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Israel Opts For Total War

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

Israel is facing mounting calls to end the fighting in the Gaza Strip amid fears of a new Zionist onslaught on Rafah where about 1.4 million displaced Palestinians have sought refuge from Israel’s relentless bombardments of other parts of the Palestinian enclave.

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White Coat Battles

by New Worker correspondent

Junior Doctors are about to embark on their tenth round of industrial action. Their union, the British Medical Association, say that despite making some progress in pay talks the Government has repeatedly failed to present a credible offer. The BMA offered the Health Secretary the opportunity to cancel the latest round of strikes before it was announced if she agreed to extend the mandate for strike action for four weeks. This she refused, hence the latest strike.

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Editorials

The voice of the oppressed

The Israelis are rampaging through Gaza. Raiding hospitals. Killing women and children. Destroying schools and homes. Spreading terror with bombs and drones – that’s what their much vaunted army is good at – but it’s a different story when they come up against the Palestinian resistance. The Israelis are paying a high price for their aggression in Gaza and the West Bank. Their northern border is ablaze. Over half a million Israelis have fled abroad to escape the fighting and the Houthi Yemeni government’s blockade has closed Israel’s only port on the Red Sea.

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Meanwhile in Rochdale...

A former Labour leader tells us the party’s leadership has sometimes lacked political “savvy” with its handling of recent crises, including its green spending pledge and the Rochdale by-election. But Neil Kinnock, a grandee who now sits in the House of Lords, was perhaps understating the crisis of confidence that has shaken the Starmer leadership over the past few weeks.

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