holocaust. Israeli state exceptionalism and comparisons of its Palestinians victims to “Nazis” are used to “justify, rationalize, deny, distort, disavow… Read More ‘A textbook case of genocide’: Israeli Holocaust scholar Raz Segal decries Israel’s assault on Gaza

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The Shame That Will Follow Netanyahu Will Be Far Greater Than the One He Attempted to Escape

Only a man who attributes mythic dimensions to himself would be capable of dragging Israel into five elections, political chaos, social disintegration and a loss of trust by masses of people in the law enforcement system, in other words, in the state itself, responsible for a collapse of Israel’s deterrence and a blood-soaked war. Gidi… Read More The Shame That Will Follow Netanyahu Will Be Far Greater Than the One He Attempted to Escape

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Biden’s Historically Illiterate and Hypocritical Speech on Ukraine and Gaza

JUAN COLE Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Biden administration’s foreign policy is a mess and lacks any real consistency. This messiness was on full display in the president’s brief address on Thursday evening, a plea for Congressional funding of both the US struggle to get Russia back out of Ukraine and of support for the extremist… Read More Biden’s Historically Illiterate and Hypocritical Speech on Ukraine and Gaza

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Israel’s Colonial Revenge Genocide in Gaza is the latest in a Long History of such Massacres

The Palestinians in Gaza are bearing the brunt of the Colonial Revenge Genocide. Half of Gaza consists of children, most born after 2006 when Hamas came to power in the Strip through elections insisted upon by George W. Bush. Large numbers of these children are set to be killed, and several hundred already have been,… Read More Israel’s Colonial Revenge Genocide in Gaza is the latest in a Long History of such Massacres

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Pfizer to Charge $1,390 for Lifesaving Covid Drug That Costs Just $13

U. S. consumer watchdog Public Citizen on Thursday excoriated Pfizer after the pharmaceutical giant announced it would more than double the price of a lifesaving Covid-19 treatment, which will soon sell for an estimated 100 times the cost of production. Pfizer said Wednesday that it will price its patented Covid treatment nirmatrelvir-ritonavir—sold under the brand name Paxlovid—at $1,390 for… Read More Pfizer to Charge $1,390 for Lifesaving Covid Drug That Costs Just $13

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