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In early March 2020, I was privileged to join a ten-person medical delegation to Gaza organized by the Washington state chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Several among our group have long histories and deep personal ties with Gaza, which has been subjected to a harsh Israeli blockade for fourteen years. The staff of our […]
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UN Special Rapporteur Urges US To Lift The Blockade Against Venezuela
February 14th, 2021 
Awake Goy Above photo: Alena Douhan, UN Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures. AFP. NOTE: Sign the petition calling on the Biden administration to end the economic war at SanctionsKill.org/petition. And join us on Saturday, February 27 at 4:00 pm Eastern/1:00 pm Pacific for a training on the new Sanctions Kill toolkit. Click […]
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Tags: against, blockade, rapporteur, special, urges, Venezuela 
No Comments »Thousands Of Farmers In India Blockade Highways Protesting New Agricultural Laws
February 7th, 2021 Awake Goy NEW DELHI (AP) — Thousands of protesting Indian farmers blockaded highways across the country for several hours Saturday to press their demands for the repeal of new agricultural laws that have led to months of massive protests. The protesters used tractors, trucks and even boulders to blockade the roads. They carried banners and flags denouncing […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: agricultural, blockade, farmers, highways, India, protesting, thousands No Comments »Invisible Blockade: the Media Is Silent on the Palestinian Authority’s Gaza Sanctions
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy Hamas members wear protective gear as a precaution against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, April 13, 2020. Photo: Reuters / Ibraheem Abu Mustafa. Ever since Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree for parliamentary and presidential elections to be held for the first time […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: authority, blockade, invisible, Media, palestinian, sanctions, silent No Comments »Arab states ending Qatar blockade is really about Biden
January 25th, 2021 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
Posted in qatar, saudi-arabia Tags: about, biden, blockade, ending, Qatar, really, states No Comments »End of Qatar air blockade opens up flying in the Gulf
January 6th, 2021 Awake Goy Three years after Saudi Arabia and its allies in the Middle East began a blockade of Qatar, the conflict has been resolved – which means a return to relative normality for airlines in the region. But what does it mean for visitors and those travelling around the region? These are the key questions and answers. […]
Qatar’s ruling emir lands in Saudi Arabia for summit to end blockade
January 6th, 2021 Awake Goy AL-ULA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Qatar’s ruling emir arrived in Saudi Arabia and was greeted with an embrace by its crown prince on Tuesday, following an announcement that the kingdom would end its years-long embargo on the tiny Gulf Arab state. The decision to open borders was the first major step toward ending the diplomatic […]
Posted in qatar, saudi-arabia Tags: arabia, blockade, lands, Qatar, ruling, Saudi, summit No Comments »Gulf States Reach Deal to End Blockade Against Qatar
January 6th, 2021 Awake Goy A Qatari flag is seen at a park near the Doha Corniche, in Doha, Qatar, Feb. 17, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Ibraheem al Omari. JNS.org – The Gulf states have reached an agreement to end the three-year-old boycott of Qatar, announced Kuwait’s foreign minister on Monday. White House senior adviser and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner […]
COVID has given Israel an excuse to tighten the blockade of Gaza
December 29th, 2020 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
Risking flare-up, Morocco vows to clear Polisario blockade of Western Sahara road
November 13th, 2020 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
Posted in Jewish News Tags: blockade, clear, flare, Morocco, polisario, risking, western No Comments »Venezuela: Democracy Versus Blockade
September 30th, 2020 Awake Goy Venezuela: Democracy Versus Blockade Above photo: Bill Hackwell. On December 6 there will be elections in Venezuela to elect all the deputies to the National Assembly (NA), an event of extraordinary political transcendence. But before going into that subject I will mention the elections that will be held in several Latin American countries in the coming […]
Extinction Rebellion blockade of UK newspaper printing plants ‘completely unacceptable’: Johnson
September 6th, 2020 Awake Goy Environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion have blockaded two British printing plants, disrupting the distribution of several national newspapers on Saturday. The group said it targeted printworks at Broxbourne, north of London, and Knowsley in northwest England that are owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Prime Minister Boris Johnson branded the demonstration “completely unacceptable” on Twitter, […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: blockade, completely, extinction, newspaper, plants, printing, rebellion No Comments »Fairy Creek Blockade Expands To Protect Rare Old-Growth Forest
September 2nd, 2020 Awake Goy Above photo: Old-growth forest in the Fairy Creek Valley. Two weeks into a campaign to halt logging of ancient rainforests in the last intact watershed of the San Juan River system, activists have set up a third blockade on unceded Pacheedaht Territory. In the midst of an ongoing climate emergency, logging of the ancient rainforests continues […]
It Is Neither Decades of Occupation, Years of Blockade, Nor Days of Bombing. It Is Just “Shalom”!
August 22nd, 2020 Awake Goy By Al-Ahed The United Arab Emirates’ [UAE] Ambassador to the United States Yousef al-Otaiba hailed his country’s new agreement with the ‘Israeli’ entity occupying the land of Palestine and killing its people, and celebrated it with an opinion piece he wrote for Yedioth Ahronoth, with the title: “Shalom, salaam and welcome”! Turning a blind eye […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: blockade, bombing, decades, neither, occupation, shalom, years No Comments »Activists Blockade Entrance To Chemical Weapons Maker
August 19th, 2020 Awake Goy 
Above photo: War Resisters League. Jamestown, PA – Five activists blockaded the entrance of Combined Systems Inc. on Monday with giant tear gas cans and gas masks, refusing to move. Right now, we are blockading the entrance of @CombinedSysInc w giant tear gas cans & gas masks, refusing to move. By shutting down this facility […]
Flotilla Challenging Israel’s Blockade Continues Towards Gaza
June 4th, 2018 Awake Goy We are possibly a more motley crew than the passengers aboard the S.S.Minnow in the old U.S. TV series Gilligan’s Island: Among those who have joined us on one or more legs of the journey to Gaza as part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) are activists hailing from Spain, Israel, Norway, Malaysia, Canada (First Nations), Denmark […]
Posted in World News, World Order, World Politics Tags: blockade, challenging, continues, flotilla, israel, towards No Comments »The Illegal israeli Blockade of Gaza: An Insult to All Civilised People Everywhere
June 2nd, 2018 Awake Goy The Illegal Israeli Blockade of Gaza: An Insult to All Civilised People Everywhere By Hans Stehling The Israeli blockade of Gaza’s 1.8 million residents from essential supplies of food, medicine, power and goods has now continued for 11 years! This blockade is illegal, inhuman and an atrocity against a civilian population, the likes of which […]
Posted in World News Tags: blockade, civilised, everywhere’, illegal, insult, israeli, people No Comments »The Ongoing Media Blockade Against Venezuela
May 31st, 2018 Awake Goy Upon returning to the United States from Venezuela and reading the terrible media reporting of the election, it was evident that the people of the United States are being lied to. The Intrepid News Fund and Venezuela Analysis invited me and others to come to Venezuela for the election to see first hand what actually […]
Posted in World News, World Order, World Politics Tags: against, blockade, Media, ongoing, Venezuela No Comments »Boat From Gaza Attempts To Break Israeli Blockade
May 29th, 2018 Awake Goy Boat From Gaza Attempts To Break Israeli Blockade Above Photo: I interview Abdul Menim Aabed, 27 Abdul Menim Aabed, 27, is among a crowd of Gazan Palestinians who are anxious—despite the obvious danger—to be among the first to try to sail out of Gaza tomorrow on Al-Hurriyah (Liberty). The boat is being organized by the Great […]
Freedom flotilla to depart Gaza, another sets sail from Copenhagen in bid to break Gaza blockade
May 28th, 2018 Awake Goy The National Higher Committee for the Great Return March (NHCGRM) announced yesterday that a flotilla of ships is going to depart the Gaza Strip for breaking the siege imposed by the Israeli occupation forces for more than eleven years, which led to a dire and unlivable situation in the coastal enclave. In a press conference held at the […]
Posted in World News Tags: another, blockade, break, Copenhagen, depart, flotilla, Freedom No Comments »Palestinian group challenges Schumer to visit Gaza and call for end to blockade
May 4th, 2018 Awake Goy The Council on International Relations, a Gaza-based NGO, issued an invitation yesterday to New York Senator Chuck Schumer to come to Gaza so that he can see that he and the Palestinian community share many attributes, from humble origins to a high value for education. The group said it is confident that Schumer would call […]
The European Parliament Calls for Immediate End to Blockade on Gaza
April 22nd, 2018 Awake Goy The European Parliament Calls for Immediate End to Blockade on Gaza By The Palestinian Information Center, The European Parliament (EP) on Thursday called for an immediate and unconditional end to the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip and condemned the Israeli killing of peaceful protesters near Gaza’s eastern border over the past three weeks. The […]
What Anti-Adani Protestors Can Learn From The Jabiluka Blockade
April 4th, 2018 Awake Goy One of Australia’s proudest land rights struggles is passing an important anniversary: it is 20 years since the establishment of the blockade camp at Jabiluka in Kakadu national park. This was the moment at which push would come to shove at one of the world’s largest high-grade uranium deposits. The industry would push, and people […]
More than 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza died from israeli blockade
February 26th, 2018 Awake Goy More than 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza died from Israeli blockade People hold banners during a symbolic funeral held for victims of the Gaza blockade at Al-Saraya Square in Gaza City [Anadolu] The Gaza Strip’s collective of charitable organisations said more than 1,000 Palestinians have died as a result of the ongoing Israeli blockade on the […]
No ships in Yemen’s key port despite Saudi claim of lifting blockade
January 6th, 2018 Awake Goy Two days after Houthi fighters fired a missile at Riyadh on November 4, Saudi Arabia sealed air, land and sea access to Yemen in an attempt to stop alleged ‘arms smuggling from Iran.’ Following a massive outcry from the UN and various aid agencies which warned of a humanitarian disaster, Riyadh agreed to lift the […]
Swedish NGO buys 2nd ship to help break Gaza blockade
December 24th, 2017 Awake Goy A Swedish-based NGO has bought a second ship to use in its efforts to break strict 11-year-old Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. “We will go back again in May 2018 under the name ‘Armada for Gaza’ to break Israel’s blockade,” Ellen Hansson, spokeswoman for the Ship to Gaza Foundation, told Anadolu Agency. Hansson said […]
Yemen: Oxfam slams ‘medieval’ Saudi-led blockade
December 20th, 2017 Awake Goy Press TV- Yemen is being pushed ever closer to famine after 1,000 days of Saudi Arabian-led war and “medieval” blockade, says an international charity group. “For 1,000 days, huge amounts of sophisticated modern weapons have pounded Yemen, and on top of that, we are now witnessing a medieval siege where mass starvation is being used […]
Posted in Jew World Order, Jewish News Tags: blockade, medieval, Oxfam, Saudi, slams, Yemen No Comments »Trump urges Saudi Arabia to “immediately” end Yemen blockade
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Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: arabia, blockade, immediately, Saudi, Trump, urges, Yemen No Comments »What’s behind Trump’s Decision to Condemn the Saudi Blockade of Yemen?
December 8th, 2017 Awake Goy In a brief statement issued Wednesday afternoon, President Trump called on Saudi leadership to completely lift the years long Saudi military blockade on war-torn Yemen. The unexpected announcement came on the same day President Trump delivered an extremely controversial televised address wherein he gave official US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. “I have directed officials in my […]
Posted in World News, World Order, World Politics Tags: behind, blockade, condemn, decision, Saudi, Trump, Yemen No Comments »Yemen: The US-Saudi Starvation Blockade
November 28th, 2017 Awake Goy By Pat Buchanan • Unz Review • November 24, 2017 Our aim is to “starve the whole population — men, women, and children, old and young, wounded and sound — into submission,” said First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. He was speaking of Germany at the outset of the Great War of 1914-1918. Americans […]
