Across the land of Palestine, people are rising up against decades of oppression and occupation. The racist Israeli state is answering them with mass murder and terror. 

In the giant prison called Gaza, Israeli troops are raining white phosphorous, dense inert-metal explosives and other U.S.-made  weapons on crowded refugee camps. They have wiped out whole families, destroyed entire apartment blocks and made tens of thousands homeless.

An airstrike on the Shati refugee camp killed a family of 10, including 8 children. As of Saturday morning, May 15, at least 39 children are among Gaza’s 139 dead. Their “crime”: being born Palestinian in the land of Palestine. 

On May 14, Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank murdered 11 protesters with live ammunition. Hundreds more have been wounded. Israeli troops also gunned down protesters at Palestine’s borders with Jordan and Lebanon.  

In Jerusalem, 28 Palestinian families were forced from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah, following an Israeli police assault on tens of thousands of people praying at the Al-Aqsa mosque. Inside Israel’s 1948 borders, Palestinian communities are on lockdown. Racist gangs roam the streets shouting “Death to Arabs!”

Israeli war machine made in USA

Washington is not ignoring the carnage Israel is inflicting on the people of Palestine. It is an active participant. 

The missiles that kill children in Gaza are made in the USA! They are fired from U.S.-made F-35s and F-16s. The pilots that fly them are trained in the U.S. and paid by the U.S. 

Artillery shells Israeli occupation forces fire at Gaza come from U.S. military stockpiles. The tear gas, sound grenades and rubber bullets fired at protesters in Jerusalem are also made here. They are all provided to the Israeli occupation forces for free.

While President Joe Biden calls hypocritically for “deescalation,” the U.S. has blocked the U.N. Security Council from meeting to discuss the ongoing massacre. 

The blood of Palestine’s children is on Biden’s hands, and Donald Trump’s. It’s on the hands of every politician, Republican or Democrat, who votes for an endless flow of arms to the racist Israeli state. 

Last May, while COVID-19 ravaged the world and millions were losing their jobs, the U.S. Congress approved a new $38-billion arms package for the racist Israeli state. This robbery has been going on for decades.

Palestinian blood is on the hands of governors and mayors who invest public funds in Israel Bonds, guaranteed against loss by the U.S. Treasury.

Palestine’s blood is on the hands of the Pentagon brass, who routinely refer to the settler state in Palestine as a their “unsinkable aircraft carrier,” a phrase repeated by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Zionist leaders. They see Israel as an “asset” in their endless war to control the world’s energy reserves and keep the region’s petrodollars flowing to U.S. banks and corporations. 

Israel is the Pentagon’s forward base to attack Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Iran and any other countries in West Asia and North Africa that don’t pay tribute to Wall Street.

Wall Street profits off Palestinian blood

Palestine’s blood is on the hands of Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs.

By February, Israel’s military had already spent the $38 billion Congress gave it last spring. Citigroup, the fourth largest U.S. bank, loaned the occupation state $3 billion to buy more weapons until the next U.S. aid package.

Energy giant Chevron steals natural gas from the waters off occupied Palestine under the protection of Israel’s U.S.-paid navy. The corporation plans to bring Arabian oil to Europe through Israel’s Eilat to Ashkelon Pipeline (now damaged by Gaza’s homemade rockets). ExxonMobil also explores for gas in Palestine’s waters. 

And for Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics and the rest of the U.S. military-industrial complex, the war machine called Israel is a gift that keeps on giving. Their CEOs and big stockholders gloat when bombs and missiles fall on Gaza. They see the Israeli occupation regime as their best salesman. 

Israel is a state of war

Israel is a state of war. Its very object of existence is the eradication of the Palestinian people from their land. 

Seventy-three years ago, the majority of the people of Palestine were expelled from their homes by terror, force and massacre. Thousands of children, women and men were executed in cold blood, 530 villages were destroyed and entire cities were depopulated so that the racist settler state of “Israel” could be created on their land. 

The Palestinians suffered the fate the U.S. government inflicted on Indigenous people in this country and that racist gangs inflicted on Black communities like Rosewood and Tulsa.

Where did they go? Nearly 2 million are confined in the Gaza Strip, a 25-mile-long open-air prison where water is not fit to drink, electricity runs a few hours a day, and people die from lack of medicine. 

But even there the racist state of Israel cannot tolerate their existence. It is murdering them with a rain of missiles and bombs.

Refugees have right to go home

Millions more Palestinians live in exile in camps on the West Bank, in “unrecognized villages” inside Israel’s 1948 borders, or in exile in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and around the world. They have a right to return home!

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem live under a daily reign of terror from Israeli troops and settlers, who murder and kidnap them and destroy their crops and animals in an effort to drive them from their homes. 

The very existence of “Israel” has been a 73-year-long war against the people of Palestine and the neighboring countries of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, paid for by the U.S. 

Resistance will never be defeated!

For the Palestinian people, however, the land between the river and the sea remains their homeland. They have never stopped fighting for their right to exist and live in peace and freedom in every part of Palestine — for a land where all people can live as equals. 

Today, with homemade rockets in Gaza, with stones on the West Bank and in Jerusalem, with a general strike in Haifa and Jaffa and Galilee and the towns of the Triangle, they are rising up as never before. They need our solidarity! 

We must fight for an end to the endless flow of U.S. arms and dollars to the Israeli war machine. End the $11-million-a-day in military aid, loan guarantees, tax exemptions, the U.S.-Israel Free Trade Agreement and the other myriad ways the U.S. corporate ruling class props up the Israeli occupation regime. 

We need money for jobs and healthcare, housing and schools, not endless war! End U.S. intervention all over the world!

The old story of sonic attacks in Havana, exposed as a fraud long ago, has been resuscitated by the Biden administration, a pretext used to justify denying the Cuban people fuel, food and medicine

Trailers for what appears to be a new season of the series “The Havana Syndrome” are beginning to be broadcast on the paid media. The story follows the script of previous productions.

The one-sided plot of alleged aggression against U.S. officials is back, despite the efforts of Cuba, the international community and even a significant number of U.S. scientists who know that there is no evidence whatsoever of the possibility of so-called sonic attacks.

According to CNN, U.S. federal agencies are investigating two new incidents, this time on U.S. soil, including one near the White House in November of last year, “similar to the mysterious and invisible attacks that have caused debilitating symptoms in dozens of U.S. officials abroad,” reports CNN.

The two “victims,” one a National Security Council official, allegedly suffered the same unexplained symptoms that U.S. personnel in Cuba, China and Russia began to experience around the end of 2016: ear pain, vertigo, severe headaches and nausea, sometimes accompanied by an unidentified “penetrating directional noise.”

We should recall that British and American scientists determined, in 2019, after analyzing a recording of the “penetrating directional noise,” that it sounded most like an echo of the chirping of an Indies short-tailed cricket.

In another incident reported by a former U.S. official, according to cnn, shortly after a Russian helicopter flew over a remote base in Syria, Marines there developed symptoms similar to those they insist on calling, and establishing as a real phenomenon in international public opinion, the “Havana syndrome.”

This is demonization, a rhetorical and ideological technique of disinformation, alteration of facts and descriptions, used to build a negative image and justify punishment of an adversary.

The story of alleged sonic attacks, baptized with full intention as the “Havana Syndrome,” served as a pretext to seriously strain relations between Cuba and the U.S. during the Trump administration, and to justify all variety of coercive measures against our country, as evidenced by recently declassified documents.

And now, President Joe Biden’s new National Security team has made the investigation of the sonic incidents a top priority, a senior official stated recently, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Bill Burns, the new CIA director, told Senators during his confirmation hearing that he intends to get to the bottom of the “Havana attacks.”

Not surprisingly, Senator Marco Rubio alleged that the number of people affected could be higher and involve more than 40 diplomats and family members at the U.S. Embassy in Havana, and at least a dozen diplomats at the consulate in Guangzhou, China.

These totally unsubstantiated attacks have served to justify attempts to deprive the Cuban people of fuel, food and medicine.

For some, “It is necessary to lie like hell, not timidly, not for the moment, but fearlessly and forever …. Lie, my friends, lie, I will pay you back when the time comes,” Voltaire wrote. Undoubtedly, they lie about Cuba, not timidly, like true demons.

SATURDAY, MAY 22, 2021 AT 1 PM EDT
¡Lucha Sí, LUMA NO!-South Bronx Freedom March
E. 149th St. and 3rd Avenue

¡LUCHA SI, LUMA NO!
¡PARA VIEQUES Y CULEBRA!

SOUTH BRONX FREEDOM MARCH! LET’S TAKE OUR MESSAGE TO THE STREETS!

Join the ProLibertad Freedom Campaign as we march through the South Bronx denouncing the Colonial Fiscal Control Board, the destructive LUMA contract, the oppression of the residents of Vieques and Culebra, and the RIDICULOUS Velazquez-Oscasio Bill.

Saturday, May 22nd, 2021 at 1pm
Meet us at E.149th St. and 3rd Ave.
Take the 2 and 5 on 3 Av-149th St. in the Bronx
Look for the Puerto Rican flags!
Bring your flags, placards, and signs!

WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2021 AT 5 PM EDT
STAND WITH PALESTINE – MARCH & RALLY
Monroe Park

STAND WITH PALESTINE!

Please join us at 5 pm on Wednesday, May 19, at Richmond’s Monroe Park for a rally and march to demand:

• Stop the Israeli bombing of Gaza!
• Stop the settlers’ seizing of Palestinian homes in Jerusalem!
• Stop all U.S. funding of Israeli apartheid!
• Self-determination for Palestine!

The Israeli military is carrying out a massive air and ground attack on Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip, which Israel has blockaded for years. The people have nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. As of May 13, this genocidal attack by artillery, tanks and warplanes has killed more than 100 Palestinians, at least 20 of them children.

The crisis began when Palestinian families protested the violent seizure of their homes by Israeli “settlers” in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. This ethnic cleansing escalated when Israeli police stormed the revered Al-Aqsa mosque, wounding more than 300 people. After Israel refused to stop the attacks, rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip.

Every American should be concerned about what is happening now to the Palestinian people. Israel is subsidized by Washington to the tune of $3.8 BILLION a year – which means that every Israeli bullet and bomb is paid for with our tax dollars. It is our responsibility to speak out. Please join us at the rally and march on May 19.

Please wear masks. Social distancing is strongly requested.

This protest is being co-sponsored by the Arab American Association of Central Virginia, Richmonders for Peace in Israel-Palestine and the Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality.

The New York Times has called the Biden presidency “an echo of Franklin Roosevelt.” Today, support for labor unions is broader and more widespread than at any time in the last five decades, including support from Trump Republicans.

So some may have been surprised when, after the April jobs report showed unemployment is rising, Biden responded that he’s going to cut down on unemployment benefits, repeating the claims of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that joblessness is increasing because of unemployment benefits.

“Anyone collecting unemployment who is offered a suitable job must take the job,” Biden said. That’s what happens with prisoners — forced to take any job offered — but shouldn’t happen in a free labor market.

Unemployment benefits are owed to every worker. The benefits come out of unpaid wages. The unemployment insurance program is financed through a tax that is taken indirectly from workers’ wages. Every cent that the unemployed collect is owed to the workers.

Unemployment is rising because of capitalist economic instability, not because any worker might pass on taking the low-wage, no-benefits jobs being offered.

Colombia es el infierno soñado para Venezuela y Cuba porque la desigualdad y la pobreza, que ya afecta a casi el 45% de la población, son cada vez más extremas mientras se rebajaron hace dos años los impuestos a las grandes empresas y se tolera que las élites colombianas evadan los capitales que deseen. 

Colombia es el infierno soñado para Venezuela y Cuba porque sus tasas de criminalidad apuñalan el país casi a diario mientras ocupa el primer puesto mundial, año tras año, en el asesinato de líderes ecologistas –al menos 64 en el año 2019– y se encuentra en puestos destacados en cuanto al asesinato de líderes sindicales.

Colombia es el infierno soñado para Venezuela y Cuba porque su sistema sanitario ha dejado más de 75.000 fallecidos y tres millones de contagios durante la pandemia y solo ha conseguido inocular una primera dosis de vacuna en el 10% de la población mientras sus élites compran pisos en las zonas más caras de Madrid, los rehabilitan y los venden obteniendo millonarios beneficios. 

Colombia es el infierno soñado para Venezuela y Cuba porque la mayoría de los ciudadanos no se puede confinar debido a la ausencia de un subsidio con el que sobrevivir mientras se ha convertido en el líder mundial de la producción de coca, con el 70% del total. 

Colombia es el infierno soñado para Venezuela y Cuba porque pretendió reducir la pobreza y la desigualdad con subidas de impuestos a las clases medias, a lo que queda de ellas, con una reforma que aspiraba a bajar el umbral del impuesto de la renta y subir los impuestos indirectos que a todos afectan, en lugar de aumentar los impuestos a las élites y a las grandes empresas. 

Colombia es el infierno soñado para Venezuela y Cuba porque se ha convertido en aliado estratégico de la OTAN en la región mientras sus Fuerzas Armadas asesinan niños sin piedad. 

Colombia es el infierno soñado para Venezuela y Cuba porque reprime de forma salvaje a la ciudadanía –se contabilizan 26 fallecidos y más de 400 desaparecidos en estas últimas protestas– como antes han hecho en Chile, Ecuador, Perú o Brasil mientras las causas reales que subyacen tras el descontento de la ciudadanía continúan sin solución. 

Colombia es el infierno soñado para Venezuela y Cuba porque contribuye como casi ninguna otra a que América Latina sea hoy la región más desigual y violenta del mundo mientras exhibe un clasismo y un racismo tan excluyente como anacrónico y obsceno. 

Colombia es el infierno soñado para Venezuela y Cuba porque su pueblo se ha revuelto contra sus gobernantes, como en los últimos años han hecho chilenos, ecuatorianos o peruanos, de la forma en la que los Estados Unidos hubiera deseado que ocurriera en Venezuela, Cuba o Bolivia mientras en estos países fracasaron los intentos de asesinato, los movimientos golpistas, las presiones a los militares e, incluso, las autoproclamaciones presidenciales kafkianas. 

En definitiva, Colombia es el infierno soñado para Venezuela y Cuba y, por ello, en estos países se han perpetrado las más salvajes y crueles medidas, algunas de ellas con consideración bélica, como las inmisericordes sanciones económicas, lo que ha provocado una inhumana reducción de alimentos, medicamentos y productos básicos entre los ciudadanos.

Por ello, cuando lea sobre Colombia, Chile, Perú o Ecuador, lo que sólo ocurrirá cuando ardan, como en los últimos años, reflexione sobre toda América Latina en su globalidad y sus problemas. Quizás entonces, ante una visión más general y menos sectaria, sea posible considerar que el gran problema de América Latina es su modelo económico y el esbirro que lo impone, Estados Unidos.

Fuente: Resumen

12 de mayo – Cuba carga contra Estados Unidos por el apoyo que brinda al régimen de Israel y sus “indiscriminados” bombardeos contra el pueblo palestino.

El ministro de Asuntos Exteriores cubano, Bruno Rodríguez, manifestó el marte el repudio de La Habana a los ataques del régimen israelí que han causado entre los últimos dos días, al menos 48 víctimas mortales en Gaza, de las que 14 eran niños, según el Ministerio de Salud gazatí.

“Cuba condena enérgicamente los bombardeos indiscriminados de Israel contra la población palestina en Gaza”, escribió Rodríguez en su cuenta de Twitter.

El jefe de la Diplomacia cubana también denunció el “permanente apoyo de Estados Unidos a esos crímenes” que perpetra la entidad sionista contra la bloqueada población de Gaza.

La Franja de Gaza, zona denominada por algunos como “la cárcel más grande del mundo” ya que sus casi dos millones de habitantes están impedidos de recibir alimentos, combustibles y suministros médicos por el bloqueo israelí, fue blanco el martes de un feroz bombardeo aéreo contra estructuras civiles, incluidas casas.

Además, en la ciudad ocupada de Al-Quds (Jerusalén), al menos 500 palestinos sufrieron heridas por la represión israelí contra las protestas contra la profanación y la prohibición al acceso de los palestinos al complejo de la mezquita Al-Aqsa, uno de los tres lugares más sagrados del Islam.

Cuba siempre ha expresado, en foros internacionales, su rechazo a las agresiones israelíes en Palestina y ha acusado el papel de EE.UU. en la continuidad del conflicto palestino-israelí.

En este sentido, La Habana ha rechazado el llamado “acuerdo del siglo”, elaborado por el anterior Gobierno estadounidense, y ha advertido de que el proceso de normalizar de relaciones diplomáticas con Israel constituye una grave violación a los derechos de los palestinos.

Esta nueva oleada de violencia se venía cebando por las restricciones impuestas por el régimen de Israel al acceso de los palestinos a la Mezquita Al-Aqsa, situada en la ciudad cisjordana de Al-Quds, y el anuncio de la expulsión de los residentes palestinos del barrio de Sheij Yarrah, para favorecer a colonos israelíes. Sin embargo, la chispa que ha generado un fuego cruzado de cohetes ente Israel y la Resistencia palestina fue la represión israelí perpetrada el lunes contra los palestinos en Al-Quds.

La Resistencia palestina había venido advirtiendo sobre los actos hostiles de los israelíes contra los civiles palestinos. No obstante, las agresiones israelíes contra palestinos no cesaron y siguieron sus ataques contra los manifestantes en Al-Aqsa, además de realizar ataques aéreos contra la Franja de Gaza.

En este sentido, el lunes, la aviación del régimen israelí bombardeó casas de palestinos en Beit Hanun, sita en Gaza, lo que dejó varios muertos. Además, un ataque aéreo nocturno del régimen de Tel Aviv causó el martes el derrumbe total de un edificio de 13 pisos en la Franja de Gaza. 

En reacción, el Movimiento de Resistencia Islámica de Palestina (HAMAS), así como el movimiento Yihad Islámica Palestina, han lanzado centenares de misiles contra los territorios ocupados, incluido el corazón de Tel Aviv.

Fuente: HispanTV

FRIDAY, MAY 21, 2021 AT 1 PM EDT
Grup Yorum Online Concert (+ international musicians)
Online Event

Grup Yorum will be on stage with other international musicians on 21 May at 19:00 CET.

The concert was postponed previously because of the lockdown in Paris (where Yorum was going to stream the concert from a stage).

The concert on 5 April is free, but you can buy online tickets to support Yorum and this will give you a private link where you can interact with the concert (i.e you could be shown on the LED screen on stage).

https://yurplan.com/event/Concert-Grup-Yorum-2021/67149#/

MONDAY, MAY 17, 2021 AT 5:15 PM EDT – 7:15 PM EDT
Free Palestine – End All U.S. Aid to Israel
Corner Howard Street & Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd

Free Palestine – End All U.S. Aid to Israel
Stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine!
Gather at 5 pm at the corner of Howard & Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.