For today, links to a report from Middle East Monitor and, via ScheerPost, to a conversation from DiEM25; others are accessible by clicking on their names above or below.  GAZA, UKRAINE, LEBANON and MEDIA entries for this date are HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE,  or scroll down.) — MCM

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Israeli army arrests 11 in West Bank, raids Al Jazeera office again. From Middle East Monitor. Israeli forces arrested at least 11 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank early Saturday in raids that included a second closure notice for Al Jazeera’s office in Ramallah, as illegal settlers escalated attacks on farmland and residents, Anadolu reports. READ MORE . . .

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FROM JUNE 6  What’s really happening in Palestine. Mehran Khalili and Yanis Varoufakis of DiEM25 and Mohammed El-Kurd, a Palestinian  organizer and writer, talk about events in Gaza and the West Bank, changing perceptions of them abroad, how to defeat Zionism as the world’s “last colonialist project.”  Click HERE for intro and video.

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