Israel's Minister of Agriculture Uri Ariel recently called for more death and injuries of Palestinians in Gaza. Such views are reflections of real policies that have been carried out for over 70 years. This violent legacy continues to define Israel to this day, through the use of what Israeli historian Ilan Pappe describes as ‘incremental genocide.’
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This is a community threatened with extinction for the past seven decades.
Relief workers for International agencies sit with me in Dhaka (Bangladesh). They are talking about the difficulties faced by the Rohingya people who have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh over the past several months. Over 650,000 people from the Rohingya community came into Bangladesh since August 25 of last year. This is a torrent of desperate people, a community threatened with extinction for the past seven decades. The refugee camps near Cox’s Bazaar are overcrowded and dangerously unhygienic. Already there is an outbreak of diphtheria, with indications of severe health challenges to come. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), half of the refugees are malnourished and anaemic, while a quarter of the children suffer from acute malnutrition. A logistical worker for a relief agency tells me that in his three decades in this work he has never seen anything like this.
January 11, 2018 marked the 16th year that Guantanamo prison has exclusively imprisoned Muslim men, subjecting many of them to torture and arbitrary detention. "The rights-violating practices surrounding Guantanamo are now a model for the detention and incarceration polices of the US and other states," said Aisha Manar of the London Campaign to Close Guantanamo.
Any day now, Energy Fuels will resume drilling for high-grade uranium ore at the Canyon Mine just six miles south of the Grand Canyon. The risks of the mine have never been fully investigated, but it doesn't take much to see the potential consequences.
There is a real - but largely concealed - war which is taking place throughout the African continent. It involves the United States, an invigorated Russia and a rising China. The outcome of the war is likely to define the future of the continent and its global outlook.
Disasters, man made and natural, are increasingly forcing agriculture-based income earners, especially small farmers, out of their villages and into cities looking for work. “What am I to do? There is no work in our village, all the fields have dried up, everyone is moving out looking for work,” said Sri Lankan farmer Newton Gunathileka.
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