Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
from Fight Back! News, October 18, 2023 Jacksonville, FL – Over 500 people took the streets, October 14, to march in support of the Palestinian liberation movement against Israeli occupation. Demonstrators held Palestinian flags and chanted “Free free, Palestine.” While the crowd was majority Arab, people from all backgrounds and ages joined the fight. The crowd was energetic and steadfast[…]
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by Brett Wilkins, published on Common Dreams, October 13, 2023 While the world watches Israel’s military pulverize Gaza amid anticipation of an imminent ground invasion of the besieged strip, Israeli soldiers and settlers—who are receiving thousands of assault rifles from the government—have killed dozens of Palestinians in the illegally occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem over the past week, officials[…]
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. . . . and maybe some other countries neck’s as well! Operation Al Aqsa Flood in an international context. by M. K. Bhadrakumar, published on Indian Punchline, October 14, 2023 One week has passed since an explosive situation erupted in West Asia around Israel. India’s famously loquacious External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is maintaining deafening silence. That is not[…]
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by Pepe Escobar, published on The Cradle, October 12, 2023 Global focus just shifted from Ukraine to Palestine. This new arena of confrontation will ignite further competition between the Atlanticist and Eurasian blocs. These fights are increasingly zero-sum ones; as in Ukraine, only one pole can emerge strengthened and victorious. Hamas’ Operation Al-Aqsa Flood was meticulously planned. The launch date[…]
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Statement by The Black Alliance for Peace, October 11, 2023 We say that a colonized people have a right to resist occupation and fight for self-determination by any means necessary! The Black Alliance for Peace stands in solidarity with the people of Gaza and all Palestinians under occupation in the racist, apartheid settler state of Israel. We recognize the right[…]
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Editor’s note: Just a quick fact based update The Resistance is now active in the Bank. According to Al Mayadeen (a Lebanese newspaper), militias in the West Bank have captured several Israeli settlements. In most cases there were only a few casualties. Palestinian Islamic Jihad has taken the Einav settlement. They report that one settler died in the operation and[…]
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by Ramzy Baroud, published on Countercurrents, October 10, 2023 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had often boasted about the readiness of his army to deal with, and to eliminate all threats to Israel’s ‘security’. The Israeli military, too, has contributed to the Israeli hasbara that Tel Aviv would be able to face several threats at all fronts, from Gaza, to[…]
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by Charles Pierce, published on Dissident Voice, October 10, 2023 1. Doctrine. Zionism was devised by some middle-class Jewish Europeans (most prominently Lev Pinsker and Theodore Herzl) as one response to horrendous late 19th century anti-Jewish persecutions in Europe. Like many of their contemporaries among nationalistic privileged-class European intellectuals and like the Nazis who came later, the Zionists conceived of[…]
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Statement of the Communist Party of France, published in L’humanité, October 9, 2023 The policy of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, whom he holds responsible for the situation, and warns against acts of revenge that could be carried out against the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel. He calls for the recognition of the rights of Palestinians. For Efraim Davidi, a member of the[…]
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Statement from United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC), October 9, 2023 The United National Antiwar Coalition stands firmly behind the people of Palestine as they resist over 75 years of brutal and illegal occupation by the Israelis. We call on people and organizations across the United States to take to the streets to support the cause of a free Palestine and to[…]
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