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Items by Ramona Wadi
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Sa’ar’s twisted narrative on the two-state paradigm and Israel’s colonial expansion
Newly appointed Israeli Foreign Minister, Gideon Sa’ar, gave a perfect example of how colonialism twists narratives for political gain. “I don’t think this position is realistic today and we must be realistic,” Sa’ar stated, with regard to the possibility of establishing a Palestinian State within the context of normalisation...
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Netanyahu promotes genocide and annexation with his choice of Leiter as Israeli ambassador to the US
Promoting genocide and colonial expansion remain high on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s agenda, and Donald Trump’s forthcoming return to the White House is a reminder of all Israel gained under his first presidency. Netanyahu’s choice for ambassador to the US – Israeli-American Yechiel Leiter – encapsulates both genocide...
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The PA’s misplaced optimism
The return of Donald Trump as US president will undoubtedly evoke the memory of a string of unilateral concessions to Israel, ending with the Abraham Accords, that undoubtedly contributed to the current premeditated sense of oblivion towards the genocide in Gaza. We can also remember how the Palestinian Authority...
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The UN and Israel share direct responsibility for starvation in Gaza
After the Israeli Knesset passed a bill designating the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) as a terror organisation and banning the agency from operating in colonised Palestine, the occupation state’s foreign ministry formally notified the UN of its decision in tones that not only exhibited...
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Genocide is embedded in US diplomacy
Israel is only conducting occasional atrocities that do not align with US interests, if we are to believe US rhetoric. The Israeli air strike that killed at least 20 children in Beit Lahiya was “a horrifying incident with a horrifying result,” according to US State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller. “We...
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Borrell’s ‘five-dimension plan’ aligns Israeli and EU interests
After the Israeli military killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell outlined the reasons why peace should be given a chance. Not only was genocide completely missing from his narrative, it was also said that Sinwar’s killing “should mark a turning point...
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CNN has just tried to garner even more impunity for Israel and its genocide
When Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza in which it has killed at least 43,000 Palestinians, and displaced the entire population, CNN’s way of showing some humanity in the face of such violence was to focus on the trauma of those responsible for the killing and maiming. The...
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Gender and Political Support: Women and Hamas in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Minna Cowper-Coles’s quantitative and qualitative research on the gender gap in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) shows that women are more likely to support Hamas. Gender and Political Support: Women and Hamas in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (Routledge, 2023) gives a detailed analysis of the findings of the research,...
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The US approves of all of Israel’s genocidal methods
In April this year, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which is known to have been involved in covert operations for regime change, delivered its report on Gaza to Congress. It concluded that Israel is deliberately blocking aid from reaching Palestinians in the enclave. So did the State...
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Australia relies on Israeli weapons, which means it now relies on genocide
A month after the UK suspended 30 arms licences out of 350 on account of the weapons being used in violation of international law in Gaza, Australia has announced its own review of its arms sales to Israel. Australia says that it has not supplied weapons to Israel since...
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The West’s hypocrisy is a bottomless pit for Palestinians
At the start of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asserted a war against Hamas. After killing 42,500 civilians, displacing the entirety of Gaza’s population and killing prominent Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh, Mohammed Deif and Yahya Sinwar, Netanyahu took to his colonial podium again to remind...
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The psychological manipulation behind the Generals’ Plan
Last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu contemplated implementing the Generals’ Plan in Gaza, backed by former Israeli Defence Forces planning and operations chief General Giora Eiland who has described the siege as “compliant with international law”. The plan, Eiland explained, would give Palestinians a week to evacuate and...
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Desensitised politics is a gift for Israel’s genocide in Gaza
The US government’s hypocrisy is a bottomless pit that matches Israel’s penchant for the cruel and macabre. “The images and video of what appear to be displaced civilians burning alive following an Israeli air strike are deeply disturbing, and we have made our concerns clear to the Israeli government,”...
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Netanyahu preaches to the world as if it is a basic human right to commit genocide
On the first anniversary of the cross-border incursion on 7 October 2023 and the start of Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza, all that the UN can boast of can be summed up in one word: complicity. Western countries have either provided Israel with weapons or endorsed the...
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Exporting Israel’s settler-colonial narrative by exploiting children
As Palestinians marked a year since the start of the Israeli genocide in Gaza on 7 October, Israel’s settler-colonial society marked the occasion in selective oblivion. One example is a children’s book published by Yediot Books titled The Heroes of October 7th: Heroic Stories for Children, which the Times...
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The consequences of ignoring the 1947 Partition Plan and the 1948 Nakba
World leaders will never admit that “7 October” actually started well before 7 October last year; that the entire history of the Zionist state brought to fruition through enabling colonisation in Palestine is to blame for the current Israeli genocide in Gaza and the unleashing of its killing machine...
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The UN wants what Israel wants: genocide and its spillover across the region
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres told the UN Security Council on Friday, “We must avoid a regional war at all costs.” Gaza, he added, remains the epicentre of the violence. After Israel assassinated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and was lauded by the US for doing so as “a measure...
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We need to call out the hypocrisy of the humanitarian paradigm
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the Lebanese people before bombing their country was eerily similar to the rhetoric usually associated with Gaza. Hezbollah, he told the Lebanese, are using them as human shields and hiding weapons in their homes; the latter was made to sound more familiar...
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Internationalism is needed urgently to stand against the politics of genocide
Western leaders want to stop the repercussions of genocide from hitting non-Palestinians, but stopping Israel from committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza is not on the political or humanitarian agenda. At the UN General Assembly, Australia will be inviting countries to sign a pledge to protect humanitarian aid workers....
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Israeli and international dehumanisation of Palestinians
After almost a year of genocidal intent and action, the Israeli military said it would be investigating “a serious incident that is not in line with IDF values and what is expected of Israeli soldiers.” The statement was regarding footage of soldiers throwing the bodies of three Palestinian resistance...
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The UN’s protection of pariahs
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese told a recent press conference in Geneva, “I think it is unavoidable for Israel to become a pariah in the face of its continuous, relentless, vilifying assault of the United Nations, on top of millions of Palestinians.” She also asked: “Should there be a...
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Harris or Trump? They are two sides of the same imperialist, settler-colonial coin
The US presidential election debates expose the fact that there is no real choice, other than opting for the lesser of two evils, when it comes to Washington’s policy on Palestine. When US President Joe Biden took office in January 2020, the mainstream narrative of getting rid of Donald...
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The perils of pathetic political games
Israeli media outlets are stirring up a frenzy about the occupation state facing a serious threat from a draft resolution which the Palestinian Authority has presented to the UN General Assembly. The resolution seeks to implement the International Court of Justice’s 19 July advisory opinion. The opinion reiterated the...
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The failure of the UN humanitarian paradigm
As Palestinian children in Gaza start to receive the polio vaccines, the contradictions regarding the delivery of humanitarian aid, ceasefires and hostages surface incessantly. “Great progress! Every day in the Middle Areas of Gaza, more children are getting vaccines against polio,” Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the UN Relief...