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Mar 4, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Kristin Helberg |Hannah El-Hitami |Julia Encke |Martin Konecny
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris urged an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, upping the pressure on key ally Israel as heavy fighting raged in the Palestinian territory. Harris's comments on Sunday, the most forceful to date by a U.S. administration official, came as Washington led a push to lock in a truce before Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month that begins in around one week.
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Mar 3, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Bernd Riegert |Elisa Rheinheimer |Hannah El-Hitami |Martin Konecny
UNRWA and humanitarian aid · 04.03.2024 The EU Commission intends to transfer 82 million euros to the UN Palestinian relief organisation UNRWA.
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Feb 10, 2024 | 
newagebd.net | Martin Konecny
Faced with the worst-ever Israeli-Palestinian violence, Europe’s selective moralism has also led to strategic blindness, writes Martin KonecnySINCE the Hamas attacks on 7 October and the start of Israel’s retaliatory offensive in the Gaza Strip, European Union member states have broadly split into three camps.
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Feb 9, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Hannah El-Hitami |Martin Konecny |Elisa Rheinheimer |Birgit Svensson
Israel launched new air strikes on Friday on the city of Rafah in Gaza's far south, after U.S. President Joe Biden said its response to Hamas's October 7 attack has been "over the top". Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he has ordered Israeli forces to "prepare to operate" in Rafah, the last major city in the Gaza Strip that Israeli ground troops have yet to attack. The United States is Israel's main international ally, providing it with billions of dollars in military aid.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Hans Dembowski |Elisa Rheinheimer |Martin Konecny |Mohamed ElBaradei
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered troops to prepare to enter Gaza's crowded southern city of Rafah, even as new talks aimed at securing a truce with Hamas were set to open Thursday in Cairo. Netanyahu announced the order after rejecting Hamas's response to a ceasefire proposal at the centre of recent intensive diplomatic efforts, dismissing what he called the militant group's "bizarre demands".
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Martin Konecny |Stefan Buchen |Irene Anastassopoulou |Karim El-Gawhary |Karim el-Gawhary
The EU response to the Gaza war · 06.02.2024 Faced with the worst-ever Israeli-Palestinian violence, Europe's selective moralism has also led to strategic blindness https://qantara.de/en/node/43442 Print Since the Hamas attacks on 7 October and the start of Israel's retaliatory offensive in the Gaza Strip, European Union (EU) member states have broadly split into three camps.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Martin Konecny |Stefan Buchen |Karim El-Gawhary |Karim el-Gawhary |Irene Anastassopoulou
The EU response to the Gaza war · 06.02.2024 Faced with the worst-ever Israeli-Palestinian violence, Europe's selective moralism has also led to strategic blindness https://qantara.de/en/node/43442 Print Since the Hamas attacks on 7 October and the start of Israel's retaliatory offensive in the Gaza Strip, European Union (EU) member states have broadly split into three camps.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
euobserver.com | Martin Konecny
The optics of a nine-fold increase of annual funding for Israel, expedited in the middle of its devastating military campaign in Gaza, stand out in contrast with the attempted suspension, delaying and constraining of EU development aid for the Palestinians under the same commissioner. What is most questionable, however, is the focus of the new EU funding plan.
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Apr 24, 2023 | 
mosaik-blog.at | Martin Konecny
KPÖ PLUS ist in Salzburg mit unglaublichen 11,7 Prozent in den Landtag eingezogen. Die ersten Interpretationen des Erfolgs ließen nicht lange auf sich warten: Es wäre ein lokales Phänomen, es läge am charismatischen Spitzenkandidaten, an der Kommunistischen Partei wäre nichts kommunistisch. Das verkennt einige Facetten des Erfolgs, erklärt mosaik-Redakteur Martin Konecny.
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Feb 24, 2023 | 
mosaik-blog.at | Martin Konecny
Ein Jahr tobt der russische Angriffskrieg in der Ukraine. Hunderttausende sind auf beiden Seiten gestorben, der Krieg ist längst normalisiert. Die Kriegsspirale dreht sich weiter, während große Teile der Linken so tun, als gäbe es sie nicht. Die erste und lauteste Reaktion auf den Überfall durch den russischen Staat war moralische Empörung. Sie zog sich von den sozialen Medien, über Politiker*innen bis hin zu großen Kundgebungen auf der Straße.
