MEE—On Wednesday 9th October 2024, The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP), hosted a documentary screening of Al Jazeera’s documentary film titled Gaza, followed by a panel discussion featuring eyewitnesses of the war crimes. Among the attendees of the panel discussion were Youmna El Sayed, Al Jazeera’s English correspondent in Gaza, Susan Abulhawa, Palestinian writer and human rights activist, and Dr Victoria Rose, NHS plastic surgeon supporting trauma care services in Gaza since 2009. Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit exposed Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip through the medium of photos and videos posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves during the year long conflict. The unit has built up a database of thousands of videos, photos and social media posts. Where possible it has identified the posters and those who appear. The film also tells the story of the war through the eyes of Palestinian journalists, human rights workers and ordinary residents of the Gaza Strip.
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Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson | How the U.S. Took Over the World: The End of International Law!
90 Mins readMAIN EDITORS—Profs Michael Hudson and Richard D Wolff, both among the most original and articulate critics of globalism (aka Neoliberalism, Free Marketism, etc.), offer an incisive view of Western civilisation in its global imperial phase as the US Empire and its satellites struggle to keep the system’s hegemony afloat in the midst of incurable structural issues, and an indefensible foreign policy grounded in reckless chaos creation.
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Ex-U.S. Army Major Who Resigned over Gaza Warns Against Biden Sending 100 U.S. Troops to Israel
6 minutes readEDITORS—The Biden administration is sending an advanced anti-missile defense system and 100 U.S. troops to Israel in advance of expected retaliatory strikes against Iran. This marks the first significant deployment of American troops to Israel since the beginning of its assault on Gaza, though the U.S. has spent an estimated tens of billions of dollars on the Israeli military and related operations. “The irony here is the Iranian missile attack is only going to happen if we help Israel strike Iran first,” says Win Without War’s Harrison Mann. With the deployment of troops to Israeli military installations, says Mann, “Israel now has its own sort of American human shields” and “a new mechanism to drag America into a war with Hezbollah and Iran.” Mann, who is Jewish, is a former U.S. Army major who resigned from his position at the Defense Intelligence Agency in protest of U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza, a decision he says was inspired by student antiwar protests on U.S. campuses.
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“The Gaza Playbook”: Israel Brings Displacement, Death and Destruction to Lebanon Democracy Now!
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As Western media drags its feet: Israel Is Routinely Shooting Children in the Head in Gaza.
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