With the help of members in the growing Sudanese community in Australia, 麻豆传媒 Weekly -- Australia's leading socialist newspaper -- is proud to publish a regular Arabic language supplement.
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While Western powers and many Arab governments are complicit in Israel鈥檚 crimes against the people of Gaza, the revolutionary governments of Venezuela and Cuba have strongly opposed Israel鈥檚 war.
[The petition below is being circulated within the Australian trade union movement].
Isaac Shuisha, an Israeli citizen and student involved in the Palestine solidarity movement in Sydney, spoke to 麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥檚 Simon Butler about the reasons behind Israel鈥檚 assault on Gaza and the campaign for a free Palestine. Shuisha is a member of the socialist youth organisation, Resistance.
Thousands of Egyptians have taken to the streets to protest the continuing Israeli aggression against Gaza and the participation of the Egyptian regime in the isolation of its population.
Between 1pm on January 4 and 2.30pm on January 5, 77 people were killed by the Israeli assault on Gaza. Of the victims, a staggering 21 were children.
鈥淎n entire refugee family in one fell swoop was killed this morning as they took cover in their home, which took a direct hit from Israeli shells鈥, according to a diary direct from Palestine written by Laila El-Haddad and published on January 4 on Electronic Intifada.
[The following statement was issued by the Socialist Alliance on January 6].
Pip Hinman, from Sydney Stop the War Coalition, held a shoe aloft 鈥 in tribute to Iraqi reporter Muntader al-Zaidi 鈥 to roars of approval from a 10,000-strong crowd in Sydney on January 4.
People all over the world have finally taken US President George Bush鈥檚 call for a 鈥渨ar on terror鈥 seriously, taking to the streets to demand the biggest terrorist organisation in the Middle East, the Israeli Defence Force, immediately cease its terror campaign against the people of Gaza.
When you read the statements from Israeli and US politicians, and try to match them with the pictures of devastation in Gaza, there seems to be only one explanation. They must have one of those conditions, called something like 鈥淰isual-Carnage-Responsibility-Back-To-Front-Upside-Down-Massacre-Disorder鈥.
The following appeal was issued on December 29 by the Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees.
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