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‘There Was No Mercy, Even on Children’: Trauma in the West Bank after Israeli Raids
Julian Borger and Sufian Taha | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Sep 2024
31 Aug 2024 – Israel accused of using a 10-year-old girl as a human shield as it carried out its devastating attack on the occupied Palestinian territory.
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‘The Soldiers Opened the Way for the Settlers’: Pogroms Surge Across West Bank
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2024
18 Apr 2024 – Armed Israeli settlers raided more than a dozen Palestinian communities under the army’s guard, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake.
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Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023
Two weeks after the attack, it is still unclear what the alleged “Hamas apparatus” beneath the al-Shifa hospital consisted of. “Minimizing carnage” of the innocent has proved to be a pipe dream; the massacre has taken more than 13,000 Palestinian lives, some 5,000 of whom were children.
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International Inertia Follows Israeli Assault on Jenin in the West Bank
Catherine Wilson | IPS - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023
28 Jul 2023 – The likelihood of further confrontations remains high following a major Israeli military assault on an impoverished camp of more than 23,500 Palestinian refugees in Jenin in the occupied West Bank earlier this month.
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Jenin Raid Is Over–Palestinians Are Left to Cope with the Trauma
Virginia Pietromarchi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jul 2023
10 Jul 2023 – Palestinians sift through the wreckage of their destroyed homes and of their damaged psyches. In Palestine, there’s no PTSD. Trauma is chronic and enduring.
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‘I Can’t Fall Asleep’: The Trauma of Israeli Raids on Palestinian Homes
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Dec 2020
2 Dec 2020 – A new report by human rights groups highlights the arbitrary nature and psychological harm of the Israeli army’s home invasions on Palestinian families.
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Even for the West Bank, This Is a Shocking Story
Gideon Levy and Alex Levac | Haaretz – Reader Supported News, 1 Apr 2019
A young Palestinian’s attempt to help a stranger shot by Israeli troops costs him his life
→ read full articleAustralia: Desperate Refugee Sets Fire to Himself in a Bank
Peter Byrne | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2016
22 Nov 2016 – A young Rohingya who fled Burma as an unaccompanied teenager four years ago doused himself with petrol and set himself alight in a branch of the Commonwealth Bank. Nur Islam, 21, had been living in acute poverty at Melbourne. He was on a temporary bridging visa, which not only denied him refugee status but blocked basic social and political rights, including to work.
→ read full articleThe Lie that Prosecuting Bank Fraud Will Destabilize the Economy Is What Is REALLY Destroying the Economy
Washington’s Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Dec 2012
Failing to Prosecute White Collar Crime Guarantees a Weak and Unstable Economy … and Future Financial Crashes – After all, the main driver of economic growth is a strong rule of law.
→ read full articleICELAND ON THE THAMES –CAN COUNTRIES REALLY GO BANKRUPT?
SPIEGEL Staff, 1 Feb 2009
The bailout packages aimed at shoring up financial markets in Europe are getting increasingly expensive. A creeping depreciation of currency is inevitable and state bankruptcies can no longer be ruled out. Could the euro zone also fall victim to the global financial crisis? "There’s a rumor going around that states cannot go bankrupt," German Chancellor […]
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Johan Galtung, 20 Dec 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Dec 2010
Feminism has made an enormous contribution by identifying patriarchy as a pattern underlying capitalism and militarism…. Making patriarchy visible through brilliant feminist articulation is a transcending contribution, reminiscent of the marxist focus on another deep structure hidden to the unguided eye: the interface of means and modes of production. Or Lenin and others on imperialism, Gandhi and many others on colonialism. Race. And agism: like placing people above 67 etc. in a ghetto called retirement (or children in a ghetto called schools?).
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‘I Felt like a Nazi’: Zionists Admit Genocide
Kit Klarenberg | Global Delinquents – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2025
16 Jan 2025 – On 23 Dec 2024, Haaretz published an extraordinary investigation into the “impact” of Zionist Occupation Force “brutality” on the “mental health” of its own militants. Specifically, “moral injury” incurred by Tel Aviv’s soldiers while perpetrating unabashed genocide in Gaza.
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Psychologists Call for Justice and Accountability: Confronting the Atrocities against Palestinian Lives
Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2025
17 Jan 2025 – This is an official statement of the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence, Division 48 of the American Psychological Association, and does not represent the position of the American Psychological Association or any of its other Divisions or subunits.
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What Is Time? And when Is Time Up?
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2025
12 Jan 2025 – All we know is that the times they are a-changin’ constantly. So here are some thoughts about history, micro and macro time, productive time, ageing with joy toward the end of time – and why the future is more important than the past…
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For Israeli Police, Humiliating Palestinian Women Is a Tool of Collective Repression
Mariam Farah | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024
20 Dec 2024 – Political arrests of Palestinian women in Israel — who face strip-searches, blindfolding, and doxxing — aim to send the community a clear message.
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The Scene of the Crime
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024
26 Dec 2024 – Another holiday season marked by war and death in the Middle East, Ukraine, and Gaza. In keeping with the glum spirit of our time, I fill in with an old, but relevant, piece, published in the New Yorker in 2015, about the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
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Why a Civil Society Tribunal on Gaza Genocide Is Necessary
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024
15 Dec 2024 – The idea of a Peoples or Civil Society Tribunal on the genocidal blockade of Palestinian civilians is a valuable initiative. A proposal with adequate funding by the Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum in Turkey came to our attention last May.
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Letter to Refaat Alareer
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024
A year ago, on 6 Dec 2023, Israel murdered Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer in Gaza. His poems, however, remain, condemning his killers and beseeching us to honor our shared humanity.
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Two Weeks in Beirut
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024
13 Nov 2024 – In the middle of a shopping street in Dahiya, our driver pulls up at a checkpoint manned by armed militia in civilian clothes, to see if we could start filming. Then it all starts to go wrong.
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Lee Lakeman and the Whoredom of the Left
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024
16 Nov 2024 – The radical feminist Lee Lakeman has spent her life calling out patriarchy for its oppression, the left for its bankruptcy, neoliberalism for its cruelty and organizing women to fight back.
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Israeli Scholar: Exterminate, Expel, Resettle–>Israel’s Endgame in Northern Gaza
Prof. Idan Landau | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2024
1 Nov 2024 – Debates over the details of the ‘Generals’ Plan’ distract from the true brutality of Israel’s latest operation — one that drops the veneer of humanitarian considerations and lays the groundwork for settlements.
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What Drives Israel
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Nov 2024
29 Oct 2024- The dehistoricizing and decontextualization of the Hamas attack of Oct 7 was spread around the world by the most influential global media platforms and political leaders, and led to widespread sympathy for Israel and tolerance of their response despite its legally and ethically unacceptable character.
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Israel Kills the Journalists–Western Media Kills the Truth of Genocide in Gaza
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024
25 Oct 2024 – Western publics are being subjected to a campaign of psychological warfare, where genocide is classed as ‘self-defence’ and opposition to it ‘terrorism.’
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A Nonviolent Resistance Movement Is at Work in Palestine–Activists Say It’s the Only Way Forward
Ken Butigan | America Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024
The ongoing genocide in Gaza and the military operations in the occupied West Bank are a seething cauldron of escalating violence. But a movement of courageous nonviolent resistance is at work in the Palestinian territories—which activists say is the only effective way toward peace.
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Roy Eidelson | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024
23 Oct 2024 – The American Psychological Association claims to “prioritize human rights advocacy,” but if its leaders want to truly honor that commitment they must recognize and address the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza today.
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New York Times Attacks “Peace-peddling” Jill Stein as the Presidential Race Comes Down to the Wire
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024
23 Oct 2024 – The New York Times scapegoats Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein as polls indicate a dead heat between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
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Israel’s War on the World
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Oct 2024
17 Oct 2024 – Israel’s ever-expanding war to bomb its way to the promised land of Greater Israel, the world’s efforts to enforce international law and restore peace, and the U.S. role in preventing a resolution and fueling the crisis.
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USA-Israel-Palestine: Truths That Come Out Like the Sun
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Oct 2024
The Israelis are not at war with the Palestinians of Gaza, just as the Reich was not at war with the Jews of Europe. Genocide is something different. “The truth is like the sun.. It always comes out.”
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Israel’s Paradox of Defeat
Aluf Benn | Foreign Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Oct 2024
4 Oct 2024 – How the Country’s Military Success Is Producing Political Failure – After a year of war, the long-term threats to Israel’s democracy are graver than ever.
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Nonviolent Resistance in Palestine Is More Dangerous Than Ever — But It’s the Only Way Forward
Sami Awad | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – We are not going to build a better future for all people in this land by killing or dominating each other. We need a proactive nonviolent movement with vision and strategy.
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Part of the Mechanism of Genocide in Palestine: The Complicity of ‘Mainstream’ Media
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Oct 2024
9 Oct 2024 – Netanyahu justified Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza in a speech to US Congress in July: ‘It’s a clash between barbarism and civilization; between those who glorify death and those who sanctify life.’ The BBC did not provide an editorial warning that many would find such words ‘abhorrent.’
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Rethinking International Law after Gaza: A Symposium and a Call to Action
Mohsen al Attar | Opinio Juris - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – “In Gaza, we are not simply treating children with war wounds, but wounded children who are dehydrated, under-nourished, who have lost everything they knew of safety, who are so psychologically traumatized by displacement and loss that some plead with our medics to just let them die.”
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Weaponizing Antisemitism 101: A Back-to-School Special
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Sep 2024
23 Sep 2024 – For anyone — including a Jew like myself — who hasn’t stubbornly closed their eyes and covered their ears over the past eleven months, one thing should be obvious: it’s simply absurd to label outrage, protest, and despair over the plight of Palestinians in Gaza as “antisemitism.” Period.
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The Pager Attack
Adam Shatz | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Sep 2024
19 Sep 2024 – What next? Is Netanyahu betting on a Hizbullah overreaction? Is he trying to open a second front and to drag Iran – and the USA – into war? Are the attacks part of his effort to return Donald Trump to the White House, or is he simply trying to stay in power with a show of military force?
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Palestinian Prisoners Endure ‘Guantanamo-like’ Conditions in Israeli Torture Camps: Report
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024
29 Jul 2024 – A new report from The Washington Post published today details Israel’s torture, starvation, and killing of Palestinians in its prison system in a manner resembling the notorious US prison in Guantanamo Bay.
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Humanitarian Situation in the Gaza Strip
Update #199 | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024
2 Aug 2024 – The Humanitarian Situation Update is issued by OCHA Occupied Palestinian Territory three times per week. The Gaza Strip is covered on Mondays and Fridays, and the West Bank is covered on Wednesdays.
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Israeli Soldiers Will Soon Find Ways to Tell Their Media about the Terror Inside Gaza
Ralph Nader – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024
2 Aug 2024 – Israeli soldiers bask in the self-serving praise showered upon them by politicians, but privately they know BS when they hear it… If you don’t care what Netanyahu is doing over there, you’d better care about what he’s doing to the US, our Congress, our tax dollars, our freedom of speech and our national security.
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Congress: Netanyahu Commands, US Obeys
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024
24 Jul 2024 – USA as ‘Savior,’ Israel as ‘Victim’ – Bibi, who addresses a joint-session of Congress today, is the subject of an arrest warrant from the ICC. He has demanded the US shield Israel from criticism while continuing to arm and support its genocide — and the U.S. has answered his call.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 22 Jul 2024
Zionism: The End of an Illusion
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024
The question remains: what does Zionism have to do with Judaism? The answer is to be found in history rather than in sacred texts.
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The Old Evil
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024
12 Jul 2024 – I returned to occupied Palestine after two decades and experienced once more the visceral evil of Israel’s occupation. It was like this for Blacks in the segregated south and Indigenous Americans. It was like this for Algerians under the French. It was like this in India, Ireland and Kenya under the British.
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A Flawed Peace Conference Offers a Radical Proposal: Hope
Haggai Matar | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024
4 Jul 2024 – In a context of fear, hatred, and violence, an Israeli-Palestinian gathering that seemed detached from reality actually represented something revolutionary.
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The Neck and the Sword
Prof. Rashid Khalidi interviewed by Tariq Ali | New Left Review - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024
Rashid Khalidi talks to Tariq Ali about the history of the Palestinian national movement, its fraught relations with neighbouring Arab regimes, the realities of the US-run ‘peace process’, Israel’s grip on the Biden Administration and the strategic calculations – or miscalculations – of Hamas.
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The Burning of Rafah’s Tent People
Jeffrey St. Clair | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jun 2024
31 May 2024 – People were saying their evening prayers when the IDF attacked the refuge camp at Tel al-Sultan in southern Gaza, where thousands had fled from the Israeli invasion of Rafah. They were told by the Israelis this was a safe zone, a secure place to shelter their children and grandparents.
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Jewish Prophets Who Predicted Nightmarish Escalation of Israeli-Palestine Conflict Were Blacklisted and Ignored
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024
Israel’s Claim to Be a Great Democracy Is Undermined by Its Mistreatment Not Only of the Palestinians but also of Jewish Writers and Intellectuals Who Exposed the Ugly Truth behind Israeli Policies and Strove for Peaceful Cohabitation with the Palestinians
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My Grandfather’s Nakba
[From TMS Editor: Today (15 May) marks the 76th anniversary of the Nakba (Catastrophe), the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes to establish the State of Israel. To remember this infamous date, we are reposting this piece from May 2021. Actually, the Nakba never ended.]
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Israel’s UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan Does World a Favor by Making Plain Israel’s Doomed-to-Fail Strategy
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024
14 May 2024 – Likud’s tactical approach relies entirely on the U.S. for Israel’s security, as the sole blocking force in a world community that is increasingly united and aghast at massive Israeli war crimes. How much longer can they carry on this way?
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Biden’s Genocide on Gaza Is Now a War on Truth and the Right to Protest
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024
10 May 2024 – The media’s role is to draw attention away from what the students are protesting – complicity in genocide – and engineer a moral panic to leave the genocide undisturbed.
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What Choice Do the Rohingya Have?
Maung Zarni | Democratic Voice of Burma – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 May 2024
6 May 2024 – Who will protect the Rohingya in Myanmar? This is becoming an urgent question. And yet there are no easy answers. The latest tactic by the Myanmar military is the forceful conscription of Rohingya males to fight against the ethnic Rakhine Arakan Army.
→ read full article“Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship”—a Rwanda Review
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 May 2024
8 May 2024 – Ann Garrison continues her series of reviews of books important to understanding the Rwandan Genocide and Rwanda as it is today during this 30th anniversary year of the 1994 massacres.
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UN Vote Was for Palestinian Membership, Not Statehood
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 May 2024
10 May 2024 – In a blow to the U.S., the U.N. General Assembly voted today to give Palestine, whose statehood it has already acknowledged, full U.N. membership, forcing the U.S. into another embarrassing veto at the Security Council.
→ read full articleThe Power of Imagination: How About a 5-State Solution for West Asia?
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 May 2024
The beauty of a one-state solution within a five-state community is that no one would be displaced or forced to move. All the interior borders, walls, barbed-wire fences, surveillance towers and checkpoints would be eliminated. With a robust constitution guaranteeing equal rights for all, Muslims, Christians and Jews could freely choose to live in any part of the country, from the river to the sea.
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A Middle East Peace That Could Happen (But Won’t)
Noam Chomsky | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 May 2024
5 May 2024 – In Washington-Speak, “Palestinian State” Means “Fried Chicken”
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The Gaza Genocide as Explicit Policy: Michael Hudson Names All Names
Dilip Simeon | After the Truth Shower – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2024
17 Apr 2024 – The essential background to understand the unthinkable: a 21st century genocide broadcast live 24/7 to the whole planet–a first.
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Dead on Arrival
Ellen Cantarow | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Apr 2024
14 Apr 2024 – Words can’t express the horrors of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. To actually feel the nightmare, you would have to be there under the bombs, fleeing with Palestinians desperately seeking a safe place that doesn’t exist; seeing building after building destroyed…
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The New German Chauvinism (Part 2)
Bue Rübner Hansen | Lefteast - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Apr 2024
Does the German state’s adoption of Holocaust memorialization blocks the re-emergence of the far-right, strengthens democracy, prevents racism, and undermines antisemitism?
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Peace Journalism Training for Journalists in Afghanistan
Jake Lynch and Matt Freear | MDPI-Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Apr 2024
18 Mar 2024 – A Contribution to the ‘Preventing Violent Extremism-PVE Project’ in the New Afghanistan
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44% of All Palestinians Killed by Israel Since October 7 Are Children
Abdul Rahman | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Apr 2024
8 Apr 2024 – Over 14,000 children have been killed and nearly 17,000 others have lost at least one or both of their parents in the Israeli bombings or ground offensives in the last six months in Gaza.
→ read full articleDestroy Hamas? No! End the Gaza War and Begin the Peace Process!
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Apr 2024
In Northern Ireland Catholic Republicans and Protestant Unionists learned to share power even though organizations like the Irish Republican Army and Ulster Defense Alliance had both massacred “enemy” civilians. Black and white South Africans agreed on a new political order even though militants of the African National Congress and the National Party had terrorized each other for decades…. Destroying Hamas, it seems clear, is not the road to peace.
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Elections in Narendrabhai Damodardas Modi’s Bharat Hindutva: A Lesson in the Transformation of Democracy in Religious Autocracy (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Apr 2024
This paper is written as an objective analysis of the current political climate in India, prior to the general election, being the largest democracy in the world. Readers are invited to discuss any statements, perceived as biased and prejudiced, with the author.
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Global Human Rights Institutions: A Veneer of Peace Propagation by Toothless Alligators (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Apr 2024
Since WW II numerous Human Rights institutions have been established globally to monitor violations and to issue statements either directly or through the jurisdiction of the UN. The question arises whether these official bodies are toothless alligators or are they formed as whitewash bodies to play the tunes of the inevitable System, based on an ethos of Consensus Conformity.
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“Man-Made Hell on Earth”: A Canadian Doctor on His Medical Mission to Gaza
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024
23 Mar 2024 – “I saw scenes that were horrific and I never want to see again,” said Yasser Khan, a surgeon from Toronto. Warning: This article contains graphic images.
→ read full articlePursuing Justice through Law: Edward Said, the Gaza ‘War,’ and Advocacy Jurisprudence
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024
9 Mar 2024 – This paper is devoted to several of my recent central concerns. Comments and conversation warmly invited. Adapted from annual Edward W Said Memorial Lecture, the American University in Cairo, 4 Nov 2023.
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Conquest, War, Famine and Death Hit You Straight in the Heart
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024
14 Mar 2024 – In the face of looming famine, Biden’s promise to build a ‘temporary pier’ to allow aid into Gaza is hollow and hypocritical, undermined by his country’s complicity in Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians.
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Torture, Executions, Babies Left to Die, Sexual Abuse… These Are Israel’s Crimes
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024
15 Mar 2024 – Hostages tortured to death. Parents executed in front of their children. Doctors beaten. Babies murdered. Sexual assault weaponised. Why is the same western media obsessively reheating five-month-old allegations against Hamas so reluctant to focus on Israel’s current, horrifying atrocities?
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Desperate to Escape Gaza Carnage, Palestinians Are Forced to Pay Exorbitant Fees to Enter Egypt
Khalid Mohammed | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024
7 Mar 2024 – With almost no options for escape, people in Gaza are increasingly paying thousands of dollars to fixers connected to the Egyptian government.
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The Shoah after Gaza
Pankaj Mishra | London Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024
Gaza has become for countless powerless people the essential condition of political and ethical consciousness in the 21st century – just as WWI was for a generation in the West. And only those jolted into consciousness by the calamity of Gaza can rescue the Shoah from Netanyahu, Biden, Scholz and Sunak.
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The US Must Stop Arming Israel’s Assault on Hospitals
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024
21 Feb 2024 – If we can’t find the morality to stop, we may find we have created a world in which no one can count on upholding basic human rights.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 114: UN Chief Urges Western Countries to Restore Funding to UNRWA
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024
28 Jan 2024 – Casualties:
• 26,422+ killed(*) and at least 65,087 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
• 387+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
• Israel revises its estimated 7 Oct death toll down from 1,400 to 1,147.
• 557 Israeli soldiers killed since 7 Oct, and at least 3,221 injured.
(*) Some rights groups put the death toll number CLOSER TO 32,000 when accounting for those presumed dead.
A Holistic Analysis of Apartheid and Related Ideologies as a Universal Peace Disruptor
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jan 2024
Under Apartheid Regimes and Ideologies, globally, animals are allocated a higher social status than people of colour and the discriminated. In pre-liberation South Africa, Blacks were treated like animals, with no value for their lives. Presently, a worse status is bestowed upon the Palestinians by the Zionist Israelis.
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All Roads Lead to Jerusalem: A Lucrative Border Industrial Complex
Petra Molnar | Transnational Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jan 2024
19 Dec 2023 – Hebron, a laboratory for both technology and violence, reflects the Israeli occupation’s impact on daily life, with sterilized roads, military checkpoints, and settler violence defining the landscape. This journey unveils the complex layers of trauma, dispossession, and dehumanization, challenging preconceptions and raising questions about freedom and oppression.
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2024
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024
1 Jan 2024 – We at the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability at Bethlehem University wish you all the best in 2024 and that this year brings an end to the genocide/carnage of our people and to suffering people everywhere (Palestine, Western Sahara, Rohingya in Myanmar, Sudan, Yemen).
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Moral and Strategic Consequences of S. Africa’s Case against Israel at the World’s Court
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024
5 Jan 2024 – The post-apartheid Republic of South Africa filing a genocide case against Israel is a significant act pregnant with positive moral consequences while handing the Palestinian liberation struggle an unprecedented strategic weapon.
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Agony of the Past and Ecstasy of the Future: War or Peace, Welcome 2024
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024
“The Search for the Elusive Peace is striving with patient persistence and perseverance, coupled with realistic agony and expectant ecstasy. This is indeed the hallmark of the righteous humanity, in its efforts to achieve global, sustainable peace, in the 21st century.”
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The Death of Israel
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023
17 Dec 2023 – Israel will appear triumphant after its genocidal campaign. Backed by the USA, its murderous rampages and genocidal violence will exterminate or ethnically cleanse Palestinians. Its dream of a state exclusively for Jews will be realized. But it will have signed its own death sentence… Israel is a pariah state.
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The ‘Greater Israel’ Scheme and Its Global Power Play: A Delusional Recipe for Armageddon
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023
6 Dec 2023 – In 1996, a nest of American-born imperialists created a new think tank called “The Project for a New American Century.” The principled aim hinged on a new “Pearl Harbor moment” to justify regime-change wars in the Middle East, but a secondary part of the formula involved the dominance of “Greater Israel.”
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The Evil Israel Does Is the Evil Israel Gets
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023
8 Dec 2023 – Israel’s settler colonial project perpetuates the cycle of violence against the indigenous inhabitants of historic Palestine. Palestinians have been forced to speak back in the language Israel speaks. Make no mistake: Karma is a bitch; what goes around comes around.
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