Yossi Verter Based on the public utterances of senior rabbis – Ashkenazi and Sephardi alike – with the imminent issue of draft notices to a few thousand yeshiva students, it would seem the coalition is headed for collapse. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant will be sending out some 3,000 notices in the coming month, meaning while… Read More Netanyahu Will Nix a Hostage Deal to Save His Coalition
GAZA casualties, live statistics Lancet warns Gaza death toll could be over 186,000 Just say how many is Israel allowed to kill until it’s considered a crime in its own eyes? Where does the massacre stop? The answer is predetermined: “As many as necessary.” In other words: there’s no limit. Gideon Levy The trumpets of victory… Read More How Many Dead Children in Gaza Is Mohammed Deif Worth?
Older Cubans are struggling to make ends meet on tiny pensions as the country pivots towards private enterprise Ruaridh Nicoll and Eileen Sosin in Havana In central Havana, Martha Ortega has been queueing for mince. She has both osteo- and rheumatoid arthritis causing her foot to drag, but she remains stylish, a checked shirt and… Read More Members of Cuba’s revolutionary generation feel abandoned by the society they created
Samar Abu Elouf’s harrowing work in Gaza has garnered critical acclaim. But that’s not why she does it GAZA casualties, live statistics Photographs by Samar Abu Elouf / Story by Alaa Elassar, CNN The first thing Samar Abu Elouf does before photographing a dead child is make sure it isn’t one of her own. Feelings… Read More ‘This is worth dying for’
Though I was never in the U.S. military, my life experience has been American wars, wars, wars, and more wars. I was born during World War II. I was in grade school when the Korean War took place. I still have a faint memory of a photo of a gleaming American soldier’s face from that… Read More Juan Cole, Another American War in the Middle East?
GAZA casualties, live statistics YOAV LITVIN ( The New Arab ) – Israel’s ongoing genocide is part of a downward spiral for the Zionist project. In the words of acclaimed historian Professor Ilan Pappe: “We are witnessing a historical process – or, more accurately, the beginnings of one – that is likely to culminate in the downfall of Zionism.” Yet… Read More Liberal Zionism and the facade of Israeli genocide
GAZA casualties, live statistics YOAV LITVIN The New Arab ) – In the vast expanse of the intellectual cosmos, there exists a luminary whose brilliance outshines even the brightest stars. Professor Yuval Noah Harari, a name whispered with reverence among the learned denizens of the galaxy, is a beacon of knowledge, whose canon traverses the celestial… Read More Yuval Noah Harari’s odyssey into a parallel Zionist universe
While Aipac and their allies can eliminate nearly any adversary if they throw $20m at a primary election, this is not a sustainable strategy…. the fact that this win, and this amount of spending, was even necessary should give advocates of Israel serious pause. The election represents Aipac’s attempt to rebuild a dam that has… Read More The AIPAC-funded candidate defeated Jamaal Bowman. But at what cost?
GAZA casualties, live statistics Holocaust survivors say using the Holocaust to justify genocide in Gaza and repress student protest on college campuses is a complete insult to the Holocaust’s memory. Ten Holocaust Survivors Condemn Israel’s Gaza Genocide The dehumanization of Palestinians, describing them as “human animals,” the killing of tens of thousands of civilians, indiscriminate… Read More Ten Holocaust Survivors Condemn Israel’s Gaza Genocide / Gaza’s Hospitals Are Empty, and Patients Die in Silence
By NORMAN SOLOMON When someone shows you who they are,” Maya Angelou said, “believe them the first time.” That should apply to foreign-policy elites who show you who they are, time after time. Officials running the Pentagon and State Department have been in overdrive for more than 250 days in support of Israel’s ongoing slaughter of… Read More Gruesome hypocrisy of US foreign policy being exposed in Gaza, Ukraine
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