Palestine
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The flames that killed Fathi Harb should make us all burn with guilt and shame
It is believed to be the first example of a public act of self-immolation in the enclave. Harb doused himself in petrol and set himself alight on a street in Gaza City shortly before dawn prayers during the holy month of Ramadan. Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘Skirmishes’ – Israel’s Syria Blitz
A key ‘mainstream’ media theme in covering the Israeli army’s repeated massacres of unarmed, non-violent Palestinian civilians protesting Israel’s military occupation in Gaza – killing journalists, a paramedic, the elderly and children – has been the description of these crimes as ‘clashes’. This has been a clear attempt to obfuscate the fact that while two… Continue reading
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‘There’s an Asymmetry Not Only in Power, but in Compassion By Janine Jackson
The May 18, 2018, episode of CounterSpin was a special on Gaza that featured three classic interviews—with James Zogby from July 5, 2006; with Yousef Muneyyer from November 23, 2012; and with Phyllis Bennis from April 6, 2018. This is a lightly edited transcript. Continue reading
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Frankie Boyle: Your new show betrayed Gaza By Jonathan Cook
Having purged your Twitter feed of critics, you have created a series of straw men. In the worst, you have suggested that those unhappy with the show are really closet racists for objecting to the fact that you spent half of your 30-minute schedule allowing your guests, led by David Baddiel, to flay Jeremy Corbyn… Continue reading
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Arms Manufacturers Use Israel’s Massacres in Gaza to Test New Technology
As the Israeli military mows down unarmed Palestinian protesters, arms trade expert Andrew Feinstein explains how weapons companies use Gaza as a laboratory to test new products and rake in profits Continue reading
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Gaza News Links 17-21 May 2018
21 May 2018 10:04:43 — williambowles.info Zionism: the history of a contested word https://www.opendemocracy.net/jonathan-shamir/zionism-history-of-contested-word The UK Is Complicit in Israel’s Violence http://novaramedia.com/2018/05/21/the-uk-is-complicit-in-israels-violence/ Continue reading
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‘Killing Gaza’: A New Documentary on Palestinians Under Siege
In their new film “Killing Gaza,” journalists Dan Cohen and Max Blumenthal capture the harrowing stories of Palestinians who survived the 2014 Israeli assault, and their struggles to recover and persist under a crippling blockade. Continue reading
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‘Killing Gaza’: A New Documentary on Palestinians Under Siege
In their new film “Killing Gaza,” journalists Dan Cohen and Max Blumenthal capture the harrowing stories of Palestinians who survived the 2014 Israeli assault, and their struggles to recover and persist under a crippling blockade. Continue reading
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Gaza & the US Press by CounterSpin
This week on CounterSpin: The Palestinian health ministry in Gaza says Israeli soldiers killed at least 60 Palestinians and wounded as may as 2,700 in an eight-hour period pm May 14. Palestinians protesting both the horrific living conditions in Gaza and their inability—despite international law—to leave it, to return to the homes from which they… Continue reading
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PCHR: Accountability Guarantees End of International Law Violations Against Peaceful Demonstrators
Recently, violations of international law have escalated in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt), particularly after several political developments that have threatened of ending Palestinians’ right to self-determination and return along with tightening the closure on the Gaza Strip which is on the blink to collapse. These developments led to a popular march started on 30… Continue reading
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Gaza News Links 16-17 May 2018
16 May 2018 18:16:42 — williambowles.info Murder as a way to make a political point http://mondoweiss.net/2018/05/murder-political-point/ Israel Commemorates Nakba with Mass Murder at the Gaza Fence http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheGreanvillePost/~3/9G291GlXfO4/ Continue reading
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500 Years of Nakbas By Glen Ford
The great nakba, or “catastrophe,”began in 1492, when Christopher Columbus proclaimed the lands of the “Indies” for Spain. Within half a century of his voyage, 95 percent of the inhabitants of the America’s had been killed by European-borne diseases, war, famine and enslavement: 100 million dead, or one out of every five human beings on… Continue reading
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Israeli forces continue systematic crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt)
17 May 2018 — PCHR (10 – 16 May 2018) Israeli forces continued to use appallingly lethal force against Palestinian peaceful protestors in the Gaza Strip. In another bloody week, 46 Palestinian civilians, including 7 children and a wheelchair-bound man, were killed. Continue reading
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The Gaza Massacre. Western Governments Complicit in Crimes against Humanity
16 May 2018 — Global Research News Western Governments Complicit in Crimes against Humanity. “Israel has the Right to Defend itself” Says Trump By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, May 16, 2018 Not a single Western country has sofar ordered the expulsion of Israeli diplomats in protest over the mass killings of Palestinian civilians by IDF snipers, including children. A… Continue reading
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NYT Edit Board Are Last Humans on Earth Who Believe US Neutral in Israel/Palestine Conflict By Adam Johnson
The fact that the United States favors Israel in its decades-long “conflict” with the Palestinians is not a subjective or abstract question; it’s a well-established empirical fact. The US gives over $3 billion a year in military aid to Israel (more than the US spends on aid for the last seven countries it’s bombed combined),… Continue reading
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The West’s pampering of Israel will lead to the next Gaza massacre By Jonathan Cook
Faced with protests at the perimeter fence in Gaza, Israeli snipers killed dozens of unarmed Palestinians and wounded more than 2,000 others, including children, women, journalists and paramedics, in a hail of live fire. Amnesty, the international human rights organisation, rightly called it a “horror show”. Continue reading
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Gaza News Links 15-16 May 2018
16 May 2018 — williambowles.info Live Blog: Massacre in Gaza as US and Israel celebrate embassy move to Jerusalem http://mondoweiss.net/2018/05/massacre-celebrate-jerusalem/ Gaza protests: All the latest updates https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/04/gaza-protest-latest-updates-180406092506561.html US embassy opens in Jerusalem amid lockdown https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/05/jerusalem-lockdown-moves-israeli-mission-180514112733896.html Continue reading
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Mass murder in Gaza
The Israeli military slaughtered dozens of unarmed Palestinian demonstrators and wounded thousands more in Gaza on Monday. As this atrocity was being carried out, a grotesque ceremony was unfolding barely 50 miles away to mark the formal opening of a US embassy in the divided and occupied city of Jerusalem. Continue reading
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Gaza Slaughter News Links 14-15 May 2018: 58 Dead and Nobody Gives a Shit!
15 May 2018 — williambowles.info Tension in Gaza as Palestinians begin to bury 58 dead http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-44116340 My March of Return http://mondoweiss.net/2018/05/my-march-of-return/ Challenging the ongoing dispossession and displacement of the Palestinian people on the 70th commemoration of the Nakba http://mondoweiss.net/2018/05/dispossession-displacement-commemoration/ Continue reading
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Nakba Day: Remembering Palestine’s 1948 Humanitarian Disaster
14 May 2018 — Global Research News Israel at Seventy: Symbol of War, Racism, Reaction By Joyce Chediac, May 14, 2018 The settler state of Israel turns 70 on May 14. In imperialist capitals, especially Israel and the U.S., this state built on the bones of the Palestinian people will be praised and celebrated. The U.S. will… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 