For more information on the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict, please see IfAmericansKnew.org
Since its 1948 founding, Israel has been far and away the largest recipient of U.S. foreign assistance. Israel’s status as an enormous, multidimensional burden on the United States is more evident than ever.
With speculation mounting that Trump could pardon her, MintPress profiles the family of convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
If geopolitical stability and the long-term health of U.S. national security truly matter, it is time to recognize that continued American aid to Israel must ultimately be ended.
The deliberate starvation of Gaza is part of a long history of Israel weaponising food and water to control, subjugate, and, ultimately, displace Palestinians.
David Glick: “Whatever understandable nostalgia many Jews have for the origins of the Zionist movement as a reaction to centuries of Jewish discrimination and persecution, we must face up to the kind of state Zionism has created. Israel today is not a democracy but rather a racist, militaristic, ethnocracy that privileges the rights of its Jewish citizens over those of its Palestinian citizens.”
On 5 June, Palestinians mark Naksa Day, commemorating the forced displacement of about 300,000 Palestinians during the June 1967 war. The Naksa is still going.
John Kiriakou, ex-CIA and whistleblower who exposed U.S. torture tactics, & served prison time for it, speaks on Palestine, Israel, and covert CIA operations.
How violent will they be when the flotilla sails again for Gaza – with a message of hope for the Palestinian people? Anything could happen.
May 15 marks the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, or the Catastrophe — the destruction of historic Palestine, the catastrophe of dispossession, and the mass ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population in 1948, which continues to this day.
This year’s May 14 and May 15 will be remembered by a particularly horrendous proof that international law has been shattered: A state is intentionally starving an entire population.