Daily Archives: May 21, 2020

2020-05-21: News Headlines

Ramzy Baroud (2020-05-21). Why Israel Fears the Nakba: How Memory Became Palestine's Greatest Weapon. mintpressnews.com On May 15, thousands of Palestinians in Occupied Palestine and throughout the 'shatat', or diaspora, participated in the commemoration of Nakba Day, the one event that unites all Palestinians, regardless of their political differences or backgrounds. | For years, social media has added a whole new stratum to this process of commemoration. #Nakba72, along with #NakbaDay and #Nakba, have all trended on Twitter for days. Facebook was inundated with countless stories, videos, images, and statements, written by Palestinians, or in global support of the Palestinian people. | The dominant Nakba narrative remains &#150…

Ramzy Baroud (2020-05-21). Why Israel Fears the Nakba. zcomm.org How Memory Became Palestine's Greatest Weapon…

Juan Cole (2020-05-21). The End of the Oslo Accords. zcomm.org Palestinians pull out of Agreements in face of Netanyahu's Sudetenland Moment…

Jonathan Cook (2020-05-21). Outspoken Palestinians — Transformed Into Antisemites Simply Because They Call for Peace. globalresearch.ca An attack on a prominent British-Palestinian doctor and academic, Ghada Karmi, by a self-styled "antisemitism watchdog" looks suspiciously like a new trend in anti-Palestinian bigotry and bullying dressed up as victimhood. | Late last month, the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), …

Michael Lynk (2020-05-21). Canada Missing in Action on Israel's Proposed Annexation of the West Bank. globalresearch.ca The leaders of the two of Israel's largest political parties — Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz — In an initial six-month period, the coalition will address only two issues:

Ryan Cristián (2020-05-21). Bob Langer The Coronavirus "Common Denominator" Tied To Charles Lieber & Israel's NY "Smart Cities" thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (5/20/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …

Michael Jansen (2020-05-21). Demanded by Israel's Radical Right-wing and Settler Movement, Annexation Has Become Netanyahu's Crutch. globalresearch.ca Israel's latest "national unity" government has, for the time being, ended 500 days of internal political crisis, the longest in Israel's 72-year history. At the same time, Israel embarked on an external political crisis over the potential annexation of occupied …

Peoples Dispatch (2020-05-21). Benjamin Netanyahu to personally appear for trial in court. peoplesdispatch.org Netanyahu is indicted in seven cases, the trial for which will begin on May 24. If convicted, the Israeli prime minister will have to serve more than 10 years in prison…

Cynthia Chung (2020-05-21). The 'Clean Break' Doctrine: A Modern-Day Sykes-Picot Waging War and Havoc in the Middle East. globalresearch.ca In 1996 a task force, led by Richard Perle, produced a policy document titled "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm" for Benjamin Netanyahu, who was then in his first term as Prime Minister of …

Whitney Webb (2020-05-20). Media Ignores Israel Connection to Eric Schmidt's Push For NY "Smart Cities" thealtworld.com With NY Governor Andrew Cuomo recently announcing that former head of Google, Eric Schmidt, would lead an effort to "reimagine" post-pandemic life in the state, media reports have failed to note that the groundwork for that "reimagining" was laid last year and intimately involves the state of Israel. | In recent weeks, considerable media attention has been given to the decision by NY Governor Andrew Cuomo to tap former Google executive Eric Schmidt to

Whitney Webb (2020-05-20). Israel's NY "Smart Cities" thealtworld.com I cover my latest on NY smart cities/Israel plus a preliminary dive into the Bill Gates associate they don't want you to know about.

Alan Macleod (2020-05-20). Biden: Criticism of Israel Is Not Anti-Semitism, Unless It Comes From the Left. mintpressnews.com Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden held an online fundraiser yesterday with around 550 people organized by former U.S. ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro and Emory University professor Deborah Lipstadt. Much of the discussion revolved around the role of Israel and around the growing tide of anti-Israeli sentiment on American college campuses. "Criticism of Israel's policy is not anti-Semitism," Biden

Tom Anderson (2020-05-20). Palestinian students at Sheffield Hallam University protest new Israeli partnership. thecanary.co Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) has begun The university has gone ahead with the new collaboration despite concerns raised by its staff and students over its partnerships with Israeli companies, and companies complicit in the occupation of According to Nemo Abdel-Rahman, president of SHU's Palestine Society: I find it shameful that Sheffield Hallam U…

Staff (2020-05-20). How Islamophobia And Trump Are Dividing Major Jewish Organizations. therealnews.com The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations' incoming Chair-elect Dianne Lob faced attack from of Morton Klein of the Zionist Organization of America because of her work with Muslim refugees.

Stephen Lendman (2020-05-20). Abbas Suspending Agreements with Israel? globalresearch.ca In 2005, Israel virtually installed Mahmoud Abbas as Palestinian president and PLO chairman. | A rigged election with no legitimacy assured it. His mandate is serving as Israel's enforcer. | He's kept in power as long as remaining submissive to Israeli interests …

news.un (2020-05-20). UN Middle East peace envoy warns against unilateral action on all sides, as Israel threatens West Bank annexation. news.un.org The UN's Middle East peace envoy issued a stern warning on Wednesday against any unilateral action — including an Israeli annexation of parts of the West Bank — that could undermine diplomatic efforts to get Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table.

Abdel Bari Atwan (2020-05-20). Jordan and the annexation plan. thealtworld.com Everything possible must be done to resist Netanyahu's scheme, even if that leads to military confrontation | Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's pledge to extend Israeli sovereignty to the West Bank effectively means annulling the Palestinian Authority (PA) and abandoning the Oslo Accords and the two-state solution. It sets the stage overtime for the expulsion of hundreds of thousands if not millions of Palestinians from the major population centres to Jordan, which the Israeli right deems to be their 'alternative homeland'. | No need to wonder what the Arab world will do to counter this plan, which is the signa…

Ali Salam (2020-05-20). Israeli Forces Deliver Demolition Orders to Palestinian Family, Seize Mobile Home. imemc.org Israeli occupation forces handed Palestinian citizen, Jamal Rashayda, a demolition order, on Tuesday, for several structures in Ras al-Auja area in the Jordan Valley, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Palestinian human rights workers said the forces gave no justification for the order to demolish the family's tents and barns, north …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-20). Armed Israeli Settlers Open Fire at Palestinian-owned Vehicles in Nablus. imemc.org Several armed colonial Israeli settlers reportedly attacked, on Wednesday, more than 15 Palestinian-owned vehicles in northern Nablus city in the West Bank. Ghassan Daghlas, Palestinian chief for the Israeli settlements file in the West Bank, told media outlets that two Israeli settlers' vehicles, carrying several armed settlers from the nearby …

Lucas Leiroz de Almeida (2020-05-20). Israel and Iran Face Each Other in Cyberspace. globalresearch.ca Cyber ‚Äã‚Äãwarfare is one of the main bellicose activities of contemporary times. Through technologically advanced and powerful weapons, the great world powers face each other on the international stage in an invisible field, far from media attention, where the most …

Elijah J. Magnier (2020-05-20). Israel Strikes Syria to Keep the USA in the Levant 20 Years After the Unconditional Withdrawal From Lebanon — What Has Been Achieved? globalresearch.ca Following its

Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo (2020-05-19). What You Need to Know about the ICC Investigation of War Crimes in Occupied Palestine. dissidentvoice.org Fatou Bensouda, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), has, once and for all, settled the doubts on the Court's jurisdiction to investigate war crimes committed in occupied Palestine. On April 30, Bensouda released a 60-page document diligently laying down the legal bases for that decision, concluding that "the Prosecution has carefully considered the …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-19). Israeli Troops Erect Settler-only Bypass Road in Southern Nablus. imemc.org Israeli troops reportedly embarked on erecting a bypass road, on Tuesday, in the Huwara village, south of Nablus city in the northern occupied West Bank. Local Palestinian media sources said that the road is seven kilometers-long and that it will be located on about 100 acres of Palestinian farm lands. …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-19). UPDATED: Israeli Troops Abduct Several Palestinians in West Bank and Israel. imemc.org Updated: May 20 @ 0651 | The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) reported that Israeli forces detained 18 Palestinians from across the West Bank. | The following names are the Palestinian residents detained by Israeli forces; | 1.

Ali Salam (2020-05-19). Israeli Settler Convicted in Dawabsha Arson Attack. imemc.org Israel's Lod District Court convicted Israeli settler, Amiram Ben-Uliel, on Monday, for his involvement in the arson attack that resulted in the death of 18-month-old Ali Dawabsha, the Jerusalem Post reported. Ben-Uliel was involved in the 2015 attack that killed the infant and severely burned his older brother Ahmad and …

Zero Hedge (2020-05-20). "Polite Deflection Will No Longer Cut It" — US Pressures Israel To Sever Economic Ties With China. iranian.com Since President Trump fired the first volley in the US-China trade war two years ago, tensions between the US and China have intensified to unprecedented levels, and the prospect of an armed confrontation between the world's two largest military and economic powers is becoming a tail risk worth considering, according to Wall Street luminaries like David …

Sputnik News (2020-05-19). Israeli Operatives Behind 'Highly Accurate' Cyberattack on Iranian Port Facility — Report. iranian.com On 10 May, the managing director of Iran's Ports and Maritime Organization, Mohammad Rastad, confirmed in a televised statement that the county's port of Shahid Rajaee, in the coastal city of Bandar Abbas, was the victim of a cyberattack by an unknown foreign hacker on 9 May, bringing to a halt all shipping traffic in …

RT (2020-05-21). Palestinians 'suspend contacts with CIA' after ending security coordination with US and Israel. rt.com The Palestinians have suspended communications with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) after announcing an end to security coordination with Israel and the United States, a Palestinian official said on Thursday. The move comes in protest at Israeli proposals to annex territory in the West Bank, according to Saeb Erekat, secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Organization. | The official said Washington had been informed of the decision after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday his administration was no longer committed to agreements with Israel and the US, including on security coo…

en.mehrnews (2020-05-21). Collapse of Israeli regime perceptible: IRGC. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 21 (MNA) — On the occasion of International Quds Day, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps released a statement, saying that evidence implies that the liberation of Quds is imminent.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-21). Legitimacy biggest challenge to Israeli regime: FM Zarif. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 21 (MNA) —Iranian Foreign Minister said that the biggest challenge to the Israeli regime is 'legitimacy'.