Category: Lebanon

The Guardian’s Anti-Semitism

The media constantly deploy an anti-Semitic trope of crucial use to the Western power elite — that on Gaza, it is Israel pulling the strings in Washington, writes Jonathan Cook.

Craig Murray: Two Weeks in Beirut

In the middle of a shopping street in Dahiya, our driver pulls up at a checkpoint manned by armed militia in civilian clothes, to see if we could start filming. Then it all starts to go wrong.

Ex-UN Peacekeeper: Israel Wants UNIFIL Out

“The pattern of intimidation may get worse” — retired Irish officer Kevin McDonald shares his insights into Israeli tactics with Mick Hall as IDF attacks on U.N. positions in south Lebanon continue.

Chris Hedges: Extermination Works. At First.

In the long term, this indiscriminate violence waged by Netanyahu and those driving Middle East policy in the White House creates adversaries that, sometimes a generation later, outdo in savagery — we call it terrorism.