As the world’s failure to stop massacre after massacre in Gaza shows the deep failure of the U.N.-centered international system, Vijay Prashad turns attention to the conflict looming over Northeast Asia.
After Gaza, Conflict in Asia
Category: Middle East
Gaza-Israel Catastrophe — Far-Right Terror
After the Camp David Accords, the assassins’ message to peacemakers was loud and clear, writes Dan Steinbock: “Don’t even try.” Part 3 of a 5-part series.
Israeli Apologists’ Apartheid Coda
Caitlin Johnstone: Israel Is Left Only to Gaslight the Public
Israel works so hard to distort your perception of reality because a lucid perception of reality is highly unfavorable to Israeli information interests.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Settler Colonialism
What’s happening today and for the last 100 years in Palestine is consistent with the history of the West for the last 500 years, a reader writes.
WATCH: UN General Assembly Votes for Gaza Ceasefire
The U.N. General Assembly on Friday voted 120 votes in favor, 14 against and 45 abstentions in a non-binding resolution for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
Biden Loses Democratic Support With Israel Backing
The Biden administration has asked Congress for $14 billion in additional military aid to Israel, despite warnings he and other officials could be rendering themselves complicit in genocide.
Chris Hedges: Let Them Eat Cement
Israel is not only decimating Gaza with airstrikes but employing the oldest and cruelest weapon of war — starvation. Israel’s message, on the eve of a ground invasion, is clear. Leave Gaza or Die.
Zionist Think Tank’s Blueprint for Gaza Ethnic Cleansing
As Israel’s carpet bombing of Gaza leaves over 5,000 dead and at least one million people displaced, a Tel Aviv-based think tank produces an ethnic cleansing plan, Kit Klarenberg reports.
Gaza, Hamas & Netanyahu’s Likud
Dan Steinbock says the Hamas war is manna from heaven to Israel’s far-right government. Netanyahu himself has contributed to the expansion of Hamas since the 1990s.