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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
PALESTINIAN officials sent a warning to the United States, the European Union and other Western countries on Saturday, saying that the continued occupation of Palestinian land by Israel was no longer tolerable.
Fatah deputy chairman Mahmoud Aloul condemned the increased number of “martyrs and wounded as a result of the intensification of the Israeli occupier and settler attacks on our people, and on the funerals and mourners.”
He said Israel had committed criminal acts, highlighting the escalation of hostilities in occupied East Jerusalem and the siege of Silwan and Sheikh Jarrar neighbourhoods.
Police crackdowns on Israeli peace demonstrators combined with court rulings and settler organisations are designed to strip Palestinian families of their homes and land. The Israeli state has tried to silence both Israelis and Palestinians who resist, according to Zo HaDerekh (This Is The Way) the Communist Party of Israel’s Hebrew-language weekly
The US relationship with Israel has evolved into a strategic liability, argues RAMZY BAROUD
The ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans was based on evidence of a pattern of violence and hatred targeting Arabs and Muslims, two communities that have a large population in Birmingham — overturning the ban was tacit acceptance of the genocidal ideology the fans espouse, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE