Simon Tisdall Is that it? Is that the best western leaders can do as the midnight hour approaches? Kindly Joe Biden doled out sympathy and dollars in a seven-hour visit to Israel. Tiny amounts of aid are dribbling into Gaza. Two hostages out of 200 have been released. But there is no ceasefire, no “humanitarian… Read More Toxic Netanyahu could drag Biden down in his fight for political survival
Raz Segal, an Israeli expert in modern genocide, calls Israel’s assault on Gaza a textbook case of “intent to commit genocide” and its rationalization of its violence a “shameful use” of the lessons of the Holocaust. Israeli state exceptionalism and comparisons of its Palestinians victims to “Nazis” are used to “justify, rationalize, deny, distort, disavow… Read More ‘A textbook case of genocide’: Israeli Holocaust scholar Raz Segal decries Israel’s assault on Gaza
Only a man who attributes mythic dimensions to himself would be capable of dragging Israel into five elections, political chaos, social disintegration and a loss of trust by masses of people in the law enforcement system, in other words, in the state itself, responsible for a collapse of Israel’s deterrence and a blood-soaked war. Gidi… Read More The Shame That Will Follow Netanyahu Will Be Far Greater Than the One He Attempted to Escape
JUAN COLE Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Biden administration’s foreign policy is a mess and lacks any real consistency. This messiness was on full display in the president’s brief address on Thursday evening, a plea for Congressional funding of both the US struggle to get Russia back out of Ukraine and of support for the extremist… Read More Biden’s Historically Illiterate and Hypocritical Speech on Ukraine and Gaza
The Palestinians in Gaza are bearing the brunt of the Colonial Revenge Genocide. Half of Gaza consists of children, most born after 2006 when Hamas came to power in the Strip through elections insisted upon by George W. Bush. Large numbers of these children are set to be killed, and several hundred already have been,… Read More Israel’s Colonial Revenge Genocide in Gaza is the latest in a Long History of such Massacres
‘The most successful land-grab strategy since 1967’ as settlers push Bedouins off West Bank territoryHerders report violence driving them from their homes in accelerating, aggressive and highly effective campaign The tiny settlement overlooking the Bedouin village of Ein Rashash is named “Angels of Peace”, but, says Sliman al-Zawahri, its residents have visited only violence, fear… Read More ‘The most successful land-grab strategy since 1967’ as Israeli settlers push Bedouins off West Bank territory
The Biden administration also bears a wider responsibility for the deterioration in Gaza and the extinguishing of Palestinian political aspirations Mohamad Bazzi oe Biden flew to Israel on Wednesday to prove how deeply he and the US political establishment support Israel, even as it intensifies its indiscriminate bombing of Gaza, demands the forced displacement of… Read More Biden’s Israel trip reflects a flawed and hypocritical policy / State Department official resigns over Biden’s handling of conflict
By Zeena Saifi, Becky Anderson and Kareem Khadder, CNN Ibrahim Wadi, 62, and his son Ahmad, 24, were on their way to a funeral for four Palestinians shot dead by Israeli settlers in their occupied West Bank community, when their car came under attack. The father and son were driving through the small village of… Read More Gaza conflict spills into the West Bank as settler attacks and clashes leave dozens of Palestinians dead
Haggai Matar Deterring a regional war, if that is what US officials are most concerned about, is indeed a legitimate cause. Biden was also right to denounce the war crimes committed by Hamas on 7 October. The massacres of entire families inside their homes, of defenceless party-goers in the middle of a field, culminating in a death toll… Read More A real friend of Israel would be making it face up to some uncomfortable truths
In this presentation on ‘The Psychosocial Health of Palestinian Youth: Occupation and Resistance’, Professor Rita Giacaman addresses the impact on wellbeing on young Palestinians as a result of prolonged military occupation. In exploring this issue, Professor Giacaman also considers the positive steps Palestinian youth take to resist the oppressive conditions they face. Decades of studying… Read More Professor Rita Giacaman on The Psychosocial Health of Palestinian Youth: Occupation and Resistance (2018)
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