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Helen Mccue 

Helen Mccue 

Pearls and Irritations

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Israel shreds the UN as it seeks to ban UNRWA

Israel has knocked yet another nail in the United Nations system. This week, with an extraordinary result of 92 to 10 (the 10 being presumably the...

31.10.2024 9

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“Medicide”: the killing fields of Gaza

How much longer are the world’s leaders going to stand by and watch children being shredded to bits, doctors and nurses killed, arrested, detained...

30.10.2024 10

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The American-Israeli genocide in Palestine: Twelve months on

The past twelve months have been the most catastrophic for Palestinians since the 1948 Nakba. Everything that is needed to sustain life in Gaza has...

08.10.2024 20

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Palestinians refugees in Lebanon: bombed to death, yet again by Israel

Innocent citizens in Gaza (80 % of whom are refugees), the West Bank, Lebanon and Yemen are being blown to bits in horrific numbers. But it is...

01.10.2024 10

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Israel’s ‘red lines’ over Netzarim and Philadelphi corridors in Gaza

Why won’t there be a long term ceasefire in Gaza any day soon? In spite of the murder of 16,500 children, the most in any modern day conflict, and...

04.09.2024 10

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Israel’s pattern of bombing schools and shelters in Gaza

American supplied Israel bombs killed at least 100 people as they stood while performing Fajr (dawn) prayers at the Al-Tabin school in the Daraj area...

16.08.2024 10

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Israeli MP condones sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners

What democracy would accept a member of parliament agreeing that it was permissible and acceptable for its soldiers to sexually abuse political...

05.08.2024 7

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Israel’s border closures contribute to polio outbreak in Gaza

As the world’s media is mesmerised by political events in the USA and the findings by the ICJ of the illegal occupation by Israel of Gaza and the...

22.07.2024 10

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Israel legislatively and militarily seeks to destroy UNRWA

As the Israeli military obliterates Gaza, massacres refugees living in tents in so called “safe zones” and slaughters 39,000 people including at...

16.07.2024 10

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Speaking truth to power

Senator Fatima Payman’s riveting conversation with David Spears on Sunday’s ABC Insiders program was powerful, erudite, compassionate and...

02.07.2024 10

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Palestinian prisoners starved, abused and mistreated

Since October 7th last year more than 9,500 Palestinians including 635 minors from the West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem have been held in Israeli...

11.06.2024 10

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Four rescued Israels equals over two hundred dead Palestinians whilst we continue to support a rogue state

To rescue four Israeli hostages Israel massacred two hundred and ten or more innocent Palestinian souls to prove that the War on Gaza was worth it,...

09.06.2024 10

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American-Israeli bombs incinerate women and children in Gaza’s ‘safe zone’

In a calculated and vicious attack Israel bombed an area in Rafah, Gaza designated as a “safe zone’ by the Israeli military, incinerating women...

28.05.2024 30

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The Philadelphi Corridor: Egypt joins South Africa’s ICJ genocide case

Why has Egypt confirmed that it will support South Africa’s case at the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocide? The answer lies...

20.05.2024 70

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We are silencing our young people

16.05.2024 40

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Israel’s war machine, Australian Universities, and why students are protesting

Australian university students are setting up encampments in universities across Australia. They are not only calling for an end to the war on Gaza...

04.05.2024 20

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A war on children: Gaza doctors no longer see normal-sized babies

Israel’s war on Gaza is a war on children, a war on their childhood and a war on their future. Children are dying at an alarming rate from...

18.03.2024 20

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Jerusalem Peace Prize Address: The most disastrous year for Palestinians since the 1948 Nakba

Receiving the Jerusalem Peace Prize is a great honour and I am overwhelmed and humbled indeed. It is particularly poignant at this time as...

04.03.2024 8

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Palestinians in Gaza massacred, starved and raped

The Australian government remains silent, continues to call Israel “our friend”, and rewards Israel’s war machine in a new contract with the...

01.03.2024 20

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Australia’s role in further collective punishment on Gazans

Israel has for years been determined to cut aid to the refugees both in Gaza and the West Bank. While the UN Secretary General and head of UNRWA...

28.01.2024 10

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Child amputees and Israel’s ‘unchilding’ reaches new depravity

As the International Court of Justice received submissions from South Africa and Israel on the 11th and 12th of January on the claims by South Africa...

16.01.2024 9

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Caged and dismembered: Israel’s “Unchilding” policy for Palestinian children

The victimisation by Israel of Palestinian children is so profound that Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkain, a Hebrew University of Jerusalem law professor, has...

23.12.2023 10

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