Myths and Facts about the 1967 Six-Day War
This article is based on a talk by Richard Becker at a PSL forum in San Francisco on June 3, 2017 […]
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Confronting the West With its Responsibilities is Essential!
In 2003, based on pure lies, Iraq besieged, and about half a million people died […]
Europe Must Stop Trump from Starting Another War in the Middle East
Trump provided a long list of contentious issues about Iran’s alleged malign influences in the region […]
The Historical Background of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The second wave of Jewish immigration to Palestine (1904−1914) had many intellectuals and middle-class Jews but the majority of those immigrants have been driven less by a vision of a new state than by the hope of having a new life, free of pogroms and persecutions […]
The Arab-Israel War of 1973 and Its Legacy
The Arab-Israeli War of 1973, known either as the “October War” or as the “Yom Kippur War”, is one which created the impetus for the Camp David Accords of 1978 which paved the way for the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty of 1979 […]
How Palestinians Can Reverse Israel’s Divide and Conquer Tactics
Oslo allowed Israel to reduce Palestinians to disparate fragments, each with their own challenge to merely survive. It’s time to reset that reality and view the Palestinians for what they are — physically fragmented, politically divided, but a whole people […]
Is “Jewish Supremacy” a Form of Racism? The Zionist Exception
Zionist Jews in and out of Israel must confront the reality that Jewish supremacy in Israel, as David Lloyd wrote about Americans and White supremacy in the U.S., “is an intrinsic if shameful element in their history and institutions whose consequences have yet to be overcome” […]
When will the Israeli Left Accept the Occupation Started in ’48, not ’67?
Only when the Israeli Left accepts that the occupation began in 1948 — and remains an open wound for Palestinians — can Arabs and Jews truly refuse to be enemies […]
Was Israel Under Existential Threat in June 1967?
Up to June 1967, a border separated Jews living in Israel and Palestinians residing in the West Bank and Gaza. The Six Day War, which occurred exactly fifty years ago, erased that line […]
Israeli-Zionist Genocide and Racism Unmasked
Long after the point of fact when whatever indigenous peoples have finally been conquered and stripped of most if not all of their former homelands and natural resources, whomever the invader-aggressor may be always finally gets around to making the same predictable response […]
President Trump Welcomes Egyptian Dictator – The “Butcher of Cairo”
According to Al-Monitor, one of the most critical and important issues for Cairo during el-Sisi’s visit was to persuade the Trump administration to declare the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. An Egyptian parliamentary and political delegation accompanying Sisi, sought congressional support for the bills introduced in the US Congress to declare Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group […]
The “World’s Policeman” Retires on Disability
The American neo-conservatives predicted the 21st century would be a «New American Century». Instead, it is becoming a «New Chinese Century», with the United States still believing, wrongly, that it is the «leader of the free world» and a «super power» […]
The Painful Truth: War is a Racket on Behalf of Wall Street and the Bankers
Our War-mongering Nation has 900 Unaffordable, Fully-equipped and Well-defended Military Bases outside our Borders. The Censored-out Truths that War Documentaries Tend to Leave on the Cutting Room Floor […]
The Naksa: How Israel Occupied the Whole of Palestine in 1967
Palestinians are marking 51 years since the 1967 occupation of their remaining lands this week […]
Have You been Brainwashed about Gaza?
On May 14, (2018) “Black Monday”, 63 unarmed demonstrators were shot dead and over 1500 wounded by live fire. Every Israeli knows that this was necessary because the demonstrators stormed the fence and were about to swarm into Israel. Nobody paid attention to the simple fact that there was not a single photo showing such an occurrence […]
Israel’s Attack on the USS Liberty (June 8th, 1967): A Half Century Later, Still no Justice
In early June of 1967, at the onset of the Six Day War, the Pentagon sent the USS Liberty from Spain into international waters off the coast of Gaza to monitor the progress of Israel’s attack on the Arab states. The Liberty was a lightly armed surveillance ship […]
A Liberal Democracy, a Market Capitalist Economy and the Permanent Wars
My hypothesis is that a market economy requires a permanent state of war. Behind the crocodile tears for the human disasters and ‘white man burden,’ people and nature are of value in themselves and war does a good job at consuming both very quickly […]
America’s War Аgainst the People of Korea: The Historical Record of US War Crimes
Washington’s objective is to impose the terms of Korea’s reunification. The NeoCons “Project for a New American Century” (PNAC) published in 2000 had intimated that in “post unification scenario”, the number of US troops (currently at 37,000) should be increased and that US military presence could be extended to North Korea. In a reunified Korea, the military mandate of the US garrison would be to implement so-called “stability operations in North Korea” […]
