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…

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Full 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…

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The 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,…

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Why 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state in the Middle East’ (Israel) sends Defence Ministry Agents to Archives in order to brow-beat them into hiding historical documents?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…

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Helen 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…

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Israel & 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…

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Free 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…

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Disappearances in Egypt & Torture by a Good and Faithful Ally

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