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Resistance fights on as Israel stalls on peace plan

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

Defenceless Palestinian civilians are desperately seeking cover as waves of Israeli missiles pound what’s left of the battered Palestinian enclave. The bogus American “bridging proposal” that was supposedly going to lead to a prisoner exchange and end the fighting in the Gaza Strip has collapsed. Israel’s opposition leader Yair Lapid calls on Prime Minister Netanyahu to reach a deal to bring home the remaining Israeli prisoners held in Gaza, amid persistent reports in the Israeli media that Netanyahu is working to scuttle those efforts.

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Room at the Top

by New Worker correspondent

We start at the very top with the preoccupations of the civil service mandarins’ union the FDA. This union represents not just the archetypal Sir Humphrey role models but covers policy advisors, diplomats, lawyers, tax professionals, economists, statisticians and museum curators in over 200 departments beyond Whitehall. It has lots of members in the Crown Prosecution Service and the Crown Office and Prosecutor Fiscal Service, and it has forged a partnership with Unison, for health and care managers.

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Editorials

Bye Bye Biden

Joe Biden was clearly looking for a glorious send off at the Democratic Party’s national convention this week – Kissinger-style shuttle diplomacy to end the Gaza war and a Ukrainian push into southern Russia to seize the Kursk nuclear power plant and force Putin to beg for peace. Such is the stuff of dreams.

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War Crimes UK

There’s no doubt that the Israelis are breaking international law. A UN Commission has found that Israeli forces have committed crimes against humanity, including the killing of defenceless civilians and the forcible transfer and torture of Palestinian Arabs in the Gaza Strip. The Zionist state remains under investigation for genocide at the International Court of Justice. And last month, the same court ruled that Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestine is unlawful.

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