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West Jerusalem claims it’s close to defeating Gaza’s militants but the facts show otherwise #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/07/hamas-has-never-been-stronger-israel-is-stuck-in-a-war-it-cant-win/?feed_id=13020

The UN Security Council on Monday adopted a US-Israel resolution apparently aimed at reaching a ceasefire deal in Gaza. “Today, we voted for peace,” the US Ambassador to the UN claimed afterwards. But the “deal” she presented made no attempt to address the causes of the war. We were treated to the ludricrous spectacle of the US’s Linda Thomas-Greenfield laying out a three-stage ceasefire plan while America’s precious little ‘protectorate’, Isreal, not only continued the slaughter of Palestinian civilians in Gaza but actually stepped up the genocidal horror while the US administration kept the aggressor topped up with weaponry and […] #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/06/peace-deal-or-kiss-of-death/?feed_id=12567

In the eight months since Israel declared war on Hamas, Israeli forces have killed more than 36,800 Palestinians and injured nearly 84,000, according to the latest figures from the Gaza Health Ministry. #Featured #Government #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/06/jews-murdered-hundreds-for-no-reason-in-hostage-rescue-operation/?feed_id=12459

Israel’s illegal control over the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza has for decades prevented the Palestinian people from exercising their right of self-determination and full and effective self-governance. UN Resolution 3246 calls for all States to recognise that that right applies to all peoples subjected to colonial and foreign domination, including the Palestinians. The warning signs of genocide in Gaza had been there for all to see. But the lack of will on the part of UN members to implement 3246 not only let it happen but then failed to stop it even when its ferocity passed all […] #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/06/the-shameful-journey-from-prelude-to-genocide-to-slow-motion-genocide-to-rampant-genocide/?feed_id=12231

Nobody seems to challenge Israel and its Western allies on their determination to hunt down and wipe out Hamas. That’s Israel’s stated objective and reason for the genocide it has been committing relentlessly for nearly 8 months while the US, UK and most of the EU provide a chorus of approval not to mention the weaponry to do it. But is eliminating Hamas permissible in international law? Indeed, is imposing coercive regime-change lawful when the party forcing the change is itself a terror regime with a long history of war crimes and crimes against humanity inflicted on its victim? Hamas […] #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/05/is-it-lawful-to-target-hamas-for-extermination/?feed_id=12163

Hamas is a legitimate (Islamic) resistance movement, whereas "al-Qaeda" is not. #911 #Featured Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/05/9-11-and-october-7-parallels-and-stark-differences/?feed_id=11699

UK foreign secretery Lord David Cameron has told peers: “I don’t believe for one moment that seeking these warrants is going to help get the hostages out, it’s not going to help get aid in and it’s not going to help deliver a sustainable ceasefire. To draw moral equivalence between the Hamas leadership and the democratically-elected leader of Israel I think is just plain wrong.” He misses the point as usual. The warrants have nothing to do with that. They are about bringing those wanted for the most grievous war crimes to justice. Prime minister Rishi Sunak then said that […] #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/05/could-these-arrest-warrants-signal-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-the-axis-of-evil/?feed_id=11579

Lord Cameron, UK Foreign Secretary, wrote an article in the Sunday Times on April 7 to mark what he called “another grim milestone: 6 months since the brutal attacks by Hamas on October 7. We must not forget how this conflict started – with the Jewish people suffering the worst and most murderous pogrom since the Holocaust”. Cameron says that, alongside US and other allies, “we are clear that unless you deal with the cause of the conflict – the rule of Hamas over Gaza and the presence of those responsible for October 7 – no ceasefire would last. Israel […] #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/04/cameron-hopelessly-confused-over-the-cause-of-the-conflict-in-gaza/?feed_id=11043

Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR), a worthy-sounding broadcaster which began life back in 1917 with the aim of sharing the educational resources of the University of Wisconsin with the state’s residents and now inspires communities around the world, has been feeding its listeners a load of old toffee about a place called Sderot, an Israeli township a stone’s throw from Gaza. As WPR reports, it was attacked by the Palestinian resistance on October 7 and “almost completely emptied… most of Sderot’s 39,000 residents were evacuated to hotels across the country.” They are now returning thanks in part to the schools re-opening […] #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/04/israeli-land-grabbers-return-home-to-sderot/?feed_id=10991

You’d think Western leaders dealing with foreign affairs would make sure they had a working knowledge of international law and respect its importance. It’s based on common sense and is easy enough for politicians of average intelligence to understand. But they don’t seem to. So it was refreshing to hear Vasily Nebenzya, Russia’s representative at the United Nations, ticking off the US and Israel for trying to duck their legal responsibilities after the Security Council adopted Resolution 2728. This deals with Israel’s attempt to destroy Gaza and its people and “demands an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan respected […] #Featured #Government #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/04/are-our-political-leaders-really-so-ignorant-about-international-law/?feed_id=10759

It looks more like the Israel government is trying to distance themselves from Elkayam-Levy because the lies they pushed together are all falling apart. #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #Life #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/04/israeli-lawyer-who-pushed-hamas-mass-rapes-hoax-accused-of-scamming-donors/?feed_id=10739

Are we seeing, at last, the beginnings of a revolution in the Anglican Church against its leaders’ cowardice over Israel’s genocide of Muslims and Christians in the Holy Land? On 31 October the Church of England House of Bishops issued a statement on Israel’s genocide against Palestinians which two clergymen in Cambridge found “profoundly inadequate as a response to the indiscriminate devastation already being inflicted upon the defenceless civilian population of Gaza”. On 13 December and again on 13 February the bishops had delivered stronger statements, but “these still fall far short of what is needed. Four months on from […] #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/03/bishops-rapped-over-feeble-response-to-holy-land-genocide/?feed_id=10415

Michael Gove is the UK’s Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, and he’s been tinkering with the meaning of ‘extremism’ to see if he can squeeze political advantage out of it for his doomed party and his own misguided ideology. He saw an opportunity in all the noisy pushing and shoving between Muslims and Jews as a result of the human misery and despair generated by Israel’s insane genocide in Gaza. Gove has just introduced a New Extremism Definition to Parliament. His ministerial statement mentions the “October 7 terror attacks in Israel” 3 times in as many […] #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/03/israels-desperate-fan-club-attempt-to-redefine-extremism/?feed_id=10019

Spreading propaganda through government ministers and MPs to claim that Israel has superior rights to the Palestinians’ and is therefore entitled to more advantageous treatment is tantamount to misleading Parliament and the public, and is a serious offence.     Andrew Mitchell, UK Minister of State for Development and Africa, issued a statement yesterday on Israel/Gaza which shouldn’t be allowed to escape criticism. Here are extracts.   “The Government supports Israel’s right to self-defence, in compliance with International Humanitarian Law, against the horrific terror attacks perpetrated by Hamas on 7 October 2023.”     The suggestion that Israel is “in […] #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/02/uk-government-is-still-lying-to-protect-israels-genocidal-maniacs/?feed_id=9355

Israel’s horrendous genocide continues unabated while our new foreign secretary Lord Cameron, brought back from the dead as it were (he’s no longer an elected Member of Parliament) and hurriedly created a peer of the realm to give some semblance of legitimacy, struts the international stage and criss-crosses the world’s trouble-spots. So I thought I’d offer a reminder that this guy has form. And I mean bad form. Back in December 2012 I wrote a piece titled Why they call him ‘Agent’ Cameron. It went like this. In a speech to Conservative Friends of Israel at a recent lunch [in […] #Europe #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/02/all-aboard-for-israel-apartheid-and-genocide/?feed_id=8915

100 Years of Balfour Declaration and Continuing Zahir Ebrahim Summary The focus on the ongoing genocide in Gaza by the indomitable power of Zionistan (see http://tinyurl.com/Secret-of-Israeli-Barbarianism ) is missing the real prime-movers of this genocide of Palestinians. Of course the Western World that obligatorily moans the Jews’ Shoah TM in World War II has not just turned a blind eye to the Jewish Shoah visited upon the Palestinians, but is openly aiding and abetting it, squelching even the verbal opposition to Israel’s premeditated Barbarianism in its mainstream presses and officially sanctioned narratives. Full text of The Balfour Declaration: November 2nd, […] #Featured #History #Investigations #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/01/100-years-of-balfour-declaration-and-continuing/?feed_id=8551

In the cover image Italian PM Giorgia Meloni, Joe Biden and UNRWA aids for Palestinians by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio VERSIONE IN ITALIANO From being passive accomplices of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Zionist regime in the genocide of Palestinians (Muslims and Christians), some Western countries led by President Joseph Biden’s USA have now become active participants in the extermination project aimed at depopulating the Gaza Strip to carry out the project of “Greater Israel” and rob the Arabs of Marine Gaza gas fields. “Genocide in Gaza due to Netanyahu’s War Crimes” Spanish Minister Denounces Israel “Apartheid”. Almost 3,000 Palestinians Killed Eight countries […] #Featured #IsraelWaronPalestine #Life #WarZone #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/01/western-retaliation-on-unrwa-agency-in-gaza-due-to-12-employees-among-13000-have-supported-hamas-attack-on-social/?feed_id=8523

On 24 January Parliament produced a rare treat where an MP held a Government minister to account over support for Israel’s appalling behaviour in Gaza and the Government’s attempts to cover up their own collusion. David Rutley MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) was being quizzed by Zarah Sultana (Coventry South) (Lab). The verbatim report in Hansard speaks for itself so I’ll simply let it run. Zarah Sultana: I would like to talk about the Government’s response to Israel’s violations of international law in Gaza and about revelations that I believe should be a major news story…. They […] #Featured #History #Investigations #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/01/does-any-sane-person-believe-israel-complies-with-international-law/?feed_id=8503

By Dr. Elias Akleh The psychological concept of “projection” indicates the process when a person attributes (projects) one of his own personal psychotic characteristics onto another person or onto a group of people in order to justify his own psychotic behaviors towards others. For example, a sadistic person would project his sadistic characteristics onto others in order to justify his own aggression against others. Or he would project his own inferiority complex onto others in order to promote his own self-aggrandizement. This “projection” is a very prominent Israeli characteristic exhibited dominantly by all Israeli officials in their statements and behaviors. […] #Featured #Investigations #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/01/the-ugly-bestiality-of-israel/?feed_id=8487

Let’s straighten out some of the nonsense that’s spread by Israel’s network of stooges to make the apartheid regime’s crimes against humanity seem justified. Chief amongst them is the insistence that Israel has a right of self-defence against Hamas in Gaza. This is designed to bolster the Israeli narrative and give the regime diplomatic ‘cover’ to commit any crime it wishes in Gaza. But UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese warns that “Israel cannot claim self-defence against a threat that emanates from the territory it occupies”. Common sense should tell us that, nevertheless the lie is repeated ad nauseam by Israel’s […] #Featured #Government #History #IsraelWaronPalestine #WarZone #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/01/propaganda-lies-that-protect-israels-genocidal-maniacs/?feed_id=8427