Hiding war crimes
The arrogant militarism of Western leaders has been revealed anew with the publishing of the long-awaited Chilcot Report.
Leslie Bravery
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Posturing and selective commitment
At 1:30am, 9 June 2016, three Palestinian fishermen in two small boats came to the end of an exhausting 13-hour fishing trip. As they began their return to port an Israeli Navy gunboat approached, hurling abuse from a loudhailer before opening fire on them and wounding a fisherman, Rajab Khaled Abu Riela. The warship then rammed one of the fishing boats.
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No refuge
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194 recognises the Palestinian people’s inalienable right of return. Today there are over five million Palestinian refugees eligible for UNRWA protection.
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Israel’s founding ideology
On 4 May, the eve of this year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israeli Deputy Chief of Staff, Maj. Gen. Yair Golan, delivered a public address at the Massuah Institute for Holocaust Studies, comparing the political situation in Israel and the events that led to the ending of the Weimar Republic and the Nazi takeover of power.
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Relentless Provocation
One of the most frequently repeated excuses for Israeli aggression, including the ruinous blockade of Gaza, is the claim that Palestinian missiles are constantly raining down on Israel from Gaza.
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Surrendering Reason to Myth
Pro-Israel propaganda has so affected the thinking of Western Society that otherwise well-meaning people feel compelled to treat as equals the militarily superior, Occupying power, Israel, and the defenceless Palestinian population and refugees that it rules and controls.
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No surrender to injustice
Another Israeli West Bank land grab: “the latest step in what appears to be an ongoing process of land expropriations, settlement expansions and legalisations of outposts . . .” [US State Department spokesman John Kirby]
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Israel – censured yet never restrained
With less than nine months left to make a difference at the Security Council, New Zealand’s leaders must be persuaded to act. Confront their consciences. Allow them no excuses and make the Security Council live up to its name.
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Partition is apartheid – reunify the Holy Land
At first sight, for many well-meaning people, the two-states ‘solution’ would seem to be the most rational and just way…
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Appeasement and Impunity
On 18 January 2016, US Ambassador Daniel Shapiro told a conference, attended by Israeli politicians and military officials, that Israel needs to halt settlement expansion and control settler violence.