ISIS Attack Syrian Refugee Camp

“Catastrophe” in Yarmouk as ISIS seizes camp Maureen Clare Murphy Sun, 04/05/2015 An UNRWA photo shows Yarmouk camp in 2014. Fears over the safety of the 18,000 civilians trapped in Yarmouk, south of the Syrian capital of Damascus, have grown following reports that ISIS has taken control of large areas of the Palestinian refugee camp.…

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Liberty, Equality and Fraternity

Netanyahu Seeks to Capitalise on anti-Semitism Demonstrator in Paris holds a giant pencil aloft Cartoon from Martin Rowson of the Guardian with the riot police setting the limits on free speech! It must have caused Cameron to choke.  The very idea of liberty, equality and fraternity is anathema to this political opportunist without an original…

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HAMAS – When Israel & Netanyahu Sang from a Different Songsheet

Why Israel Virtually Created Hamas Hamas, despite its reactionary politics (for example a Charter that noone reads which is anti-Semitic) has played the role of an effective resistance in Gaza.  In particular it has acquitted itself   well, unlike last time, and killed over 50 Israeli soldiers. However it should not be forgotten that Hamas is…

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Ariel Sharon – The Death of a Butcher

War Criminals like Sharon Ended their days on the Gallows in Nuremburg women survivors of the Phalangist/Israeli massacre In his Comment is Free article earlier this week, Avi Shlaim Emeritus Professor of International Relations at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University asked that after the Sabra and Chatilla massacres, when Israeli troops lit up the night…

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The Muslim Brotherhood continues where Mubarak left off – maintaining Israel’s Blockade

The Muslim Brotherhood continues where Mubarak left off – maintaining Israel’s Blockade Egyptian women in Cairo march in protest at the military’s use of excessive force against women and unarmed protesters. Photograph: Mohamed Omar/EPA Hamas keeps silent about the betrayal of its fellow Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has always been a conservative, clerical…

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Sodastream Picket continues into 6th Month – 9.3.13.

Proposal to Turn Sodastream Shop into Library Quiet Room So quiet has the Sodastream shop become, that serious proposals are being made that it be turned into an extension of the local library as a quiet reading room.  Given the level of noise in libraries these days, it cannot help but be an improvement! Passers…

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The Israeli–Palestinian Conflict and the Zionist Solution

Arthur James Balfour – author of the Declaration which promised Palestine to the Zionist settlers regardless of the wishes of its indigenous population.  He also authored the Aliens Act 1905 which barred entry to Jewish refugees from Russia There is nothing that is new in the analysis below but it brings together all the essentials…

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