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.
Israel follows the colonial playbook. Death for death. Atrocity for atrocity. But it is always the occupier who initiates this macabre dance and trades piles of corpses for higher piles of corpses.
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.
Israel’s anti-terrorism justification abridges international law, writes Marjorie Cohn. The government has no right of self-defense against the people whose land it occupies.
James Zogby says that once again the U.S. media is ignoring Israel’s creeping annexation of Palestinian lands and the government’s brutal aggression.
Caitlin Johnstone responds to the latest rebuke of progressive House member Ilhan Omar by members of her own party.
An entire nation cannot turn the other cheek to a power that is seriously intent on genocide, writes Craig Murray.
Seven years after Operation Protective Edge, Israeli officials are once again committing war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories, writes Marjorie Cohn.
Democrats in the U.S. Congress are split between traditional, knee-jerk support for Israel, and a rising chorus of Democratic members who are daring to speak out.
