Jesus was a Palestinian Jew born in Bethlehem. He grew up in Nazareth and was executed as a criminal in Jerusalem. It is because of him that we celebrate Christmas. But it is in spite of him that what we celebrate is the opposite of what he stood for. The different stories of his birth, […]
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US representative to the UN Robert Wood raises his hand to veto a security council resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire. Photo credit: Charly Triballeau/AFP On Friday, December 8, the UN Security Council met under Article 99 for only the fourth time in the UN’s history. Article 99 is an emergency provision that allows the Secretary […]
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Contempt for the Arab population is deeply rooted in Zionist thought. — Noam Chomsky, The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians, 1983, 2015. This is the holiday season for various groups of people. Some people will celebrate Xmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, etc during the winter season. Others will celebrate just because celebrating is […]
Genocide has a very specific meaning in law, says Dr. David McGrogan. Bandying the word around and using it of the collateral damage from legitimate military objectives – however awful – lacks moral seriousness.
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The US government stood alone at the United Nations Security Council last Friday as it vetoed a resolution that called for a humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. Every other nation spoke with passion about the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding, with most issuing condemnatory remarks. But the US chose to blame Hamas for the suffering of Read More...
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) Among all the world’s countries, only the U.S. consistently backs the ethnic cleansing of Gaza that’s being done by Israeli troops and American weapons and intelligence. Two days that will live in infamy will be this December 9th and December 12th: the U.S. Government was the only veto among the […]
Israel and the U.S. Empire are playing roulette. They are betting big on red, the color of blood, the worship of power and the logical outcome of ideological Zionism. Zionism has always been, as pointed out by its critics from the beginning, an intellectual current that leads to racism, war and authoritarianism just like other […]
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An exaggerated sense of self-importance and entitlement, hubris, chutzpah, racism while claiming victimhood, and massively flawed thinking are the descriptors that come to mind when considering the 555 doctors at the U of T who signed an Open Statement to the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine (TFOM) from Jewish Physician Faculty. The statement is […]
At Westminster the other day the UK Secretary of State for Defence (Grant Shapps) made a statement on military deployments to the Middle East which included questions and answers about the situation in Gaza. It was an opportunity for Shapps with help of pro-Zionist MPs to distort the facts to ‘justify’ Israel’s appalling crimes. The […]
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Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) On December 8th, Reuters headlined “Israel sharply ramps up Gaza strikes, U.S. alarmed”, and reported that America’s Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, said that “there does remain a gap between … the intent to protect civilians and the actual results that we’re seeing on the ground” in Gaza. The Reuters […]
