Washington, US | VOA | Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish official in the United States, called on Israel Thursday to hold new elections, saying he believes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost his way” in the country’s bombardment of Gaza. Schumer, long an ally of the Jewish …
Read More »What are the hidden motives behind U.S. refusal to stop two ongoing fights?
It is a combination of factors, including the U.S. strategic interests for global dominance and the lucrative war business. BEIJING | Xinhua | Over the weekend, the full-scale war in Ukraine has hit a two-year mark, and the Palestinian death toll in the Gaza conflict is nearing 30,000. Two ongoing …
Read More »Israel’s grand strategy for Gaza
What Tel Aviv’s massive bombing of Gaza tells us about that country’s actual intentions for Palestine THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | Nothing has recently occupied my mind more than Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza: the merciless violence of it, the brutality with which it bombs that tiny space of land, …
Read More »United Airlines to resume direct flights to Israel
JERUSALEM | Xinhua | United Airlines will resume its direct flights to Israel on March 2, the U.S. airliner said in a statement on Thursday. United, which suspended flights to Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas conflict, is the first North American airliner to announce …
Read More »Brazil’s president accuses Israel of “genocide” against Palestinians
ADDIS ABABA | Xinhua | Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Sunday accused Israel of committing “genocide” against Palestinian civilians living in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not being waged between two armies, but rather Israel’s military is committing “genocide” against civilians in the Gaza Strip, …
Read More »Lenin’s lesson for Israel and Ukraine
Both need his principled-pragmatism to combine fidelity to the goal with a concrete analysis of the situation COMMENT | SLAVOJ ZIZEK | It is now a century since Vladimir Lenin’s death, and more than three decades since his Bolshevik project collapsed. But while much of his political life was highly problematic …
Read More »Clarifying unfounded criticism against Justice Sebutinde’s dissenting opinion (Part 2)
Putting history of Israel as a nation state into context COMMENT | NAYEBARE KARUHANGA | In attempting to clarify the dissenting opinion of Justice Julia Sebutinde in the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel), …
Read More »Uganda, America and Israel
Lessons from the US war in Afghanistan for Uganda’s mission in Somalia and Israel’s in Gaza THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | While thinking about Uganda’s involvement in Somalia sometime last year, I read Craig Whitlock’s book, The Afghanistan Papers, The Secret History of the War. Just after I had finished …
Read More »Israel among world’s leading jailers of journalists
It’s an awkward position for Israel which repeatedly argues it is a democracy and respects media freedom COMMENT | PETER GRESTE | Israel has emerged as one of the world’s leading jailers of journalists, according to a newly released census compiled by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. Each year …
Read More »South Africa calls on Israel to implement UN court’s ruling
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA | Xinhua | South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor on Wednesday called on Israel to implement the ruling made by the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The decision by the ICJ affirms the importance of global governance institutions including organs of the United …
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