It seems now light years away from when Israel worried about the international reaction to killing Gazan civilians, as Joe Lauria reported in this interview with an ex-Israel Navy commander and Shin Bet chief in 2012.
As Western politicians line up to cheer on Israel as it starves and bombs Gaza’s civilians, it’s important to understand how we reached this point – and what it means for the future, writes Jonathan Cook.
This is a terrible echo of the approach by the U.S. government after Sept. 11, which from the outset conferred advance absolution on itself for any and all of its future crimes against humanity, writes Norman Solomon.
At the U.N., Palestine’s ambassador questioned the stance by some countries on Israel’s “right to defend,” saying it is a wrong understanding of history that only starts when Israelis are hurt, Peoples Dispatch reports.
The origins of Israel’s intelligence failure on the Hamas attacks can be traced to the decision to rely on AI instead of the contrarian analysis born of the earlier intelligence failure of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
The divide in Israel today is between the right and the far right — those who want to repress the Palestinians and those who want to repress the Palestinians even more. For that reason, Arabs regard the protests as irrelevant…
To live up to Israel’s expectations and to ensure its survival, the Palestinian Authority is willing to clash directly with Palestinians who refuse to toe the line, writes Ramzy Baroud.
In late June, after visiting Palestine and Israel on behalf of a group formed by Nelson Mandela, two former senior U.N. officials — Ban Ki-moon and Mary Robinson — published a scathing report on their findings, writes Vijay Prashad.
With Abbas’ state visit to China this week, M.K. Bhadrakumar says Beijing’s mediation on the Saudi-Iranian rapprochement lends credibility to a Chinese initiative on the Palestine issue.
By satisfying an extremist religious constituency, Ramzy Baroud says the prime minister is turning Israel into a country with leaders determined to institute a religious war.
