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The Israeli perspective–on genocide–dominates our airwaves
The Israeli ambassador to the United States was on CNN this morning assuring us that when the truce is over, “the operation will resume”—i.e., the vengeful destruction of life and property in Gaza will continue.
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A new mood in the world will put an end to the Global Monroe Doctrine: The Forty-Seventh Newsletter (2023)
No war in recent years–not even the ‘shock and awe’ campaign used by the United States against Iraq in 2003–has been as ruthless in its use of force.
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Israel-Palestine war: Jewish students say they won’t be silenced by Brown University
In their first interview since they were arrested for holding a sit-in, some of the students vow to continue their activism until the US university divests from Israel.
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Gaza 2023 — high-tech war revisited
The Times remarks that “The speed, precision and scale of Hamas’s attack had thrown the Israeli military into disarray, and for many hours afterward civilians were left to fend for themselves.” It took two hours for the Israeli military to declare a state of war.
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Israel-Palestine war: What we know about the Israel-Hamas truce so far
Middle East Eye breaks down the upcoming deal, which includes a cessation of hostilities, prisoner swaps and aid.
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Tel Aviv police ban World Children’s Day event supporting “children living in the shadow of the war”
Tel Aviv police refused to allow a silent vigil for World Children’s Day saying the event could “cause serious harm to public security.” Police have used this same rationale to attack and detain peaceful protesters around the country.
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She lost her entire family in an airstrike, but no one has told her yet
Ayah Sha’ban was among 14 of her martyred family members in Gaza City. She was presumed dead and wrapped in a white shroud, but a security guard at Al-Shifa’ noticed her breathing and saved her. She still doesn’t know about her family’s fate.
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On the perpetration of mass-death events
The holocaust now visited on Palestine by U.S./Israel is unique in many ways. Rates of killing and maiming exceed those of previous Israeli assaults on Gaza, the perpetrators announce their genocidal intent with unusual frankness, and Western media and official apologists are especially shameless.
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Washington Post lifts the veil on CIA’s shadow war against Russia waged since 2014
In August 2022, Ukrainian security service (SBU) operatives hid explosives in a crate intended for a cat in a car driven by a woman and her twelve year old daughter.
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‘We are now rolling out the Gaza Nakba,’ Israeli Minister announces
Denying the Nakba is normally a central tenet of Zionism.
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Lies surrounding Al-Shifa hospital recall those preceding the Iraq invasion
The evidence-free claims that have flooded media regarding Hamas using Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital as a military headquarters recall similarly devastating intelligence lies preceding the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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Dangers only multiply: Could Israel’s war on Gaza go nuclear?
Israel’s robust military, the fourth-strongest in the world, is ravaging Gaza and, along with armed settlers, terrorizing Palestinians in the West Bank following the brutal Hamas massacres of October 7th.
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Israel-Palestine war: This is not about Hamas. It’s a 75-year colonial war
The ethnic cleansing of Palestine is inseparable from the racialised structures of Zionism, which receives unbridled support from Europe and the US
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Time to stop settler colonialism under cloak of ‘victimhood’
Israel has become a classic example of settler colonialism in contemporary times, as also a model picture of apartheid.
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The largest pro-Palestinian protest in U.S. history was “a turning point.” Now it’s spreading
“Felt like this was a new wave or a turning point in the struggle for Palestine.”
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NYT runs interference for IDF as it bombs Jabalia Refugee Camp
Israeli bombs rained down on the Jabalia Refugee Camp in northern Gaza on Halloween, leveling housing units and killing and wounding hundreds of Palestinians, mostly women and children.
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Russo-Ukrainian War: The Reckoning
Ukraine at the limits.
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The Pogrom, Indians, and Genealogies of the Israeli Settler-Vigilante
In most major media accounts of settler terror against Palestinians, Israeli settler-vigilantes invariably escape critical categorization beyond the moniker of “extremist.” Portrayals of these perpetrators of violence invariably focus on the theme of fanaticism while presenting these figures as unsavory if misguided fringe elements in Israeli society. Such characterizations are naïve and incomplete.
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How the United States underdeveloped Somalia
On September 6, 2023, the United States military reportedly assisted the Somali government in an deadly counter-terrorism operation that killed five civilians.
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Pinnacle of horror
Joe Biden will go down in history as an accomplice to genocide. May the ghosts of the thousands of children he has participated in murdering haunt him for the rest of his life.