Palestine
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Israel: A Lodestar State for the White Nationalist Movement By Adeyinka Makinde
It is important to clarify what the primary objective of Political Zionism was from the outset: This was to found a Jewish state centered in Palestine to the exclusion of all other races and religions. Continue reading
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Palestine-Israel Newslinks 24 July 2018
24 July 2018 — CounterCurrents Israeli Jewish Nation-State Law Enshrines Apartheid And Genocidal Racism by Dr Gideon Polya https://countercurrents.org/2018/07/24/israeli-jewish-nation-state-law-enshrines-apartheid-and-genocidal-racism/ The race-based Apartheid Israeli Knesset (parliament) passed the racist Jewish Nation-State Law on 18 July 2018, with a vote of 62 to 55 with two abstentions. This racist law offensively and intolerably ignores the Indigenous Palestinians… Continue reading
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Honoring Our Fallen Member Vittorio Arrigoni
It’s appropriate to post this beautifully-written tribute to Vik on the day the current flotilla leaves for Gaza. In his memory, Free Gaza wishes them a safe journey. As he always said, ‘Stay Human.” Continue reading
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Israel is bulldozing Khan Al Ahmar – and with it the two-state solution By Jonathan Cook
Israel finally built an access road to the West Bank village of Khan Al Ahmar last week, after half a century of delays. But the only vehicles allowed along it are the bulldozers scheduled to sweep away its 200 inhabitants’ homes. If one community has come to symbolise the demise of the two-state solution, it… Continue reading
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Sisi holds key to Trump’s Sinai plan for Palestinians By Jonathan Cook
Israel and the US are in a race against time with Gaza. The conundrum is stark: how to continue isolating the tiny coastal enclave from the outside world and from the West Bank – to sabotage any danger of a Palestinian state emerging – without stoking a mass revolt from Gaza’s two million Palestinians? Continue reading
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Dimitri Lascaris Reporting From Spain Aboard The Freedom Flotilla
Podemos MEP Miguel Urban-Crespo and Spanish Playwright Lola Blasco Explain Why They Are Participating in the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza Continue reading
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Young protesters are defying Israel’s blockade with scraps of paper and plastic By Jonathan Cook
Israel is facing a new and apparently even tougher challenge: how to stop Palestinian resistance from Gaza using flaming kites, which have set fire to lands close by in Israel. F-16 fighter jets are equipped to take on many foes but not the humble kite. Continue reading
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Ali is on the grill!’ Israeli settlers celebrate burning of Palestinian baby
“’Ali was burned, where is Ali? Ali is on the grill!”, they chanted, in reference to the 18-month old baby Ali Dawbsheh, who was burnt alive by Jewish terrorists in the West Bank town of Duma in 2015. Ali’s mother Riham and father Saad died of their wounds a few weeks later. Of the family… Continue reading
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War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza’s Offshore Gas Fields By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
A year following “Operation Cast Lead”, Tel Aviv announced the discovery of the Leviathan natural gas field in the Eastern Mediterranean “off the coast of Israel.” What is now unfolding is the integration of these adjoining gas fields including those belonging to Palestine into the orbit of Israel. Continue reading
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NYT Carries IDF Attack on Murdered Medic–Reveals It’s a Smear in 20th Paragraph
Journalism how-not-to: New York Times (6/7/18) puts the attack in the headline, reveals it’s a smear in paragraph 20. A reporter at the most influential paper in English-language media appears to not know the difference between a government “tightly editing” and selectively editing video. Continue reading
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Gaza: When Truth is Assassinated
A short Video Featuring Israeli Attacks against Palestinian Journalists. Continue reading
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U.S. Covert Support to ISIS Terrorists: Selected Stories
10 June 2018 — Global Research News Breaking: ISIS Terrorists Are Only Present in US-controlled Areas in Syria – Russian MoD By Leith Aboufadel, June 10, 2018 The spokesman noted that the Russian Defense Ministry was bewildered by “verbal manipulations” of Mattis regarding the situation in Syria, stressing that the expansion of the Daesh terror group… Continue reading
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Israel scores painful own goal in run-up to the World Cup By Dr James M Dorsey
7 June 2018 — CounterCurrents Argentina’s cancellation of a friendly against Israel because of Israeli attempts to exploit the match politically is likely to reverberate far beyond the world of soccer and spotlights the risks of Israeli efforts to persuade the international community to recognize Jerusalem as its capital. Continue reading
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Palestinian Courage Should Spur International Action By Rick Sterling
In the past couple months, Israeli Defence Force (IDF) soldiers have killed 118 Palestinian protesters and seriously wounded many thousands more. The protesters were unarmed and no threat to the soldiers. Gaza hospitals overflow with victims. Continue reading
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Cousin of Palestinian Medic Killed by Israel Speaks Out
Palestinian nurse Razan al-Najar was shot and killed by an Israeli sniper in Gaza while she was wearing a white medic’s uniform and had her hands raised. Dalia al-Najjar says her cousin “Razan showed everyone what it is to want freedom.” She tells TRNN’s Ben Norton, “Everyone is joining the protests because people want their… Continue reading
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The UN Is Silent Amid Israeli Aggression in Gaza; Is It a Defunct Agency? Selected Stories
5 June 2018 — Global Research News Israel Bombs Gaza Hours After Funeral of Murdered 21-year-old Paramedic By Morning Star, June 04, 2018 Israeli warplanes blitzed the Gaza Strip today as the country continued to punish Palestinians for daring to hold peaceful demonstrations near the fence that seals off the territory. Continue reading
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Humanity Is Buried in Israel
1 June 2018 — Global Research News US Opposes Protecting Gazans from Excessive Israeli Force By Stephen Lendman, June 01, 2018 Since mid-2007, Gazans have been besieged under suffocating/illegal blockade – imposed for political reasons, unrelated to security, as Israel falsely claims. Its action is one of countless examples of callous indifference to Palestinian lives, rights and… Continue reading
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Under Trump, the Israel lobby is a Hydra with many heads By Jonathan Cook
Since Trump took office, the Israel lobby has mobilised four other powerful lobbies: Christian evangelicals, the alt-right, the military-industrial complex and Saudi Arabia. The Trump administration’s recent steps in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should surely lay to rest any doubts about the enormous, and dangerous, power of the Israel lobby in Washington. Continue reading
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On the Liberation of The Yarmouk Refugee Camp from ISIS. Syrian and Palestinian Struggles Indivisible By Ken Stone
Anti-war activists took a lot of flak from some people in North America and Europe, describing themselves as Palestine solidarity activists and “leftists”, when, in 2012, Yarmouk was invaded and occupied by proxy armies of western powers and Arab monarchs. Because we condemned the US-led attack on Syria and defended the Syrian government’s resistance to… Continue reading