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International Criminal Court Reaches Out to Palestinian Victims as War Crimes Case Enters Pre-Trial Phase

[email protected] August 2, 2018 Gaza, Great March of Return, icc, international criminal courrt, mavi marmara, peter kovacs, war crirme, zionism

The ICC is set to begin pre-trial actions for Israeli crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territories since June 13, 2014. But the presiding judge has already ruled once in favor of Israel… is the fix in?
It’s odd that no US media outlets have reported on this major legal development… An Israeli news report said that if a formal investigation commenced it would be “a dramatic step which would impact Israel’s status in the international community.”

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In first, ‘Palestine’ to head bloc of 134 nations at UN

[email protected] July 26, 2018 danny danon, g-77, nikki haley, riyad mansour, United Nations

A UN bloc of 135 countries, 80% of the world’s population, has chosen Palestine as its next leader. The US and Israel object. To Palestine, it is part of the road to statehood.

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Let’s talk about the text of Israel’s new Nation-State Law

[email protected] July 21, 2018 apartheid, arabic, basic law, Jerusalem, Nakba, nakba law, nation-state law, Netanyahu, self-determination, settlement, zionism

Israel’s new Nation-State Law gives Jews exclusive right to self-determination; names Jerusalem as united capital; prioritizes ingathering of exiles and Jewish-only communities.

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Palestinians slam Nation-State Law as “racism, apartheid”

[email protected] July 19, 2018 apartheid, nation-state law, racism, saeb erekat, zionism

Palestinian reaction to Israel’s new Nation-State Law is hostile: words like “racism,” “ethnic cleansing,” “declaration of war,” “legitimization of hate,” and more.

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Opinion: Zionism’s Terrorist Heritage

[email protected] July 16, 2018 baruch goldstein, history, irgun, king david hotel, kiryat arrba, menachem begin, Netanyahu, price tag, sheikh jarrah, terrorism, where is ali, zionism

Zionist terrorism has existed since before the founding of Israel – and tolerated, empowered, even glorified. All the while, Palestinians have been condemned for resistance.

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An ordinary week in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

[email protected] July 15, 2018 abduction, academic, demolition, detention, Hebron, Jerusalem, kufur qaddoum, school, settlement, settler, silwan, toxic wastewater

Gaza and Khan al Ahmar have made the news recently. But nothing newsworthy from the West Bank. What does a typical week look like there? Here’s a glimpse.

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The Moral Decadence of Zionism

[email protected] July 13, 2018 hasan nasrallah, Hezbollah, hezbullah, history, iron dome

Professor Jeremy Salt writes: “Israel is by far the worst settler-colonial experience in history,” a state that makes murderers into heroes, and “based not on morality, justice, and law but brute force.” Because, Zionism.

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A letter to General Convention regarding Justice in the Holy Land

[email protected] July 13, 2018 BDS, bonnie anderson, caterpillar, Episcopal, gaza blockade, motorola, occupation, patti browning, tutu

Archbishop Tutu & other leaders urge the Episcopal Church’s General Convention to support BDS & end the Church’s complicity in Israeli injustice & profiteering.

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The plight and blight of home demolition in Israel and Palestine

[email protected] July 12, 2018 absentee property law, area c, bedouin, collective punishment, expulsion, history, home demolition, icahd, khan al ahmar, occupation, prescription law, settlement, wadi an na'am

Khan al Ahmar is just the latest example of dispossession & demolition by Israel. Racist laws enable “legal” expulsion of Palestinians from any land the Zionist project needs.

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The ‘ultimate deal’ that Jared Kushner is proposing for Palestine would strip the people of all their dignity

[email protected] July 6, 2018 abbas, Great March of Return, history, Jerusalem, kushner, oslo, right of return, settlement, soveereignty, ultimate deal

Jared Kushner is ignorant, or apathetic about Middle East peace. After 70 years of resistance, Palestinians have no intention of selling out to “the ultimate deal.”

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