November, 2023

• 16 November

  Ex-Israel envoy calls on Australia to recognise Palestine state

  

  Alon Liel, a former Israeli foreign ministry director general, in Jerusalem, 12 April 2007 [MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images] Former Israeli Ambassador and Director-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Alon Liel has urged Australia to recognise the state of Palestine. Writing in The Guardian, Liel, who was Israel’s most senior diplomat, praised the Labor government in Canberra for adopting a …

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• 16 November

  Israel-Palestine war: Don’t be fooled. Biden is fully signed up to genocide in Gaza

  

  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 …

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• 14 November

  Israel-Palestine war: In the West Bank we are under siege – and see the West’s hypocrisy

  

  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 …

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• 13 November

  Israel-Palestine war: Patients face ‘inevitable death’ as Israeli troops besiege Gaza hospitals for third day

  

  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 …

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• 13 November

  Israel-Palestine war: In the West Bank we are under siege – and see the West’s hypocrisy

  

  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 …

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• 12 November

  Craig Murray: The Right of Self-Defense

  

  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 …

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• 12 November

  Blades of Grass

  

  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, …

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