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 […]
A plot to bomb the Foreign Office in London in 1947 was foiled by a pilot from Birmingham and has now been chronicled in Alison Weir’s new book The Birmingham Post – A new book has revealed the astonishing story of how an ex-Spitfire pilot from Birmingham foiled an international plot to firebomb London. The year […]
Daily Sabah – 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 he […]
Our media ingrains warped terminology that bolsters the effort to portray Israel as a victim. Here are a few examples. By Amira Hass. Haaretz – “Gaza is an independent state.” It is not. It and the West Bank are a single territorial unit composed of two parts. According to the international community’s decisions, a state shall […]
By Max Blumenthal. Alternet – On July 10, Democratic Representative Kathy Castor of Florida’s Tampa Bay area issued an impassioned plea for the protection of endangered manatees. At the same time, she remained conspicuously silent about the brutal beating and ongoing detention of one of her constituents by a foreign government. Tarek Abu Khdeir, a 15-year-old Palestinian-American […]
By Uri Avnery. Counterpunch – Bombs are raining on Gaza and rockets on Southern Israel, people are dying and homes are being destroyed. Again. Again without any purpose. Again with the certainty that after it’s all over, everything will essentially be the same as it was before. But I can hardly hear the sirens which […]
By Mohammed Omer. John Whitbeck’s comment: Transmitted below is a brief personal witness statement from Gaza by my distinguished young friend Mohammed Omer. Some of you may recall Mohammed’s article, which I circulated on March 29, regarding his excruciatingly difficult experience exiting Gaza with his seriously pregnant wife. I later had the pleasure of seeing […]
