Tag: Palestine / Israel

Palestine Economic Update: October November 2023

 Author: Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute – MAS Download attachment at above link ***************************************************** Israel wants to slay the monster next door, but with this lethal bombardment, it is feeding it The Guardian view on Gaza’s devastation: don’t look away. See the bigger picture too Repeal the Exclusionary Nation-state Law, for the Sake of All Israelis A Brief History… Read More Palestine Economic Update: October November 2023

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Israel wants to slay the monster next door, but with this lethal bombardment, it is feeding it

Good is self-existent, evil is not. It is like a parasite living in and around good. It will die of itself when the support that good gives it is withdrawn: Mahatma Gandhi, Discussion with friends: September 4, 1947 The truth never dies but is made to live as a beggar: Yiddish proverb NB: The writer… Read More Israel wants to slay the monster next door, but with this lethal bombardment, it is feeding it

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Butchery in Gaza continues/European arms factories blockaded by their workers/Reuters journalist murdered by Israeli tank fire/UN Chief invokes Article 99 after 34 years

NB: Israel is committing genocide with impunity; conducted in front of our noses. Read the UN definition of genocide; and the brazen hypocrisy of the propaganda about the slogan ‘From the River to the Sea‘. Read also the history of the decades long ethnic cleansing against Palestinians; and the demand for a unitary, secular state. The… Read More Butchery in Gaza continues/European arms factories blockaded by their workers/Reuters journalist murdered by Israeli tank fire/UN Chief invokes Article 99 after 34 years

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It’s Time to Confront Israel’s Version of “From the River to the Sea”

The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable… therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. —Likud Party Platform, 1977 RASHID KHALIDI The slogan “from the river to the sea” apparently has… Read More It’s Time to Confront Israel’s Version of “From the River to the Sea”

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Racist Genocide by Israel: over 1,000 murdered in 48 hours with US/UK Arms, Finance and Permission

Hundreds more Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air raids in the past 24 hours in Gaza as the Israeli army ordered more areas in and around the enclave’s second-largest city of Khan Younis to evacuate. The Director General of the Government Media Office in Gaza told Al Jazeera on Sunday that more than 700… Read More Racist Genocide by Israel: over 1,000 murdered in 48 hours with US/UK Arms, Finance and Permission

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The Guardian view on Gaza’s devastation: don’t look away. See the bigger picture too

NB: This is a watery editorial on a blatant massacre which warrants far more serious analysis. It recognises the plain facts, but ‘demands our attention’ doesn’t cut it. You’re still sleeping. A child is killed every ten minutes in Gaza; and over 700 have been murdered in the last 24 hours. What attention are you… Read More The Guardian view on Gaza’s devastation: don’t look away. See the bigger picture too

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Drone Footage Shows Shocking Gaza Destruction / Chris Hedges: Israel Reopens the Gaza Slaughterhouse

See exclusive drone footage revealing the full extent of Israel’s devastation of Al-Zahraa, a densely populated area southeast of Gaza City… US Sent Israel 15,000 Bombs Since October 7 Chris Hedges: Israel Reopens the Gaza Slaughterhouse The skies over Gaza are filled — after a seven-day truce — with projectiles of death. Warplanes. Attack helicopters.… Read More Drone Footage Shows Shocking Gaza Destruction / Chris Hedges: Israel Reopens the Gaza Slaughterhouse

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The Netanyahu doctrine: how Israel’s longest-serving leader reshaped the country

He first became prime minister in 1996, and has been pushing the country further right ever since. Most agree his political days are numbered – but the approach he established will prove very difficult to shift by Joshua Leifer An attack like Hamas’s 7 October massacre was not supposed to have been possible. Certainly not while… Read More The Netanyahu doctrine: how Israel’s longest-serving leader reshaped the country

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One Fine Day: 29 September 1923 – Britain’s Empire on the Brink

One Fine Day: 29 September 1923 – Britain’s Empire on the Brink. By Matthew Parker Reviewed by SAUL DAVID On 29 September 1923, the addition of Mandatory Palestine increased the British Empire to its greatest size: nearly fourteen million square miles (150 times the size of Great Britain, a quarter of the world’s land area).… Read More One Fine Day: 29 September 1923 – Britain’s Empire on the Brink

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