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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Ramzy Baroud |Andre Damon |Binoy Kampmark |Alfred de Zayas |alfred de zayas
Palestinian Territory – The physical and mental health conditions of the Palestinian detainees and prisoners released during the seventh round of the ceasefire exchange agreement between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip are shocking.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Ramzy Baroud |Andre Damon |Binoy Kampmark |Alfred de Zayas |alfred de zayas
We have long argued that the Israeli war and genocide in Gaza must catalyze a change in the overall political discourse on Israel and Palestine, particularly regarding the need to free Palestine from the confines of victimhood. This shift is necessary to create space where the Palestinian people are seen as central to their own struggle. It is unfortunate that centering a nation in a conversation about its own freedom from colonialism and military occupation requires years of advocacy.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Andre Damon |Binoy Kampmark |Alfred de Zayas |alfred de zayas |Dan Corjescu
Palestinian Territory – The Israeli Defence Minister has ordered the army to take control of three Palestinian refugee camps in the northern West Bank and block residents’ return. Euro-Med Monitor strongly condemns the move, which reveals a serious escalation of Israel’s apartheid and forced displacement practices against the Palestinian people, beginning with the 1948 Nakba.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Alfred de Zayas |alfred de zayas |Ralph Nader |zeenat khan
It has the feeling of a ghastly ending, one pushed along by desperation and eagerness. First, levelling Gaza and turning it to an uninhabitable moonscape, with the promise of a territory free of Palestinians. Then, displacing and destroying the already precarious holdings of Palestinian residents in the West Bank, all the time subjecting them to curfews, arrests and detentions while aiding vigilante Jewish settlers, firming up the system of segregation and snuffing out any prospect of autonomy.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Alfred de Zayas |alfred de zayas |Binoy Kampmark |Ralph Nader |Phil Pasquini
One year ago, on 25 February 2024 the 25-year old US Airman Aaron Bushnell self-immolated in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. to protest against the Israeli genocide of tens of thousands of Palestinians, he said that he refused to be “complicit in the genocide of Palestinians”, and as his body burnt in flames, he cried out six times “Free Palestine”. The politicians in Washington, London, Paris and Berlin took no notice. No one cared.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Alfred de Zayas |alfred de zayas
International law is by nature multilateral. Its ontology is universal and cannot be interpreted or applied selectively, today this way, tomorrow somewhat differently — or not at all. In some cases violations of international law are loudly denounced by the international community; in other circumstances, comparable violations are followed by a deafening silence. Indeed, the “crime of silence” implies tacit consent. Qui tacet consentire videtur.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Alfred de Zayas |alfred de zayas
The UN Charter, adopted on 24 October 1945, has not lost its relevance in the 21st century. In fact, we need the United Nations more than ever, because the Charter constitutes humanity’s only rules-based order, and its best hope to build a peaceful modus vivendi that will facilitate development and prosperity for everyone on the planet.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
scheerpost.com | Alfred de Zayas |alfred de zayas
By Alfred de Zayas / CounterPunch On Friday, October 25, 2024, President Joe Biden formally apologized to the indigenous peoples of North America for the abuses committed against thousands of indigenous children in so-called “residential schools,” which were intended to “kill the Indian in the child.” The apology was tardy, considering that over a period of 150 years, US-government-funded boarding schools had forcibly taken indigenous children away from their families in an effort to...
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
transcend.org | Alfred de Zayas |alfred de zayas
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service 31 Oct 2024 – The Kazan Declaration of 23 October 2024, adopted at the 16th BRICS Summit[1] hosted by Russia in the city of Kazan on the Volga river from 22 to 24 October and attended by 36 countries[2], constitutes a pivotal moment for humanity.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Alfred de Zayas |alfred de zayas
The Kazan Declaration of 23 October 2024, adopted at the 16th BRICS Summit[1] hosted by Russia in the city of Kazan on the Volga river from 22 to 24 October and attended by 36 countries[2], constitutes a pivotal moment for humanity.
