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Palestine News Links 28 July 2018
28 July 2018 — williambowles.info Israel kills children in Gaza protests https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israel-kills-children-gaza-protests Gaza protests: All the latest updates https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/04/gaza-protest-latest-updates-180406092506561.html Continue reading
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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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Syria: The White Helmets’ Final Performance By Tony Cartalucci
It is commonly known that when a ship is sinking, the crew does not board the lifeboats before the passengers. Most noble of all is when the captain and crew go down with the ship. Then with what level of ignobility should we assess the so-called “Syrian Civil Defense” more commonly referred to as the… Continue reading
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As Netanyahu Brags of Killing Iran Deal, Where’s The Outcry?
As the U.S. ramps up anti-Iran efforts, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been filmed bragging about convincing Trump to abandon the Iran nuclear deal. Amid widespread concern over foreign meddling, why has Netanyahu’s claim been mostly ignored? We speak to Trita Parsi of the National Iranian American Council (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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As Netanyahu Brags of Killing Iran Deal, Where’s The Outcry?
As the U.S. ramps up anti-Iran efforts, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been filmed bragging about convincing Trump to abandon the Iran nuclear deal. Amid widespread concern over foreign meddling, why has Netanyahu’s claim been mostly ignored? We speak to Trita Parsi of the National Iranian American Council (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Israel intervenes to extract US-UK-backed White Helmets from Syria By Bill Van Auken
Israeli troops, with the backing of Washington and other major NATO powers, carried out an operation over the weekend to evacuate some 800 operatives of the so-called White Helmets organization from southern Syria, where government forces have staged a major offensive to retake areas previously held by Western-backed Islamist militias. Continue reading
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Western Governments Seek to Evacuate White Helmets From Syria, Resettle Them in Canada
The White Helmets have been shown to effectively be the same organization as terror group al-Nusra Front and have been caught on film aiding al-Nusra terrorists execute Syrian civilians. It is hard to imagine any Westerner who would want the White Helmets as neighbors. Continue reading
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Can Trump, Israel, and Gulf Allies Get Putin to Turn On Iran?
Days after Netanyahu’s visit to Moscow, Trump will meet with Putin in Helsinki. But despite talk of a “grand bargain” that enlists Russia in helping the US-Israel-Saudi-UAE front against Iran, don’t expect it to happen, says professor and syndicated columnist Rami Khouri (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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How Israel helped to revive Europe’s ugly ethnic nationalisms By Jonathan Cook
[P]aradoxically, the “western” state that most visibly bucked the trend towards civic nationalism in the post-war period was Israel. It stuck rigidly with a political model of ethnic nationalism that had just been discredited in Europe. Today Israel embodies a political alternative to civic nationalism – one that is slowly and increasingly helping to rehabilitate… 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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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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Israel Kills 52 Syrian/Iraqi Anti-ISIS Fighters, as US Takes Aim at Iran
An air attack in eastern Syria killed 52 Syrian and Iraqi government-backed forces who were fighting ISIS. They blamed the US, but it said Israel is responsible. Max Blumenthal says this is part of a larger campaign to destabilize and fragment Syria and weaken its ally Iran (inc. transcript) 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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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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With Literal Nazis Running for Office, NYT Suggests Candidate’s Israel Criticism Is Antisemitic By Adam Johnson
With the increase on the US right in overt Nazi activity, one might be surprised to see the paper of record (New York Times, 5/29/18) turn its sights not on this disturbing trend, but on progressive candidate Leslie Cockburn, whose criticism of Israel is being cynically exploited by her opponents in the Republican Party—the same… Continue reading
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