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Venezuela, Palestine Express Mutual Anger Against Imperialism on teleSUR

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Venezuela has for years provided “unconditional solidarity” to the Palestinian struggle against “the Israeli genocide,” the Palestinian government said in a statement late on Monday after Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez said the Palestinian people were “an example of resistance for those of us who struggle against imperialism.”

“Since the arrival of the Bolivarian Revolution in 1999, Venezuela has become a voice for historically marginalized peoples, reclaimed social struggles and raised the banners of justice, including for those in Palestine,” Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Maliki said in a statement during a visit to the Venezuelan capital Caracas.

Continue reading at http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Venezuela-Palestine-Express-Mutual-Anger-Against-Imperialism-20160517-0011.html

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Venezuelan Social Movements Protest Israeli “Genocide” Outside UN HQ in Caracas by Lucas Koerner

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“We are here at the United Nations office in Caracas simply because we cannot remain silent in the face of the genocide being committed against the Palestinian people,” Hindu Andari, spokesperson for the Itinerant Forum of Popular Participation, told venezuelanalysis…

Coming on the heels of Venezuela’s commemoration of “indigenous resistance day” on October 12, several present at Wednesday’s protest drew parallels between Palestinian resistance to Israeli colonization and indigenous struggles in South America. “The Venezuelan people survived a similar genocide when Columbus came to America. The Palestinian people are resisting as we resisted, as our indigenous peoples resisted in the face of that [Spanish] genocide. Venezuela cannot be indifferent to this cause,” explains Mercedes “Chelena” Rosa of the Movement of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Artists.

Continue reading at http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/11558

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‘Genocide in Gaza’: Israel’s War One Year On by teleSUR

After the war on Gaza left over 2,200 dead, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas labeled Israel’s treatment of Gaza as a “war of genocide,” during his speech at the U.N. General Assembly in September 2014. Below we remember the victims of that war and the solidarity offered.

Continue reading at http://www.telesurtv.net/english/telesuragenda/Genocide-in-Gaza-Israels-War-One-Year-On-20150707-0012.html

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Cease Fire, Resume Genocide: An interview with Dr. Jacob Smith* by Justin Podur

Dr. Jacob Smith (name changed) is a North American physician who has visited Gaza several times, working at several hospitals there in both clinical and training roles. I spoke with him about the medical system in Gaza and the state of Gaza under the current, post August-2014 intensified siege…

The people within Gaza are motivated, determined to be independent and have their own health care system that they develop and that they optimize. The reason this is not happening is solely because of the occupation and a blockade that forbids supplies, and rather than the very rapid genocidal campaign of the war, after the ceasefire none of the conditions have been respected.

Continue reading at http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Cease-Fire-Resume-Genocide-An-interview-with-Dr.-Jacob-Smith-20150311-0031.html

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