Shunned by Trump, Mahmoud Abbas Looks to Biden to Revive a Long Dead "Peace Process"
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-12-10
When all hope seemed lost, where Abbas found himself desperate for political validation and funds, Biden arrived like a conquering knight on a white horse and swept the Palestinian leader away to safety.
mintpressnews.com/mahmoud-abbas-hopes-joe-biden-revive-long-dead-peace-process/273508/
"Long Live the (Dead) Peace Process": Abbas Prioritizes US Ties over Palestinian National Unity
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-12-10
No one seemed as excited about the election of Joe Biden being the next President of the United States as Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas. When all hope seemed lost, where Abbas found himself desperate for political validation and funds, Biden arrived like a conquering knight on a white horse and swept the Palestinian leader …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/12/long-live-the-dead-peace-process-abbas-prioritizes-us-ties-over-palestinian-national-unity/
Amnesty criticises Airbnb for West Bank settlement listings ahead of IPO
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-10
Amnesty criticises Airbnb for West Bank settlement listings ahead of IPO | Rights group says US company failed to inform investors of its business activities in illegal Israeli settlements | MEE and agencies | Thu, 12/10/2020 – 08: 19 | The San Francisco-based booking company is holding an initial public offering on the Nasdaq on Thursday (AFP) | Amnesty International has accused Airbnb of acting in bad fait…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/airbnb-palestine-israel-west-bank-settlements-amnesty-criticises
PDF of December 10 issue
Workers World Party | workers.org | 2020-12-10
Download the 12-page PDF. Capitalist COVID catastrophe FIGHT or DIE! Message from Peltier; Reparations now! Justice for Breonna denied again; Disability rights; Workers demand justice; DEA surveillance; Editorial: New president — same wars; Commentary: Becoming a cadre; GLOBAL: China: global vaccines, science; India: worker & farmer uprising; Cuba; France; Palestine; Venezuela. . . . | Continue reading PDF of December 10 issue at Workers.org…
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Limiting Criticism of Israel, Britain Is Closing Down Academic Freedom?
Sai Englert | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-10
In October, British Education Secretary Gavin Williamson ordered universities in the country to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)'s working definition of antisemitism. They are to do so by Christmas or face government sanctions. | It is worth remembering that …
globalresearch.ca/flawed-antisemitism-definition-britain-closing-down-academic-freedom/5731805
Israel's Honeymoon with the United Arab Emirates Is Grotesque
Belén Fernández | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-10
Since normalizing relations in September, Israel and the United Arab Emirates have teamed up to do what both do best: trample on democratic freedoms, commit atrocities, and whitewash occupation. | *** | Back in 2010, the New York Times' Thomas Friedman …
globalresearch.ca/israel-honeymoon-united-arab-emirates-grotesque/5731821
China's Rise and Rise Proves a Winning Formula
James O'Neill | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-12-09
On the second of December this year the Chinese representative to the United Nations General Assembly addressed the meeting on the topic of Palestine and more particularly on his country's view of the ongoing disasters that daily inflict the Palestinians in that country. Unsurprisingly, the speech received no coverage in the Australian media. The continued …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/12/chinas-rise-and-rise-proves-a-winning-formula/
Israeli 'anti-terrorism' lawyer was convicted over attacks on Palestinians
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-09
Israeli 'anti-terrorism' lawyer was convicted over attacks on Palestinians | Aviel Leitner, who works for Shurat HaDin, was jailed over 1980s attacks linked to far-right Kach party in East Jerusalem and West Bank | MEE staff | Wed, 12/09/2020 – 16: 54 | Aviel Leitner (L) pictured next to Israeli Minister of Public Security Amir Ohana (C) and Nitsana Darshan-Leitner at a Shurat HaDin conference in February 2020 (Facebook)…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-anti-terrorism-lawyer-shurat-hadin-convicted-attacks-palestinians
Top Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi quits PLO amid rumours of rift
Sheren Khalel | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-09
Top Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi quits PLO amid rumours of rift | Calls speculation 'misleading and irresponsible' that her resignation was caused by Palestinian Authority's resumption of coordination with Israel | Sheren Khalel | Wed, 12/09/2020 – 18: 33 | Ashrawi served on executive committee of PLO for more than decade (AFP) | Prominent Palestinian politician Hanan Ashrawi has confirmed her resignation fr…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-ashrawi-plo-quits-rift-israel
Those Who Don't Fear the Lobby
Craig Wood | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-12-09
With the encouragement of friends and after serving eleven terms in the U.S. House of Representatives (1961-1983), Congressman Paul Findley (R-IL) wrote a book, They Dare to Speak Out, about influences and pressures inside the Israeli lobby. His was the first book to point out ways the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), along with …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/12/those-who-dont-fear-the-lobby/
Covid-19: Gaza resumes screening after receiving nearly 20,000 kits from WHO
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-08
Covid-19: Gaza resumes screening after receiving nearly 20,000 kits from WHO | The Hamas-run Gaza government says newly arrived batch 'is only enough for eight days' | MEE and agencies | Tue, 12/08/2020 – 10: 23 | In mid-August, Gaza had recorded only around 100 Covid-19 cases, but the past two weeks have seen a steep deterioration in containment (AFP/file photo) | Hamas said on Monday it had received nearly…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/covid-palestine-gaza-hamas-test-kits-screening-resumes
Gangsterism as Foreign Policy: Assassinations Are Becoming the New Norm
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-12-08
Patrick COCKBURN | I was in Israel on 4 November 1995 when a student named Yigal Amir assassinated the Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin as he left a peace rally in Tel Aviv. A video shows Amir loitering by an exit to the square for 40 minutes before Rabin appears, when his killer takes out a pistol and fires two shots point blank into Rabin's back. His purpose was to prevent a lasting pea…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/12/08/gangsterism-foreign-policy-assassinations-becoming-new-norm/
Stuck in a Lift with John Pilger: News and How to Use It by Alan Rusbridger
Media Lens | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-12-08