Israel Commits Six Massacres in Gaza
CrossFireArabia- November 17, 2024
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the Israeli occupation “committed six massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, of which 47 martyrs and 139 injuries arrived to hospitals during the past 24 hours.
The ministry said in a press statement received by Quds Press, Sunday, that “a number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them.”
It reported that the death toll from the Israeli aggression has risen to 43,846 martyrs and 103,740 injuries since October 7 of last year.
The ministry called on the families of martyrs and missing persons from the aggression on Gaza to complete their data by registering on its website, to complete all data through its records.
Knesset Introduces Bill to Ban Palestinian Flag
- CrossFireArabia
- November 14, 2024
The Israeli government is seeking to pass a bill that would ban the raising of the Palestinian flag in Israeli universities and institutions supported by the occupation state.
The Ministerial Committee for Legislation in the Knesset is expected to discuss this law in its next session next Sunday.
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The Anadolu Agency quoted KAN, Israeli official broadcaster, Thursday, as stating that the new law will apply to institutions funded by the budget of the government, including universities, and will stipulate a fine of about 10,000 new shekels ($2,700) and imprisonment for up to one year on violators.
It added that according to the proposal submitted by Knesset member Nissim Vitori, from the Likud party of the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, it will be possible to disperse gatherings and even punish demonstrators waving flags with imprisonment for up to one year and a fine of no less than 10,000 shekels.
It pointed out that among the state-funded bodies are universities, which from time to time witness protests during which male and female students raise Palestinian flags.
Palestinian students in the occupied territories often organize protests in Israeli universities against Israeli policies, during which the Palestinian flag is raised.
This is not the first time that a Likud MP has proposed banning the raising of the Palestinian flag in state institutions or universities, and imposing fines or imprisonment on anyone who raises the Palestinian flag.
With American support, Israel has committed genocide in Gaza since 7 October, 2023, leaving more than 147,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that has killed dozens of children and elderly people, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world according to the Palestine Information Center.
Palestine and Imperial Chaos
Dr Khairi Janbek- November 14, 2024
By Dr Khairi Janbek
When the British conquered the territory, they did not exactly know where to draw the borders of Palestine. British prime minister Lloyd George conferred with his French counterpart Clemenceau and suggested that the borders of Palestine be defined on biblical basis; in accordance with its ancient boundaries from ‘Dan to Beersheba’.
But what about the sparsely-populated territory east of the River Jordan? Although in 1915 the British promised the territory to the Sharif of Mecca in the McMahon correspondence, in the early years of British control, it remained part of Palestine, and not until 1922 did the British separate it from the rest of Palestine and named Emir Abdullah of the Hashemite dynasty as the ruler of the new country Transjordan.
Even when the borders of Palestine became clear to the British, the borders of the future “Jewish National Home” remained open to dispute. Lord Balfour’s letter spoke vaguely of the establishments ‘in Palestine a National Home for the Jewish people’ he did not refer to the whole of Palestine or any specific part of it.
Among the Zionists, the borders of Palestine were just as blurred. The ideal borders, as mapped by the Zionist delegation at the Paris peace negotiations, included south Lebanon (Northern Galilee) and a stretch of land east of the River Jordan as far as the line of the Hijaz Railway.
Weizmann continued to believe that the land east of the River Jordan should be part of the “Jewish National Home.” This was reiterated in his Congress speech 1921 stating “the questions of borders will be answered when Cis-Jordan (West Bank of the River Jordan) will be so full of Jews that we will have to expand to Transjordan.”
The right wing Israeli revisionists continued to claim until the 1950s, the whole of Palestine on both sides of the Jordan River.
However, there was a brief glimmer of hope that an Arab-Jewish understanding might in fact be possible when Emir Faisal, later King of Iraq, and Chaim Weizemann signed an agreement in 1919, recognizing the right of the Jews to immigrate to Israel.
But reality on the ground created a different set factors, when Faisal’s condition of far reaching Arab independence in the region was not fulfilled, he declared the agreement no longer valid. In any case, the agreement did not include representatives of the Palestinian Arabs.
Also in the post-World War I era, another claim on Palestine was made in March 1920, when the General National Syrian Congress, declared that Palestine was nothing but the southern part of the Greater Syria State.
Dr Khairi Janbek is a Jordanian historian based in Paris and the above opinion is that of the author and doesn’t reflect crossfirearabia.com.
Kyrie Irving Wears Palestine Chain in Match
- CrossFireArabia
- November 14, 2024
Dallas Mavericks star Kyrie Irving showed solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza by wearing a chain with the Palestine flag in the shape of Israel’s land mass.
In a pre-game interview on a San Francisco basketball court Tuesday, Irving, 32, was seen wearing the necklace.
“I’m excited for him (his Dallas teammate Klay Thompson). I want him to be present as much as possible, to really receive the love and the flowers that he deserves. He put in a lot of hard work here, a lot of sacrifice for this organization,” Irving told reporters as Thompson, a former Golden State Warriors guard, returned to Chase Center to play against his ex-team.
“So it’s only right that we support him and show him a lot of love and get ready to compete on the court. It’s going to be one of those games,” Irving added according to Anadolu.
Home team the Warriors beat the Mavericks 120-117 in an NBA Cup game in San Francisco, California.
An eight-time NBA All-Star, Irving is one of the important players in the league and won the 2016 NBA title with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
He had also played for the Boston Celtics and the Brooklyn Nets before moving to the Mavericks in 2023.
Last season, Irving attended a post-match press conference wearing a keffiyeh to show solidarity with Palestinians.
Last year, the NBA and Irving’s team the Mavericks confirmed their support for Israel following an October 2023 attack by the Palestinian group Hamas.
Israel has continued a devastating offensive on Gaza since the attack by Hamas, despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire.
Nearly 43,700 people have since been killed in Gaza, mostly women and children, and over 103,000 others injured, according to Palestinian health authorities.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its deadly war on Gaza.
