Watch as the council debated rising Mideast tensions after Iran retaliated Sunday for Israel’s attack on its embassy in Damascus.
WATCH: UN Security Council Meets on Iran-Israel Conflict
Tag: Israel
Caitlin Johnstone: White House Fears Gaza Pause Will Let World See Too Much
Washington is nervous the four-day military pause in Gaza could allow journalists to report the extent of the enclave’s devastation, further turning public opinion against Israel.
US Diplomatic Setbacks Make Isolating Iran Difficult
Not achieving an early ceasefire in Gaza risks Hezbollah opening a second front, confrontation with Iran and a world war, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar.
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.
The Possibility of Thought & BDS
Mohammad Shabangu, a Black South African academic, analyzes the unspoken and accepted censorship around the question of Palestine in his U.S. classroom.
Likening Palestinians to Blades of Grass
From the Archive: The attempted ethnic cleansing of Sheikh Jarrah, the storming of Islam’s third holiest site, a Hamas ultimatum ignored, and the renewed bombing of Gaza has brought to the fore Israeli leaders’ appalling notion of “mowing the grass”…
The Human Cost of War on Iran
Left out of the frame of U.S. military strategists is the certainty of mass human suffering, a reality forgotten since the days of the Vietnam War, wrote former U.S. intelligence analyst Elizabeth Murray back in Aug. 2012.
THE ANGRY ARAB: Maxime Rodinson & the Palestinian Question
A new book attacking the French scholar for his views on Israel and Zionism spurs As`ad AbuKhalil to provide his own assessment.
Israel’s Involvement in Libya’s Civil War
For several reasons, Israel has joined various Arab powers to back a strongman in Libya, explains Giorgio Cafiero.
On The New York Times Cartoon Ban
Daniel Lazare looks into the Times’ overreaction to charges of anti-Semitism.