BOGATA — For exactly one month now, a nationwide strike has crippled Colombia and has been met with deadly repression by the far-right government of Ivan Duque. As trade unions have shut down major cities, halting mass transit and bringing economic gridlock to the country, government forces have responded with violence. According to government figures, at least 44 people have been killed in protests that began on April 28. A further 500 people have been “disappeared,” more than 100 shot with live fire, and at least 28 have been wounded in the eye by police, the notorious ESMAD riot squad, or by paramilitary organizations linked to the state.
Birds of a Fascist Feather: Why Israel Is Aiding Colombia’s Crackdown on Protesters
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Has Palestine resistance won?
By Robert Inlakesh | Quds News Network | May 21, 2021
When this Friday’s ceasefire was announced between Palestinian resistance groups and ‘Israel’, there was only one side celebrating, the Palestinians, who had taken to the streets to celebrate a historic defeat of Israel’s military machine.
Has Palestine resistance won?
Dear President Biden: End Your Co-Belligerent Backing of Israeli War Crimes, by Ralph Nader
Time to End the Silence on Israel’s Nuclear Weapons
While Israel’s large arsenal of nuclear weapons is exempt from any discussion, its government drives the suspicion of Iran’s nuclear energy program, writes Mehrnaz Shahabi.
Time to End the Silence on Israel’s Nuclear Weapons
Al-Aqsa Mosque: Israel police storm the complex following Gaza ceasefire
Al-Aqsa Mosque: Israel police storm the complex following Gaza ceasefire
Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said officers had been targeted by Palestinians who threw stones, and began “riot” suppressing measures.
At least 20 Palestinians have been wounded, with two being taken to hospital, according to Palestine Red Crescent. Reuters reported stones and molotov cocktails being thrown towards police.
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Israeli police injure 20 Palestinians at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque
The mask of “liberal democracy” falls with a bang
Nakba, May 15, 2021. Future historians will mark the day when Western “liberal democracy” issued a graphic proclamation: We bomb media offices and destroy “freedom of the press” in an open air concentration camp while we forbid peaceful demonstrations under a state of siege in the heart of Europe.
The mask of “liberal democracy” falls with a bang
Crash Test Dummy = Joe Biden. 😂
Netanyahu Is Leading Israel Into Civil War Between Jews and Palestinians + More
Netanyahu Is Leading Israel Into Civil War Between Jews and Palestinians
What is indisputable, though, is his greatest decades-long magic trick: Building an almost impermeable bubble around Israeli Jews to shield and blind them from both entrenched oppression of, and escalating violence against, the Palestinians, both inside the 1967 borders and beyond them.
A whole generation of Jewish Israelis, raised in the safest (for them) Israel ever, have grown up with no awareness of the Green Line at all. They heard stories about the intifadas but for them, the conflict was ‘well-maintained’ and mostly out of sight and mind. The Abraham Accords, with the eager, unconditional embrace of Gulf states, seemed to prove that the there was no ‘Palestinian issue’ anymore.
What they couldn’t see from their segregated world was that for Palestinians, the conflict never ended.
More Israeli-Palestinian News:
Enough is Enough: It is Time for Apartheid to End, by Kenn Orphan
by Kenn Orphan Writer, Dandelion Salad Halifax, Nova Scotia May 12, 2021
I have anxiety in my heart tonight. I have friends in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel, Palestinians and Israeli Jews, and I am truly fearing for them. Several of them have reported explosions close to their homes. Buildings and entire blocks have been flattened in Gaza, rockets have fallen in Tel Aviv, and rightwing Israeli mobs are terrorizing Palestinians at Al Aqsa Mosque. And this feels like the build up of something big. Like it felt before the 2014 assault on Gaza. I pray this isn’t so, but it is difficult to ignore the signs.
Enough is Enough: It is Time for Apartheid to End, by Kenn Orphan
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Israeli warplanes bomb two locations in central Gaza + Scores of worshipers injured for 2nd night as Israel clamps down on worshipers
Israeli warplanes bomb two locations in central Gaza
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Scores of worshipers injured for 2nd night as Israel clamps down on worshipers
The forces used rubber-coated rounds, stun grenades and teargas to attack the worshipers, leaving at least 90 people wounded, of whom 30 were hospitalized. Several of the injuries were for children below 18, including a 12-month-ol toddler.
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