By Miko Peled Source JERUSALEM — “Palestinians are being treated extremely unfairly.” This quote by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) came to mind as I was watching the documentary film 1948: Creation and Catastrophe. The terms “fair” and “unfair,” and even “extremely unfair,” come to mind when children quarrel on the playground, or maybe in a […]
10 Illegal Military Weapons
Originally posted on Rebel Voice:
Homo Sapiens are experts at inventing ever more efficient means of killing one another. We have moved from using the leg-bone of a Woolly mammoth when bashing a skull, to dropping nuclear bombs on civilians populations just to see what will happen. No other species can compare with ours when…
The “Deal of The Century” Won’t Go Through: Split Among Palestinians Supports Israel 1/3 — Uprootedpalestinians’s Blog
By Elijah. J. Magnier Source For over a year now, the Israeli “Deal of the Century” for Palestine has been endorsed by the US establishment and is now echoing to the four corners of the world. The two novices in foreign policy, US President Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, manoeuvred by Israel from […] […]
UN Report Released On Israeli Sniper Murders Of Palestinian Children
Originally posted on Rebel Voice:
Israeli soldiers hiding behind bunkers and using long-range sniper rifles have intentionally murdered 35 children, paramedics, journalists and disabled people during its ongoing assault against Palestinian civilian protestors along the Gaza border, a report released by the United Nations concluded this week. The UN Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) said that…
From early Zionism until today, Palestinian stonemasons built Israel — Mondoweiss
STONE MENThe Palestinians who built Israel by Andrew Ross. 320 pp. Verso $29.95 In 1979, a young Andrew Ross did what thousands of carefree European and American youths were doing at the time: he took a “break” from the tediousness of Western life, and volunteered for a few months on a kibbutz in Israel. The… via […]
Israeli artists join Palestinians in urging Eurovision contestants not to play Tel Aviv — Mondoweiss
Dear Eurovision contestants, We are Israeli artists, musicians, filmmakers, and authors. Many of us signed a letter supporting Palestinian calls to relocate the Eurovision Song Contest from Tel Aviv. Here’s why. We, as Jewish Israelis who yearn to live in a peaceful, democratic society, recognize that there is no way to achieve that without ending… via […]
Isaac Watts Verse – Brexit Dilemma Prophesied
Isaac Watts (1674 – 1748) was a man of his time. He was a (pseudo-) Christian minister who wrote hymns, theorized on theology and fancied himself a logician. He has been credited with writing more than 750 hymns, many of which are still in use today. Rebel Voice wonders if either the hymns were atrociously […]
Rhiannon Giddens – Julie (Bluegrass/Blues Ballad On Slavery)
This lady is multi-talented. She can play. She can write. She can sing. It’s slightly more unusual to see a black person playing bluegrass. There’s no real reason why that should be the case other than that particular genre is descended from Irish and Scots music as carried there by colonials, and few of them […]
Yemeni Children – A Lost Generation
As terrible as any armed conflict is, there are additional hidden costs to the societies involved that are often overlooked. As someone who grew up in a war-zone, I have observed and experienced the effects of constant aggression as warring sides fight for supremacy. There is the public face of war; the bombs and bullets; […]
Israel labels BDS activists ‘terrorists in suits’ in new smear campaign —
Israel has launched a smear campaign against activists affiliated with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, labelling them “terrorists in suits”.Israel’s Strategic Affairs Ministry launched the campaign this weekend with a series of posters depicting prominent BDS activists as “terrorists”, using the hashtag #TerroristsInSuits to smear the individuals’ professional credibility and the BDS movement… via […]
New Exposé On Malign Israeli Tactics To Take East Jerusalem From Palestinians
It’s no secret that Israel considers East Jerusalem to be the property of the rogue Zionist state. In fact, Israel considers all of Palestine to belong to it. Israeli government ministers frequently state this, very blatantly, on the airwaves. The great problem that the supremacists of Israel have, is that there are millions of Palestinians […]
UN: 254 Palestinians killed, 23,000 injured in Gaza protests —
More than 250 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli army fire and over 23,000 injured since the start of the “Great March of Return” protests in the besieged Gaza Strip on 30 March until the end of last year, UN OCHA revealed in a report yesterday.“Since 30 March 2018, the Gaza Strip has witnessed a […]