Israel’s Been Like This Since 1948

August 12, 2024 We have been lied to for decades about the creation of Israel, writes Jonathan Cook. It was born in sin, and it continues to live in sin. Jonathan Cook “Israel army issues new displacement order from northern Gaza.” That headline, about yet another Israeli operation to ethnically …

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To see the future of urban warfare, look at Gaza

Western armies are studying the horrifying conflict for tactical lessons Jul 18th 2024 For armies lucky enough to be at peace, other people’s wars are learning opportunities. Take Israel’s northern front, where the Israeli Forces have been exchanging rockets and drones with Hizbullah, the Lebanese militant group. To stop Hizbullah’s increasingly …

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Peter Beaumont June 20, 2024 The Israeli military has quietly handed over significant legal powers in the occupied West Bank to pro-settler civil servants working for the far-right minister Bezalel Smotrich. An order posted by the Israel Defense Forces on its website on 29 May transfers responsibility for dozens of …

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Morgan Bassichi of JVP: Not in our Names

A very important speech by an activist, Morgan Bassichi, with “Jewish Voice for Peace/USA”: I am so proud to be here tonight as one of the hundreds of thousands of anti-Zionist Jews, who proudly join the millions of people around the world rising up in solidarity with the people of …

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A Putin collapse? The dangers of wishful thinking

Some say that like the USSR, the current Russian presidency is brittle. But they are overlooking a lot APR 30, 2024 Peter The Carnegie Center’s Maksim Samorukov recently published an article in Foreign Affairs entitled “Putin’s brittle regime. Like the Soviet one that preceded it, his system is always on the brink …

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The Artists Preserving Palestinian Collective Memory

04.02.2024 DALIA AL-DUJAILI The newly-released book, Yesterday, Come Closer, is an urgent attempt at consolidating Palestinian art, music, and writing in the face of genocide. An image of two Palestinian children playing in water against a backdrop of brown soil and olive trees sits alongside the statement: “Indigenous people protect their …

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The spiraling absurdity of Germany’s pro-Israel fanaticism

As repression of Palestine solidarity penetrates every sector of life, the state’s liberal self-image is fast becoming a story Germans can only tell themselves. March 21, 2024 Michael Sappir A Palestine solidarity demonstration in the Potsdamer Platz area, Berlin, October 15, 2023. The police suppressed the demonstration shortly after authorizing …

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