Settler violence and Israel’s impenetrable web of impunity
Wednesday 20-October-2021
As happens each year during the Palestinian olive harvest Israel’s illegal settlers are destroying olive trees and attacking Palestinian farmers.
Ramona Wadi
Ramona Wadi is an independent researcher freelance journalist book reviewer and blogger. Her writing covers a range of themes in relation to Palestine Chile and Latin America. Her article appeared in MEMO.
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“UN report exposes the failings of two-state diplomacy”
Thursday 30-September-2021
Each year the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) provides proof of the fallacy upon which the two-state compromise in Palestine-Israel is based.
The UN’s scrutiny of Israel deflects from its complicity
Friday 17-September-2021
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is spearheading an initiative ahead of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly urging governments and diplomats to reject the so-called anti-Israel bias at an international level.
HRW indirectly promotes Israel’s colonial narrative and aggression
Sunday 29-August-2021
There is a stark difference in the language used by Human Rights Watch (HRW) in its April 2017 report which describes Israel as having committed crimes of apartheid and its more recent July and August reports on Gaza which cast doubt on whether Israel committed war crimes in its offensives against the enclave.
The UN is only ‘deeply concerned’ about protecting Israel
Sunday 22-August-2021
So “deeply concerned” is the UN at the Israeli raid of the offices of Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCIP) that the belated official statement by the special rapporteurs suggests that Israel – a colonial military occupation and apartheid regime – should instead be protecting the organization and its work.
The international community has normalized Israel’s colonial violence
Friday 13-August-2021
Israel’s dependence on being able to act with absolute impunity through its military and other institutions as well as its illegal settlers continues to leave a trail of oppressive destruction for the people of occupied Palestine.
The status quo is being reinforced for Israel’s benefit
Saturday 7-August-2021
Palestine has been lost through decades of waiting while the UN sets the scene to aid Israel’s colonial plunder.
The two-state compromise normalizes Israeli colonialism
Friday 30-July-2021
Following the signing of last year’s Abraham Accords brokered by the Trump administration the international community woke up to the normalization of Israel’s colonization of Palestine; nobody seemed to be particularly averse to this.
Israel’s colonial expansion does not happen in a political vacuum
Friday 23-July-2021
When European diplomats visit the occupied Palestinian territories to observe the damage wrought by Israel’s home demolitions and forced displacement the only response is generally to “urge the Israeli authorities to cease such actions.”
‘Neutrality’ and humanitarian aid for Palestinian refugees
Tuesday 20-July-2021
US President Joe Biden has transferred $135.8 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) following the signing of the 2021-2022 Framework for Cooperation and with additional conditions for the agency’s commitment to “neutrality”.
The EU backs the unfeasible in favor of Israel’s colonial expansion
Tuesday 13-July-2021
Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid stressed the importance of a “new start” in relations with the EU during a meeting of the European Foreign Affairs Council yesterday.
Israel’s demands for Gaza’s reconstruction must be opposed
Saturday 26-June-2021
The international community speaks of mechanisms while Israel is preoccupied with exploiting the need for Gaza to be reconstructed to free the Israelis held by Hamas in the enclave.
EU officials find common ground with Naftali Bennett
Friday 18-June-2021
In July last year the EU’s High Representative Josep Borrell penned a brief blog warning against Israel’s annexation of the occupied West Bank.
Israel’s arrogance demands more than political subservience
Sunday 13-June-2021
A single perceived omission according to Israel’s colonial agenda was enough to turn down requests for the EU’s Middle East Peace Envoy Sven Koopmans to visit Israel.
Israeli settler-colonialism protects US interests
Wednesday 9-June-2021
The US will not get involved in the current government turbulence in Israel but remains committed to the security of the settler-colonial state White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has declared.
Israel is more important than the lives of those forced to live in it
Thursday 3-June-2021
Two weeks ago while the international community was busying itself with statements condemning Hamas rockets in an attempt to steer the narrative away from Israel’s colonial expansionism Palestinians were also protesting the forthcoming construction of 350 settlement dwellings in Beit El.