Monthly Archives: June 2023

2023-06-18: News Headlines

Angela (2023-06-18). Saturday 6/17: Free virtual screening of the documentary film "Native Sons: Palestinians in Exile" indybay.org Zoom (Registration link is below)…

Palestine Action. (2023-06-18). Futuro Vegetal Against The British State. popularresistance.org Futuro Vegetal activists dyed the UK embassy in Madrid building red and black using fire extinguishers. The protest denounces the repression of British activists who have been sentenced to more than two years in prison for non-violent protests in the UK. | On 16 May, Mike Lynch-White, co-founder of the group Scientist Rebellion, was sentenced to 23 months in prison for an action by Palestine Action in 2021 [1], in which they disrupted the production of UK-made military components that were to be supplied to the state of Israel [2]. | Futuro Vegetal activists carried posters with Mike's picture on them, which they…

ecns.cn (2023-06-17). China's push for regional peace hailed. ecns.cn China's proactive role in finding a lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by initiating a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas offers new opportunities for resolving decades of discord, say analysts.

Editor (2023-06-17). Israeli Soldiers Won't Face Prosecution for Death of 80-Year-Old Palestinian-American. scheerpost.com The Israeli military announced the soldiers involved in the death of Palestinian American Omar Asaad would not face criminal charges. Less than 1% of Israeli army probes result in the prosecution of soldiers.

Michael F. Brown (2023-06-17). Ritchie Torres regards BDS and Palestinian rights as a "relic" electronicintifada.net US House votes overwhelmingly for a special envoy to further normalize Israeli apartheid.

Staff (2023-06-17). 93 years on the execution of the heroes of al-Buraq revolution: The prisoners' struggle against imperialism and Zionism continues! samidoun.net The following is an updated version of the article originally published on 17 June 2017 by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. The living legacy of Fouad Hijazi, Atta al-Zeer, Mohammed Jamjoum and the Buraq Revolution is deeply relevant today, especially as the Zionist regime seeks to target Palestinian prisoners for execution in an official manner, …

Staff (2023-06-17). Palestinian prisoners suspend hunger strike scheduled for Sunday while dialogues continue to achieve their demands. samidoun.net The Administrative Detainees' Committee of the Palestinian prisoners' movement in occupation jails issued a statement on Saturday, 17 June, announcing that the mass open hunger strike of Palestinians jailed without charge or trial scheduled to begin on Sunday was suspended pending further dialogue with the occupation prison administration to achieve their demands. There are currently …

Israel Shahak (2023-06-17). "Greater Israel": The Zionist Plan for the Middle East. globalresearch.ca When viewed in the current context, the war on Iraq, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing wars on Syria and Iraq, the war on Yemen, must be understood in relation to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East…

Alastair Crooke (2023-06-17). The machinations behind an imminent Iran 'deal'. thealtworld.com What a paradoxical finale, were Netanyahu's devious machinations on Iran to contribute to Trump's conviction and theoretically, even to his imprisonment! | What's going on? On the one hand, "Israel" is blaring out the news that major progress has been made in JCPOA talks between the US and Iran — and that a new agreement is in prospect within weeks — including the release of some $20 billion of frozen Iranian assets. Goodness me! "Israel" is totally unprepared to stop it — all hands to action stations, the headlines scream! | Veteran Israeli correspondent, Ben Caspit, raised Western blood pressur…

hrw.org (2023-06-17). American Churches Launch Initiative to End Israel's Apartheid. hrw.org Over 100 faith-based groups form Apartheid Free Communities Initiative.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-06-17). Video: A Jewish-Russian Proxy President: Zelensky Transformed into a Nazi? globalresearch.ca

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2023-06-17: News Headlines

Angela (2023-06-17). Saturday 6/17: Free virtual screening of the documentary film "Native Sons: Palestinians in Exile" indybay.org Zoom (Registration link is below)…

ecns.cn (2023-06-17). China's push for regional peace hailed. ecns.cn China's proactive role in finding a lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by initiating a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas offers new opportunities for resolving decades of discord, say analysts.

Staff (2023-06-17). 93 years on the execution of the heroes of al-Buraq revolution: The prisoners' struggle against imperialism and Zionism continues! samidoun.net The following is an updated version of the article originally published on 17 June 2017 by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. The living legacy of Fouad Hijazi, Atta al-Zeer, Mohammed Jamjoum and the Buraq Revolution is deeply relevant today, especially as the Zionist regime seeks to target Palestinian prisoners for execution in an official manner, …

Staff (2023-06-17). Palestinian prisoners suspend hunger strike scheduled for Sunday while dialogues continue to achieve their demands. samidoun.net The Administrative Detainees' Committee of the Palestinian prisoners' movement in occupation jails issued a statement on Saturday, 17 June, announcing that the mass open hunger strike of Palestinians jailed without charge or trial scheduled to begin on Sunday was suspended pending further dialogue with the occupation prison administration to achieve their demands. There are currently …

Editor (2023-06-17). Israeli Soldiers Won't Face Prosecution for Death of 80-Year-Old Palestinian-American. scheerpost.com The Israeli military announced the soldiers involved in the death of Palestinian American Omar Asaad would not face criminal charges. Less than 1% of Israeli army probes result in the prosecution of soldiers.

Ali Abunimah (2023-06-16). Australian Greens say Israel perpetrates the crime of apartheid. electronicintifada.net Party's new policy recognizes Palestinians' right to resist.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-06-16). Israeli forces kill one Palestinian, injure over 300 in Nablus raid. peoplesdispatch.org Hundreds of Israeli soldiers, accompanied by armored military vehicles and bulldozers, illegally invaded the city in order to demolish the home of a Palestinian prisoner who is accused of being involved in an armed confrontation with the Israeli army…

scorinoco (2023-06-16). Palestinian Writer Urges China to Strengthen Relations with Palestinian Resistance, Criticizes Abbas' Visit. orinocotribune.com Khaled Barakat, a Palestinian writer and member of the executive committee of the Masar Badil: Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, has stated in an interview with Press TV in London that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' visit to China is "worthless," and that China should instead strengthen its relations with the Palestinian resistance. | Barakat alluded to the failure of the so-called "negotiations process" and the failed "two-state solution," and added that "Abbas is a weak figure who has lost his role and is on his way out of the scene at a time when the negotiations option has c…

Staff (2023-06-16). Sen. Chris Van Hollen: State Dept. Must Release Report on Shireen Abu Akleh Death, Hold Killers Accountable. democracynow.org We speak with Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland about his call for the U.S. State Department to declassify a report on the killing of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank last year. The Al Jazeera reporter was covering an Israeli military raid just outside the Jenin refugee camp and was clearly marked as press. "It's my belief that the United States has an absolute obligation to get to the bottom of what happened, to hold the individuals accountable, or, in this case, potentially the IDF unit accountable," says Van Hollen…

Ramzy Baroud, MintPress News. (2023-06-16). China And Palestine: No To 'Piecemeal Crisis Management'. popularresistance.org Remarks by China's United Nations Ambassador, Geng Shuang, on the situation in Occupied Palestine on May 24 were impeccable in terms of their consistency with international law. | Compared to the United States' position, which perceives the UN, and particularly the Security Council, as a battleground to defend Israeli interests, the Chinese political discourse reflects a legal stance based on a deep understanding of the realities on the ground. | Articulating the Chinese thinking during a UNSC 'Briefing on the Situation in the Middle East, including the Palestine Question,' Geng did not mince his words.

hrw.org (2023-06-17). American Churches Launch Initiative to End Israel's Apartheid. hrw.org Over 100 faith-based groups form Apartheid Free Communities Initiative.

_____ (2023-06-16). 200 Historians Back Polish Holocaust Expert Under Attack. strategic-culture.org By Ofer ADERET | In a letter of support, historians and scholars worldwide said that the Polish attack on Holocaust scholar Prof. Barbara Engelking harmed the attempt 'to understand the processes that allowed the Holocaust to take place' | Two hundred historians, including senior Holocaust scholars from Israel and around the globe, signed a letter in support of Prof. Barbara Engelking, a Polish historian who has been under attack in her homeland after she said the Poles did not do enough to help Jews during the Shoah. | "We, the undersigned scholars of the Holocaust Era, the Second World War, and Modern and Jewis…

Anonymous669 (2023-06-16). Desperate Crowd Funding For Ukraine War? Israel To Make First Merkava Tank Sale. southfront.org March 20, 2008. a Merkava tank during a training day held in the Golan Heights for the 188th Armored Brigade. Photography by Neil Cohen, IDF Spokesperson's Film Unit. | Israel is in talks to sell hundreds of its used Merkava main battle tanks to two countries, including one in Europe, head of the International Defense Cooperation Directorate in the Israeli Ministry of Defense revealed on June 15. | Yair Kulas told the Calcalist financial paper that his directorate, also known as SIB…

Anonymous669 (2023-06-16). Russian MoD Reveals Targets, Results Of Israel's Last Attack On Syria. southfront.org Illustrative image. | The Russian Ministry of Defense has provided new details on the On June 15, Rear Admiral Oleg Gurinov, deputy head of the ministry's Center for Reconciliation in Syria, said that two F-15 fighter jets from the Israeli Air Force carried out the attack."On June 14 … two IDF [Israeli Defense…

infobrics (2023-06-16). Biden proposes "Israel model" for Ukraine instead of NATO membership. infobrics.org Meanwhile, US blocks arms sale to Hungary for opposing NATO expansion.

Anonymous669 (2023-06-16). Israel To Make First Merkava Tank Sale To Two Countries, One Of Which Is European. southfront.org March 20, 2008. a Merkava tank during a training day held in the Golan Heights for the 188th Armored Brigade. Photography by Neil Cohen, IDF Spokesperson's Film Unit. | Israel is in talks to sell hundreds of its used Merkava main battle tanks to two countries, including one in Europe, head of the International Defense Cooperation Directorate in the Israeli Ministry of Defense revealed on June 15. | Yair Kulas told the Calcalist financial paper that his directorate, also known as SIB…

Donna Nevel (2023-06-16). The White House's Strategic Plan on Antisemitism Is Fatally Flawed. truthout.org A recently released White House strategic plan on combatting antisemitism, while including numerous mentions of "cross community solidarity" and the importance of combatting all forms of hate, fails to promote a framework that makes that kind of solidarity possible. The plan, in actuality, singles out antisemitism and, by extension, Jews, as requiring a special strategy — one that does not embrace… |

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