Showing all posts in June 2019
“The Palestinian people have rights not just aspirations”
Australian Greens leader Christine Milne tried to amend a motion in the Federal Senate this week to say that Palestinians have “rights”. The Senate said no. Welcome to one of the most fundamentalist Zionist parliaments in the world and bravo the Greens for being willing to say that Palestinians are human beings:
A singularly rare voice in Australian parliament that defends Palestine
Federal Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon speaks truthfully about what’s been happening in Gaza and the Middle East, unlike the sheep in the two major parties who simply mouth platitudes about Israel and receive their talking points from the Zionist lobby or political leadership. The following speech was given by Rhiannon on 20 November: The other…
This is the future: “equality for all the people in the land from the river to the sea.”
Yousef Munayyer in The New Yorker: Sooner or later, hopefully sooner, the all-too-familiar scenes of violence in the Gaza Strip—the sight, on Sunday, of children’s bodies being pulled from a flattened house; the rocket launches—will temporarily stop. As after every round that preceded this, a ceasefire will eventually be reached. The question is what we…
“We don’t target journalists” except when we do
Note to mainstream reporters: challenge Israeli government lies, like here on Al Jazeera English against Israeli propagandist Mark Regev:
Stopping killer robots before they wage war on their own
A fascinating and necessary new report from Human Rights Watch: