The Olympics banned Russia for Occupying Ukraine, but not Israel, which Occupies Palestinians and has Killed 39K

Mohammed Samaana

July 31, 2024

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Nagham Abu Samrah was 24 years old Palestinian karate champion from Gaza. She had the potential to participate in the 2024 Paris Olympic games. Unfortunately, an Israeli attack on her home killed her sister and left her seriously wounded . Unconscionably, Israeli authorities delayed her permission to leave Gaza for treatment, and when she finally reached an Egyptian hospital, she died soon thereafter.

War Crime: Israelis Circulating Degrading Sexualized Photos of Palestinian Prisoners

Human Rights Watch

July 30, 2024

Israeli forces have been publishing degrading photographs and videos of detained Palestinians, including children, a form of inhumane treatment and an outrage on their personal dignity that amount to war crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. 

Palestine Is a Core Election Issue, and We Won’t Let Our Politicians Ignore It

Shireen Akram-Boshar

July 29, 2024

Israel’s war on Gaza live: Health Ministry declares polio epidemic in Gaza

Umut Uras

July 29, 2024

Humanity Has Two Choices: Unification or Mass Suicide

Sovaida MaaniEwing

July 29, 2024

The intensifying cascade of global crises including intractable wars, massive human rights atrocities, nuclear proliferation, climate change and environmental degradation, the growing inequality between the rich and the poor, recurring bouts of global financial instability, and the increasing risks of pandemics to name but a few, call to mind the warning sounded by Arnold Toynbee, one of the most highly-regarded authorities and foremost experts on international affairs and world history in the 20th century, that humanity would be faced with an existential crisis followed by his recommendation as to what we, the family of nations, should do in response.

 

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No More Silence

Patrick Lawrence

July 27, 2024

I do not know how it is in your household, but in mine we have developed the practice over the past nine months of reciting to one another the most appalling of the news bulletins from Gaza that come our way from a great variety of sources. It is rather miserable to think life has come to this, reading aloud daily accounts of atrocities, but there is no turning away from the depths to which terrorist Israel has dragged the whole of humanity.

Die-in protest of the Israel Independence Day celebration, Washington, D.C., May 23, 2024. (Diane Krauthamer, Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

China throws clout behind Palestine

Pepe Escobar

July 26, 2024

HONG KONG – The Beijing Declaration, signed earlier this week, constitutes yet another stunning Chinese diplomatic coup, but the document goes far beyond affirming China’s pull. 

Illegal sale of Palestinian land embraced by Biden, governors, mayors and city councilmembers

John Parker

July 25, 2024

On Sunday June 23rd there was a sale of Palestinian land in Los Angeles, California. The promotional materials included a photograph that looked a lot like Gaza’s shores. 

 

 Palestine land sale protest

بیانیه پکن امید ارزشمندی برای مردم فلسطینی فراهم آورده است

ماخذ

مائو نینگ سخنگوی وزارت خارجه چین در نشست خبری هنگام ارائه جزییات «بیانیه پکن درباره اختتام تجزیه و تقویت وحدت ملی فلسطین» که پیشتر در پکن بین گروه های فلسطینی امضاء شده بود، گفت: گروه های فلسطینی در این بیانیه با وحدت ملی در چارچوب تشکیلات خودگردان به عنوان یگانه نماینده قانونی ملت فلسطین در سطح جهان، موافقت کردند.این

Butcher of Gaza Netanyahu Repeatedly Lied to Congress about Iraqi “Nukes,” and now Wants US War on Iran

Juan Cole

July 24, 2024

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a master of misdirection, the technique master illusionists use to divert the viewer’s attention from the trick and to pull the wool over their eyes. He uses his slick American accent, his bulging eyes, his rhetorical flourishes, his maniacal certainty, to fool people whenever and however he can.

 

 Palestinian first responders assess the damage after a tent marked as ‘press’ was targeted in an Israeli attack in the central Gaza Strip. One Palestinian writer and researcher was killed, and two others were injured. According to the Gaza Media Office, 163 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza since October 7th. (Photo: APA Images)

Is this my selection?

This question is asked when a person has to choose between two or more. This means that in many cases in our lives, we cannot do the work we like or that is in our interest. Therefore, we elect a person who will do on our behalf the action that we wanted to do. We have named this process either an election, and the person who is selected or elected makes decisions on our behalf. The chosen person could be a lawmaker, a law that could either benefit or harm us. Therefore, it is very important that we are aware of who we elect to represent us.

آیا این گزیدهٔ من است؟

این پرسش زمانی‌ صورت می‌گیرد که شخص باید تصمیم بگیرد که بین دو یا چند، یکی‌ را انتخاب کند. بدین معنی که در موارد بسیاری از زندگی‌ ما نمی‌توانیم آن کاری را که دوست داریم و به نفع ماست انجام دهیم. بنابراین، ما شخصی‌ را انتخاب می‌کنیم که برگزیدهٔ ما باشد و به نمایندگی‌ از ما آن عملی‌ را که ما می‌خواستیم انجام دهیم، به جای ما انجام دهد. ما این جریان یا پروسه را انتخابات و‌ یا گزینش نامگذاری کرده‌ایم ، و شخصی‌ که انتخاب می‌شود، بجای ما و به نمایندگی‌ از ما تصمیم می‌گیرد. شخص انتخاب شده از طرف ما ممکن است در مصدر کاری قرار گیرد که قانون گذاری کند، و این قانون نفع و ضررش به ما خواهد رسید. بنابراین بسیار مهم است که ما آگاه باشیم که چه کسی‌ را به نمایندگی‌ از خود انتخاب می‌کنیم.ا

The uncounted Gaza victims: Why hundreds of thousands are being allowed to die

EvaBartlett

July 23, 2024

Earlier this month, the Lancet published an article estimating that the total number of Palestinian civilian deaths caused directly and indirectly by Israeli attacks since October 2023 could be nearly five times higher than the official death toll, and could reach “up to 186 000 or even more.”

 

Sunday Was Earth's Hottest Day on Record

Olivia Rosane

July 23, 2024

July 21 was Earth's hottest day on record, overtaking the record set last July during the hottest year in millennia.

  

Citizens are cooling off in a bomb shelter as the high temperature continues in Chongqing, China, on July 21, 2024.(Photo: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

In Umm al-Khair, the occupation is damning us to multigenerational trauma

Awdah Hathaleen

July 22, 2024

The demolition forces enter the village. All the children run to their mothers, who scramble to salvage whatever they can from their homes before it’s too late. Everyone watches on anxiously to see who will be made homeless today. The bulldozers gather in the center of the village and then stop. Soldiers disembark. The villagers look each other in the eye, searching for words of comfort, but there are none. Our children ask us why this is happening, but we have no answers.

Feeling the heat: capitalism and global warming

MartinHart-Landsberg

July 22, 2024

We are in real trouble. Global carbon dioxide emissions (the main cause of global warming) continue to rise, hitting a new high in 2023. Last year was also the hottest in recorded history and, year by year, more Americans are feeling the consequences. Yet, we have seen only modest attempts to bring emissions down.

 

 Heat waves: Increasingly common, ever more deadly. (Photo: journalistsresource.org)

‘Hunted like deer in a forest’: Palestinian civilians decry Israel attacks

FedericaMarsi

July 21, 2024

 

 Mourners carry the bodies of family members to a burial ground in Khuzaa, southern Gaza [Bashar Taleb/AFP]

Mister Netanyahu comes to Washington and will receive a warm welcome

July 20, 2024

Next week, on Wednesday, July 24th, Israeli Prime Minister and war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to visit Washington, DC, although he has not yet received a formal invitation. When the Israeli prime minister has traveled to Washington every year, he’s conveyed a message of closeness and intimacy, unlike the 4 years since his last visit to the White House, something that does not go unnoticed by friends and enemies.

ICJ Tells Israel to End Occupation of Palestinian Territories, Pay Reparations

MichelMoushabeck

July 19, 2024

In a landmark opinion issued today, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has said that Israel’s 57-year occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip is in breach of international law.

Demonstrators gather outside the Peace Palace, home of the International Court of Justice, to demand a ceasefire and show support for Palestine and Nicarague, in The Hague, Netherlands, on April 30, 2024.

US declares 'mission complete' for Gaza Aid Pier after delivering one day's worth of food

JUL 18, 2024

The Pentagon announced on 17 July that the floating pier built off the coast of Gaza would be dismantled for good, declaring its “mission complete” two months after it started operations.

 

Hopes for Gaza Ceasefire Fade Again

July 17, 2024

Northern and central Gaza have been hit by Israeli airstrikes this week as troops return to battle Hamas fighters in areas they claimed to have cleared many months ago. The intensified military offensive unfolded just days after mediators thought they were making headway in negotiations for a ceasefire. On Friday, Hamas reportedly dropped its insistence on a “complete” ceasefire as a prerequisite for talks.

 

The US Continues To Undermine Its Own Interests in Iran

Ted Snider

July 17, 2024

The American-led isolation of Iran is springing leaks all over. It seems that wherever Iran knocks, everyone answers. Except the United States. Instead, the U.S. continues to close the door, following a long pattern with Iran of undermining its own interests.

 

By failing to stop the Gaza genocide, the ICJ is working exactly as intended

Emilio Dabed

July 16, 2024

Millions worldwide are appalled by what they see as the total failure of the international legal order to prevent Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Despite major cases before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC), there is a growing sense of frustration that the law has not done its job. While understandable, this outrage is based on a fundamental misconception that international law’s objective is to eradicate violence; that may be what the UN Charter promises, but it is not what international law is expected to do nor what it actually does. 

Science and Freedom: Toward a new revolutionary epistemology

MR

July 13, 2024

Paul Robeson, speaking of the scientific achievements of the West which have formed the bedrock of its claim to supremacy, posed a question for the 20th century: “having found the key, has Western man—Western bourgeois man—sufficient strength left to turn it in the lock?”1

 

The Gaza Genocide Deepens: The Reckoning Begins for the Perpetrators

Ralph Nader

July 15, 2024

In the early weeks of Israel’s massive bombardment and invasion of Gaza, the Israeli military was killing anyone who moved and destroying anything that stood.  In response to telephone calls from President Joe Biden and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging Netanyahu to minimize civilian casualties reportedly he would respond:  Don’t lecture me, look at what you did to Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Dresden.

 

دیپلماسی دولت من

ترجمه فارسی مقاله جهانشمول دكتر پزشكيان از زبان انگليسي: ا

دیپلماسی دولت من

درگذشت نابهنگام رييس‌جمهور متعهد و خدمتگزار كشورمان، ابراهيم رييسي، در سانحه دلخراش سقوط هليكوپتر در ۱۹ مه ۲۰۲۴، موجب برگزاري انتخابات زودهنگام در ايران شد و لحظه‌اي سرنوشت‌ساز در تاريخ كشور ما رقم زد. ا

Israel’s war on Gaza live: Another deadly strike on a UN school

Mersiha Gadzo and Federica Marsi

July 14, 2024

 

Dozens killed as Israel strikes Al-Mawasi 'safe zone' in Gaza

 

July 13, 2024

Israeli forces killed at least 71 civilians and injured 289 more in a series of massive airstrikes on the Al-Mawasi region on the southern Gaza coast, Al Jazeera reported on 13 July.

 Aftermath of an Israeli strike in Al-Mawasi, Gaza. (Photo credit: BBC)

The People of Gaza Starved as US Built a Public Relations Ploy in the Form of a Pier

 Juan Cole

July 12, 2024

The Navy Times reports that the US aid pier at Gaza will be permanently decommissioned. The $270 million pier could not be reattached this week because of heavy seas.

 

U.S. and Israeli troops assemble the Trident Pier off the shore of the northern Gaza Strip on April 26, 2024. (Photo: U.S. Army Central Command)

The Folly of Empire and the Albatross of Debt

David Stockman

July 12, 2024

Like the case of Rome before it, Empire is bankrupting America. The true fiscal cost of the national security budget is now upwards of $1.3 trillion per year (counting veterans expense and international operations and aid), but there is no way to pay for it.

CBO Projects The Public Debt Will Reach $146 Trillion By Mid-Century

 

What can Palestinian artists do in the face of our slaughter?

Tamer Nafar

July 11, 2024

At the end of December 2023, as the war in Gaza neared its third month, several Palestinian singers in Israel faced harsh criticism online after they promoted their upcoming Christmas and New Year’s performances on social media. This sparked a widespread debate among their fellow Palestinian citizens.

Israel forcibly displaces tens of thousands from Gaza City into deadly 'safe-zones'

July 10, 2024

Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from Gaza City in northern Gaza and are on the move with nowhere to go due to new evacuation orders issued by Israel. 

Scientists to Biden: Cancel New Nuclear IBM System

Edward Carver

July 10, 2024

More than 700 scientists on Monday called for an end to the United States' land-based nuclear weapons program that's set to be replaced, following a Pentagon decision to approve the program despite soaring costs.

 

Why the Israeli army is expanding its invasion of Gaza City

Tareq S. Hajjaj

July 8, 2024

he Israeli army’s invasion of Gaza City’s eastern Shuja’iyya neighborhood has entered its second week, and it is now spreading to other parts of the city. The entire city is being put under siege, with its some 300,000 remaining inhabitants trapped in the middle with nowhere to go.

Palestinians flee eastern part of Gaza City after they were ordered by the Israeli army to evacuate their neighborhoods, July 7, 2024. (Photo: Hadi Daoud/APA Images)

Copernicus: June 2024 marks 12th month of global temperature reaching 1.5°C above pre-industrial

July 9, 2024

The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), implemented by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts on behalf of the European Commission with funding from the EU, routinely publishes monthly climate bulletins reporting on the changes observed in global surface air and sea temperatures, sea ice cover and hydrological variables. Additionally, the bulletin also includes highlights regarding the boreal spring (March-April-May). Most of the reported findings are based on the ERA5 reanalysis dataset, using billions of measurements from satellites, ships, aircraft and weather stations around the world.

Can Iran’s New Reformist President Deliver?

Fariba Amini

July 9, 2024

 

Newark, Delaware (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Elections in Iran have predictable outcomes. The men picked by the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, engage in a quasi-debate on TV, but usually the hand-picked guy is bound to win. This year saw a minor upset.

Patriotism

What does patriotism mean?

میهن پرستی

 

میهن پرستی ، عرق میهنی، حُبّ وطن، و اصطلاحاتی از این قبیل چه معنی میدهند؟ فرهنگ وبستر میهن پرستی‌ را عشق به کشور و فداکاری معنی‌ کرده است. در ادامهٔ این تعریف، میهن پرستی‌ را کیفیت از خود گذشته بودن و حمایت شدید از کشور عنوان کرده است.ا

The Gaza Genocide: Who’s Complicit?

L. Michael Hager

July 8, 2024

Given the recent pro-Palestinian protests around the world and on many university campuses, it seems strange if not surprising that neither genocide nor the continuing flow of U.S. weapons to Israel were mentioned during the first (and maybe only) 2024 presidential debate. Nor did the New York Times Editorial Board see fit to cite complicity in genocide while calling for Biden to step down after his poor debate performance.