Illegal Occupation
AIPAC: US officials can criticise Israel annexation plans, ‘as long as it stops there’
MEMO | June 11, 2020
The leading pro-Israel lobby group within the United States has given permission to the country’s officials and lawmakers to criticise Israel’s plans to annex areas of the occupied West Bank, on the condition that “the criticism stops there”.
Okinawa’s Governor Promises ‘Fierce Opposition’ to Plan for New US Missile Bases
Sputnik – 10.06.2020
A US plan to build new missile sites on the Japanese island of Okinawa has encountered stiff resistance by locals, including the governor, who was elected on a position of getting US forces out of the prefecture.
‘Absolutely Unacceptable’
The US and Israel Hope to Scare the Hague War Crimes Court off from Helping Palestine
By Jonathan Cook | The National | June 9, 2020
In the near-two decades since the International Criminal Court was set up to try the worst violations of international human rights law, it has faced harsh criticism for its highly selective approach to the question of who should be put on trial.
Created in 2002, the court, it was imagined, would act as a deterrent against the erosion of an international order designed to prevent a repetition of the atrocities of the Second World War.
‘Steal Of The Century’: Trump’s Palestine-Israel Catastrophe (Part 1)
Robert Inlakesh | June 5, 2020
The ‘Steal Of The Century’ (Part 1) is a documentary, by Robert Inlakesh, filmed on the ground in occupied Palestine, investigating the peace process, Donald Trump’s proposed ‘Deal of the Century’ and why the Palestinian people have unanimously rejected it. It also seeks to show the occupation faced by the Palestinian people, as well as the a brief look into the history of Palestine-Israel.
Tony Blair: Ties between Gulf and Israel are ‘game changer’
MEMO | June 3, 2020
Tony Blair has cast doubt over the chance of a Palestinian state ever emerging in an interview with a Rabbi from the United Synagogue, a union of British Orthodox Jewish synagogues, representing the central Orthodox movement in Judaism.
Netanyahu on Annexation Plan: Palestinians Will Offer Concession, Not ‘Israel’
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference at the Prime Ministers office in Jerusalem on March 12, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90