Tag: Palestine / Israel

‘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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Palestine and Israel: Historical, Legal and Moral Issues

NB: An excellent introduction to a complex issue. This interview with a scholar of Middle Eastern history is also worth listening to: Violence Is Bred by Occupation: Rashid Khalidi on Israel-Gaza. DS ROHINI HENSMAN On 7 October 2023, Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a massive attack on Israeli territory, killing over 1300 people, many of… Read More Palestine and Israel: Historical, Legal and Moral Issues

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Israel-Hamas War: US arms industry stocks rocket (October 10)

NB: The only people benefiting from this conflict are arms dealers. Western establishments make immense profits from warfare, and have an interest in eternal conflict. As Orwell said, war has been abolished by becoming permanent. DS Defence majors such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Gruman, Huntington Ingalls, L3Harris Tech and General Dynamics have gained at least… Read More Israel-Hamas War: US arms industry stocks rocket (October 10)

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Israel must stop weaponising the Holocaust

Scholars of genocide are criticizing the dangerous use of the Holocaust to justify Israeli mass violence against Palestinians…This weaponization of Holocaust memory by Israeli politicians runs deep. In 1982, Israeli PM, Menachem Begin compared the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Beirut to Adolf Hitler in his bunker in Berlin… in October 2015, Netanyahu took this weaponization to… Read More Israel must stop weaponising the Holocaust

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Is the US about to blindly march into yet another catastrophic war?

On 18 October, Brazil proposed a security council resolution calling not even for a ceasefire but merely for “humanitarian pauses” in Israel’s bombing of Gaza. The US, in a sole vote, vetoed it. In the US Congress, over a dozen House Democrats signed on to a ceasefire resolution put forward by Cori Bush, the Missouri congresswoman. The Democratic lawmaker… Read More Is the US about to blindly march into yet another catastrophic war?

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