by David Rosenberg * - Politico, OtherNews
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish minority, Haredi, has enjoyed a good run over the past quarter of a century. Successive right-wing governments have handed them access to power and money, a booming economy saw the...
by Alice Pistolesi
“We are facing a geyser, the area is boiling and we can only hope that the worst will not happen.” This is how Alberto Bradanini, a former diplomat, summarizes the current situation in the Middle East; among...
by Chris Stein * - OtherNews, The Guardian US
The eruption of gunfire in Sudan’s capital on 15 April was not a complete surprise to Mohamed Eisa, a gastroenterologist living in Pittsburgh who had returned to Sudan to bury his father. He...
by Mohammad Shamandafar* (from Amman)
“This year Ramadan meant only sadness and shame.” A few days before the end of Eid al Fitr, which concludes the most important holiday for Muslims, R. is disappointed and angry. “Rather than spending on...
by Raffaele Crocco
On the eve of the second anniversary of the Russian invasion, there is no news from the battlefield. The strategy is changing, the objectives are changing, at least for some of Ukraine’s allies. The Washington Post leaks...
“Macron, ‘Stop supplying Israel with the weapons it uses in Gaza’
The head of the Élysée: ‘France does not provide them.’
PARIS, October 5, 2024, 3:19 PM
The French president Emmanuel Macron has expressed support for halting arms supplies to Israel that...
shooting Palestiniansby Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies * - OtherNews, Codepink.org *
Given that the General Assembly, unlike the exclusive 15-member UN Security Council, allows all UN members to vote and there is no veto in the General Assembly,...
by Anna Violante
On 29 December, South Africa submitted an 84-page document to the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of violating its obligations under the 1948 Genocide Convention in its crackdown in Gaza. The convention defines genocide as acts intended...
by Antonio Michele Storto
“We will wipe out Terroristan”: The long-awaited announcement has been circulating for weeks, and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has officially pledged to “permanently eliminate” the long-standing threat posed by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) guerrillas....
by Anna Violante
The United Nations Security Council passed a resolution on Monday 25 March calling for an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan, the immediate and unconditional release of hostages and the “urgent need to increase the flow...
