Sun 8-September-2024

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.

In Netanyahu’s warped mind, committing war crimes is Israel’s right

According to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “The court established to prevent atrocities like the Nazi Holocaust against the Jewish people is now targeting the one state of the Jewish people.”

From the river to the sea – a call for rightful decolonization

Israeli media is celebrating another win for its narrative, as the US Congress passed a resolution condemning the Palestinian resistance chant, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, as anti-Semitic.

A change in rhetoric, not in humanitarian aid

To keep reading that Israel’s strike on the World Central Kitchen (WCK) that killed foreign aid workers besides Palestinians was the pivot point to slightly alter US President Joe Biden’s rhetoric, is nothing more but an ongoing affirmation that Palestinian lives do not matter.

Israel not only wants to destroy UNRWA, but all humanitarian endeavours

To eliminate the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) completely, Israel is pushing a false narrative that it operates as “part of the terrorist infrastructure of Hamas”.

Kushner’s vision for ‘rebuilding Gaza’ is shameful

“It’s unfortunate that no one’s taking in the refugees,” lamented former White House advisor during the Trump administration Jared Kushner.

Humanitarian aid is a genocidal tool in the hands of Israel and the US

Israel has no intention of allowing any meaningful amount of humanitarian aid to reach Gaza.

Palestinians are paying the price for the UN’s colonial complicity with Israel

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees was established in December 1949 and commenced its operations in May 1950, supposedly until a solution to what the UN termed “the Palestinian refugee problem” is found.

The UN is complicit in the forced displacement of the Palestinians

Never, ever, trust the UN’s concept of human rights.

Killing Palestinians through useless debate is the international community’s tactic

As Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people unfolds for the entire world to see in real time on social media, world leaders have only managed to debate humanitarian “pauses” rather than a ceasefire.

Humanitarian aid and mass starvation

Zionist attempts at rationalizing Israel’s violence are devoid of any logic.

Israel and its allies seek to annihilate UNRWA and the Palestinian people

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on South Africa’s legal case about Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza is the latest example of normalizing the settler-colonial entity’s existence and its actions.

The EU is both dismissing and endorsing Israel’s genocide

“What we want to do is to build a two-state solution. So let’s talk about it,” EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell stated prior to a meeting in Brussels with Israeli and Palestinian officials.

Killing and banning journalists reveals what Israel wants to conceal

On Monday, Israel’s High Court declared that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) can continue barring foreign journalists from entering Gaza, on the pretext of security concerns.

What the international community’s silence over Israel’s colonial violence has reaped in Gaza

“We cannot let the idea take root that an efficient fight against terrorism implies to flatten Gaza or attack civilian populations indiscriminately,” French President Emmanuel Macron stated a week ago.

Forced transfer, ‘moral imperative’ and colonial contempt

Two op-eds published on Christmas Day, one by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Wall Street Journal, and the other in the Jerusalem Post by Joel Roskin, geologist and geographer at Bar-Ilan University, both point towards the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza.

Netanyahu hints at expanding colonial violence to the Occupied West Bank

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, made an erroneous but revealing statement during Monday’s Knesset meeting of the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee.