Israeli officials leave no doubt about why Israel is taking a slow-motion strangulation approach to Gaza — to maintain key Western support and shield themselves from war-crimes tribunals.
Caitlin Johnstone: Israel Shows Its Hand on Gaza
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Regretting Western Intervention in the Middle East
“Wars for oil, control and strategic dominance were cloaked in the language of democracy” — Ann Wright delivers an argument at the Cambridge Union Debates.
Gaza’s Graveyard of Illusions
Even a “great tactician” such as Benjamin Netanyahu cannot market genocide as a victory, writes Ramzy Baroud. Nor can a disreputable and dysfunctional army secure a strategic triumph.
Patrick Lawrence: Waves Upon the Sea of Silence
Those who purport to lead and speak for the Western world seem to be breaking their disgraceful silence 18 months after the onset of the Zionist state’s primitive savagery.
Chris Hedges: The New Dark Age
The Nazis are scapegoats for a Western heritage of mass slaughter, as if genocides in the Americas, Africa and India are mere historical footnotes. In fact, genocide is the currency of Western domination.
Watching Gaza Starve to Death
Israel is inflicting starvation on 2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip – a deliberate war crime — while the international community fails to act, writes Ramzy Baroud.
WATCH: Senior UN Official — ‘It Will Be Too Late’ to Rule It ‘Genocide’ … ‘What More Evidence Do You Need?’
U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher excoriates Israel for intentionally starving Gaza and shames the rest of the world for failing to stop it.
Jonathan Cook: Theroux’s ‘Settlers’ Is About ‘Us’
Criticism of the film after it was aired by the BBC is not because the director got it wrong. It’s because the extremist settlers in the film, along with Israel’s state terrorism, “are us.”
Medhurst Case: Test of a Turning Tide on Gaza
British police have given the Crown Prosecution Service the file on journalist Richard Medhurst in a test of how far Western governments will go to continue defending Israel’s monstrous atrocities in Gaza, writes Joe Lauria.
Student Jailed for Writing Op-Ed Released From US Detention
Rümeysa Öztürk returned to Boston at the weekend after being released less than 24 hours after courts ruled that Badar Khan Suri’s case must be heard in Virginia and Mahmoud Khalil’s case must remain in New Jersey.