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World rage as Israelis seize peace convoy

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

While Palestinian guerrillas keep up the fight on the streets of Gaza the Israelis are continuing to advance into the heart of the embattled Palestinian enclave. At the United Nations more than 100 diplomats staged a dramatic walkout during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the UN General Assembly in one of the largest co-ordinated protests seen at the world forum in years.

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No to digital ID!

by New Worker correspondent

Protesters gathered outside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Sunday to oppose plans for a new national digital ID card. They warned that the Starmer government’s proposed “BritCard” could pave the way for surveillance and the exclusion of vulnerable groups.

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Editorials

Trump has a plan…

…but whether it will bring peace is another matter altogether. It’s very difficult to take anything that Trump says seriously these days – let alone a 20-point plan to end the fighting in the Gaza Strip that specifically rules out any role for the resistance movement which has governed the beleaguered Palestinian enclave since 2007.

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Meanwhile…

…Israel has hijacked the international peace convoy sailing to Gaza to deliver aid and detained the civilian activists on board. The commandeering of the Global Sumud Flotilla boats shows the contempt Israel has for the Palestinians and the international norms that the West pretends to uphold in their so-called “rules-based order”. The civilians on board the flotilla were attempting to deliver aid to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, to break Israel’s immoral and illegal siege.

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