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UN humanitarians fast-track Gaza aid funding before winter

OCHA said that UN and its aid partners remain committed to providing life-saving support, including shelter, as humanitarian actors in the UN-coordinated aid system continue to distribute tents, tarpaulins and other essential items to affected families, and assess people’s needs…

The UN Has Voted to Put the Occupation of Iraq in Charge of Gaza

Ah, those were the days. The UN had been blocked by a worldwide popular movement from approving of a war on Iraq. British Prime Minister Tony Blair had dragged the UK along after secretly demanding that George W. Bush first…

Looking for the Davids of the World

On November 17, 2025, the UN Security Council endorsed the U.S. Peace Plan for Gaza, including an “International Stabilization Force” — another military deployment to a region where force has never brought peace. After decades of destruction, it is clear…

U.N. Security Council Backs U.S. Peace Plan for Gaza

Russia and China abstain as Arab and Muslim nations endorse international stabilization mission November 17, 2025 — In a rare moment of consensus on the Middle East, the United Nations Security Council voted 13–0 on Monday to adopt a U.S.-sponsored…

Daniel Schultz, Israeli conscientious objector: “I refuse to enlist because it is the most humane thing to do”

My name is Daniel Schultz, I’m 19 years old, and I grew up in a liberal household in Tel-Aviv. For most of my teen years, my political activity developed in the Yesh Atid youth – where I adopted the core…

Trampling on rights and freedoms to stifle support for Palestinians

The aid provided by Western governments to Israel and its genocidal policies is a fact that is out in the open. Some are ashamed, others openly display their association and complicity. Geopolitical calculations (for the domination of the Near East),…

A new bloodletting under the truce: children, families and civilians under fire in Gaza

In the past two days, the so-called ceasefire in the Gaza Strip has turned into a disguise for calm while new victims keep falling. On October 16, 2025, in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, a civilian vehicle carrying the…

New York, The People’s Forum, and the Hope of a New World

As I climb the subway steps, a silhouette looms, recognizable even to those who have never been to New York: the Empire State Building. I’m in the beating heart of the Big Apple, where, amid dozens of fast-food and fast-fashion…

Thousands of Aid Trucks Needed Weekly to Avert Gaza Catastrophe, UN Warns

As the fragile ceasefire holds, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza remains on a knife-edge. Tom Fletcher, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and top emergency relief coordinator, told Reuters that “thousands of humanitarian vehicles must enter weekly to avert…

The Fall of the West and the rise of a new Dawn

Giving the Nobel Peace Prize 2025 to María Corina Machado is the latest signal that the West has fallen even further than it has until today. To give the Nobel Peace Prize to a fascistic and violent Venezuelan trouble maker…

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