Tag Archives: Nakba

Palestine question: US blamed for veto; Brazil, Guyana hailed, Lanka nowhere

Posted on February 23, 2024 by ameenizzadeen

By Ameen IzzadeenBurying the values the United States presidents often speak highly of during their policy speeches, Washington once again inhumanely used its veto power at the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday to kill Algeria’s resolution calling for an … Continue reading →

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Shireen’s death exposes fascist nature of imperialists’ foreign policy

Posted on May 27, 2022 by ameenizzadeen

By Ameen Izzadeen The killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, the widely respected Al Jazeera journalist, by Israeli troops last Friday in occupied Palestine, the brutal attack on mourners at her funeral and the Western world’s blatant unwillingness to use the … Continue reading →

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Ramadan Nakba for Palestinians: Whither Biden’s human rights credentials?

Posted on May 18, 2021 by ameenizzadeen

The house of cards Israel has built projecting itself as the victim surrounded by Arab enemies is fast crumbling in the social media. For decades, with its money power and media control, Israel has continued the charade playing victim while … Continue reading →

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Neutrality is not silence: Speak out for Palestine

Posted on July 4, 2020 by ameenizzadeen

By Ameen IzzadeenPalestinians are sending out SOS messages, calling for international intervention to stop what they together with the world’s peace-loving people have roundly denounced as the biggest land robbery after World War II. But international intervention is largely confined … Continue reading →

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Trump’s Nakba 2.0 turns milk and honey into oppression and injustice

Posted on May 20, 2020 by ameenizzadeen

By Ameen Izzadeen May 14 was Al Nakba day – the day on which the freedom-denied Palestinian people remember the catastrophe that hit them 72 years ago. Every year, the day reinvigorates their resolve to fight for freedom and justice, … Continue reading →

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Just as apartheid ended in South Africa, so will it in Palestine

Posted on May 5, 2017 by ameenizzadeen

By Ameen Izzadeen Since the creation of Israel in 1948, almost all United States’ Presidents have been either ignorant of the true story behind the Palestinians’ suffering or advocates of injustice, however much the victimised Palestinians shout ‘Nakba, Nakba.’ Perhaps, … Continue reading →

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Exodus in reverse and the Zionist pharaoh

Posted on May 10, 2013 by ameenizzadeen

By Ameen Izzadeen As the world’s attention is on the crisis in Syria, the problem at the core of the Middle Eastern conflict gets scant media coverage. Yes, the Palestinian crisis which has been eluding a solution for the past … Continue reading →

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The hidden horror in the holy land

Posted on April 20, 2012 by ameenizzadeen

By Ameen Izzadeen With the attention of the international media being focused on the US elections and the conflict in Syria, the Palestinian crisis receives little coverage these days although the happenings are many. Here are some of the developments … Continue reading →

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