By Richard Silverstein. IMEMC – I’ve devoted a good deal of my life to Israel. I’ve studied, read, visited, lived, breathed it. Not in the way diehard pro-Israel fanatics do. But in a different way that matched my own intellectual and political proclivities. It’s a subject that is rich, varied, troubling, bedeviling, and exhilarating. But every […]
By Deepa Kumar. Salon – Israeli propaganda has hit a new low. While the world was still trying to come to terms with the mass deaths in Shejaiya, Benjamin Netanyahu went on CNN to state that Hamas uses the “telegenically dead” to further “their cause.” He added that for Hamas: “The more the dead, the better.” Even while Netanyahu followed […]
By Mohammed Omer. Middle East Eye – BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip – At Kamal Adwan hospital, the ambulances arrived unusually full with several injured at once. While this is becoming an increasingly regular sight in Gaza, there was something new about these ambulance that were rushing in people from a UNRWA school at Beit Hanoun. Everyone of […]
By Paul Findley. Counterpunch – While viewing the massacre of Gazans, you may wonder why 1.8 million Arabs are crowded on that tiny strip of seashore and are being bombed day and night into death and ruins by Israel’s powerful military machine. A glimpse of history is timely. Facts set forth below are little known in […]
By Mohammed Omer. Middle East Eye – It has become the norm for Ayman Sahwan to round up injured civilians. It’s a job he has done for 15 years and continues to do. “Every day I see new faces, and meet new people in similar high-stress, painful, situations” he says. Sahwan just received a signal […]
By Noura Erakat. The Nation – Israel has killed almost 800 Palestinians in the past twenty-one days in the Gaza Strip alone; its onslaught continues. The UN estimates that more than 74 percent of those killed are civilians. That is to be expected in a population of 1.8 million where the number of Hamas members […]
By Philip Giraldi. UNZ – It is a familiar scenario. Israeli is killing hundreds of civilians, mostly women and children, and the Zionist propaganda machine is working overtime. The President of the United States reaffirms America’s solemn pledge to protect Israel at all costs and justifies the carnage by stating that Israel has a right to […]
By Alison Weir. Following are a few short questions for the New York Times in regard to a recent news report: 1. When are you going to cover the killing of Palestinians the same way you cover the killing of Israelis? Israel’s killing of at least 8 civilians in one day was relegated to the […]
By Charlotte Silver. Electronic Intifada – Noor Elashi has not been able to hug her father for more than five years. Each time she visits him at United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois, they must communicate through a wall of Plexiglass. “It is unnecessarily cruel,” she told The Electronic Intifada. Her father, Ghassan Elashi, is one of […]
Haaretz – The U.K.’s Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said Thursday that Israeli airstrikes in Gaza in response to Hamas rocket fire is “deliberately disproportionate.’” Speaking on his weekly phone-in to radio station LBC, the Liberal Democrats leader accused Israel of “collective punishment” against the Palestinians, The Guardian reported. “I have to say though I really do […]
