Tag Archives: Palestine

Palestine & Rabbinical Hypocrisy By Lawrence Davidson

Flares from Israeli forces in night sky over Gaza City, July 28, 2014. (UN Photo/Shareef Sarhan) It’s hard to be a moral person and a Zionist at the same time, writes Lawrence Davidson. Anyone who pays attention to the struggle for Palestinian rights, and the corresponding fight for a just and egalitarian Israel, is familiar with the phenomenon PEP: Progressive Except …

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What’s next after Abbas’s latest threat?

Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority president, speaks in a prerecorded video during the United Nations General Assembly via live stream in New York, US., on Friday, Sept. 24, 2021 [Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images] Every year, Mahmoud Abbas presents us with a speech addressed to the UN, and it is often prefaced by statements from the leaders of the Fatah movement …

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Occupation: The Palestinian elite and its failure to prevent Israel’s land theft Joseph Massad

An activist waves a Palestinian flag at the entrance to Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, on 25 June 2021 (AFP)   Palestine’s landed class could have organised to fight Zionist land grabs. Its negligence and collaboration with the occupation has left ordinary Palestinians to resist alone.   The main trigger to the uprising and resistance that engulfed Palestine last May was no different …

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Remembering 39th anniversary of Israeli Massacre

At Sabra –Shatila Palestinian refugee camps. By Latheef Farook

In September 1982 Israel invaded Lebanon and bombed by air, sea and land to finish off the Palestine Liberation Organization there. In the process slaughtered   thousands of Palestinian civilians   in refugee camps. The anniversary of the genocide does not attract any attention in the Western media, which remains integral part of Western war machines. According to the Red Cross Israeli …

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Hamas: 6 escapees a priority in any prisoner swap

Israeli security forces take a Palestinian inmate into custody, one of the 6 escapees from Gilboa prison, after being arrested in Umm al-Ghanam town on September 11, 2021 [Israeli Police / Anadolu Agency]   Member of Hamas Political Bureau Khalil Al-Hayya announced on Friday that the six Palestinians who escaped from Gilboa Prison would be the priority in any potential prisoner swap. …

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