Palestine
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It’s Not Simply Jerusalem, It’s All of Palestine By Rima Najjar
What’s going on in Jerusalem is what has always been going on in Palestine since 1948 –the forced dispossession of Palestinian Arabs of their identity, land and heritage. Because of Donald Trump’s declaration to move the US embassy to Jerusalem and the resultant global outrage regarding this decision, many people have become interested in understanding… Continue reading
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Deadlock for Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process? Selected Articles
9 December 2017 — Global Research In view of Trump’s recent declaration of Jerusalem as capital of Israel, contesting reactions arose from different civil societies. This unlawful act resulted in mass protests in Palestine condemning Trump and his uninhibited decisions. Are we approaching a cul-de-sac in Israeli-Palestinian rapprochement? Read our selection of articles below and share it far and… Continue reading
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Crisis in the Middle East, Change of Alliances? Selected Articles
6 December 2017 — Global Research Trump Gives Away Jerusalem to Settle $100m Campaign Debt By Hans Stehling, December 06, 2017 In a politically motivated move the repercussions of which will incite anger throughout the world, Donald Trump the elected President of the United States has made a dangerous decision, so stupidly inept as to be unbelievable, that could… Continue reading
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Video: Trump’s Jerusalem Embassy Move Was Long in the Works
President Trump will recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the American embassy there. Ali Abunimah of the Electronic Intifada says years of US policy set the stage. (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Video: Trump's Jerusalem Embassy Move Was Long in the Works
President Trump will recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the American embassy there. Ali Abunimah of the Electronic Intifada says years of US policy set the stage. (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Selected Articles: Israel Upped Its Status as Warmonger
5 December 2017 — Global Research Escalated Israeli Aggression on Syria: Begging for War By Stephen Lendman, December 05, 2017 On Monday evening, for the second time in three days, an Israeli warplane flying illegally in Lebanese airspace fired multiple missiles at Syria’s Jamarya military facility and research center, northwest of Damascus. Continue reading
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It Was Lord Balfour Who Ignited Zionism: Selected Articles
3 November 2017 — Global Research The Balfour Declaration: World Zionism and World War I By Adeyinka Makinde, November 03, 2017 If Jewish leaders such as Chaim Weizmann could call on the Jewish Diaspora in America to use their influence to bring the United States into the war to rescue a desperate situation, then Britain would do what it… Continue reading
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Balfour Declaration: Britain Broke Its Feeble Promise To The Palestinians By Jonathan Cook
There is more than a little irony in Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to attend a “celebration” dinner this week in London with his British counterpart, Theresa May, marking the centenary of the Balfour Declaration. Palestinian objections to the 1917 document are well-known. Britain’s Lord Balfour had no right to promise a “national home… Continue reading
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Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu Is Leading US President Trump to War with Iran By Prof. James Petras
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Presidents of the 52 Major Jewish American Organizations are leading President Trump, like a puppy on a leash, into a major war with Iran. The hysterical ’52 Presidents’ and ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu are busy manufacturing Holocaust-level predictions that a non-nuclear Iran is preparing to ‘vaporize’ Israel, The buffoonish US… Continue reading
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Video: Empire Files: Israelis Speak Candidly to Abby Martin About Palestinians
On the streets of Jerusalem, Abby Martin interviews Jewish Israeli citizens from all walks of life. In several candid interviews, disturbing comments reveal commonly-held views about Palestinians and their future in the region Continue reading
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Trump and Netanyahu Are on the Loose: Selected Articles
20 September 2017 — Global Research Fact Checking Benjamin Netanyahu’s General Assembly Speech By Adam Garrie, September 20, 2017 The other country on Netanyahu’s list that has been occupied by Israel and not Iran is Lebanon. After invading Lebanon in 1982, Israel set up a permanent occupying force in southern Lebanon between 1985 and the year 2000. Israel… Continue reading
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Palestine: Deprived of the Right to Self-Determination
14 September 2017 — Global Research US Anti-BDS Legislation Punishes Solidarity with Palestine By Stephen Lendman, September 13, 2017 Congressional Israel Anti-Boycott Act legislation wants it criminalized. It aims to “amend the Export Administration Act of 1979 to include in the prohibitions on boycotts against allies of the United States boycotts fostered by international governmental organizations against… Continue reading
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Video: Boycott Israel, Go to Jail?
A bipartisan Senate bill would make boycotting Israel punishable by up to 20 years in prison. But a new pushback from groups including the ACLU could help stop the ‘draconian’ measure, says Josh Ruebner of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Continue reading
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Video: Empire Files: Anti-Black Racism Reveals Israel’s White Supremacy
In this on-the-ground investigation, Abby Martin talks to Osman Ali, a refugee from Darfur, at Holot prison camp about the treatment of refugees by the government, and Tehune Maharat, an Ethiopian Jewish activist whose cousin was killed in an apparent hate crime by Israeli police, about the rampant and institutional racism in the country. Continue reading
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Video: Empire Files: Anti-Black Racism Reveals Israel's White Supremacy
In this on-the-ground investigation, Abby Martin talks to Osman Ali, a refugee from Darfur, at Holot prison camp about the treatment of refugees by the government, and Tehune Maharat, an Ethiopian Jewish activist whose cousin was killed in an apparent hate crime by Israeli police, about the rampant and institutional racism in the country. Continue reading
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Media: While Attacks in Israel Make Headlines, Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza Ignored
The recent acute humanitarian crisis in Gaza—on top of the routine humanitarian crisis that defines everyday existence there—has gotten sparse coverage in US media over the past three weeks. Israeli officials have cut off electricity to almost 2 million Gazans for all but three or four hours a day—in conjunction with nominal Palestinian leader Mahmoud… Continue reading
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Enclosure of Gaza as a “Prison Territory”: Construction of New High Tech Surveillance Wall to Separate Gaza from Israel By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Israeli media reports confirm the construction of a new high tech 65 km security and surveillance wall equipped with cameras and sensors “to separate Gaza from Israel” thereby reinforcing the enclosure of Gaza as a de facto “prison territory” with a population of more than 1.85 million. Continue reading
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Palestine: BDS Protected!
Last week we took the British government to the Royal Courts of Justice to fight for our right to boycott. The government was trying to stop local council pension schemes divesting from companies complicit in Israel’s human rights violations. Theresa May’s disgraceful attempt to silence Palestinian voices and restrict our right to peaceful protest has… Continue reading
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Selected Stories: “Greater Israel” and the Occupation of Palestine
18 May 2017 — Global Research Gaza’s Territorial Waters: Fisherman Mohammed Baker Killed by Israeli Naval Forces By Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, May 18, 2017 Yesterday afternoon, 15 May 2017, Palestinian fisherman Mohammed Majed Fadel Baker succumbed to his wounds after the Israeli naval soldiers opened fire from a distance of 3 meters at the boat manned by… Continue reading
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Video: Part 1 – The Empire Files: Home Demolitions for Illegal Settlements Surging
The demolition of Palestinian homes for Israeli settlements reached a ten-year high in 2016. While this activity led by the fanatical settler movement is illegal under international law, it is completely aided and abetted by the Israeli government. Continue reading
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