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On September 18th, the UN General Assembly is scheduled to debate and vote on a resolution calling on Israel to end “its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” within six months. Given that the General Assembly, unlike the exclusive 15-member UN Security Council, allows all UN members to vote and there is no veto in the General Assembly, this is an opportunity for the world community to clearly express its opposition to Israel’s brutal occupation of Palestine.

If Israel predictably fails to heed a General Assembly resolution calling on it to withdraw its occupation forces and settlers from Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and the United States then vetoes or threatens to veto a Security Council resolution to enforce the ICJ ruling, then the General Assembly could go a step further.

It could convene an Emergency Session to take up what is called a Uniting For Peace resolution, which could call for an arms embargo, an economic boycott or other UN sanctions against Israel – or even call for actions against the United States. Uniting for Peace resolutions have only been passed by the General Assembly five times since the procedure was first adopted in 1950.

Continue reading “Can the World Save Palestine from US-Israeli Genocide?”

At least 50 U.S. lawmakers or members of their households are financially invested in companies that make military weapons and equipment – even as these firms “receive hundreds of billions of dollars annually from congressionally-crafted Pentagon appropriations legislation,” a report published Thursday revealed.

Sludge‘s David Moore analyzed 2023 financial disclosures and stock trades disclosed in other reports and found that “the total value of the federal lawmakers’ defense contractors stock holdings could be as much as $10.9 million.”

Continue reading “‘Obvious Conflict of Interest’: Report Reveals 50+ US Lawmakers Hold Military Stocks”

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission.

Omer Bartov is a historian who specializes in German military history and genocide studies. I have three of his books: “The Eastern Front, 1941-45, German Troops and the Barbarisation of Warfare”; “Hitler’s Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich”; and “Germany’s War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories.” He has studied the Holocaust closely; as a young man, he served in the Israeli Defense Forces and now teaches at Brown University. He is uniquely placed to judge what’s happening in Gaza and he’s quite clear about his conclusion. It’s a genocide.

Continue reading “Genocide Historian Omer Bartov on Israel and Gaza”

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission.

It’s Friday the 13th, and though I’m not superstitious about the date, I’m not liking this headline in today’s New York Times:

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The topic will be on the agenda Friday with the first official visit to Washington by Britain’s new prime minister, Keir Starmer.

That’s a headline that proves once again that America is led by the best and brightest. (Sarcasm alert.)

Vladimir Putin has already said that long-range weapons striking targets in Russia means war between Russia and NATO. I don’t think he’s bluffing. And, lest we forget, Russia has nearly 6000 nuclear warheads in its inventory.

Continue reading “Escalation in the Russia-Ukraine War”

We are happy to announce the birth of Ariella Anzalone this morning.  She is the first child of Antiwar.com opinion editor Kyle Anzalone and his wife Fressia Anzalone.   Kyle is also news editor at The Libertarian Institute.

Ariella is healthy and beautiful.

Israeli officials are lobbying U.S. lawmakers to pressure South Africa into dropping its genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, according to a report published Monday.

Axiossaid it obtained a classified Israeli Foreign Ministry cable sent Monday to the country’s embassy in Washington, D.C. and all its U.S. consulates threatening consequences if South Africa proceeds with its case in The Hague – which is backed by dozens of nations and regional blocs, as well as countless legal and genocide experts.

Continue reading “Israel Lobbies US Congress to Pressure South Africa to Drop ICJ Genocide Case”