The move boosts the illegal expansion drive in the occupied West Bank, where Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed at least 1,039 Palestinians — at least 225 of them children — over the past two years.
There’s not a lot to feel optimistic about here. If the killing does stop on a lasting basis, it will be a pleasant surprise.
Neither the Abu Shabab gang nor the Hebron “emirate” will govern Palestinians, either in Gaza or the West Bank, writes Ramzy Baroud.
By refusing to acknowledge or name the genocide in Gaza, and persecuting those who do, the liberal class in the U.S. provided the bullets to their executioners.
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.
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.
Having gotten away with so many atrocities while the international community looks away, Israel just unveiled the latest escalation of its illegal collective punishment of Gazans, writes Abby Zimet.
Nothing we’ve heard so far from the Israeli state gives confidence that the Gaza ceasefire agreement will last past the first phase, writes Michel Moushabeck.
U.N. Special Rapporteur Albanese’s report is an an urgent appeal for a full arms embargo and sanctions on Israel until the genocide of Palestinians is halted.
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.