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Was Israel Under Existential Threat in June 1967?
Middle EastIsraeli planning and preparations paid off during the war. The victory, though, proved to be a devastating one. Israel has never recuperated from it. Fifty years after, much of the Jewish state’s energies are devoted to maintaining the brutal occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. And the protracted debate about whether to continue and hold these territories tears Israel’s society apart.
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Canada’s Effort to suppress “Popular Protests” against Israeli Occupation
Canadian PoliticsAround 1,000 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons have been on hunger strike since April 17. In the occupied West Bank thousands of protesters have taken to the streets and gone on strike in solidarity with the 6,500 Palestinians currently imprisoned by Israel. The Canadian media should cover the prisoners’ hunger strike and its challenge to PA security cooperation with Israel. Even better, it ought to report on Canada’s role in entrenching Israel’s 50-year-old occupation.
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Zionist Colonization is Not ‘Exceptional’: A Marxist Viewpoint
Middle EastThe colonial project in the state of Israel seeks to dispossess and subdue the indigenous people, and whenever needed, exploit their cheap labour for the benefit of capital. Capitalist class interests dominate the colonial states’ “peaceful resolution” of the conflicts with the colonized, aiming to retain the rule of capital and, in the globalized era, to enable economic neoliberalism.
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Cui bono? Uri Avnery on the Syrian poison gas controversy
Middle EastCui bono – “who benefits” – is the first question an experienced detective asks when investigating a crime. Since I was a detective myself for a short time in my youth, I know the meaning. Often, the first and obvious suspicion is false. You ask yourself “cui bono”, and another suspect, who you did not think about, appears.
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Trump, Syria, and Chemical Weapons: What We Know, What We Don’t, and the Dangers Ahead
Middle EastUS military escalation against Syria (because we must not forget that US Special Forces and US bombers are already fighting there) will not help the victims of this heinous chemical attack, it will not bring the devastating war in Syria to a quicker end, it will not bring back the dead children. It will not defeat ISIS or end terrorism, it will create more terrorists.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham calls for up to 7,000 American troops in Syria to take down Assad
Middle EastWhile the United States struck a Syrian airforce base on Thursday, the attack was, according to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), a one-off in response to an illegal use of chemical weapons earlier this week. But Graham warned that if Assad remains in power it “will ensure the war never ends,” reported Paul McLeod of BuzzFeed News.
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EKOS poll: Canada should support Israeli sanctions, not demonize them
Canadian PoliticsWhat could possibly justify Trudeau’s irrational stance when it comes to promoting peace between Israel and the Palestinians? In determining its policy towards Israel the Trudeau government has three apparent motivations at play: defending Israel’s right to exist, tending to Canada’s specific national interests and reflecting Canadian values.
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How to Beat Terrorism: Stop Making the Same 7 Mistakes
Middle EastIn the wake of the barbaric London terror attack, everyone is debating how to stop further terrorism. Some say we need more war against Islamic countries … or more spying … or more crackdowns on our liberties. But – despite what the talking heads may say – the methods for stopping future attacks are well known. We’ve got to drain the swamp. We need to stop supporting terrorists.
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Canada complicit in crafting colonial policies for Palestine
Canadian PoliticsMany Canadian political leaders were overjoyed by the Balfour Declaration. Several years after the First World War, Conservative Party leader Arthur Meighen, a Christian Zionist, claimed, “of all the results of the (war), none was more important and more fertile in human history than the reconquest of Palestine and the rededication of that country to the Jewish people.”
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Local workshops aim at transforming Canadians’ views on Israel-Palestine
Middle EastPrimarily aimed at members of Winnipeg’s Jewish community, the workshops will remain critical of Israel’s militarized society and acknowledge the difficulties many experience when attempting to broach the topic of Israeli-Palestinian relations. Emotionally-charged ideas, feelings and memories must be met with effective interpersonal communication if any attempt at reconciliation is to succeed.
