Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

Oslo is Long Dead. Time for a New PLO.

by Kareem Youssef and Mishlin Mekleh, published on Fightback News, November 12, 2022 The Oslo accords were signed 29 years ago, on 13 September 1993. The Palestinian Authority, its main manifestation, has attempted and failed for nearly three decades to contain the Palestinian people’s resistance and struggle for national liberation. Palestine’s enemy today is not only Israel and its US[…]

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Strangers Behind the Trees: On the Death of Rayan Suliman and His Fear of Monsters

by Dr. Ramzy Baroud, published on Countercurrents, October 13, 2022 Day in and day out you read about Palestinian children (usually teenagers) killed by IDF guns, and you stop reacting to the news.   But sometimes something happens that breaks through the wall of repetition, like the story of this 7 year old Palestinian boy who died while running from these[…]

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Israeli Forces Raid and Seal DCIP Office

Press Release, Defense for Children International in Palestine, August 18, 2022 Ramallah, August 18, 2022—Israeli forces raided Defense for Children International – Palestine’s headquarters in the central occupied West Bank early Thursday morning. Israeli forces raided DCIP’s headquarters located in Al-Bireh’s Sateh Marhaba neighborhood, located just south of Ramallah around 5:55 a.m. on August 18. More than a dozen Israeli[…]

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Palestinian President Abbas’ Holocaust Remark and German Hypocrisy

by Peter Schwarz, published on World Socialist Website, August 18, 202 A statement by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas comparing Israeli massacres of Palestinians with the Holocaust has provoked from German media outlets and politicians a storm of indignation that would be hard to beat for its mendacity. At a joint press conference with Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday, Abbas[…]

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Without Palestine, There is No Arab Unity: Why Normalization with Israel Will Fail

by Ramzy Baroud, published on Palestine Chronicle, August 10, 2022 It seemed all but a done deal: Israel is finally managing to bend the Arabs to its will, and Palestine is becoming a marginal issue that no longer defines Israel’s relations with Arab countries. Indeed, normalization with Israel is afoot, and the Arabs, so it seems, have been finally tamed.[…]

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Children Bear Brunt of Israel’s Savagery in Gaza

by Tamara Nasser, published on Electronic Intifada, August 7, 2022 A ceasefire between Israel and the Islamic Jihad resistance group took effect before midnight Sunday, ending a deadly Israeli assault on Gaza. In the hours before the Egyptian-mediated truce took hold, Israel ramped up its killing and assassination spree for the third consecutive day. By late evening on Sunday, the[…]

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US, Europe Greenlight Israel’s Latest Gaza Massacre

by Ali Abunimah, published on Electronic Intifada, August 6, 2022 As the toll of death, injury and destruction rose in Gaza on Saturday, the second day of Israel’s surprise attack on the territory, the Biden administration reiterated its full support for Tel Aviv. John Kirby, a spokesperson for the White House’s National Security Council said the administration urges “all sides[…]

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Biden Signed on to Netanyahu’s ‘Vision’ of Crushing Palestinian Hopes

by Philip Weiss, published on Mondoweiss, July 22, 2022 Apartheid in Israel, potentially, Genocide in Gaza, accepted in the Middle East and the West as just a fact of life that shouldn’t interfere with business as usual. I’ve just been reading that reports on what it cost Egypt to enter an alliance with Israel and the United States.  It’s a[…]

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Biden in Occupied Palestine and the ‘Jerusalem Declaration’

by Samidoun Prisoner Network, published on Workers World, July 16, 2022 The joint declaration of U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid reveals not only the fundamental bankruptcy of the imperialist and Zionist systems they represent but also underlines the necessity to act and stand now in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their resistance, to liberate[…]

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Israel Refuses to Probe Soldiers Who Killed Shireen Abu Akleh

by Maureen Clare Murphy, published on Electronic Intifada, May 20, 2022 Israel announced that it was not going to launch a criminal investigation into the death of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, despite all but admitting that a soldier shot and killed her. On Thursday, the Israeli military said it had “identified a soldier’s rifle that may have killed” the iconic[…]

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