Category Archives: Palestine
Twin Edinburgh with Gaza City through Gig for Gaza
Press release by Labour Against Read more [...]
A robust message from Palestine’s foreign minister and an attempt at Israeli propaganda from BBC Israeli hasbara asset Raffi Berg
Stuart Littlewood reports on Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki’s eloquent representation of the Palestinians’ “historic compromise” with Israel and how the BBC website’s Middle East Editor Raffi Berg tried to steer the discussion in a pro-Israel direction. Read more [...]
Is Israel’s tax grab a prelude to further hollowing out the Palestinian Authority?
Jonathan Cook views the possible outcomes of Israel’s theft of Palestinian taxes: a collapse of the Palestinian Authority and an end to its security cooperation with Israel, or the harbinger of Trump’s “Deal of the Century” under the auspices of local quislings. Read more [...]
In Hebron, Israel removes the last restraint on its settlers’ reign of terror
Jonathan Cook shows how Israel, through a combination of settler terrorism, land theft and oppressive occupation policies, and with full US support, is driving the indigenous Palestinian inhabitants of Hebron out of their homes. Read more [...]
Israel’s military bombed his family to death. Now he’s taking the bastards to court
Saving the Holy Land – a “dead end in the tragedy of the Palestinians”…
Stuart Littlewood highlights the “cry of hope in the absence of all hope” of Palestinian Christians living under the jackboot of the Israeli occupiers to help campaigners and civil society keep focus on some of the essential issues in the big struggle ahead. Read more [...]
Everyone washes their hands as Gaza’s economy goes into freefall
Jonathan Cook argues that none of the parties involved with the Gaza Strip is prepared to make a priority of its welfare, and explains why reconciliation between Hamas and Palestinian Authority Chaorman Mahmud Abbas is as far off as ever. Read more [...]
The defiance that launched Gaza’s flaming kites cannot be extinguished
Jonathan Cook says the latest Palestinian resistance tool, the flaming kite, underlines a refusal to bow before crushing oppression, a fear of becoming complicit through silence and inaction in being erased and forgotten, and a compelling need to take back control of their lives. Read more [...]
West’s failure to act will be cause of the next Gaza massacre
Jonathan Cook says the West’s failure to punish Israel for its massacre in Gaza – “in fact, the reverse: visible rewards with a relocated US embassy and the chance to host the Eurovision Song Contest” – will lead to future massacres. Read more [...]
Fathi Harb burnt himself to death in Gaza. Will the world notice?
Jonathan Cook asks whether Gaza resident Fathi Harb’s self-immolation will shame the West into action, or whether the West will continue to blame the victims to excuse its complicity in seven decades of Israeli outrages against the Palestinian people. Read more [...]
