Tag: Palestine / Israel

Documentary Details How Netanyahu Funded and Boosted Hamas

By Four Corners / ABC News (Larry’s List) Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to destroy Hamas – but he enabled its development. Four Corners asked Israeli insiders how this happened in the new documentary, The Forever War *********************************************** The Gaza genocide as explicit policy: Michael Hudson names all names The End of Innocence The Palestine Exception to… Read More Documentary Details How Netanyahu Funded and Boosted Hamas

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Architectures of Delusion (2021)

A legendary prison break confounds and infuriates Zionist authorities Steve Salaita The symbolism is irresistible:  six men—political prisoners according to world opinion, terrorists according to their captors—tunneled out of Israel’s Gilboa, a heavily guarded colonial stockade, and then disappeared into the early morning darkness in an escape so daring and unlikely that it surely would… Read More Architectures of Delusion (2021)

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The Arsenal of Genocide: the U.S. Weapons That Are Destroying Gaza

During the Second World War, the United States proudly called itself the “Arsenal of Democracy,” as its munitions factories and shipyards produced an endless supply of weapons to fight the genocidal government of Germany. Today, the United States is instead, shamefully, the Arsenal of Genocide, providing 70% of the imported weapons Israel is using to… Read More The Arsenal of Genocide: the U.S. Weapons That Are Destroying Gaza

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US students, once again, have led the way. Now we must all stand up for Palestinians

Osita Nwanevu The student left is the most reliably correct constituency in America. Over the past 60 years, it has passed every great moral test American foreign policy has forced upon the public, including the Vietnam war, the question of relations with apartheid South Africa, and the Iraq war. Student activists were at the heart… Read More US students, once again, have led the way. Now we must all stand up for Palestinians

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BIDEN’S LAWYERS ARE URGING THE WHITE HOUSE TO CHANGE COURSE ON GAZA

IN A MESSAGE to Attorney General Merrick Garland and other senior officials this week, federal government attorneys invoked British abolitionist William Wilberforce: “You may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again that you did not know.”  The letter, drafted by unnamed legal and policy staff at more than two dozen federal agencies, argues… Read More BIDEN’S LAWYERS ARE URGING THE WHITE HOUSE TO CHANGE COURSE ON GAZA

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From rural Sri Lanka, solidarity for Gaza and American students protesting for Palestine

Reverberations of America’s campus protests are felt in a remote rural area in the middle of a jungle in the heart of an island nation at the cusp of Southasia and the Indian Ocean. ‘A country may believe it wins something by killing people but can anything be as valuable as human life? POSTCARD FROM… Read More From rural Sri Lanka, solidarity for Gaza and American students protesting for Palestine

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Indo-Palestine Solidarity Network

Commemorates the 78th Anniversary of the NAKBA of 1948, when over 7.5 lac Palestinians were driven from their homes and villages by violence and terror ************************ GAZA casualties, live statistics United Nations Documentation on the Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem The Crisis of Ideology The west’s complete contempt for the lives of Palestinians will… Read More Indo-Palestine Solidarity Network

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Israeli military not a professional army; its ground incursions look like ISIS terror attacks

GAZA casualties, live statistics Israeli ground assaults in Gaza Strip reveal mass graves, war crimes publicized for fun, mass slaughter, human shield taking, and widespread torture.  by Robert Inlakesh Although most modern armies have committed war crimes, the Israeli military does not operate like a professional force, but rather a collection of ill-disciplined racist militia groups.… Read More Israeli military not a professional army; its ground incursions look like ISIS terror attacks

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Stand Up, Say No

NB: The title of this post is inspired by a lecture on Gandhi’s ideal of resistance to oppression, delivered by my old friend Professor Bhagwan Josh. Please find below some words of advice to student protestors in the context of the global resistance to genocide. They are also relevant to all of us who resist… Read More Stand Up, Say No

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