Tag Archives: Israel-Palestine conflict

Violence Against Human Animals: Images from the Israel-Hamas War

With the body count rising in this latest, and particularly bloody Israel-Hamas War, the narrative of Israel the wounded, Israel the desperate, has now been annexed to Israel the just warrior State, fighting darkness and primaeval stone age barbarism. This has taken two forms.  The first is the way the victims of the Hamas attacks inside Israeli territory have been …

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WARS, targeting civilians and the killing fields in Palestine

Palestinians have been living under the worst kind of repression for more than seventy years. The Gaza Strip has been described as the world’s ‘largest open-air prison’ Targeting civilians in war is an international crime. The reality however is that war is all about killing. While we all pay lip service to the sacredness of civilian life, civilians become the …

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Palestinians can’t live forever in ‘open-air jail’!

by M M Zuhair   The United Nations which adopted the ‘Partition Resolution’ 181 on 29th November 1947 and the UN Security Council that strengthened the partition, which led to the destruction of Palestine as a wholesome State and the creation of Israel within Palestine on 14th May 1948, together with the Western powers which emasculated Palestine as a nation, …

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Mass protests erupt internationally against Israeli war on Gaza

A week after Palestinians initiated an armed uprising against Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip, protests are erupting internationally against Israel’s war on Gaza. The fascistic regime of Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered 1.1 million Palestinians to flee Gaza City and go south, along roads bombed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Israel—which has now cut off Gaza’s water, fuel and …

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Israel-Palestine war: Mass slaughter in Gaza lays bare the depth of western racism

A Palestinian girl reacts in the aftermath of a strike amid the conflict with Israel in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on 12 October, 2023 (Reuters) Support for the brutal, indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza finds its roots in the historical context of western settler-colonialism   In a stunning turn of events, Palestinian fighters on the weekend launched a …

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