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 […]
Zionism and Israel
The very idea of returning of the Jews to Palestine, wherefrom they became dispersed throughout Europe and Asia since 70 A.D., had been alive in some form for many centuries of their almost 2.000 years of the diaspora (from 70 to 1948) […]
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 Criminal Roadmap Towards “Greater Israel”?
The concept of a “Greater Israel” according to the founding father of Zionism Theodore Herzl, is a Jewish State stretching “’From the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates’ […]
Israel: The Nuclear Hegemon That Poses a Potential Threat to Europe
It is armed and funded by the joint efforts of the Christian and Jewish Zionist Lobby of the US Congress together with the Trump White House but Israel also receives military equipment and assistance from the UK and some other European states such as Germany […]
‘Barbarism by an Educated and Cultured People’ — Dawayima Massacre was Worse than Deir Yassin
On Friday, February 5th 2016, Haaretz published an article in Hebrew by Israeli historian Yair Auron, which covers one of the biggest massacres of 1948. The massacre is of Al Dawayima, west of Al-Khalil (which is often referred to as Hebron). In a 2004 interview with Haaretz, Israeli historian Benny Morris refers to this as a massacre of “hundreds” […]
Israeli Military General Compares Israel to Nazi Germany at Holocaust Remembrance Day Event
The rhetoric of Shaked and Bennett is not the exception to the rule of the state of Israel: It is the norm. For the Palestinians, this will continue to mean their oppression and gradual destruction. It is up to the American people to say no to the billions of dollars a year we send to a country that is thirsty for the removal of an entire people in order to achieve its pure state […]
America’s War for the Greater Middle East – A Military History
An interesting start to a military history. In the prologue he dates the start of the GME War with Operation Eagle Claw from April 24-25, 1980. In the opening chapter he pushes it back to the 1973 oil embargo as a consequence of the Yom Kippur War in Israel […]
U.S., U.K., & France, Certainly Committed an International War Crime against Syria on April 14th, 2018
This international war-crime, of “aggression” against a sovereign state — or, in common parlance, unprovoked aggression, for conquest — is now clear, and will be fully documented in the following news-report, providing the evidence for the prosecution of those three Governments, in an appropriate forum […]
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” […]
Golan Heights, Kosovo and Crimea: A Case Study in Hypocrisy and Double Standards
The Golan Heights form part of the sovereign territory of the state of Syria. It, along with the West Bank of Palestine (then part of Jordan) and the Gaza strip were seized by Israel at the conclusion of the Six Day War between Israel, Egypt, Syria and Jordan in June 1967. Israel has remained in occupation of the West Bank and the Golan Heights ever since. It maintains a blockade on Gaza to the immense suffering of Gaza’s inhabitants […]
International Systems of States and Global Security Models
The fundamental aim of the text below is to deal with the concept and models of global security as one of the crucial topics of global politics studies. We have to keep in mind that a term and notion of security usually implies a kind of sense of protection and safety from different possible harms coming from „outside“ […]
