Posts Tagged ‘Egypt’
Day of Judgement for the International Court of Justice
October 7 Seen in Context UPDATE Well the decision of the ICJ is now out. It is better than I had hoped for but my prediction that the Court would balk at taking the decisive step of ordering Israel to desist by issuing an injunction has proven correct. The decisiveness of the 15-2 majorities surprised me. On…
Read MoreFull Support for the Gaza Ghetto Uprising
The Hypocrisy of Biden & Cleverly is nauseating – they Support Ukrainian Resistance but Condemn the Palestinian Resistance Like most people it was with shock and surprise that I woke to learn that the Palestinians in Gaza led by Hamas had launched a counter-offensive against Israel’s occupation. My first reaction though was the opposite of…
Read MoreThe Road to Palestinian Liberation and an End to Zionism Runs Through Cairo, Baghdad, Damascus and Riyadh
We should not forget that the Blockade of Gaza could not continue but for Egypt’s Collaboration with Israel 40 years ago Alexander Haig, Reagan’s Secretary of State described Israel as “the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk”. Given that central to US military doctrine has been the creation of unsinkable island aircraft carriers,…
Read MoreWhy does the ‘only democratic state in the Middle East’ (Israel) sends Defence Ministry Agents to Archives in order to brow-beat them into hiding historical documents?
For nearly 20 years Israeli Arabs lived under military rule – not because they were a Fifth Column but to prevent them returning to the land that had stolen been from them Israel is a state that has been built on myths – whether it is that ‘god’ gave the settlers the land of the…
Read MoreHelen Aksentijevic interviews veteran anti-Zionist Moshe Machover, one of the founders of Matzpen, the Socialist Organisation in Israel
Machover looks back on life since his childhood under the Palestine Mandate and describes both his own family and political background There are not many people who can justly be described as legends in their own lifetime but Moshe Machover is one such person. An indefatigable optimist he was the ‘one who got away’. Targeted…
Read MoreLift Israel’s Blockade of Gaza and Free Palestinian Children NOW – this is a massacre in the making
Lift Israel’s Blockade of Gaza and Free Palestinian Children NOW – this is a massacre in the making Gaza is on the Brink of Disaster as Israel’s Genocidal Blockade Threatens to Kill Thousand What we are facing with self-isolation is nothing compared to the calamity which may strike Gaza. Gaza with 2 million people in…
Read MoreOtto Skorzeny – The SS Colonel responsible for the death of thousands of Italian and Hungarian Jews was an Israeli agent
The Nazi Who Became a Mossad Hitman His Hero: Skorzeny meets with Hitler in 1943 after leading the daring rescue of the German leader’s friend and ally, Benito Mussolini. Author Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman Otto Skorzeny was a swashbuckling Nazi agent who rescued Mussolini and captured Horthy’s son and rolled him up in a…
Read MoreIsrael & Saudi Arabia Seek the Partition of Syria
Good friends – Israel’s Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon and Prince Turki al-Faisal, former ambassador to the US and the former head of Saudi’s intelligence agency An interesting article in YNet – the on-line version of Israel’s most popular newspaper, Yediot Aharanot, is copied below. Israel is pushing, with its Turkish and Saudi partners, for the partition…
Read MoreFree Egyptian Union Activist Dr Taher Mokhtar
The Egypt Police State is one of the most vicious states in the world. Torture is normal for political activists who are arrested and many activists simply ‘disappear’. It is a state where hundreds of people are sentenced to death at the same time in what is a mockery of the idea of a fair…
Read MoreDisappearances in Egypt & Torture by a Good and Faithful Ally
<object id=”flashObj” width=”420″ height=”267″ classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000″ codebase=”http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0″> Joint press statement On Human Rights Day: Torture – not an isolated incident On Human Rights Day, the undersigned organizations condemn increasing violations by the Ministry of Interior in a manner that indicates they have been given free reign to abuse citizens using extralegal practices such as torture, enforced disappearance, and other…
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