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Those unfamiliar with Gaza and its history are likely to always associate Gaza with destruction, rubble and Israeli genocide.  

 And they can hardly be blamed. On November 3, the UN Development Programme and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) announced that 45 percent of Gaza’s housing units have been destroyed or damaged since the beginning of the Latest Israeli aggression on Gaza.

 But the history of Gaza is also a history of great civilizations, as well as a history of revival, rebirth.

The Israeli apartheid regime resumed Friday its mass killing of civilians
in Gaza after getting more weapons and a green light from the US
government. Israeli forces bombed in the first 10 hours of bombing
residential buildings, over 115 Palestinian civilians including over 25
children. The invading army also demanded ethnic cleansing of the city of
Khan Younes (250,000 people). Humanitarian supplies are still forbidden and
people die of diseases and malnutrition. Politicians (local and global)
collude and aid war cries and crimes against humanity. You can watch this
mass killing live at https://www.aljazeera.net/live (Arabic Aljazeera is
better live coverage than the English one).

Impact on higher education institutions and a Unified Call for Justice and
Freedom in Palestine from Palestinian Higher Education institutions: Do not
be Silent during Israel’s Unfolding Genocide. More at:

29 November was declared by the UN as an International Day of Solidarity
with the Palestinian People. The date was picked because in 1947 on that
date the UN General assembly under pressure from the US abrogated (in a
first of its kind) the UN Charter by voting to recommend partition of
Palestine to give 55% of the country to a "Jewish state" when Jews were
less than 30% of the population and most of them colonial settlers (5%
native Jews). This abrogated the right of self determination. But the
resolution specifically called for an economic union and NO ETHNIC
CLEANSING. Ethnic cleansing happened and continue to happen with US
support.. The Mossad and CIA agents are meeting in Qatar to try to save the
Israeli apartheid system from its deteriorating situation (on many levels
political, economic, social, military, and public relations). Thus, on this
day of solidarity, all Palestinains, Israelis and Internationals of
conscience call on all people not yet engaged in this global uprising
(intifada) to expand and accelerate action. Without YOUR collective
actions, the genocide will resume and the war criminals will not be held to

For U.S. mass media, Henry Kissinger’s quip that “power is the ultimate aphrodisiac” rang true. Influential reporters and pundits often expressed their love for him. The media establishment kept swooning over one of the worst war criminals in modern history.

 After news of his death broke on Wednesday night, prominent coverage echoed the kind that had followed him ever since his years with President Richard Nixon, while they teamed up to oversee vast carnage in Southeast Asia.

 The headline over a Washington Post news bulletin summed up: “Henry Kissinger Dies at 100. The Noted Statesman and Scholar Had Unparalleled Power Over Foreign Policy.”

 But can a war criminal really be a “noted statesman”?

Shortly after the start of a four-day ceasefire in the war on Gaza, the prime ministers of Spain and Belgium, Pedro Sanchez and Alexander De Croo, appeared in a joint press conference at Rafah Crossing.

 While Sanchez described “what is happening (as) a disaster,” De Croo called for a “permanent cessation of hostilities” and for an end to the killing of children. 

 Equally significant, the two European leaders declared that “we may decide to recognize the State of Palestine, if the European Union does not”.