By Nureddin Sabir. Redress Information & Analysis – The BBC has abandoned all pretence of impartiality and let a prominent journalist for a right-wing Israeli newspaper write for its website. On 23 July an article by Gil Hoffman, an Israeli Wehrmacht reservist and chief political correspondent of the Jerusalem Post, appeared in the Middle East […]
By Scott McConnell. The American Conservative – At this writing, one Israeli has been killed by Hamas fire; hundreds of Hamas rockets have either fallen harmlessly or been destroyed by Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile defense. The toll among Palestinians in Gaza is roughly 200 dead, and about 1,500 wounded. This then is not so much a […]
Huffington Post – NEW YORK — CNN has removed correspondent Diana Magnay from covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after she tweeted that Israelis who were cheering the bombing of Gaza, and who had allegedly threatened her, were “scum.” “After being threatened and harassed before and during a liveshot, Diana reacted angrily on Twitter,” a CNN […]
Daily Sabah – ISTANBUL – As the situation widely deteriorates in the Gaza Strip, Israeli parliament member and law-maker Ayelet Shaked has stigmatized all Palestinians as terrorists, wishing death on all Palestinians while supporting the Israeli military assault. On Monday Shaked quoted this on her Facebook page: “Behind every terrorist stand dozens of men and women, without whom […]
By James M. Wall. Wallwritings – One day after a U.S. congressional committee voted to send more U.S. tax dollars to bolster Israel’s Iron Dome shield, four Palestinian boys were killed on an open beach by Israeli shelling from a naval ship offshore. Defense for Children International reported on the Israeli shelling: “Eight children in Gaza were […]
By Adil E. Shamoo. AntiWar.com – Terrorism is defined by Merriam Webster’s dictionary as: “the use of violent acts to frighten the people in an area as a way of trying to achieve a political goal.” One could say Hamas fits this definition out of desperation and a lack of moral leadership. But Israeli actions toward Palestinians are much […]
By Ali Younes. The Arab Daily News – The Arab Daily News has learned that president Barack Obama is now supporting the Israeli offensive against Hamas in Gaza and possibly escalating the war into a ground offensive operation. Israeli ambassador to the US Ron Dermer met with president Obama yesterday and it was reported that the […]
By Dan Murphy. Though the Iron Dome interceptor system has been credited for the minimal damage Israel has suffered in the current conflict, the threat from Gaza appears to be smaller than in 2012. MJ Armstrong/Brock A popular narrative about the current face-off between Hamas and other Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip and Israel is that the Israelis, confronted with withering […]
Haaretz – Sixty-four public figures, including seven Nobel Peace Prize winners, have called for an international arms embargo on Israel for its “war crimes and possible crimes against humanity” in Gaza. The statement came in a letter published in Britain’s The Guardian on Friday. “Israel has once again unleashed the full force of its military […]
By Glenn Greenwald. The Intercept – Ayman Mohyeldin, the NBC News correspondent who personally witnessed yesterday’s killing by Israel of four Palestinian boys on a Gazan beach and who has received widespread praise for his brave and innovative coverage of the conflict, has been told by NBC executives to leave Gaza immediately. According to an NBC source upset at his […]
