Tag: current affairs – international

Israel, Gaza, and the ‘Merchants of Death’ / Israeli Film Festival Cancelled in Mumbai After Citizen Campaign

Ramin Mirfakhraie On July 24, 2024, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech to a joint session of the United States Congress, where nearly half of the House and Senate Democrats were not present. In his address, which was presented in terms of a binary opposition between barbarism (“Iran’s axis of terror”) and civilization (“America, Israel, and… Read More Israel, Gaza, and the ‘Merchants of Death’ / Israeli Film Festival Cancelled in Mumbai After Citizen Campaign

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Bombed hospitals, buried children: we have become numb to Gaza’s destruction

So many of Gaza’s children have been buried. Or orphaned. Or been found clutching their dolls under rubble. Or died of heart attacks from terror. So when Netanyahu, a man with a potential arrest warrant for war crimes, receives a standing ovation from our Congress, that’s not just Netanyahu’s legacy. That’s ours As we are saturated with… Read More Bombed hospitals, buried children: we have become numb to Gaza’s destruction

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Gaza ceasefire talks are on their last legs, and Benjamin Netanyahu is to blame / Gaza death toll passing 40,000 is ‘grim milestone’ says UN human rights chief as ceasefire talks begin

The US is transferring $3.8bn to Israel in military aid per year. Biden has leverage to force a deal, but he refuses to use it GAZA casualties, live statistics Lancet warns Gaza death toll could be over 186,000 Mohamad Bazzi Joe Biden is making a last-ditch effort to salvage the Gaza ceasefire agreement he has been pushing… Read More Gaza ceasefire talks are on their last legs, and Benjamin Netanyahu is to blame / Gaza death toll passing 40,000 is ‘grim milestone’ says UN human rights chief as ceasefire talks begin

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Peace activists are converging on the India-Pakistan border to celebrate freedom and to honor those still struggling for peace

http://www.sapannews.com At midnight on 14 August, several hundred Pakistani and Indian peace activists plan to converge at the Wagah-Attari border with candles, placards, and music, to jointly celebrate Pakistan and India’s independence days after a gap of about a decade. This year, I hope to be among them. The Peacemakers at Wagah: Rajendra Sachar-Kuldip Nayar… Read More Peace activists are converging on the India-Pakistan border to celebrate freedom and to honor those still struggling for peace

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‘This has to stop’: plea by survivors of deadly IDF strike on school in Gaza

NB: About 160,000 Palestinians have been killed, injured or are missing in Gaza or the West Bank due to the genocidal attack by the American proxy, Israel. Many of them are children, some of whom have had amputations without anesthesia. Had even a fraction of Americans or Europeans been treated in this way we can… Read More ‘This has to stop’: plea by survivors of deadly IDF strike on school in Gaza

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Our north stars

Trusting in the students to lead us to a brighter tomorrow Tanvir Haider Chaudhury Let’s get one thing straight: The only north star here is the students. They fought, suffered incarceration and torture, bled, and died to see this revolution happen. The only people I trust in this whole mess we find ourselves in are… Read More Our north stars

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