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A Palestinian boy stands amid the destruction after an Israeli strike in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023.
TWO carrier fleets now provide extra military cover for the US’s “unsinkable” aircraft carrier already established in the eastern Mediterranean.
Dressed up as a bid to prevent the present conflict from consuming the region, this is code for the US strategy to limit the Gaza conflict to an unequal contest between Israel’s extraordinarily powerful military and the tiny militias that the various Palestinian formations deploy.
Israel’s protestation that its mission is to eliminate Hamas is designed both to satisfy a powerful trend in Israeli public opinion for revenge and give cover to a bid to force Palestinians living in Gaza — most of whom are from families already uprooted from their homes in other parts of Palestine — to become refugees.
As antisemitism grows, the labour movement must recommit to defence of minorities while navigating the complexities of Gaza and global politics, argues NICK WRIGHT
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
Taking a brief look at who the US president surrounds himself with reveals a team dedicated to the complete erasure of Palestine, not justice and civil rights for its people, writes TERRY HANSEN
Israeli media awash with leaks and rumours of Netanyahu’s plans to seize Gaza. Meanwhile, the unrelenting siege of Gaza continues unabated