Who should go: Israel or Hamas? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel is fighting to destroy Hamas. The US Secretary of State Mr. Antony Blinken, France President Emanuel Macron and many other western leaders argue that Hamas must go. Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant says that we are fighting human animals and doing that accordingly. This is the level …
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UN Resolution 181 must be repealed: The creation of Israel and the partition of Palestine was a terrible mistake
Houses part of an Israeli settlement are seen in front of an Arab town on January 16, 2017 in Amona, West Bank [Chris McGrath/Getty Images] It was understandable why, on 29 November, 1947, the United Nations (UN) passed Resolution 181, partitioning Palestine and creating a Jewish state. In the wake of the Holocaust, there was a widespread sentiment that there …
Read More »Israel’s latest massacre of Palestinians in Gaza is part of a long history of war crimes by Joseph Massad
A Palestinian woman lays a wreath during a memorial ceremony in Kafr Qasim on 29 October 2006, for 50 Palestinian citizens of Israel massacred in 1956 (Reuters) The recent mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza comes two weeks after new revelations emerged on the 1956 Kafr Qasim massacre, a 70-year tradition that is enabled and supported by the West …
Read More »Israel’s Premature ‘Victory’ Celebration: The Defining War in Gaza Is Yet to Be Fought
A man stands amid the rubble of his house in Gaza. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle) By Ramzy Baroud For years, Palestinians, as well as Israelis, have labored to redraw the battle lines. The three-day Israeli war on Gaza, starting on August 5, clearly manifested this reality. Throughout its military operation, Israel has repeatedly underscored the point that the war was targeting the Islamic Jihad …
Read More »Why Israel hates the Palestinians so much By Marwan Bishara
Israel’s hatred of the Palestinians is shaped and driven by three basic sentiments. The Palestinians have every reason to hate Israel; it is a settler-colonial apartheid state erected on the ruins of their homeland. But why does Israel hate the Palestinians so much? It has sadistically and systematically terrorised, blockaded and imprisoned them after taking control of their lives and …
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