I recently watched Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu’s AIPAC speech from my home in Palestine. For a moment, I thought I was viewing the Academy Awards. His acting was that stellar. His talk was like a sequel to his 2014 performance: The Shape of Warfare. He’d won the Oscar that year for demonizing Iran.
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Heritage destruction is but one of the many mechanisms in which Israel maintains domination over the Palestinians
In early February, Israel started handing out deportation notices to some 20,000 asylum seekers, most of them from Eritrea and Sudan. More than 35,000 are expected to be deported or jailed indefinitely in the upcoming months.
Read MoreWhen Pence says: 'We stand with Israel. Your cause is our cause, your fight is our fight', it's clear America is only interested in offering Israel blind political support and abandoning the Palestinians. Real peace must now mean circumventing the U.S. administration.
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If the US cuts aid to Palestine, then it may force the Palestinians to have the political courage to stand up for what's right.
A total US funding cut would mean a serious reduction in services and the complete halt of many of the education and health programmes.
Aid dependency has stripped the Palestinian people of power to resist colonialism, apartheid and oppression. It's time to lay failed Oslo aid model to rest.
Throughout the past century, the Zionist movement constructed the most sophisticated settler-colonial project of our age: the State of Israel.
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Each year the land that gave birth to Christianity is covered in tear gas instead of snow.
Now, more than ever, it is urgent for Congress to pass Betty McCollum’s proposed bill, which would prevent the use of US tax dollars for the Israeli military’s detention and mistreatment of Palestinian children.
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