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Israel's Netanyahu Insulted -- and endangered -- US Protesters against his Gaza Atrocities, Lying that they're on Iran's Payroll

Israel’s Netanyahu Insulted — and endangered — US Protesters against his Gaza Atrocities, Lying that they’re on Iran’s Payroll

Fariba Amini

Newark, Del. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Netanyahu’s speech before a half full of the House of Representatives was a disgrace.  It was not just a disgrace because he spewed his lies but because, in the middle of a genocide, those representatives of the American people rose and jubilantly accepted his lies. Before America […]

US Foreign Policy
The Double Crisis of U.S. Foreign Policy

The Double Crisis of U.S. Foreign Policy

John Feffer

By John Feffer | Originally published in Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Approaching the consequential elections of 2024, the United States faces a stark debate over the role of the country in international affairs. The media has generally presented the two positions as the internationalism of Joe Biden and Kamala […]

Israel/ Palestine
The U.S. Must Stop Arming Israel

The U.S. Must Stop Arming Israel

OtherWords

By Farrah Hassen | ( Otherwords.org ) – In a shameful moment for U.S. history, an accused war criminal addressed Congress on July 24.  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to plead for more arms for his war on Gaza, where the International Court of Justice has found it “plausible” that Israel is committing genocide. […]

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The UK Labour Party drops opposition to Int'l Criminal Court Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant over Gaza War Crimes

The UK Labour Party drops opposition to Int’l Criminal Court Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant over Gaza War Crimes

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Labour Party in Britain announced that it would not submit a brief to the International Criminal Court arguing that the court has no jurisdiction over Israeli actions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The previous Conservative government of Rishi Sunak had pledged to make such a submission, but the new […]

Genocide
Watering Down Genocide: No More Moral Compromises on Palestine, Please

Watering Down Genocide: No More Moral Compromises on Palestine, Please

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor ) – Why are many amongst us still tiptoeing around language when it comes to the horrific Israeli genocide in Gaza? Layers of censorship imposed on Palestinian and pro-Palestinian voices in corporate and social media seem to have blurred the judgment of some. They continue to speak of a “conflict”, calling […]

Epidemics
Polio in Gaza: What does this mean for the Region and the World

Polio in Gaza: What does this mean for the Region and the World

The Conversation

By Michael Toole, Burnet Institute | – (The Conversation) – As war continues to devastate Gaza and its people, we learnt last week that a variant of poliovirus has been detected in the region. The virus was isolated in six sewage samples collected in late June from Khan Younis and Deir al Balah. Most infections […]

Democratic Party
Kamala Harris denounces "Catastrophic levels of Food Insecurity" in Gaza, Calls for Permanent Ceasefire, in Pivot From Biden

Kamala Harris denounces “Catastrophic levels of Food Insecurity” in Gaza, Calls for Permanent Ceasefire, in Pivot From Biden

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Vice President Kamala Harris met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, having had a convenient campaign event out of town that allowed her to be absent from his disgraceful address to Congress, which more than half of congressional Democrats also boycotted. In 1955, sociologist Will Herberg published Protestant, […]

Hizbullah
Can Israel and Hezbollah be pulled back from the Brink of War?

Can Israel and Hezbollah be pulled back from the Brink of War?

The Conversation

By Amin Saikal, Australian National University | – (The Conversation) – The Middle East is on the brink of a possibly devastating regional war, with hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah reaching an extremely dangerous level. Washington has engaged in intense diplomacy to persuade the protagonists to pull back from the brink. But US efforts have […]

Pentagon
Suicide Squad: U.S. Troops are losing a War with their Deadliest Enemy

Suicide Squad: U.S. Troops are losing a War with their Deadliest Enemy

Nick Turse

( Tomdispatch.com ) – At the end of the last century, hoping to drive the United States from Saudi Arabia, the home of Islam’s holiest sites, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden sought to draw in the American military. He reportedly wanted to “bring the Americans into a fight on Muslim soil,” provoking savage asymmetric conflicts […]

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