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LIVE UPDATES: Israel arrests 64 Palestinians in West Bank following release of 90 prisoners as part of swap deal

Israel yesterday releases 69 women and 21 children from the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem who had been detained in its prisons. Ahead of the return of the Palestinians, Israel and the Palestinian Authority raided the homes of a number of the detainees warning their families not to celebrate their return.

Gaza genocide

  • 471 Days
  • 47,035 Killed
  • 111,091 Wounded
  • 11,000 Missing
Last updated: January 20, 2025

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        This is an analyse of a recent media interview by the most popular journalist in France on the Israel-Palestine issue: a journalist who was the representative in Jerusalem of the main public television channel for 30 years. It is a 35-minute interview during which the journalist delivers a series of messages based on incomplete, biased or even false accounts. This is not classic pro-Israel propaganda, easy to identify. On the contrary, it is a well-rehearsed dialogue, coming from a personality who is considered “good in all respects” (i.e. “moderate” even “left-wing”.) Interviewer: It is an understatement to say that you have had and still have adversaries, enemies. You are called an anti-Zionist, a traitor, the Flavius Josephus of our time.  […]

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        Referring to Frantz Fanon in the preface to The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth (Verso Books, 2025), Andreas Malm ponders the exhibitionist nature of the coloniser. “Every suggestion of a limit to the destructive power of the settler colonial state is received as a questioning of its unlimited mastery, and so it must be met with a frenzy of recidivism,” he writes. The context in this case is Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Malm, however, discusses the destruction of Palestine in the context of a settler-colonial history that is linked intrinsically to fossil fuels and, as a result, the destruction of the earth. Palestine, the author writes, is depicted as “a microcosm of a larger process,” which […]

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