The following article takes a look at the reasons behind the recent withdrawal of the United States from the United Nations Human Rights Council. It is suggested that the decision to abandon international standards of behaviour by the US Empire is a precursor to open warfare in the Middle East, most notably Lebanon, instigated by […]
Last night in Connecticut, Sarah Walsh of AIPAC told a Conservative synagogue audience that the lobby group is striving to ensure that support for Israel remains bipartisan, but there are more signs that progressive Democrats feel they are able to criticize Israeli policies. First, Rebecca Vilkomerson of Jewish Voice for Peace says there’s been a […]
So the United States regime has decided to pull out of the United Nations Human Rights Council? What next? Will they ban puppies and children’s TV shows? Perhaps they will pass an edict that instructs all citizens to spit on anyone under the age or 7? The US federal administration is imperialist in nature. Of […]
In a new report published yesterday, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) “warned that infant mortality has not declined for the last decade in Gaza Strip”, reported Xinhua. According to UNRWA, “the infant mortality rate among Palestinian refugees in Gaza was 22.7 per 1,000 live births,… via […]
The Canadian leader, Justin Trudeau, is known for openly weeping at the plight of Syrian refugees. He likes to be portrayed as a compassionate man of the people who will stand with the oppressed. Yet it seems that he has no tears for Palestine. The following is a missive to Trudeau from Gaza asking why […]
The freedom boat has sailed from Sweden for Gaza in an attempt to break the illegal blockade that the rogue state of Israel has imposed upon that especially besieged area of Palestine. While the activists on board may hold out little hope of making it through, their efforts will not go unnoticed by the international […]
It is little known in the West that during the US attack on ISIS positions in the Syrian city of Raqqa, massive civilians casualties were caused by US artillery and shelling. The approach adopted by a gung-ho military was to view the heavily populated urban area as a free fire zone. In effect, the US […]
The Nakba was, as the name suggests, a catastrophe for the people of Palestine. Their villages were destroyed; their population slaughtered in numerous massacres by Zionist fanatics, and their land stolen in a concerted program of ethnic cleansing. Today, some of those who fled the brutality of the foreigners live in refugee camps surrounding their […]
Nabi Saleh, occupied West Bank — Janna Jihad woke up to gunshots and commotion outside her window around 10 a.m Wednesday morning, a familiar sound in the central occupied West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, home of imprisoned teenage activist Ahed Tamimi. Israeli forces had just shot her distant cousin, 21-year-old Izz al-Din Tamimi, at… via […]
Jeremy Corbyn has long been known as a stalwart defender of human rights across the world. His principled stance on the Palestinian Crisis has made him many enemies among the Zionist vanguard who would see him fall. Yet, even though he is aware that to condemn Israel is to invite serious trouble that could derail […]
All Palestinian communities inside and outside Palestine are living in a state of blockade, varying in its form and degree of severity, but the siege on the Gaza Strip is the ugliest, cruellest and most comprehensive. It is a siege imposed by the Israeli occupation, while the local situation contributes to its continuation and consolidation,… via […]
The people of Gaza are suffering more than should be humanly possible. They are victims of the rogue state of Israel. The following piece looks at how Israeli outrages affect the daily lives of the people in that most besieged part of Palestine.
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