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Helen Mccue 

Helen Mccue 

Pearls and Irritations

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American-Israeli bombs destroy Australian food aid in Gaza

Last Sunday, (5 January) an American-Israeli guided missile deliberately attacked and destroyed an Australian-funded food aid storage facility in...

08.01.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Helen Mccue 

American supported Israeli settlers erode what is left of Palestine

Israel continues to destroy what is left of Gaza with American bombs, slaughtering 50 or more souls daily as they try to survive in flimsy tents on...

16.12.2024 9

Pearls and Irritations

Helen Mccue 

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 2

Pearls and Irritations

Helen Mccue 

“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 2

Pearls and Irritations

Helen Mccue 

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 2

Pearls and Irritations

Helen Mccue 

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...

16.08.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Helen Mccue 

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 1

Pearls and Irritations

Helen Mccue