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 […]
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 […]
