MEMO | August 8, 2020
US Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has ordered the removal of any reference to the Israeli occupation in his campaign programme just days before it was released on 15 July, Foreign Policy revealed on Thursday.
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It was billed as the “Deal of Century,” but in 2020 it has hit the rocks. In the end, the deal which the Kushner-Trump-Netanyahu nexus had hoped would gain at least some traction going in the 2020 election cycle – turned out to be entirely unacceptable by one of its principal parties, the Palestinians.
Source : Consortium News, Julia Conley
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« Il n’y a pas d’humanité à détruire les tentatives de la population locale de soutenir un système de santé déjà démuni et étouffé par l’occupation. »
Palestine Chronicle | August 7, 2020
A Palestinian woman died after being shot on Friday by Israeli soldiers during a raid in the West Bank city of Jenin.
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Palestine Chronicle | August 6, 2020
Israeli occupation forces today destroyed irrigation ponds in the al-Jiftlik village, located near Jericho in the Jordan Valley, said a local municipal source.
Mayor of al-Jiftlik, Ahmad Abu Ghanem, said the Israeli occupation destroyed three ponds that were used to irrigate 70 dunums of village land, filling them with debris to discontinue their use.
The smell of pro-Israel bias in the Foreign Office is overpowering
On Sunday a demonstration is planned in Montréal against the Canada Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA). Under the banner “Against Israel’s annexation of the Jordan Valley. No to the Canada Israel Free Trade Agreement!”, the march is seeking to politicize CIFTA amidst Israel’s plan to formally annex parts of the West Bank.
The U.S. government is in a love affair with Israel, and nowhere is it more apparent than in the halls of the United Nations. Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley once asserted, “Nowhere has the UN’s failure been more consistent and more outrageous than its bias against our close ally Israel.”
