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Nov 11, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Amir Kiyaei |Juan Cole |Gerry Condon |Ida Audeh
As we mark the grim anniversary of 400 days of genocide of the Palestinian people, an alert by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) appeared online. The IPC – a multi-stakeholder organisation focused on food security in international development and conflict contexts – has now triggered a ‘Famine Review Committee Alert’ for Gaza.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Juan Cole |Gerry Condon |Ida Audeh |Alex Lantier
Palestinian Territory – Given that Israel has blocked the entry of goods and aid to the hundreds of thousands of besieged residents in the northern Gaza Strip for more than 50 days now, the relevant international and UN organisations must formally declare famine in the region. Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon is one component of its ongoing genocide in the Strip, which also includes mass killings and forced displacement.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Juan Cole |Gerry Condon |Ida Audeh |Alex Lantier
President Joe Biden has now joined the ranks of Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush as a president whose Middle East policy crashed and burned spectacularly. Unlike Carter, who was stymied by the Iranian hostage crisis, or Bush, who faced a popular Iraqi resistance movement, Biden’s woes weren’t inflicted by an enemy.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Gerry Condon |Ida Audeh |Alex Lantier |Brett Wilkins
Gaza (Quds News Network)- As the Israeli genocide in Gaza entered its 401st day, Israeli warplanes intensified their bombardment, resulting in the deaths and injuries of dozens, and the destruction of residential buildings in northern Gaza. The relentless airstrikes have sparked fears of an imminent famine as Palestinians face worsening conditions under the Israeli siege. Overnight, the city of Gaza and its northern regions were hit by a series of air raids.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Gerry Condon |Ida Audeh |Alex Lantier |Brett Wilkins
November 11, declared Armistice Day at the end of World War I, is celebrated in the U.S. as Veterans Day. Understanding why requires us to recall World War I and its aftermath. World War I was an international conflict, 1914-18, that embroiled most of the nations of Europe, along with Russia, the United States, the Middle East, and other regions.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Ida Audeh |Alex Lantier |Brett Wilkins |Shaj Mohan
Addressing the UN in September, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held up a map of historic Palestine, in which the West Bank and Gaza Strip were not delineated; the whole territory, from the river to the sea, was labeled Israel. Other maps of Israel are even more ambitious and include parts of Lebanon and Syria as well.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Marwan Asmar |Brett Wilkins |Ida Audeh |Jessica Corbett
With heavy guns, Israeli soldiers barged into Al Jazeera office in Ramallah and ordered it shut down. The raid was in the early hours of the morning, Sunday. Troops raided the office with one soldier reading out an order to Al Jazeera Bureau Chief Waleed Al Omari.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Brett Wilkins |Ida Audeh |Jessica Corbett |Jonathan Ofir
As Israel followed up its remote bombings of communications devices in Lebanon with airstrikes on Beirut, the United Nations Security Council held an emergency session Friday during which officials urgently called for an immediate cease-fire and warned that the Middle East is on “the brink of catastrophe.” “We risk seeing a conflagration that could dwarf even the devastation and suffering witnessed so far,” U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo...
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Ida Audeh |Jessica Corbett |Jonathan Ofir |Binoy Kampmark
I told them Ali is 6 years old. They gave me an 18 kilogram bag of body parts. —A parent who survived the Gaza City massacre at al-Tabin school, Aug. 10 You Arabs, I don’t know what to say about you. Children are dying under the rubble. Their hands are severed, their legs are torn, their heads are crushed. To every Arab and foreigner who sees us: What blood runs in your veins? From what clay are you made?…I have one word to say: I will not forgive you in this life or the next.
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Jul 7, 2024 | 
wrmea.org | Election Year--All Senators |Ida Audeh
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Deluge: Gaza and Israel From Crisis to Cataclysm
Edited by Jamie Stern-Weiner, OR Books, 2024, paperback, 336 pp.
