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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, …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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), …

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 …

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 …

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 …

JERUSALEM,  | Xinhua | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that his government will not release Palestinian prisoners or withdraw forces from Gaza, despite international efforts to achieve a ceasefire deal. Netanyahu said in Eli, an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, that “I hear various claims …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa   | Xinhua |  South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Friday that the country welcomes the measures that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered by majority decision, which ordered Israel to take all possible measures to prevent genocide acts in the Gaza Strip. “Earlier today, …