Israel / Palestine
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The morality of the West on trial
The hearing at the ICJ is not only a determination of the genocidal nature of Israel’s assault on Gaza, it is also an adjudication on the morality of the West. Continue reading »
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Nations urged to back ICJ case against Israel after experts confirm genocide underway
“How many more alarm bells have to ring and how many more civilians must unlawfully suffer or be killed before governments take action?” asked one human rights expert. Continue reading »
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Gaza: Australian timidity, US hypocrisy
Just when will the horror that is Gaza today prompt the Albanese Government to acknowledge publicly that the war in the territory is now consumed by Israel’s blood-lust revenge and a hunger for ethnic reconfiguration? Is it too much to hope that the government can find a conscience of its own rather than mimicking the Continue reading »
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No peace to keep: Israel, the ICJ and implications for Australian policy
For the foreseeable future Israel will not commit itself to allowing Palestinian statehood. It will remain in occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. And so long as the occupation continues, there will be no peace to keep. Continue reading »
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The West will stand in the dock alongside Israel at the genocide court
Israel’s allies aren’t just turning a blind eye to Gaza’s killing fields. They have cheered on the bloodshed, provided diplomatic cover and supplied the arms. Continue reading »
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‘Horror is growing by the minute,’ says rights group, as Israel starves Gaza
“If current conditions persist,” said Israeli group B’Tselem, “there is significant risk that famine will be declared throughout the entire Gaza Strip within six months.” Continue reading »
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A cry from the heart
Prime Minister Albanese, “don’t wait 200 years to apologise for the brutality of a coloniser, be on the right side of history now, today.” Continue reading »
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“Probably the world’s last anti-colonial war”
Summary: the distinguished historian Avi Shlaim argues that in its war with Gaza, Israel openly displays its true colours as a Eurocentric settler-colonialist and apartheid state. Continue reading »
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‘Exceptional’ country: Where is US leadership on Palestine?
The US proudly proclaims its exceptionalism and leadership of the free world, but in the latest Israeli-Palestinian flareup US leadership has been absent. A lasting peace settlement will require the US to take the lead in pushing forward the widely supported two-state solution. Continue reading »
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Tony Blinken is a cold-blooded sociopath
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken just referred to the US-sponsored assassination of yet another journalist in Gaza as a “terrible tragedy”, as though the reporter was struck by lightning or died in a car crash or something. Continue reading »
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Israel’s genocide betrays the Holocaust
If we forget the lessons of the Holocaust, we forget who we are and what we are capable of becoming. Continue reading »
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Genocide in Gaza
Most of the human rights mavens in the liberal mainstream have said little about Israel’s savage actions in Gaza or the genocidal rhetoric of its leaders. Hopefully, they will explain their disturbing silence at some point. Regardless, history will not be kind to them. Continue reading »
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Israeli officials fear possible genocide charges at ICJ
“In general, it’s hard to prove an intention of genocide because no public statements to that effect are made during the fighting,” said one expert. “But these irresponsible statements about erasing Gaza will require Israel to explain why they don’t reflect such an intention.” Continue reading »
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Hypocrisy as Australian Foreign Policy: oppose Russia, ignore Israel
In the International Court of Justice in The Hague, South Africa has filed suit against Israel for committing genocide in Gaza in violation of the 1948 Genocide Convention. Charges of genocide by South Africa include documentation of Israel’s killing of thousands of women and children, destruction of homes, denial to a population of water, food, Continue reading »
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We are the Silence: How words bear witness in life and in death
In August of 2023, Yousef Maher Dawas, a young Palestinian author, wrote a story of hope and resilience, titled “Kidney Transplant and Rebirth: A Palestinian Love Story”. On the 14th of October, Yousef was killed by an Israeli missile strike, along with several members of his family. Remember his words. He was not a number. Continue reading »
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Israeli General killed Israelis on 7 October and then lied about it
Last week, Israel’s Channel 12 released previously unseen footage of an Israeli tank firing at a civilian home in the settlement, just a few miles east of Gaza. The new evidence shows that the Israeli commander on the scene, Brigadier General Barak Hiram, lied to a top Israeli journalist about what happened in the kibbutz that day, after Continue reading »
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Muslims in UK desert Labour and Conservatives
Surveys have shown a sharp drop in support for both of Britain’s big parties among Muslims over their refusal to criticise Israel for its war. Continue reading »
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Israel and the Tour Down Under
The Israel-Premier Tech (PRT) team is clearly a vehicle for advancing Israel’s image, and, indeed, advancing favourable propaganda. Continue reading »
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Gaza: Israel’s hideous “final solution”
In Gaza, the 16 year old ghetto of two million people that Israel created, it seems that we are looking at Israel’s own hideous “final solution” with their collective punishment of a whole civilian population, their catastrophic genocidal practices and their mass ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. After decades of a systematic, sustained and strategic Continue reading »
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Things that may not be said about the Israeli atrocities
Despite a reputation for violent over-reaction in Palestinian affairs, the Israeli reaction has astonished and confused the world. Continue reading »
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Amidst horror, the screeching metal of turnstiles haunts our conscience
We tramped along streets of rubble and twisted girders of metal in Gaza – these had been a home, a school and even a hospital. From one heap of rubble, a sobbing Granny ran up to me – it was winter and bitterly cold. She was camped in a hollow in the bombed out ruin Continue reading »
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Israeli war crimes belong to Biden and the US congress too
The judgment of history awaits as we continue to witness the nightmarish visions of innocents being vaporised because of Washington’s unconditional backing of the Israeli blitzkrieg against the people of Gaza. Continue reading »
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Israel is ‘rotten to its core’
Israeli President Isaac Herzog, presumably the moral arbiter of his nation, was photographed signing a bomb as a gift for Gaza. Continue reading »
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How to stop a Gaza apocalypse
Why Gaza urgently needs a plan B. (A repost from December 2023). Continue reading »
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The Israel supporter and the sandwich
An Israel supporter walks up to a guy at a restaurant, grabs his sandwich, starts eating it. Continue reading »
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South Africa initiates case against Israel at International Court of Justice
The African country, one journalist noted, “fought for its own liberation against an apartheid regime supported for decades by the U.S.” Continue reading »
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Israel is conducting a pogrom against the Palestinian people
Former U.S. Ambassador Charles Freeman questions the true intentions of Israel’s renewed bombing of Gaza. Continue reading »
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Big media outlets ‘lack balance’ in Gaza reporting
Five out of six major Australian media outlets have substantially imbalanced reporting when it comes to covering the Gaza conflict, new research claims. Continue reading »