By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Whenever a country falls into civil war, there are always observers who suggest that the problem could be resolved by a partition of that country. It is as though they think the parties to the war are like squabbling children in the back seat of the […]
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Middle East
How Israel’s Blockade of Gaza Is Killing Women with Breast Cancer
TeleSur | – – Since Israel began its siege of Gaza in 2007, hundreds of people have died needlessly, various reports state. Hundreds of Palestinian women with breast cancer are being routinely blocked from seeking treatment by Israel officials, reports from Gaza’s health ministry state. “Israel is killing me slowly,” one woman told The Electronic […]
More districts of East Aleppo fall to Regime & Militia Allies
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Both regime sources and the Britain-based Syria Observatory said Tuesday that the Syrian Arab Army and its Shiite militia allies from Lebanon and Iraq had taken the district of Shaar in the East Aleppo pocket. In the past two weeks rebel forces have lost the northeast […]
Russia/Syria: War Crimes in Month of Bombing Aleppo
Human Rights Watch (New York) – The Russian-Syrian coalition committed war crimes during a month-long aerial bombing campaign of opposition-controlled territory in Aleppo in September and October 2016. The Violations Documentation Center, a Syrian civil monitoring organization, documented that the bombing campaign killed more than 440 civilians, including more than 90 children. Airstrikes often appeared […]
Did Trump’s Son-In-Law Finance Israeli Extremists and Illegal Settlements?
TeleSur | – – Trump has said that Kushner, who is a married to Ivanka Trump and is an Orthodox Jew, would be “very good” as his Middle East envoy. Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and confidant of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, is a director and board member at the Kushner Foundation which has given money […]
John Kerry slams Israeli settlement expansion and proposed ‘formalization’ bill
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — United States Secretary of State John Kerry delivered harsh criticism of the Israeli government’s settlement expansion policies at the Saban Forum in Washington D.C. on Sunday, saying “things are moving in the wrong direction” regarding Israeli-Palestinian peace. An annual dialogue between American and Israeli leaders from […]
Under BDS Pressure, G4S Ends Most Illegal Business with Israel
IMEMC | – – Human rights campaigners to intensify pressure against the company… *G4S announces sale of most of its Israel business, following intense BDS pressure *G4S remains involved in Israeli police training and settlement construction business *BDS human rights campaigners celebrate victory, call for continuing pressure The world’s largest security company, G4S, announced today […]
Russian Pundit: Fall of East Aleppo a Geopolitical Turning Point toward Multi-polar World
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – By Friday evening outside observers like Rami Abdelrahman of the Syria Observatory in the UK were saying that even more of the East Aleppo pocket had fallen to the Syrian Arab Army, Hizbullah and Iraqi militias and that the government forces had consolidated their control over […]
Israeli Occupation economically suffocates Palestinian East Jerusalem
By: Al-Shabaka | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – In an unusual move, and after years of neglect, American and European delegations and development agencies have recently been visiting East Jerusalem and showing an increased interest in “doing something” about its deteriorating socioeconomic conditions. Moreover, the Palestinian Authority (PA) is, after a prolonged silence, working […]
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