It was a long time coming, but the pathological savagery of the Israelis as they exterminate the Palestinians of Gaza announces the end of any claim America and the West altogether have to global leadership on any kind of moral basis, legal basis, or any assumption that the West possesses superior ideals, principles of government,… Read More Patrick Lawrence: The End of Global Leadership
Nick Turse Mr. Turse is a Columbia University graduate student completing a dissertation on American war crimes during the Vietnam War. On October 19, 2003, the Ohio-based newspaper the Toledo Blade launched a four-day series of investigative reports exposing a string of atrocities by an elite, volunteer, 45-man “Tiger Force” unit of the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division over… Read More The Vietnam War Crimes You Never Heard Of
No one could accuse the U.S. of double standards. What it is vulnerable to is the accusation that it no longer has any standards at all… Modern Germany needs to believe that Israel’s creation was a “happy ending” to the horrors of the gas chambers… For Germany, its commitment to Israel is offered as a… Read More Gaza and the End of Western Fantasy
Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center In her evocative book, Drinking the Sea at Gaza, the Israeli journalist Amira Hass writes, “To me, Gaza embodies the entire saga of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; it represents the central contradiction of the state of Israel—democracy for some, dispossession for others; it is our exposed nerve.” The conflict in… Read More The Gaza War and the Rest of the World
NB: If religious texts sanctify hatred and cruelty towards others, there is something wrong with them, and especially with us, for taking such injunctions literally. There is no such thing as my god versus your god, because the creator of the universe cannot possibly have chosen a small fragment of humanity to be regardful of,… Read More Reading the Bible with the eyes of the Canaanites: Neo-Zionism, political theology and the Land Traditions of the Bible (1967 to Gaza 2009)
Amira Hass: For decades we’ve been brought up believing that only military force can ensure the state’s survival, while denying rights to the Palestinians. That’s just one of many sad answers to the question GAZA casualties live statistics United Nations Documentation on the Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem Children walk along a street… Read More Israel killed thousands of children in Gaza. How can so many Israelis remain indifferent? / In Israel, 20,000 Gazans are responsible for their own deaths. I’ve never been so ashamed
Michael Hardt Progressive and revolutionary movements of the 1970s, which took place across the globe, provide an inspiring and useful guide for contemporary radical political thought and action, even more than those of the 1960s. The sixties were a crucial historical turning point and we can certainly learn from those movements, both the victorious and… Read More The Subversive Seventies
NB: Gideon Levy’s voice reassures us that reason and compassion live in all of us, regardless of religion, nationality, time or place. He has always spoken against injustice, and for the rights of suffering humanity, especially those closest to him, in Palestine. Here he talks about the phenomenon of evil, of whose existence, every now… Read More The Legitimization of Evil Will Remain With Israelis Long After the War in Gaza Ends
NB: My one request to commentators on global affairs is this: could you please stop the journalistic shorthand ‘global north’ and ‘global south’? Or else give us a detailed list of those countries (are countries all there is?), which fall in either category? Is India ‘north’ or ‘south’? South Africa? Greece? Singapore? North Korea? Belarus?… Read More A Year in Crises
Aseel Mousa in Gaza Women such as Hanan face labour at home without medical help or pain relief, with only neighbours and relatives to help GAZA casualties live statistics When Hanan went into labour earlier this month, she was caught between the pain and fear of facing childbirth without medical help, and the terror of Israeli… Read More ‘Going to hospital meant risking our lives’: the terror of giving birth in Gaza
After the truth-shower 