Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sets as a prerequisite to continue talks the recognition of the "sovereign equality" of Turkish-speaking Cypriots.
United Palestinians have changed the course of history
Ramzy Baroud
May 24, 2021 22:57
Palestinians celebrate in the streets following a ceasefire, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 21, 2021. (Reuters)
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The Palestinian revolt of 2021 will go down in history as one of the most influential events in irreversibly changing the collective thinking in and around Palestine. Only two other events can be compared with what has just transpired in Palestine: The revolt of 1936 and the first intifada that began in 1987.
The general strike and rebellion of 1936 to 1939 were momentous because they represented the first unmistakable expression of collective Palestinian political agency. Despite their isolation and humble tools of resistance, the Palestinian people rose up across the country to challenge both British and Zionist colonialism.
World must seize the moment to end Israeli occupation
Chris Doyle
May 24, 2021 21:57
A man searches for belongings under the rubble of a building that was destroyed in Israeli air attacks in the northern Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
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Israelis are starting to relax after another Benjamin Netanyahu-Hamas ceasefire. After 11 days of violence, Israelis can restart their lives and get out of the shelters. Next week should also see a return to pre-pandemic normality. That is welcome. But not for one second should anyone suggest this is a ceasefire and calm for Palestinians. This is the typical error of world leaders and politicians, whose energies will fade away within days if the precedent of the many previous wars on Gaza is adhered to.
Post. “The dam is cracking,” wrote Abier Khatib of the Open Society Foundation.
Objectively, the violence during Operation Protective Edge the 2014 Israeli assault on Gaza was far worse. Even as Israeli forces broke the newly adopted ceasefire just hours after they signed it, storming the Al-Aqsa Mosque again on Friday, the casualties are nothing like those of seven years ago, when well over two thousand Palestinians were killed. Yet in 2014, the reaction from the American political elite was one of total support for Israel.
As Ryan Grim from
The Interceptnoted, at the peak of the 2014 onslaught, Jessica Ramos, a progressive Democratic Party district leader in Queens, New York, took to Facebook simply to post the message “Palestine