Daily Archives: April 20, 2023

2023-04-20: News Headlines

AROC (2023-04-20). Community and Activists Lock Down Israeli Consulate, Barricade Doors in Protest. indybay.org Dozens of Jewish and Palestinian community members and their allies have barricaded the doors to the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco. Participants have chained themselves to the front of the building, with slogans of "No Tax Dollars for Apartheid," and are poised to remain on the premises.

Staff (2023-04-20). Khader Adnan 'Near Death' in Israeli Detention: Urgent call from Randa Musa, Khader Adnan's wife. samidoun.net Randa Musa, the wife of Khader Adnan, the Palestinian prisoner currently on his 75th day of hunger strike, issued the following urgent call to action to the people of the world. On Thursday, 20 April, the Israeli occupation military court once again postponed the hearing on his release, ordering yet another report on his medical …

Ramzy Baroud (2023-04-20). The Israel-Palestine Conflict: How the Palestinian Resistance Is Changing the Equation. mintpressnews.com When Israel launched a war against the Gaza Strip in August 2022, it Israel rarely distinguishes between one Palestinian group and another. For Tel Aviv, any Palestinian Resistance is a form of terrorism or, at best, incitement. Targeting one group and excluding other supposedly 'terrorist groups' exposes a degree…

Dana Drugmand (2023-04-19). New Report Finds Widespread Toxic Vinyl Chloride Pollution Beyond East Palestine. truthout.org This story was originally published by The New Lede. When a Norfolk Southern train transporting hazardous material derailed in East Palestine, Ohio on February 3, the subsequent release and explosion of chemicals fouled the air and exposed the community to a toxic cocktail of contaminants, including a substance known to cause cancer called vinyl chloride. More than two months later… |

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-04-19). The Palestinian Resistance Are a Refugee Resistance, This Is Purposely Ignored. orinocotribune.com By Robert Inlakesh — Apr 15, 2023 | The question of refugees is a core component to the Palestinian cause for national liberation, there can be no explanation for the armed resistance without understanding this key element. | After rocket-fire from Lebanon, in response to Israeli assaults on worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, reports began to emerge about "militants" that had opened fire on "Israel". This reporting came as Palestinian groups were blamed for the rocket fire, which no group has yet claimed. What is important here however, is how the Palestinian resistance has been framed, to label them as "militan…

teleSUR, nbb, JGN (2023-04-19). Ocho palestinos resultan heridos por fuerzas israelíes. telesurtv.net Intensos enfrentamientos surgieron entre las fuerzas israelíes y los palestinos durante la incursión en el campamento.

AROC (2023-04-20). Community and Activists Lock Down Israeli Consulate, Barricade Doors in Protest. indybay.org Dozens of Jewish and Palestinian community members and their allies have barricaded the doors to the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco. Participants have chained themselves to the front of the building, with slogans of "No Tax Dollars for Apartheid," and are poised to remain on the premises.

Staff (2023-04-20). Khader Adnan 'Near Death' in Israeli Detention: Urgent call from Randa Musa, Khader Adnan's wife. samidoun.net Randa Musa, the wife of Khader Adnan, the Palestinian prisoner currently on his 75th day of hunger strike, issued the following urgent call to action to the people of the world. On Thursday, 20 April, the Israeli occupation military court once again postponed the hearing on his release, ordering yet another report on his medical …

Ramzy Baroud (2023-04-20). The Israel-Palestine Conflict: How the Palestinian Resistance Is Changing the Equation. mintpressnews.com When Israel launched a war against the Gaza Strip in August 2022, it Israel rarely distinguishes between one Palestinian group and another. For Tel Aviv, any Palestinian Resistance is a form of terrorism or, at best, incitement. Targeting one group and excluding other supposedly 'terrorist groups' exposes a degree…

Dana Drugmand (2023-04-19). New Report Finds Widespread Toxic Vinyl Chloride Pollution Beyond East Palestine. truthout.org This story was originally published by The New Lede. When a Norfolk Southern train transporting hazardous material derailed in East Palestine, Ohio on February 3, the subsequent release and explosion of chemicals fouled the air and exposed the community to a toxic cocktail of contaminants, including a substance known to cause cancer called vinyl chloride. More than two months later… |

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-04-19). The Palestinian Resistance Are a Refugee Resistance, This Is Purposely Ignored. orinocotribune.com By Robert Inlakesh — Apr 15, 2023 | The question of refugees is a core component to the Palestinian cause for national liberation, there can be no explanation for the armed resistance without understanding this key element. | After rocket-fire from Lebanon, in response to Israeli assaults on worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, reports began to emerge about "militants" that had opened fire on "Israel". This reporting came as Palestinian groups were blamed for the rocket fire, which no group has yet claimed. What is important here however, is how the Palestinian resistance has been framed, to label them as "militan…

teleSUR, nbb, JGN (2023-04-19). Ocho palestinos resultan heridos por fuerzas israelíes. telesurtv.net Intensos enfrentamientos surgieron entre las fuerzas israelíes y los palestinos durante la incursión en el campamento.

teleSUR- hvh, JCM (2023-04-19). Presidente palestino realiza visita oficial a Arabia Saudita. telesurtv.net La estancia de Mahmoud Abbas coincide con una visita de una delegación del Movimiento de Resistencia Islámica (Hamás).

Roger McKenzie (2023-04-19). Mideast peace? China offers to mediate between Israel and Palestine. peoplesworld.org China's foreign minister told his Israeli and Palestinian counterparts that his country is ready to help facilitate the first peace talks between the two sides in more than a decade. In separate phone calls to the two officials on Monday, Qin Gang expressed China's concern over intensifying tensions between Israel and Palestinians and its support …

AROC (2023-04-20). Tuesday 4/18: Bay Area Communities To Rally and Demand No Aid to Israeli Apartheid on Tax Day. indybay.org Israeli Consulate | 456 Montgomery Street | San Francisco…

Middle East Monitor (2023-04-20). In its First 100 Days, Israel's New Netanyahu Gov't Crashes and Burns. juancole.com Dr Adnan Abu Amer AdnanAbuAmer2 ( Middle East Monitor ) — The deteriorating security situation has given Israelis a great opportunity to list the failures of the new government 100 days after its formation. Members of the current coalition admit that many electoral plans and promises have not yet been fulfilled, and it is not clear …

Anonymous (2023-04-19). Video: The struggle for Masafer Yatta. electronicintifada.net Residents of villages that Israel plans to destroy say they won't leave no matter what.

Tamara Nassar (2023-04-19). Why is Israel arbitrarily detaining a US senior citizen? electronicintifada.net Khader Adnan refusing food in protest for more than 70 days.

_____ (2023-04-19). Is the U.S. Finally Losing Influence in the Middle East? strategic-culture.org By Melvin GOODMAN | Fifty years ago, in the wake of the October War of 1973, the United States emerged as the principal outside actor in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger conducted the peace talks between Israel and Egypt as well as between Israel and Syria, and made sure that his counterpart—Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko—was excluded from the step-by-step process. Kissinger rightfully boasted about expelling the Soviet Union from the Middle East, where no European states were important and China played no role. | Fast forward to the present, and it is the Unit…

_____ (2023-04-19). Struggle for Power and Control in Sudan May Lead to Civil War. strategic-culture.org The situation today in Sudan should be a wake-up call to the Syrian opposition calling for normalization with Israel. | Sudan's capital Khartoum has turned into a Al Shar…

Jim Hightower (2023-04-19). Beware of Creeping Autocracy. otherwords.org It's always instructive to hear powerful political officials declare that in the name of democracy, they must usurp the people's democratic authority. | This has become all too common, as even so-called democratic regimes in France and Israel have infuriated their people by trying to ram vastly unpopular, anti-democratic schemes into law by executive fiat. | Luckily, though, our U.S. of A remains committed to the people's rule, right? Moreover, our leaders agree that local government is best, for it is closest to the people, right? | Uh, no… and no. | As the once-conservative Republican Party has turned extremi…

Michael Jansen (2023-04-20). Netanyahu's Extremist-dominated Cabinet in Jeopardy. globalresearch.ca

Gary Olson (2023-04-20). The Latest NYT's Hit Piece on China Is from Thomas Friedman. dissidentvoice.org Thanks to Thomas Friedman's relentless service as a mouthpiece for US empire and capital, he's permitted to continuously churn out his pseudo-thought piece every week. — Belen Fernandez, The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work Thomas Friedman, a self-professed "liberal," is the New York Times most widely read columnist and its most influential flak for …

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