War Crimes

By Robert S. Ford and Tony Ghazal Mouawad | (Informed Comment) As the Syrian civil war drags into its fifth year, the al-Qai’da linked Nusra Front [Support Front] has a reputation as being among the toughest fighters and has consolidated its position on the Syrian scene. At the same time, there are hints that many […]

Apartheid

Apartheid Forever: Israel’s Netanyahu rules out Palestinian Citizenship Rights

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, under extreme pressure over the real possibility that he will lose the March 17 elections, has made a powerful appeal to his far right wing constituency by openly admitting that he will never allow a Palestinian state and that he intends to flood Israeli […]

Health

Worst than ISIL: Iraq’s US-caused Public Health Catastrophe

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By Mozhgan Savabieasfahani | (Informed Comment) The Iraqi people, once the envy of the Arab world for their outstanding educational and health-care systems, have been reduced to a nation of refugees, flung across the Middle East. U.S.-created thugs are axing Iraq’s historical heritage into pieces. The Iraqi health system continues to disintegrate as doctors flee […]

Displaced and Refugees

Satellite Imaging Shows 4/5s of Lights across Syria have gone out

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By Josh Butler | – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – A single image can be more powerful, more descriptive and more potent than an entire essay – ‘ a picture says a thousand words,’ as the cliché goes. So it is in Syria, where despite the undoubted millions of words penned about atrocity after atrocity, bombing […]

Apartheid

Families See Hope for Justice in Palestinian Membership of ICC

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By Khaled Alashqar | – GAZA CITY (IPS) – “I have lost all meaning in life after the death of my child, I will never forgive anyone who caused the tearing apart of his little body. I appeal to all who can help and stand with us to achieve justice and punish those who killed […]

Displaced and Refugees

Palestine to take Israel to Int’l Criminal Court for War Crimes

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RT | – A Palestinian man stands at his makeshift shelter near the ruins of his house that witnesses said was destroyed by Israeli shelling during a 50-day war last summer, on a rainy day east of Gaza City February 19, 2015. (Reuters/Suhaib Salem) Palestine’s first complaint against Israel’s alleged war crimes will be filed […]

Displaced and Refugees

AP Investigates: Bulk of Gaza Deaths Civilians

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Associated Press | – “AP Exclusive: High civilian death toll in Gaza house strikes during Israeli conflict with Hamas militant group during the summer of 2014. Over 60 percent of those deaths were children, women and older men, all presumed to be civilians.” AP: “AP Investigates: Bulk of Gaza Deaths Civilians”

Iraq

Just when you thought they Couldn’t be Worse: ISIL trafficking Human Organs

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RT | – The Islamic State is harvesting human organs to finance its blood-driven caliphate, according to Iraq’s ambassador to the United Nations, urging its Security Council to investigate the issue. Envoy Mohamed Alhakim called on the 15-member body to look at allegations of organ removal by the Islamic State (formerly ISIS) as bodies with […]

Apartheid

Israel earmarks vast area of Palestinian Hebron/ al-Khalil land for annexation

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HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israel has earmarked around 2,000 dunams (500 acres) of private Palestinian land for annexation in the Hebron district, local activists say. Muhammad al-Halayqa, an activist in the village of al-Shuyukh northeast of Hebron, told Ma’an that Israel’s Civil Administration has posted warning notices on the land slated for confiscation. The land belongs […]