January
17, 2024
In
justifying the violent unraveling of Gaza as ‘self-defense,’ Western capitals
have once again signed off on Israelis’ license to act like despots.
.................RATIONAL THINKING.................. مرا جهل در کامِ دیو میبَرَد.............از آن دوستی میکنم با خِرَد
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
The Zionist Plan for the Middle East
The Association of Arab-American University Graduates finds it
compelling to inaugurate its new publication series, Special Documents, with
Oded Yinon's article which appeared in Kivunim (Directions), the journal of the
Department of Information of the World Zionist Organization. Oded Yinon is an
Israeli journalist and was formerly attached to the Foreign Ministry of Israel.
To our knowledge, this document is the most explicit, detailed and unambiguous
statement to date of the Zionist strategy in the Middle East. Furthermore, it
stands as an accurate representation of the "vision" for the entire
Middle East of the presently ruling Zionist regime of Begin, Sharon and Eitan.
Its importance, hence, lies not in its historical value but in the nightmare
which it presents.
The plan operates on two essential premises. To survive, Israel
must 1) become an imperial regional power, and 2) must effect the division of
the whole area into small states by the dissolution of all existing Arab
states. Small here will depend on the ethnic or sectarian composition of each
state. Consequently, the Zionist hope is that sectarian-based states become
Israel's satellites and, ironically, its source of moral legitimation.
رژیم حاکم بر ایران
دیشب به یک میهمانی منزل یکی از دوستان ایرانی رفته بودم، که البته اکثریت به اتفاق میهمانان دیگر نیز ایرانی بودند. پس از خوش و بشهای جاری، و طبق معمول صحبت از مردم در ایران شد. بر
اساس اخباری که از داخل ایران میرسد، سطح درآمد مردم بسیار پایین آمده، بیکاری بیداد میکند، و در زیر نعلین این ملاها مردم مجبور هستند که با مشقت و زجر، و تحت بدترین شرایط زندگی کنند. علاوه بر فشار مالی و پایین آمدن سطح زندگی افراد، به دلیل فشار دولت در مورد حجاب و سایر دستورات ضد انسانیِ دین پلید اسلام، به زجر و آزار مردم افزوده شده است. این البته وضعیت مشقت بار داخلی است. از طرف دیگر، تحقیر و اعلام خطرِ هر روزهٔ اسرائیل و آمریکا در مورد حمله به ایران، به دلیل حمایت رژیم از ملل تحت ستم جهان، از جمله ملتهای آفریقائی و مردم فلسطین و سایر اقشار تحت فشار
و مظلوم، مردم ایران را با ناباوری و عدم اطمینان به آیندهای روشن قرار میدهد.ا
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Bombing Gaza Isn’t Fighting Sexual Violence
January 16, 2024
As the human
catastrophe in Gaza deepens, Israel and its allies are mobilizing evidence of
sexual violence committed by members of Hamas and other Palestinian militant
groups on October 7 to justify continued military action. When the Security
Council failed to pass a resolution demanding a ceasefire on December 8, Israel
government spokesperson Eylon Levy tweeted: “Thank you to the United States of
America for vetoing a UN Security Council resolution designed to keep Hamas’
rapist regime in power.” In the wake of its case at the International Criminal
Court accusing Israel of genocide Levy accused South Africa of complicity with
a “rapist regime.”
Monday, January 15, 2024
What Would Martin Luther King Jr. Have To Say on Gaza?
January
15, 2024
He
insisted in 1967 that it was morally imperative for the US to stop its role in
the Vietnam war. He would be calling for Biden to demand a ceasefire now.
Sunday, January 14, 2024
Israel’s war on Gaza live: Israeli assault continues on 100th day of war
January
14, 2024
·
Israel’s relentless attack on Gaza continues with 125
Palestinians killed and 265 wounded over the past 24 hours.
·
Pro-Palestinian protests around the world over the weekend –
from Johannesburg to Washington, DC – call for an end to the war on Gaza.
·
Dozens of arrests as Israeli bulldozers enter Jenin in the
occupied West Bank.
·
At least 23,968 people have been killed and more than 60,582
wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel
from the October 7 Hamas attacks stands at 1,139.
Saturday, January 13, 2024
US Foreign Policy Is a Scam Built on Corruption
December
26, 2023
The
$1.5 trillion in military outlays each year is the scam that keeps on giving—to
the military-industrial complex and the Washington insiders—even as it
impoverishes and endangers America and the world.
US ambassador to the United Nations Linda
Thomas-Greenfield abstains during a vote to approve a resolution that
"demands" all sides in the Israel-Hamas conflict allow the "safe and
unhindered delivery of humanitarian assistance at scale" at UN
headquarters in New York on December 22, 2023.
(Photo by Charly Triballeau / AFP via Getty Images)
Gaza Cease-Fire Now! No Wider War
January
13, 2024
we
must join the majority of the world’s nations in building pressure on Biden and
Netanyahu to declare a ceasefire, to deluge Gaza with the food, water,
medicines, and fuel essential for life. We must do this with everything we've
got and we must do it now.
Little Amal, a 3.5 metre-tall giant puppet
representing a ten-year-old Syrian refugee child, joins tens of
thousands of protesters marching through central London in solidarity
with the Palestinian people and to demand an immediate ceasefire to end
the war on Gaza in London, United Kingdom on January 13, 2024.
(Photo: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
Friday, January 12, 2024
Labor organizers explain why they’re marching on DC for Palestine
January
12, 2024
For
these rank-and-file union members, solidarity with Palestine is a necessity for
the labor movement.
Men lock arms and shout slogans during a demonstration of
solidarity with Palestinians. Demonstrators gathered in Freedom Plaza for a
rally supporting Palestinians in Washington, DC, on November 4, 2023. Photo by
ALI KHALIGH/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images
Iran’s “Women, Life, Freedom Movement” is still Resilient
January 12, 2024
Ottawa
(Special to Informed Comment) – The term “social movements” typically evoke the
idea of political activities in a sphere separate from culture, but social
movements are closely related to values, ways of living, ethics, and more
broadly culture. Among new social movement scholars, there is a growing
recognition that social movements have more cultural impact than is reflected
in the field. Moreover, since the
symbolic dimension of culture is part of policies and practices in all spheres,
social movements are increasingly acknowledged to exert cultural influence not
only in political and economic realms but also in non-political domains such as
the spheres of art, music, education, fashion, and more. This paper seeks to
discuss the Women, Life, Freedom movement in a broader context of culture and
everyday practices, to explore what sense we can make of it one year after its
emergence, and to see what it tells us about the prospect of Women’s freedom
movements in Iran. The discussion begins with an overview of the contextual
background.
Thursday, January 11, 2024
How to Create an Unlivable Hellscape in Gaza
January
11, 2024
Israel
is now keeping its promise that it would act like it was "fighting human
animals."
A man carries a propane gas cylinder on
his back while walking through debris and destruction littering a street
in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City on October
11, 2023. (Photo by Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images)
SA’s Impassioned Plea to Stop Israel’s Genocide
January
11, 2024
Lawyers
for South Africa argued before the World Court in The Hague on Thursday why
Israel was committing genocide in Gaza and why the court must stop them now,
reports Joe Lauria.
Adila Hassim, attorney for South Africa, addressing the World Court, with the Israel delegation looking on. (UN TV screenshot)
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
Israel is using a notorious military tool to arrest its own Palestinian citizens
January 8, 2024
Administrative
detention, long weaponized against Palestinians under occupation, is gradually
being directed toward those with citizenship too.
Monday, January 8, 2024
Together, We Can End Injustice in Gaza and Beyond
January 8, 2024
Ordinary
people can fix the broken postwar international system and deliver global
justice to Palestinians and oppressed people worldwide.
Sunday, January 7, 2024
1.1 mn. Children of Gaza caught in a Health Nightmare that Worsens Every Day; Clinics attacked 600 Times
January 7, 2024
UNICEF’s
Executive Director, Catherine Russell, said this week that “Children in Gaza
are caught in a nightmare that worsens with every passing day.”
Saturday, January 6, 2024
As US Backs Gaza Genocide, 'Grassroots Diplomats' Rally Support for South Africa Case
January
6, 2024
The tireless advocacy seeks to bridge nations in support of
South Africa's pursuit of justice.
Peace activists rally at South Africa's consulate general in Los Angeles, California on January 4, 2024.
Friday, January 5, 2024
Inside Israel’s torture camp for Gaza detainees
January
5, 2024
In
early December, images circulated worldwide showing dozens of Palestinian men
in the city of Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, who were stripped to
their underwear, kneeling or sitting hunched over, then blindfolded and put
into the back of Israeli military trucks like cattle. The vast majority of
these detainees were civilians with no affiliation to Hamas, Israeli security
officials later confirmed, and the men were taken away by the army without
notifying their families of the detainees’ whereabouts. Some of them never
returned.
Bin Laden’s Curse: Gaza, Iran and the Reemergence of ISIL
January 5, 2024
The responsibility for the bombing
in Kerman, Iran, on Wednesday that killed at least 84 people and wounded
another 284, has been claimed by the ISIL (Daesh, ISIS) terrorist group. The
worst terrorist bombing in Iran since the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) blew up the
Iranian leadership in 1981 struck at a commemoration of the assassination by
Donald Trump of Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps General Qasem Soleimani.
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