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Israel’s Attacks on West Bank
“The Israeli army closed the West Bank completely, no movement is allowed. In H2 in Hebron, the Israeli army is imposing [a] curfew on the families. Many families left their homes and many communities from area C left too.”
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UN Official Resigns, Calling Israel’s Attack “Genocide” — Will a Nation Invoke the Genocide Convention?
“With the International Criminal Court refusing for years to hold Israel accountable and with the U.S. government blocking everything at the Security Council, the application of the Genocide Convention may be the only remaining legal mechanism to stop what Israel is doing. All that’s needed is a State Party to invoke it to start the process at the World Court.”
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Israel Bombs Refugee Camp; “No Human Being Can Exist”
“At any moment, without warning, at any time of the day or night, any apartment building in the densely populated Gaza Strip can be struck by an Israeli bomb or missile. Some of the stricken buildings simply collapse into layers of concrete pancakes, the dead and the living alike entombed in the shattered ruins. …”
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In “Grotesque Hoax” Biden Admin Not Just “Green Lighting” Israeli Ethnic Cleansing — “It’s Bankrolling It”
“Supporting Israeli efforts to forcibly transfer Palestinians to Egypt would make U.S. officials liable for complicity in war crimes. Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court includes the ‘Deportation or forcible transfer of population’ as a war crime. Article 25 of the same statute defines individual criminal responsibility and states that a person shall be criminally responsible and liable for punishment for a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court if that person ‘aids, abets or otherwise assists in its commission or its attempted commission, including providing the means for its commission.'”
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Biden Damaging His Re-Election Chances with Policy Toward Israel
In a story headlined “Democrats Splinter Over I…
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Mental Health Practice and Palestine
The Israeli state has used the mental health professions to further its occupation.
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“The West Exempts Israel from Compliance with International Law”
“In February 2024 the International Court of Justice will pronounce on the legality of this occupation. Hopefully this will pave the way for a new dispensation from which an independent Palestinian State will emerge. Until then the world will watch Israel’s assault with mixed feelings. Western Powers like U.S., U.K., Germany, Canada, France, Netherlands and Italy, which all share a colonial past in which they behaved like Israel towards their indigenous peoples, will block attempts to stop the conflict and will continue to support Israel’s genocidal war.”
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* Gaza “Catastrophic Disaster” * Indigenous Struggle * On the Ground
“Oxfam said Gaza is also virtually out of clean water, making some of the food that has been let in, such as rice and lentils, useless since people do not have clean water or fuel to prepare them. The group said Israeli airstrikes have hit bakeries and supermarkets, further straining the food supply. The electricity blackout and lack of fuel have also disrupted the supply of food.”
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Palestinians in Gaza Do Have Somewhere to Go: Their Homes in Israel
“Statistically, the majority of the persons killed in Gaza in the past two weeks must be from families displaced in 1948. Many more of their number are at risk of being killed in like fashion in the coming weeks.”
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On Israel: Lawyer Who Applied Genocide Convention for Bosnia Recommends it Now for Palestinians
The U.S. government has twice vetoed calls for a…
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Howard Zinn