For more information on the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict, please see IfAmericansKnew.org
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.
JFK tried to stop Israel’s acquisition of nuclear weapons. Will the US finally acknowledge that Israel has nukes? State Dept refuses to answer direct question from Sam Husseini.
Challenges to Zionism in the late 1960s and 1970s sparked an effort to redefine antisemitism focused on defending Israel while attacking the political Left. This resulted in the IHRA definition and the assault on Palestine activism we see today.
The common representation of Israel’s birth is that the U.N. created Israel, that the world was in favor of this move, and that the U.S. governmental establishment supported it. All these assumptions are demonstrably incorrect.
Trump’s statements on Gaza that he calls “my concept” is in fact not his at all. Over decades there have been multiple Israeli plans to empty out the Palestinian population in a bid to secure full control over this part of Palestine
Unable to immediately expel Gazans en masse, Israel seems intent on forcing them into a confined zone — and letting starvation and desperation do the rest. (The roots began in 1967.)
Mahmoud Khalil’s case is eerily similar to that of the L.A. Eight, in which a group of students were targeted, not because of any criminal activity but because of their speech.
Israel’s violent history against US citizens reveals a shocking pattern of attacks, cover-ups, and impunity.