The UN tramples over human rights for Israel’s benefit
Thursday 15-December-2022
Rhetoric about alleged anti-Israel bias at the UN despite how unfounded the allegations are will never cease to reverberate.
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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Lapid exploits UN resolutions to further Israel’s security narrative
Friday 2-December-2022
The Israeli government is portraying itself as being worried about international delegitimization at the UN.
US concessions to Palestine always work in Israel’s favor
Sunday 27-November-2022
Further proof of US President Joe Biden reneging on his electoral promises with regard to Palestine is the ongoing refusal to reopen the US Consulate in occupied Jerusalem for use by Palestinians and opting instead for creating a new role of Special Representative for Palestinian Affairs which has been given to Hady Amr.
Only Abu Akleh’s US citizenship is of concern to Washington
Friday 18-November-2022
Israel is once again albeit temporarily under the spotlight for the targeted killing in May of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
Palestinians need more than Blinken’s empty words
Saturday 12-November-2022
With Likud’s Benjamin Netanyahu set to return as Israeli prime minister US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas spouting yet another round of futile rhetoric about improving the quality of life for Palestinians and of course reaffirming Washington’s adherence to the — surely defunct — two-state paradigm.
The UN’s ‘shared goal’ excludes the Palestinians
Monday 7-November-2022
What the Palestinian people want is far removed from what is being decided by governments and UN officials.
The Palestinian narrative is eliminated at the UN Security Council
Wednesday 2-November-2022
The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland extended the illusion of equivalence in speaking about the colonizer and the colonized.
The UN wastes Palestinian lives and time
Wednesday 26-October-2022
Israel’s colonial expansion has taken almost all of Palestine and yet the UN is still wasting time on telling everyone what should be and really is blindingly obvious.
The US National Security Strategy promotes the Abraham Accords
Monday 17-October-2022
In another nod to former US Donald Trump’s legacy the Biden administration has outlined its approach to Israel and Palestine in the 2022 National Security Strategy.
Palestine’s humanitarian paradigm only serves Israeli interests
Tuesday 11-October-2022
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has once again exposed how the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and the Palestinian refugees themselves are subject to a cycle of exploitative violence which does more to serve the international organization’s humanitarian paradigm.
The EU-Israel Association exposes the bloc’s reliance on Israel
Friday 30-September-2022
Article 2 of the EU-Israel Association agreement states “Relations between the Parties as well as all the provisions of the Agreement itself shall be based on respect for human rights and democratic principles which guides their internal and international policy and constitutes an essential element of this Agreement.”
The EU should stop exploiting Palestinian NGOs
Tuesday 20-September-2022
If the EU did not embark upon “shows of support” to use the phrase synonymous with anything related diplomatically to Palestine there would be nothing to its name through which the bloc could claim any semblance of accomplishment in this arena.
Israel and the US are accomplices in ambiguity and impunity
Wednesday 7-September-2022
No criminal investigation will be opened to establish who killed Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in May.
Israel’s visible violence is protected by its own impunity
Friday 26-August-2022
When Israel’s violations are caught on camera it seeks to scapegoat the identifiable individuals only in order to safeguard the state’s institutions.
Gantz Lapid are on same page in intentions towards the Palestinians
Friday 19-August-2022
For Israeli officials who disagree with the meetings between Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas the latter’s remarks during a press conference in Germany provided an opportunity to showcase their opposition.
Israel’s fake security narrative is bolstered by the Abraham Accords
Wednesday 10-August-2022
“The deaths of innocent people particularly children is heart-breaking” said Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid without any signs that his heart was breaking.