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UNAC Statement on the Israeli Terrorist Attack on the Lebanese People

UNAC Statement, September 21, 2024 The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) expresses our deep solidarity with the people of Lebanon who were victims of the recent Israeli pager terror attacks.  We call upon the people of the world to condemn Israel’s criminal act and its continued genocidal war in Gaza and the West Bank. The United Nations (UN) has stated[…]

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Far From ‘Sophisticated,’ Lebanon Bombings Show Israel’s Crude, Failing Strategy

by Wyatt Miller, published on Fightback News, September 20, 2024 Thousands of small, seemingly innocuous devices, exploding in the hands and pockets of Israel’s enemies. Tuesday and Wednesday’s bombing attacks across Lebanon have been hailed by Zionists as a crushing blow to Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah, an intelligence coup that one viral tweet called “biblical” in scale and sophistication. But[…]

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How Can The UN Save Palestine From US-Israeli Genocide?

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, September 15, 2024 On September 18th, the UN General Assembly is scheduled to debate and vote on a resolution calling on Israel to end “its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” within six months. Given that the General Assembly, unlike the exclusive 15-member UN Security Council, allows all UN members to vote[…]

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Boiling the Israeli Frog

A lecture by Sharmine Narwani at the American University in Beirut, posted by The Cradle, September 4, 2024 This talk really  helps with a understanding a lot of issues occurring in the “Middle East” at this time, so that many people who oppose the wars, oppose the occupation of Palestine and suppression of the indigenous people there, can better understand[…]

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New Nakba Expands to the West Bank

by Tamara Nasser, published on Electronic Intifada, September 4, 2024 An Israeli military assault in the occupied West Bank entered its seventh day on Tuesday, destroying the vast majority of the Jenin refugee camp’s road infrastructure in its wake. The Israeli attack has killed at least 33 Palestinians, including seven children, and injured nearly 130 since 28 August, the Palestinian[…]

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Hamas Statement on Deaths of Hostages Killed in Gaza

by Hamas Spokesperson , Khalil Hayyah, published on Workers World, September 2, 2024 The six [Israeli] prisoners (t.me/RNN_Backup/54954) and others could have been released to their families through a real exchange deal while still alive, but the insistence of the occupation army, [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, and his extremist government is the reason these prisoners lost their lives (t.me/RNN_Backup/55040), along[…]

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Race, Rights and Repression: The Moral and Political Dilemma of the Capitalist Dictatorship

by Ajamu Baraka and Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, September 4, 2024 BAR Executive Editor Margaret Kimberley talks to Ajamu Baraka, BAR Editor and Columnist about the upcoming presidential election and how the outcome will impact international and domestic policy. Ajamu provides his analysis on Palestine, the Ukraine/Russia war, U.S. imperialism in Africa, police militarism, and the federal[…]

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An Arms Embargo on Israel is Not a Radical Idea — It’s the Law

by Youana Tchoukleva, published on Mondoweiss, August 31, 2024 As Israel launches its largest military assault in the West Bank in twenty years, I cannot stop thinking about the people I met in the occupied territory. I think of the mother in Jenin who was on the phone with her two sons seconds before their house was burned in an[…]

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Ceasefire Negotiations as a Weapon of War

by Malik Hijazi, published on Mondoweiss, August 25, 2024 I have lost count of how many times I have clung to the hope of a ceasefire, only to watch it crumble into dust. As the war in Gaza stretches into the summer of 2024, the promise of ending this suffering has become nothing more than a cruel illusion. Every time[…]

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The DNC Fiddles While the World Burns

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, August 21, 2024 An Orwellian disconnect haunts the 2024 Democratic National Convention. In the isolation of the convention hall, shielded from the outside world behind thousands of armed police, few of the delegates seem to realize that their country is on the brink of direct involvement in major wars with Russia and Iran,[…]

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