Middle East Wars

Iran Accuses Israel Of Using ‘Blind Terrorism’ To Cover Up Its Failures

January 23, 2024 UNAC Editor Global Alliances, Iran, Israel, Middle East Wars, Regional Solutions, U.S. Aggression

by People’s Dispatch, published on Popular Resistance, January 22, 2024 Israel Has Been Carrying Out Air Strikes in Lebanon and Syria. Allegedly targeting Hezbollah and Iranian targets in clear attempts to provoke a regional war. Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian accused Israel of using “mindless terrorism” to cover up its losses in its war on Gaza. Abdollahian’s statement on[…]

Veterans for Peace Condemns U.S. Bombing of Yemen

January 23, 2024 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Imperial Wars, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Peoples' Movements, U.S. Aggression, Yemen

Statement by Veterans for Peace, January 10, 2023 Calls for an Immediate, Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza Veterans For Peace unequivocally condemns the US/UK bombing in Yemen, which constitutes a dangerous widening of the war. Instead of pressing for a Ceasefire in Gaza, the Biden Administration is using its military forces to facilitate Israel’s genocide. The Houthis have clearly stated that[…]

Israel on Trial: Historic days in The Hague

January 18, 2024 UNAC Editor Middle East Wars, Occupation, Political Analysis, South Africa, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy, Zionism

by Mahmoud Elenani, published on Peoples Dispatch, January 17, 2024 Egyptian journalist Mahmoud Elenani was in The Hague when South Africa presented its case against Israel to the ICJ, this is his account of those days when history was made With legal precision, South African legal team presented the grounds and evidence for their accusation that Israel is committing genocide[…]

Stop the war on Yemen!

January 15, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Genocide, Imperial Wars, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, Protest, Rights of Opressed Peoples, Yemen

from the International Action Center, January 11, 2024 The International Action Center condemns the U.S. and British imperialist governments for their unjustifiable attacks on Yemen Jan. 11. This latest aggression is a direct expansion of the genocidal war they have been collaborating with in Gaza. It coincides with the charges of that genocide against Israel in the International Court of[…]

Israel’s War on Palestine and the Global Upsurge Against It

January 15, 2024 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Action!!, Genocide, Israel-Palestine, Middle East Wars, Occupation, Palestine, Philippines, Political Analysis, Resistance, US Hypocrisy

by Vijay Prashad, published on People’s Dispatch, January 13, 2024 Hundreds of millions of people across the world have been deeply moved by the atrocity of the Israeli war on Palestine. Millions have attended marches and protests, many of them participating in such demonstrations for the first time in their lives. Social media, in almost all the world’s languages, is[…]

Coalition of “Grassroots Diplomats” Take the Lead on International Solidarity with South Africa in the Absence of Diplomacy and Accountability from U.S. Officials

January 9, 2024 UNAC Editor Citizen Diplomacy, Diplomacy, Genocide, International Law, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Legal Struggles, Middle East Wars, Palestine

by Melissa Garriga, January 8, 2023 Peace activists across the country have embarked on a campaign to mobilize global support for South Africa’s charge of genocide against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The campaign, spearheaded by CODEPINK, World Beyond War, and RootsAction, aims to rally nations to submit a “Declaration of Intervention” supporting South Africa’s case at[…]

Did Israel Kill Iranian Commander to Provoke a Wider War?

December 28, 2023 UNAC Editor Iran, Israel, Middle East Wars, US Foreign Policy

by Trita Parsi, published on Responsible Statecraft, December 26, 2023 Iran’s top commander in Syria, Seyed Razi Mousavi, was assassinated Sunday by an Israeli airstrike in a Damascus neighborhood, according to Iran’s official news agency IRNA and Britain-based opposition war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. This has led Tehran to call for reprisals, ratcheting up fears that this[…]

US pushing Red Sea Into War Zone to Protect Israeli Genocide in Gaza

December 25, 2023 UNAC Editor Global Economics, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Yemen

by Al Mayadeen English, December 19, 2023 French shipping and logistics giant CMA CGM announced on Monday that it would reroute some of its vessels through the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa due to increased Yemeni operations in the Red Sea. “The CMA CGM Group remains deeply concerned about the attacks on commercial vessels unfolding in the Red[…]

The United Arab Emirates is Destroying the Biodiversity of a Yemeni Archipelago.

December 21, 2023 UNAC Editor Environment, Imperialism, Israel, Somalia, Yemen

by Mouna Hashem and Martha Mundy, Published on Counterpunch, December 1, 2023 Environmental destruction entails two intertwined processes: climate change and the destruction of biodiversity, which mutually reinforce each other. Both are human-caused. Climate change is not the lead driver of biodiversity loss; it is human overexploitation of natural resources and habitat destruction. Protecting biodiversity protects against climate change. Nowhere is the[…]

Yemeni Movement’s Solidarity With Palestine

December 21, 2023 UNAC Editor Global Economics, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Yemen

Statement published on Workers World, December 20, 2023 Below is a statement by Ansarallah (called the Houthi movement in the imperialist media) spokesperson, Mohammed Abdul Salam, which was posted on Resistance News Network on Dec. 16. The accompanying news is that the largest shipping company in the world, the Swiss-Italian MSC, has decided to cease all shipments in the Red[…]