Yearly Archives: 2019
Lost count? Israel killed 43 Palestinians in November
Relatives of Arkan Mizhar, a Palestinian who was killed by Israeli soldiers during a raid, mourn during his funeral Dec 5, 2019 If it feels like Palestinians are constantly dying, that’s because they are. 43 in November. 526 since Trump’s Jerusalem announcement 2 years ago – 111 of them children. …
Read More »Israel’s Stranglehold on American Politics
March 11, 2019 Chris Hedges Israel’s dominance of the Democratic Party is eroding and increasingly losing legitimacy in the eyes of the public. “The massive interference in our internal affairs by Israel and the Israel lobby, far exceeding that of any other country, including Russia or China, is not an …
Read More »The Contract on Corbyn
Corbyn is not an anti-Semite. His real sin is to fight against injustice in the world, including the version Israel perpetrates Nov 28, 2019 By Gideon Levy The Jewish establishment in Britain and the Israeli propaganda machine have taken out a contract on the leader of the British Labour Party, …
Read More »Are We on the Path to War? – Middle East Heats Up While Viewers Watch the Impeachment
November 27, 2019 By Philip Giraldi Americans and also much of the rest of the world have been watching or otherwise following the impeachment proceedings in Washington and not paying much attention to developments in the Middle East that could be setting the stage for a new war. It should …
Read More »The Military And Political Power Of Hezbollah
10/10/2019 Leonid Savin* At the end of August, the Lebanese organisation Hezbollah fired two rockets at an Israeli armoured personnel carrier at the border. Several Israeli soldiers were injured. In response, Israeli troops fired on Lebanese territory adjacent to the border. The shells fell on bare ground, without causing harm …
Read More »The Rise of Israel’s Political Right and Its Possible Demise
April 27, 2019 Zuhair Sabbagh* The following research article is an attempt to analyze the reasons behind the increasing drift of right-wing politics in Israeli parliamentary elections in the last two decades. It also evaluates the impact of national insecurity and scaremongering on the political behavior of Israeli Jewish voters. …
Read More »Strange Teargas Used Against Gaza Protesters By IOF
Israel using Gaza protesters to test new weapons April 5 2019 Israeli forces have been using the Great Return March and its thousands of protesters as a sort of “testing ground” for new forms of weaponry and crowd control, say physicians in the Gaza Strip. They talk of explosive bullets …
Read More »Tom Friedman’s belief in an ‘ancestral homeland’ is a toxic myth and not history — Updated
Reading a recent post, I made the critical error of clicking on the link to a Thomas Friedman column. I will not engage Friedman’s screed against Ilhan Omar – for the record, I’m on Team Ilhan – because I believe Friedman has too much blood on his keyboard to be …
Read More »British band supporting BDS releases new song: ‘I don’t sing for apartheid’
British band Slovo who declined offers to play in Israel has released a song highlighting Israeli apartheid and called for a boycott of the Eurovision Song Contest. The song, which contains the lyric: “I don’t sing for apartheid,” calls for a boycott of the Eurovision Song Contest final which will …
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