Tag: Palestine / Israel

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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Looks like the CIA is to the left of ‘Genocide Joe’ Biden

Top CIA Official Among Hundreds Up In Arms 29 Nov 2023 #joebiden#revolt#israel There is a growing revolt within the Joe Biden administration over the handling of the Israel-Hamas war. The revolt has now reached the top ranks of the Central Intelligence Agency. CIA’s top analysis chief changed her Facebook profile to a Palestinian flag in… Read More Looks like the CIA is to the left of ‘Genocide Joe’ Biden

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President Biden needs to Dump his War Hawks and Turn to Peace Work if he wants to Salvage his Presidency

The rate of the killing of Palestinian civilians is similar to the rate of killing during the Cambodian genocide.  Within a week of the Israeli assault, 880 scholars and practitioners of international law, conflict studies, and genocide studies signed a statement warning the public and political leaders of the possibility of genocide…“As scholars and practitioners of international… Read More President Biden needs to Dump his War Hawks and Turn to Peace Work if he wants to Salvage his Presidency

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Israel told us to move to south Gaza. Then it said it would bomb the south too. So where do we go now?

Rozan As I began to write this, here in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, Israeli missiles were striking nearby. Once you get over the initial shock of the loud explosions, the shaking of the house and your knees, the first instinct is to immediately rush to calm the children whose cries somehow seem louder and more… Read More Israel told us to move to south Gaza. Then it said it would bomb the south too. So where do we go now?

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Disappointed, disenchanted, defiant: inside the world of the West Bank’s angry armed youths

The truth never dies but is made to live as a beggar: Yiddish proverb / Speak the truth. Stop the killing The world of Mohammed al-Musseimi was not very wide. The 15-year-old lived with his aunt and grandmother in a gloomy house almost without windows in the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.… Read More Disappointed, disenchanted, defiant: inside the world of the West Bank’s angry armed youths

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How long will Palestinians go on being scapegoats for the West’s Atrocities in World War 2 ?

“As for the people of Gaza, not only are they being forced to pay for Hamas’s actions: they [Gazans] are being forced, once again, to pay for Hitler’s crimes.” SARA JAMSHIDI Seattle, Wa. (Special to Informed Comment; Featured) – If an Arab writer would create a Palestinian version of Schindler’s List, and if an Arab,… Read More How long will Palestinians go on being scapegoats for the West’s Atrocities in World War 2 ?

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Repeal the Exclusionary Nation-state Law, for the Sake of All Israelis

Carolina Landsmann Amid the emotional storm Israelis have been living through since the Hamas attack, the distinction between Israelis and Jews has completely collapsed. On television, there are no Israeli victims; the murdered are “Jews” and the hostages are “Jews.” And that’s despite the fact that Hamas demonstratively made no distinction among its Israeli victims… Read More Repeal the Exclusionary Nation-state Law, for the Sake of All Israelis

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Manifesto of the One Democratic State Campaign for Israel-Palestine

PreambleIn recent years, the idea of a one democratic state in all of historic Palestine as the best solution to the conflict has re-emerged. It started gaining increased support in the public domain. It is not a new idea. The Palestinian liberation movement, before the catastrophe of 1948 (the Nakba) and after it, had adopted… Read More Manifesto of the One Democratic State Campaign for Israel-Palestine

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The Harvard Law Review Refused to Run This Piece About Genocide in Gaza

NB: So much for Ivy League education. Some life is more precious than other life. Some people have the right to defend themselves; while others, especially if backed by Uncle Sam, must not even protest whilst being slaughtered. After all, they’re just ‘human animals’. Your racist prejudice shines through the ivy. The statement of the… Read More The Harvard Law Review Refused to Run This Piece About Genocide in Gaza

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