First published by TRT World on 31/12/2018 2018 was one of the worst years for the Palestinian cause, suffering serious blows in its quest for peace and independence. The outlook for 2019 is the same, but Palestine's resilience and hope in the face of adversity is unwavering. 2018 is likely to be remembered as one …
Category: War crimes
HSBC divests from major Israeli arms company ten years after Operation Cast Lead
First published by the Middle East Monitor on 27/12/2018 Activists come together to protest outside branches of HSBC bank over shares in an Israeli arms company accused of manufacturing internationally banned weapons [Ryan Ashcroft] It is ten years since Israel launched a major military offensive against the people of the Gaza Strip, which it called Operation …
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How Israel uses attacks as an excuse to expand illegal settlements
First published by TRT World on 19/12/2018 Illegal settlement building is increasingly becoming a favoured collective punishment against Palestinians. If only Israel was as creative in seeking peace with the Palestinians as it is in finding different ways to punish them. A policy of dehumanisation that aims to present Palestinians to the world as sub-human, …
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While Arab states normalise relations with Israel, British voters lobby MPs for Palestine
First published by the Middle East Monitor on 3/12/2018 November was an extraordinary month for normalisation between Arab states and Israel. You would think that Israel had settled its disputes with its neighbours — perhaps accepting and implementing the Arab peace initiative, for example, — and that a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital was …
Western hypocrisy: Khashoggi and Murtaja two deceased journalists but the world will only remember one
First published by the Middle East Monitor on 30/10/2018 Rushdi Sarraj [r], co-founder of Ain Media and Yaser Murtaja who was killed by an Israeli sniper in April Yaser Murtaja was a Palestinian photojournalist who had gone to the Gaza fence with Israel to cover the second Friday of the Great Return March. He was killed by …
Interview: Israeli troops periodically storm West Bank, arrest, abduct Palestinians
I was interviewed by Press TV on 24/10/2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhJzzSrVqkk&feature=youtu.be
Trump’s Administration will fail to break the Palestinians
First published by the Middle East Monitor on 11/9/2018 Trump and Netanyahu are now brothers in arms in racism against the Palestinians US President Donald Trump (L) is welcomed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) in Tel Aviv on 22 May 2017 [Daniel Bar On/Anadolu Agency] The Palestinian people and their cause are facing …
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Israel approves over 1,000 settler units in West Bank
I was interviewed by Press TV on 22/8/2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqMKd9hGH50
How the US and Israel are working to transform Gaza into the Palestinian state
First published by the Middle East Eye on 26/7/2018 Trump’s team is focusing on how to force the Palestinians in Gaza - and Hamas - to submit and accept their dictates or face further misery The heat is on - again - in Gaza, as Israel tightens its siege and continues to kill and maim …
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Israeli violations, settlement building and Apartheid
I was interviewed by Press Tv's On the News Line in 26/7/2018 https://youtu.be/e5WXV8vGoVU
