Anyone with a brain knows that we have to distance ourselves from the Middle East and occupier Israel; but these lessons were nowhere evident in the no-holds-barred political brawls in Iowa. That’s got to change, and Bernie Sanders is the best hope to do so.
On February 2, activists spread out across New York City handing out 10,000 copies of an expertly-produced “supplement” to the New York Times announcing a “new editorial policy” towards Israel/Palestine.
No evidence, no eye witnesses, and no crime preceded the capture, torture and forced confessions of the Hares Boys, 5 Palestinian youths from the West Bank village of Hares. And yet Ali Shamlawi, Mohammed Kleib, Mohammed Suleiman, Ammar Souf, and Tamer Souf were recent sentenced, after almost 3 years of imprisonment and over 100 hearings, by the Israeli occupation military court to 15 years in prison.
The UN Secy General has doubled down on remarks last week that unending Israeli settlements are provoking Palestinian violence; but Ban Ki-moon’s op-ed in the New York Times threatens no enforcement mechanism against Israel’s illegal activities
Amjad Jaser Sukkar, 34, a Palestinian Authority staff sergeant from Nablus and the father of four, was killed at a checkpoint next to the illegal Israeli settlement of Beit El in the West Bank after allegedly shooting three Israeli soldiers this weekend
“I who plowed Israel’s fields, planted trees, built a house and fathered sons and shed his blood in the battle for its founding… renounce my belief in the Zionism which has failed, I shall not be loyal to the Jewish fascist state and its mad vision,” the late Dov Yermiya said in 2009
Seeking to define Palestinians as Arabs is another way that Zionist Israelis have sought to deny Palestinian nationality on the part of non-Jewish citizens, to secure the state’s definition as the “Jewish State,” and to finish the Nakba by denying the existence of Palestine, outside of a couple of Bantustans.
Obama’s speech at the Israeli Embassy saying We are all Jews shows the trajectory of Holocaust thought is Israel, unmindful of the horrific suffering Israel is causing the Palestinian people. Such thought then censors dissent on the consequences of the use of the Holocaust as a blunt instrument against the Palestinian people.
Earlier this week, the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn held a general meeting at which it passed a measure to require a super-majority of 75 percent on resolutions to boycott products at the coop. The rule is aimed at holding back the forces that want to boycott Israeli goods.
Seven young members of Al-Qasssam brigade, the military wing of Hamas, were digging a tunnel in northern Gaza earlier this week when heavy rains caused it to collapse, killing them. Hamas declared that armed resistance was the only way to liberate Palestine.