Muslim Issues

The White House needs a cover story to obscure its complicity. In desperation, it is once again resurrecting the long-dead two-state solution   US President Joe Biden disembarks Air Force One on 9 November 2023 (AFP) The White House faces a dilemma. It has the power to stop the death and destruction in Gaza in its tracks, at any time of its …

As settlers and Israeli forces kill Palestinians with impunity, the state is intensifying our physical and social repression Palestinians representing civil organisations for women protest outside the UN offices in the West Bank city of Ramallah on 8 November, 2023 (AFP) While the world is preoccupied with the fierce Israeli war on Gaza, there is less interest in what is happening …

On war’s 37th day, hospitals run out of fuel, civilians continue to flee the fighting, while Israel’s security minister hints at occupation of enclave   Newborns share a bed after being taken off incubators in Gaza City’s under-siege al-Shifa hospital after a power outage, 12 November 2023 (Reuters) By Maha Hussaini and Aseel Mousa in Gaza, occupied Palestine and Areeb Ullah in London   Thousands of …

As settlers and Israeli forces kill Palestinians with impunity, the state is intensifying our physical and social repression Palestinians representing civil organisations for women protest outside the UN offices in the West Bank city of Ramallah on 8 November, 2023 (AFP) While the world is preoccupied with the fierce Israeli war on Gaza, there is less interest in what is happening …

By not acting against Israel’s collective punishment of Palestinians, the U.K., U.S. and European Union are failing an obligation in international law spelled out in a 2004 ruling by the International Court of Justice.    International Court of Justice in The Hague. (R Boed, Flickr, CC BY 2.0) By Craig MurrayCraigMurray.org.uk Israel does have the right of self-defence, but only in precisely the same …

Israelis joke about needing to decimate each generation of Palestinian militants as “mowing the grass,” an ugly metaphor that’s penetrated think-tanks in Official Washington, Elizabeth Murray first reported in 2012.   A blade of grass being brought to Indonesian Hospital in Jabalia, Gaza on Oct. 9, 2023.(Wafa (Q2915969) in contract with a local company APAimages/Wikimedia Commons) By Elizabeth MurraySpecial to Consortium NewsNov. 16, …