Palestinians learn about atrocities Syria's Assad carried out against his own people
6 days, 18 hours ago

Palestinians learn about atrocities Syria's Assad carried out against his own people

NPR  

Palestinians learn about atrocities Syria's Assad carried out against his own people As horrific details emerge from Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad's jails, many question the man who once claimed to champion their cause. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Palestinians are confronting painful new information about a man many had viewed as a defender of their rights, the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. MICHELE KELEMEN, BYLINE: On the streets of Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Naela Daud says she's been riveted by stories of Syrians pouring out of Assad's jails. KELEMEN: Secretary of State Antony Blinken has been talking about a new Middle East with Assad facing justice and Syrians given a new life.

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Palestinian freedom cannot rest on the oppression of others
5 days, 18 hours ago

Palestinian freedom cannot rest on the oppression of others

Al Jazeera  

When injured Yahya Sinwar hurled a stick at the Zionist war machine, resisting even in the last moments of his life, he embodied the unbreakable Palestinian cause for liberation. Some now claim that Palestine’s cause is weakened by the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, that our struggle for liberation somehow relied on his iron grip over Syria. We know …

Fact Check: Old video of atrocities by Syrian militia shared as Israeli troops torturing Palestinians
1 year ago

Fact Check: Old video of atrocities by Syrian militia shared as Israeli troops torturing Palestinians

India Today  

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The author of ‘1948’ on the ‘mistakes’ Palestinians made in Israel from the very start
1 year ago

The author of ‘1948’ on the ‘mistakes’ Palestinians made in Israel from the very start

LA Times  

Arguing History Author Benny Morris on the roots of the Israel-Hamas war If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. The Times is attempting to do that, beginning with two conversations with scholars once dubbed the “New Historians” — a loose group of Israeli revisionists who, in …

Riz Ahmed accuses Israel of ‘morally indefensible war crimes’ against Palestinians amid Israel-Hamas war
1 year, 2 months ago

Riz Ahmed accuses Israel of ‘morally indefensible war crimes’ against Palestinians amid Israel-Hamas war

The Independent  

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Get this straight, Western media: Palestinians aren’t sub-human
1 year, 2 months ago

Get this straight, Western media: Palestinians aren’t sub-human

Al Jazeera  

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