Tag: human rights

Israeli Ministry of Intelligence recommends forcible and permanent transfer of Gaza’s 2.2 million Palestinian residents to Egypt

NB: It is a hundred years since arch-imperialist Lord Curzon, as Britain’s Foreign Secretary in 1923 warned that the driving out of peoples (in the exchanges between Greece and Turkey) was ‘a thoroughly bad and vicious solution, for which the world will pay a heavy penalty for a hundred years to come’: R.M. Douglas, Orderly and Humane: The… Read More Israeli Ministry of Intelligence recommends forcible and permanent transfer of Gaza’s 2.2 million Palestinian residents to Egypt

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Israel reportedly proposed writing off Egypt’s debts for hosting Gaza refugees

An Israeli news report claims that the Netanyahu government has offered a raft of proposals to entice Egypt to open its doors to two million displaced Palestinians, despite Cairo’s rejection NB: Arch-imperialist Lord Curzon, as Britain’s Foreign Secretary in 1923 warned that the driving out of peoples (in the exchanges between Greece and Turkey) was ‘a… Read More Israel reportedly proposed writing off Egypt’s debts for hosting Gaza refugees

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Gangsters are the villains in ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ — but the biggest thief of Native American wealth was the US government

Forced removal touched every tribe east of the Mississippi River and several tribes to the west of it. In total, about 100,000 American Indians were removed from their homelands to western reservations. Director Martin Scorsese’s new movie, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” tells the true story of a string of murders on the Osage Nation’s land in Oklahoma… Read More Gangsters are the villains in ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ — but the biggest thief of Native American wealth was the US government

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South American countries recall ambassadors and cut ties with Israel / Belgian workers refuse to handle arms shipments for Israel

A number of South American countries have registered diplomatic protests against Israel, in response to its latest conflict with Hamas, with Bolivia’s leftwing government cutting ties entirely and attributing its decision to alleged war crimes and human rights abuses being committed in the Gaza Strip. The decision by Bolivia was announced at a press conference on… Read More South American countries recall ambassadors and cut ties with Israel / Belgian workers refuse to handle arms shipments for Israel

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‘A new Nakba’: settler violence forces Palestinians out of West Bank villages / Israel bombs Jabalia refugee camp; Director, UNHCHR resigns to protest genocide

Life in Zanuta, a Palestinian village atop a windy ridge in the desolate south Hebron hills, deep in the occupied West Bank, has never been easy. The community are mostly herders who raise goats and sheep through the barren landscape’s scorching summers and freezing winters, and who have steadfastly refused to leave their homes despite… Read More ‘A new Nakba’: settler violence forces Palestinians out of West Bank villages / Israel bombs Jabalia refugee camp; Director, UNHCHR resigns to protest genocide

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US Billionaires and Corporate Profiteers Enabling Israel’s War on Gaza

As the Biden administration attempts to deny the death toll of Israel’s campaign of mass murder in Gaza and sell genocide as a stimulus for the U.S. economy, these are the death merchants profiting from the war machine By Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams With more than 7,300 Palestinians killed so far in Israel’s three-week bombardment of Gaza, a series… Read More US Billionaires and Corporate Profiteers Enabling Israel’s War on Gaza

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I fought house to house in Gaza … I know force alone won’t bring peace

Ariel Bernstein On the morning of 7 October, I woke up in Tel Aviv to the sound of alarms. Soon after came a constant stream of horrific news. As we began to piece together the gruesome picture of Hamas’s atrocities that morning, it became apparent that Israel was facing another war in Gaza – this time on… Read More I fought house to house in Gaza … I know force alone won’t bring peace

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Is the One-Sided US Response to the Gaza Crisis a Sign of Civilizational Decline?

American politicians, the mainstream media, a powerful segment of academia – all have marginalized the faculty of critical thinking. The paradox is that modern academic disciplines claim to follow Socratic Method of inquiry but in reality, they blatantly follow Sophistic relativistic philosophy and seem unable to confront the corrupting influence of money in American politics… Read More Is the One-Sided US Response to the Gaza Crisis a Sign of Civilizational Decline?

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