Israel strikes Iran as US and EU impose new round of sanctions
Israel has carried out an airstrike on Iran Friday morning, a US official told major US news outlets. Iranian state TV reported that three drones were shot down over Isfahan…
Palestine
Who is to Blame for Many-Sided Escalation in Middle-East?
On April 18 the US and UK imposed a new round of sanctions on Iran. On April 17 European Union leaders had talked aggressively about ramping up sanctions on Iran.…
Cruelty of Language: Leaked NY Times Memo Reveals Moral Depravity of US Media
The New York Times coverage of the Israeli carnage in Gaza, like that of other mainstream US media, is a disgrace to journalism. This assertion should not surprise anyone. US…
When Namibia Stands Up to Germany: How Gaza Revolutionized the Global South
The distance between Gaza and Namibia is measured in the thousands of kilometers. But the historical distance is much closer. This is precisely why Namibia was one of the first…
US imposes new sanctions on Iran amid looming threat of Israeli attack
The United States and its imperialist allies will imminently announce new sanctions targeting Iran as the US-led war drive against Tehran continues to accelerate. In a statement Tuesday, US National…
US Asks Iran to Let Israel Strike it “Symbolically”
In what is seen as an unprecedented international diplomatic move, the White House has asked the Tehran government if it would allow Israel to engage in a “symbolic retaliatory strike”…
A Brief History of Kill Lists, From Langley to Lavender
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies The Israeli online magazine +972 has published a detailed report on Israel’s use of an artificial intelligence (AI) system called “Lavender” to…
War, Weddings and Israeli Bombings in Gaza
Amidst war and destruction there is marriage. It can only happen in Gaza. While Israeli warplanes continue to strike different parts of the enclave people are getting married! It seems…
Australian Bears Witness: Open Letter to Victorian MPs re Israel’s Gaza Genocide
UK-founded Australia has been a craven US ally since 1942, and thus became second only to the US as a supporter of Apartheid Israel and hence of Apartheid. Zionist-subverted and…
Suspending the Rule of Tolerable Violence: Israel’s Attack and Iran’s Retaliation
The Middle East has, for some time, been a powder keg where degrees of violence are tolerated with ceremonial mania and a calculus of restraint. Assassinations can take place at…
Dead on Arrival: Israel’s Blowback Genocide
Words can’t express the horrors of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. To actually feel the nightmare, you would have to be there under the bombs, fleeing with Palestinians desperately seeking a safe place…
Iranian Missiles Pass Over Jordan Skies Towards Israel
Israel is under attack by incoming Iranian drones and ballistic missiles. The Jordanian skies lit up with passing missiles and drones as they made their way to Israel. They were…
Finally, Iran Retaliates to Israeli attacks!
Iran made all the due preparations over the last few days and then struck Israel with a mighty series of blows with its drones and cruise missiles. Iran's retaliation was…
Israel is Losing its War in Gaza – Jewish Sources
Gaza no more! All of its 364-kilometers have been totally destroyed and obliterated. If the Israeli army had the capability, they would have wiped it off the face of the…
How Israel Weaponizes Water
By November 2023, it was already clear that the Israeli government had begun to deny Palestinians in Gaza access to water. ‘Every hour that passes with Israel preventing the provision…
Threat of war between Israel and Iran grows as new offensives launched in Gaza
Tensions between Israel and Iran reached new heights Thursday after the United States warned of an “imminent” attack being planned by Tehran. The Iranian regime has said since Israel’s bombing…
How Did Zionists Come to Behave Like Nazis?
The images are hard to fathom. How have well educated, well fed young Israelis been won to commit atrocities in Gaza similar to those perpetrated by Nazis against Jews? How…
Biden declares “ironclad” commitment to Israel as death toll mounts in Gaza
US President Joe Biden declared his “ironclad” support for Israel Wednesday, as Israeli bombing of Gaza intensifies and the mass starvation of the trapped Palestinian population worsens, threatening to kill…
Hamas Can’t be Defeated – Israeli Officers Admit
Israeli army officers believe that they can’t defeat Hamas and Israel’s war on HAMAS will have to last till 2026 and possibly 2027. Despite the massive destruction of Gaza by…
Unrepentant Neo-Nazi Germany Complicit In Palestinian Genocide & Ongoing Gaza Massacre
Germany has a shocking 8-century history of involvement in pogroms and genocides that culminated in the Nazi Germany- imposed WW2 European Holocaust (30 million Jews, Slavs and Gypsies killed). Post-WW2…
Killing Humanitarian Workers as a Strategy: Israel’s Endgame in Gaza
Israel described its clearly deliberate killing of seven humanitarian aid workers on April 1 as a “grave mistake”, a “tragic event” that “happens in war”. Israel is, obviously, lying. This…
U.S.A.UK EU Journalists Accessories to Gaza Genocide Prolong It Deceivingly As ‘Defensive War’
Journalists of wars prolonging U.S. and NATO nations media are providing cover for a monstrous genocidal crime against humanity by portraying the Israeli U.S. provisioned devastating bombing and air strikes…
US and UK officials deny Israeli crimes as Gaza is deliberately starved
Asked in a Senate hearing Tuesday about charges of Israeli-authored genocide in Gaza, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin responded, “We don’t have evidence of that.” “We are committed to help…
Six months of Israeli genocide in Gaza: A window into times to come?
The Israeli aggression and genocide being committed in Palestine is the defining historical moment of our time, showing that colonialism as a system and a way of thought and life…
Gaza: Voices From Under The Rubble Beg For Burial
https://twitter.com/OnlinePalEng/status/1777035462529417606 This is Israeli destruction. It is indeed graphic content people being killed and immersed in the rubble and debris of their homes. In this war, we’ve become used to…
Death by Algorithm: Israel’s AI War in Gaza
Remorseless killing at the initiation of artificial intelligence has been the subject of nail-biting concern for various members of computer-digital cosmos. Be wary of such machines in war and their…
CODEPINK Protests at German Diplomatic Missions: STOP US & German arms for Israel’s Genocide!
[CODEPINK and other peace activists outside the German Consulate in Los Angeles/Ryan Wentz — CODEPINK] From coast to coast, CODEPINK delegations protested at German diplomatic missions in support of Nicaragua’s…
Gaza: Israel’s Imposed Starvation Deadly for Children
(Beirut, April 9, 2024) – Children in Gaza have been dying from starvation-related complications since the Israeli government began using starvation as a weapon of war, a war crime, Human Rights Watch said today. Doctors…
‘We Are in a State of Terror, Fear’ Displaced Gazan Says
“We have been waiting for six months but we have seen nothing, nothing. We are all dying, just constant funerals day after day” After six full months of genocide the…
Consulate Rally Demands an End to German Weapons for Israel
Today, the Republic of Nicaragua, a longtime staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause, presented its request for Provisional Measures to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague against…
Germany, Gaza and the World Court: Broadening the Scope of Genocide
Can it get any busier? The World Court, otherwise known as the International Court of Justice, has been swamped by applications on the subject of alleged genocide. The site of…
A “war against humanity”: Six months of the Gaza genocide
April 7 marks six months since the beginning of the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza. In the span of just half a year, Israel has displaced 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.2…
Israel Faces Black Days in Gaza
With 14 soldiers killed in different parts of southern Gaza, this is certainly not a good day for Israel. Indeed, it can be termed as a black day for the…
A Genocide Foretold
The genocide in Gaza is the final stage of a process begun by Israel decades ago. Anyone who did not see this coming blinded themselves to the character and ultimate…
Don’t Let The Israelis Crush Knowledge in Gaza
Norwegian Dr Mads Gilbert says the Israeli army want to eradicate the Palestinian people by destroying their ‘knowledge system’ as in their schools, universities and culture. https://twitter.com/drmadsgilbert?lang=en “Did you know…
Gaza The Day After Netanyahu
While tens of thousands of Israelis gather on the streets of Tel Aviv calling for early elections and Netanyahu to step down,what could this mean for the future direction of…
As Palestinians starve, Netanyahu government attempts face-saving gesture following US-Israel murder of aid workers
In the aftermath of Monday’s targeted killing of seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) aid workers by the Israel Defence Forces, the White House and media outlets internationally have gone into…
CODEPINK’s Ann Wright and Medea Benjamin Join a Coalition of Human Rights Activists on International Civilian Aid Flotilla to Break the Siege of Gaza
CODEPINK's Ann Wright, Medea Benjamin and hundreds of other human rights activists with the Freedom Flotilla Coalition are due to set sail on multiple vessels in mid-April to carry 5,500…
Doctor at Israeli Detention Camp for Gazans Blows Whistle on War Crimes
A doctor at an Israeli field hospital inside a notorious detention center where hundreds of Palestinian prisoners are temporarily held is sounding the alarm about torture and horrific conditions at what some…
The US-Israeli murder of World Central Kitchen aid workers was deliberate
On Monday night, the Israel Defense Forces killed seven international aid workers from World Central Kitchen in Gaza in a series of three airstrikes on their vehicle convoy. The aid…
Killing Aid Workers: Australia’s Muddled Policy on Israel
The Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, was distraught and testy. It seemed that, on this occasion, Israel had gone too far. Not too far in killing over 32,000 Palestinians in…
Irremediable Defeat: On Israel’s Other Unwinnable War
Historically, wars unite Israelis. Not anymore. Not that Israelis do not agree with Benjamin Netanyahu’s war; they simply do not believe that the prime minister is the man who could…
“Nothing has changed”: White House backs Israel after murder of foreign aid workers
The Biden administration doubled down on its total support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza Wednesday after Israeli forces systematically and deliberately murdered seven foreign aid workers from World Central Kitchen…
Israel’s Gaza Onslaught Upsets US Plan For The Middle East
No normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia despite American attempts to clench a deal Analysts argue the Al Aqsa Flood, the entry of Hamas fighters into Israel proper, and the…
The Death of Amr
Over 13,000 children have been killed in Gaza. Amr Abdallah was one of them. On the morning Amr Abdallah was killed, he woke before dawn to say his Ramadan prayers…
The Israeli-American Crusade beyond Gaza against the Arab-Muslim World
How the War Dehumanized the Arab-Muslim World? The Arab-Muslim world is a world of disguised fantasy - no strength, no power to think intelligently,no policies to defend Islam, dubious spectators…
Israel bombs Iran’s embassy in Damascus: The Middle East on the brink of region-wide war
Israel’s bombing of the Iranian embassy in Damascus on Monday, which killed three senior leaders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and three others, is an act of war…
Details show Israel’s airstrike on World Central Kitchen staff was deliberate
On Monday night, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) killed seven international aid workers from World Central Kitchen (WCK) in Gaza in an airstrike on their vehicle convoy as it was…
Killing Humanitarians: Israel’s War on Aid Workers in Gaza
Eulogies should rarely be taken at face value. Plaster saints take the place of complex individuals; faults transmute into golden virtues. But there was little in the way of fault…
Gazan Outside Al Shifa: ‘We remain Steadfast…Will Not Leave Our Homeland’
“We will die here, we will be buried here” a Palestinian woman bellows outside the destroyed Al Shifa Hospital EDITOR’S NOTE: What follows is pledge from a Palestinian lady, who…
White House defends Shifa hospital massacre that killed over 400
The Israeli army’s withdrawal from Shifa Hospital in Gaza on Monday revealed that the complex had been turned into a killing field, with hundreds of bodies of men, women and…
How Israel Devastated Al Shifa Complex
Finally, the Israeli army pulled out of the Shifa complex after two weeks of mass destruction. The hospital itself and all of its buildings were rendered inoperable, either bombed or…
The destruction of Gaza and American imperialism’s genocidal global war
Last week, Michigan Republican Congressman Tim Walberg urged the total destruction of Gaza in the manner of “Nagasaki and Hiroshima,” the Japanese cities the United States destroyed with atomic bombs…
On Kuffiyehs and Watermelon – Revealing the Meaning of Palestinian Symbols
By Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo Those who admonish Palestinian Resistance, armed or otherwise, have little understanding of the psychological ramifications of resistance, such as a sense of collective empowerment,…
Seattle School Cancels Seminar on Israel-Palestine
Recently, a public school in the Seattle area announced that it would be holding an open seminar on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Fifteen minutes before the seminar was to begin, the…
International Court of Justice orders “unhindered provision” of humanitarian aid to Gaza
The International Court of Justice issued a ruling Thursday ordering Israel to provide urgently needed humanitarian aid to Gaza’s desperate 2.3 million inhabitants. The ruling, which starkly declares that “famine…
To Be Going down the Hamas Tunnel Network, Or Not To Be –That is the Question
As predicted by pollsters and prophesied by editors of corporate press in the USA and Europe, Joe Biden, Sunak, Macron, Olaf and Netanyahu are joint winners of the Nobel Peace…
Where is Gaza Journalist Bayan Abu Sultan?
Abu Sultan’s whereabouts is deeply worrying for Reporters sans frontiers especially since the vicinity of Al Shifa Hospital continues to be a war front for Israel. Al Shifa Hospital is…
Can’t Impeach-Prosecute Joe Biden For Illegally Continuing to Supply Bombs Dropped on Homes in Gaza
Biden has been guilty of breaking a U.S. law against providing U.S. weapons to a nation using them against a civilian population as Israel has been doing openly for five…
World Health Organization warns of “looming famine” in Gaza
Amid a systematic US-Israeli campaign to deliberately starve the 2.2 million residents of Gaza, the entire population is on the brink of famine. “Famine is ever closer to becoming a…
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