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August 22, 2024
Essay by Keith Rankin. The occupation of the ‘Holy Lands’ by the Zionist state of Israel has an important precursor; Outremer. In particular the 1099 to 1187 version of the western outer kingdom, otherwise known as the Kingdom of Jerusalem. In the millennium year 1000 CE, the territory of Palestine was the home for various ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Outremer in Palestine: Lessons from the Twelfth Century" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/22/keith-rankin-essay-outremer-in-palestine-lessons-from-the-twelfth-century/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Outremer in Palestine: Lessons from the Twelfth Century">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2024
Environmental destruction is not an unintended side effect, but a primary objective in colonial wars of occupation. By David Whyte and Samira Homerang Saunders Many in the international community are finally coming to accept that the earth’s ecosystem can no longer bear the weight of military occupation. Most have reached this inevitable conclusion, clearly articulated in the ... <a title="From Papua to Gaza, military occupation leads to ‘ecocide’ – climate catastrophe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/14/from-papua-to-gaza-military-occupation-leads-to-ecocide-climate-catastrophe/" aria-label="Read more about From Papua to Gaza, military occupation leads to ‘ecocide’ – climate catastrophe">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2024
Israel’s zealots are ignoring the pleas of the top brass. They want to widen the circle of war, whatever the consequences. ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook in Middle East Eye There should be nothing surprising about the revelation that troops at Sde Teiman, a detention camp set up by Israel in the wake of Hamas’s October ... <a title="Jonathan Cook: Israel is in a death spiral – who will it take down with it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/14/jonathan-cook-israel-is-in-a-death-spiral-who-will-it-take-down-with-it/" aria-label="Read more about Jonathan Cook: Israel is in a death spiral – who will it take down with it?">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2024
Pacific Media Watch A global media watchdog has expressed concern for the safety of an Al Jazeera reporter after false claims by the Israeli military. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said it was concerned for Anas al-Sharif, Al Jazeera Arabic’s correspondent in northern Gaza, after an Israel military spokesperson accused him of “presenting a ... <a title="Media watchdog says Al Jazeera paying ‘devastating price’ in warning on Gaza reporter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/14/media-watchdog-says-al-jazeera-paying-devastating-price-in-warning-on-gaza-reporter/" aria-label="Read more about Media watchdog says Al Jazeera paying ‘devastating price’ in warning on Gaza reporter">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The Freedom Flotilla Coalition has told supporters that the “Break the Siege” aid project for besieged Gaza from Turkey has been put on hold — indefinitely — due to rising tensions in the wake of the assassinations of key resistance leaders in the capitals of Lebanon and Iran. “We will continue to ... <a title="Turkey-based Freedom Flotilla aid ships put ‘on hold’ but Handala still heads towards Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/12/turkey-based-freedom-flotilla-aid-ships-put-on-hold-but-handala-still-heads-towards-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Turkey-based Freedom Flotilla aid ships put ‘on hold’ but Handala still heads towards Gaza">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2024
By Mick Hall A leading peace campaigner is calling Aotearoa New Zealand’s decision to stay away from a peace event in Nagasaki paying tribute to victims of the Japanese city’s 1945 nuclear bombing “outrageous”. Former trade union leader Robert Reid said New Zealand could have acted as a strong independent Pacific voice by attending today’s ... <a title="Advocate slams NZ snub of Nagasaki peace tribute as ‘outrageous’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/09/advocate-slams-nz-snub-of-nagasaki-peace-tribute-as-outrageous/" aria-label="Read more about Advocate slams NZ snub of Nagasaki peace tribute as ‘outrageous’">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2024
We have been lied to for decades about the creation of Israel. It was born in sin, and it continues to live in sin, writes Jonathan Cook. COMMENTARY: By Jonathan Cook The headline above, about yet another Israeli operation to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians in the tiny, besieged and utterly destroyed enclave of Gaza, was ... <a title="Jonathan Cook: Nothing’s changed since 1948 – except now Israel’s excuses don’t work" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/09/jonathan-cook-nothings-changed-since-1948-except-now-israels-excuses-dont-work/" aria-label="Read more about Jonathan Cook: Nothing’s changed since 1948 – except now Israel’s excuses don’t work">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2024
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Since the arrival of Zionism in Palestine, the impulse of the Palestinians has not been about violence or revenge. The impulse remains the return to normal and natural life, writes Ilan Pappé. ANALYSIS: By Ilan Pappé “When we revolt, it’s not for a particular culture. We ... <a title="Ilan Pappé: To end Gaza genocide, uproot the source of all violence – Zionism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/05/ilan-pappe-to-end-gaza-genocide-uproot-the-source-of-all-violence-zionism/" aria-label="Read more about Ilan Pappé: To end Gaza genocide, uproot the source of all violence – Zionism">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2024
RNZ News The coalition government is telling New Zealanders in Iran and Lebanon to leave immediately as tensions rise in the Middle East. “The New Zealand government urges New Zealanders in Lebanon and Iran to leave now while options remain available,” Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters said in a social media post today. “We also ... <a title="NZ tells citizens to leave Iran and Lebanon now ‘while options remain’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/05/nz-tells-citizens-to-leave-iran-and-lebanon-now-while-options-remain/" aria-label="Read more about NZ tells citizens to leave Iran and Lebanon now ‘while options remain’">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The Freedom Flotilla Coalition has told supporters that the “Break the Siege” aid project for besieged Gaza from Turkey has been put on hold — indefinitely — due to rising tensions in the wake of the assassinations of key resistance leaders in the capitals of Lebanon and Iran. “We will continue to ... <a title="Turkey-based Freedom Flotilla aid ships put ‘on hold’ but Handala still heads for Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/04/turkey-based-freedom-flotilla-aid-ships-put-on-hold-but-handala-still-heads-for-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Turkey-based Freedom Flotilla aid ships put ‘on hold’ but Handala still heads for Gaza">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Mohamad Elmasry On Wednesday, the Israeli army killed two more Palestinian journalists in Gaza. Ismail al-Ghoul and Rami al-Rifi were working when they were struck by Israeli forces in Gaza City. Al-Ghoul, whose Al Jazeera reports were popular among Arab audiences, was wearing a press vest at the time he was killed. The ... <a title="Gaza killings and the death of Western journalism – why the shocking silence?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/03/gaza-killings-and-the-death-of-western-journalism-why-the-shocking-silence/" aria-label="Read more about Gaza killings and the death of Western journalism – why the shocking silence?">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestinian political leader and a former member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee, says Israel’s “gangster style assassination and extrajudicial executions” are designed to “inflame the whole region”, reports Al Jazeera. The killings of the Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and Hezbollah military commander Fuad ... <a title="Israel accused of being a ‘rogue state’ trying to destabilise Middle East" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/03/israel-accused-of-being-a-rogue-state-trying-to-destabilise-middle-east/" aria-label="Read more about Israel accused of being a ‘rogue state’ trying to destabilise Middle East">Read more</a>
