“We voted for this text to give diplomacy a chance,” said Algeria’s U.N. ambassador. “It is time to halt the killing.” (more…)
Category: Israel Palestine
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Palestinian prisoners starved, abused and mistreated
Since October 7th last year more than 9,500 Palestinians including 635 minors from the West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem have been held in Israeli jails. More than 3,400 Palestinian detainees, including women and children, have also been placed in administrative detention under the pretext of secret evidence. All prisoners and detainees have been subjected to systematic physical and psychological torture, deprivation of basic needs of human life and minimum levels of treatment. (more…)
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Meet a Palestinian family denied safety by Australia
Meet a young family of gentle Palestinians living in Gaza. The family has subsisted on tinned food from aid organisations. They cook with wood and iron posts over a besser block fireplace. Prior to October 2023, the family worked in information technology and accounting for an animal welfare charity. (more…)
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Israel the grotesque, who supports that government?
Celebrations on Tel Aviv beaches followed news of the rescue of four Israeli hostages. As part of an alleged clinical, precise military exercise, as many as 300 Palestinians were killed and 700 injured, but in Israeli revellers’ eyes, this latest slaughter of Palestinians is of no consequence, even welcomed. (more…)
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Israel/Palestine: my personal experience and conversion
I am 93 years old and come from a large Jewish family; My mother’s mother being one of 13 children I had dozens of Jewish uncles and cousins while growing up and through my maternal connection claim Jewishness. Being old enough my memory covers the whole history of the formation of modern Israel and the Palestinian State. (more…)
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Four rescued Israels equals over two hundred dead Palestinians whilst we continue to support a rogue state
To rescue four Israeli hostages Israel massacred two hundred and ten or more innocent Palestinian souls to prove that the War on Gaza was worth it, just to prove their machismo. (more…)
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Partners in crime: Germany, Israel and Genocide
Karl Marx, a rebel son of Jewish parents, famously remarked that in politics Germans had only thought what others had already done. His quip needs a flip: Germans are nowadays doing things others find unthinkable.
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I’ve seen every Jerusalem flag march in last 16 years. This one was the ugliest
The Flag March on Jerusalem Day is an accurate thermometer of the condition of Israeli society. It measures the levels of hatred, racism and violence in the religious Zionist society and the tolerance of the police and the rest of society to these traits. This year’s diagnosis is terminal. Wednesday’s march was one of the most violent and ugliest I have seen – and I have witnessed every single one over the past 16 years. (more…)
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Israel-Gaza war: Chinese satellites detail scale of destruction in besieged Palestinian territory
Analysis using remote sensing technology from Wuhan University puts the level of damage at about 60 per cent. (more…)
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Israel’s duplicity and deceit of the US
“The State of Israel will be judged not by its wealth, nor by its army, nor by its technology, but by its moral character and its human values.” (more…)
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Growing pro-Gaza movement is exposing the hypocrisy of US leadership
Gaza sympathisers are uniting in the US and across the Global South as Washington’s unwavering support of Israel’s ruthless war against the Palestinians galvanises many people around the world. (more…)
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The Greens correctly get up the noses of Labor, Coalition over Gaza
The Greens, a party with whom Labor may well have to negotiate with to form government after the next election, have the knack of getting up the noses of both Labor and the Coalition by accusing both major parties of doing little or nothing to effect an end to the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, senseless killing that has been going on in the name of self-defence since October 7. (more…)
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Breaking: Australian journalist attacked at violent Jerusalem Day march
Australian ABC TV journalist Alison Horne was attacked and she and her crew were verbally abused by Israelis participating in the Jerusalem Day march in what is the Muslim quarter, chanting “death to Arabs and singing songs about burning Arab villages down.” (more…)
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Why Israel’s Gaza war violates Just War principles
Israeli defences of their current military assault on Gaza invoke various defences of it couched in moral terms that evoke the concept of a just war. What follows discusses the war and its defences from the perspective of the widely acknowledged (though often misused) theory of the just war and find that the defences offered by Israeli leaders and spokespeople fail badly. (more…)
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Hypocrisy and deceit Down Under: Australia is a Zionist stronghold
Opportunism, hypocrisy, manipulation, and deceit come quickly to mind when delving into the behaviour of politicians. Against this background, two Australian former prime ministers who have thrust themselves into the headlines over the genocide in Gaza, Julia Gillard and Scott Morrison, come to mind. (more…)
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Israel’s forced starvation in Gaza has killed dozens of children
Israel’s forced starvation has caused the deaths of more children in central Gaza where conditions have been made worse by Israel’s closure of the Rafah crossing, further limiting aid and trapping sick and injured Palestinians. (more…)
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Grief & guilt by association
I have been grieving deeply not just since last October, but ever since I woke up to the reality of what Israel is, and what it stands for. First came my human empathy for the Palestinian people and what they have been suffering. Empathy was what gave me the initial push to start to speak out, twenty-three years ago. However, at the time I did not understand that I was a Zionist. My heart ached for the Palestinians. Israel’s behaviour seemed brutal, and unfair, but I was still just a typical ‘liberal’ Zionist. (more…)
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US spends $320m on Gaza’s pier while its people burn
If this scenario had been written into a novel at the turn of 19th century it would have been too unthinkable to believe it could actually take place – assisting in the bombing of innocent civilians, then charging in to feed them, appearing like the saviour of your victims. (more…)
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Why we must never stop exposing cant and hypocrisy
To witness repeated atrocities around the world is hard enough. To observe wilful slaughter, when it’s openly supported by nations claiming adherence to human rights and international law, is nauseating. The killing of dozens of Palestinians in a supposed safe zone in Rafah is just the latest bloody outrage on global view. (more…)
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Israel’s Gaza hallucination
One reason Israel is constantly criticised, even from within its obedient posse of Global West backers, is that it has failed to articulate what it has planned for the “day after” the completion of its Gaza-cleansing, genocide project. The respected historian, Adam Tooze, recently revealed that future planning for “Gaza 2035” has, however, been a focus of intense, surreal Israeli attention. (more…)
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To Israel’s ‘Tragic Mistakes’, the world’s response is pathetic
Israeli forces’ slaughters of Gazans, journalists, doctors, humanitarian aid workers are described by military spokespersons and by Prime minister Netanyahu as tragic mistakes. In retrospect, killings appear an intention conducted by an alleged accident, in which well rehearsed explanations are part of a familiar two faced process of speaking with double tongues. (more…)
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US politicians terrified of the ICC: “We are next” warns Lindsey Graham
Pro-Israel forces in Washington are trying to derail Karim Khan’s request for Israeli and Hamas arrest warrants. (more…)
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Boy whose father burned to death in Rafah attack speaks to Al Jazeera
‘My dad is gone… where will I go?’ Nine-year-old Omar Hamad just lived through the worst day of his life, when his father was burned alive in Israel’s attack on a tent camp in Rafah. Dozens of Palestinians in Gaza were killed that day, and dozens more lost loved ones. (more…)
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We don’t know what Australian Jews think about Gaza
Since October 2023, much has been said about what Jewish Australians think about Israel’s war in Gaza. If you’ve been reading the statistics quoted in media articles, you can be forgiven for thinking that the vast majority of Australian Jews support Israel’s war in Gaza and believe that the student protests on Australian University campuses constitute antisemitism and should be shut down. In reality, we have no idea what the majority of Australian Jews feel about either of these issues because there is no representative survey that has asked us. (more…)
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Shattered theory: the war on terror and Western impunity
Could the final act of the US’s Global War on Terror (GWOT) be the conviction of a US President for terrorism? Tantalising but implausible? Read on. (more…)
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Jewish extremists in West Bank pose biggest threat to Israel: report
When it comes to the security of Israel, it is uncommon to publicly hear of any threat facing the country other than that which emanates from either its Arab neighbours or else Iran. (more…)
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‘Jaw-Dropping’: Mossad Chief threatened ICC prosecutor over Israeli war crimes probe
“Bullying won’t hide genocide and war crimes,” said one anti-war group. (more…)
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American-Israeli bombs incinerate women and children in Gaza’s ‘safe zone’
In a calculated and vicious attack Israel bombed an area in Rafah, Gaza designated as a “safe zone’ by the Israeli military, incinerating women and children and leaving flimsy plastic tents burning in a horrifying conflagration. (more…)
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Nova Peris’ apologism for colonialism and genocide
In repeating blatant Zionist propaganda to justify her support for Israel, Nova Peris erroneously and harmfully conflates Jewish identity with support for the Zionist project in Palestine, which in effect depicts all Jews as complicit in Israel’s criminality. Her abject apologism also betrays all indigenous peoples’ struggles against colonial oppression. (more…)
