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Stop Arming Israel

NOVEMBER 19, 2023 BY RAY ACHESON FacebookTwitterRedditEmail As bombs continue to pummel Gaza, destroying hospitals and homes, leaving thousands of Palestinians dead and millions displaced, global action to stop the supply of weapons to Israel is an urgent imperative. Fighter jets, missiles, and thousands of bombs are amounting to a devastating …

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Evgenia Simanovich runs to the family home’s reinforced concrete shelter, moments after rocket sirens sounded in Ashkelon, Israel on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. (Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times)
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Israel Knew Hamas’ Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli officials obtained Hamas’ battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails and interviews show. But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out. The approximately …

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Israel-Palestine war: Former State Department official Seldowitz arrested after ‘racist’ tirade.

Stuart Seldowitz was taken into custody on Wednesday on charges of harassing an Egyptian food vendor in New York City Seldowitz was photographed smiling as he was perp walked on Wednesday night (Screenshot/X) By Imran Mulla Police in New York City have arrested Stuart Seldowitz, a former US State Department official, on Wednesday night after he was …

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Lebanon: Evidence of Israel’s unlawful use of white phosphorus in southern Lebanon as cross-border hostilities escalate.

October 31, 2023 The Israeli army fired artillery shells containing white phosphorus, an incendiary weapon, in military operations along Lebanon’s southern border between 10 and 16 October 2023, Amnesty International said today. One attack on the town of Dhayra on 16 October must be investigated as a war crime because …

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MP Clare Daly: These crimes against of humanity are being carried out by your weapons and by your name.

MP Clare Daly on Israel and Palestine: MEP Clare Daly- speech from 8 Nov:

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Read Anne Boyer’s extraordinary New York Times resignation letter.

By Dan Sheehan November 16, 2023, 11:21am It’s been a hell of a 24 hours for writers demonstrating moral courage. Last night at the National Book Awards, over a dozen NBA finalists took to the stage to use their moment in the spotlight to oppose the ongoing bombardment of Gaza and to call …

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Q&A: Kann man die Gewalt des israelischen Militärs und der Palästinenser:innen gleichsetzen?

In Sozialen Medien und in der Öffentlichkeit herrscht eine höchst reaktionäre Stimmung in Bezug zum Krieg in Palästina. Wir beantworten einige der akutesten kontroversen Fragen. Kundgebung für Palästina, Melbourne 2021. Foto: Matt Hrkac / Wikimedia Commons Edit: Neue Fragen werden fortlaufend hinzugefügt. 1) Sind nicht aktuell die Palästinenser:innen der Aggressor, …

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Kriegsgeschenk

13. Mai 2021 |ak 671 | International Die Eskalation des Konflikts um Sheikh Jarrah hilft Netanyahu, Hamas und Erdoğan gleichermaßen Von Thomas Schmidinger Der ostjerusalemer Stadtteil Sheikh Jarrah war vor der Teilung der Stadt im Jahr 1948 ein gemischt arabisch-jüdisches Viertel, das erst Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts vor der Altstadt Jerusalems entstand. Während sich …

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War present

The escalation of the conflict over Sheikh Jarrah is helping Netanyahu, Hamas and Erdoğan alike. By Thomas Schmidinger Before the city was divided in 1948, the East Jerusalem district of Sheikh Jarrah was a mixed Arab-Jewish quarter that was not built in front of the old city of Jerusalem until the …

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SIPRI: Global arms industry sales up 4.6% worldwide, U.S. companies dominate Top 5
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THE SIPRI TOP 100
ARMS-PRODUCING AND
MILITARY SERVICES
COMPANIES, 2020

“The combined arms sales of the world’s largest arms-producing and military services companies (the SIPRI Top 100) were $531 billion in 2020 (see annex 1). This represents an increase of 1.3 per cent on their arms sales in 2019 (see figure 1). Despite this being the smallest increase in arms …

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