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Israel’s Military Leaders Are Not ‘Only Obeying Orders.’ They Could Have Stopped the Gaza Massacre

We have heard it all before: ‘We were only obeying orders’. It’s the standard excuse by state sponsored murderers, torturers and assorted sadists when finally brought to book. As Gideon Levy points out in this latest column in Haaretz, it applies very much in Israel today. Gideon Levy; May 22, 2025 The Israel Defense Forces… Read More Israel’s Military Leaders Are Not ‘Only Obeying Orders.’ They Could Have Stopped the Gaza Massacre

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UN Warns 14,000 Babies in Gaza Could Die in 48 Hours Without True Lift of Israeli Blockade

The United Nations estimated that the Netanyahu government’s continued starvation of more than 2 million Palestinians could kill up to 14,000 infants in the next two days without a serious influx of aid. By Julia Conley / Common Dreams News outlets have reported since Monday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu allowed five aid trucks carrying baby… Read More UN Warns 14,000 Babies in Gaza Could Die in 48 Hours Without True Lift of Israeli Blockade

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International opinion has rounded on Israel, but it’s not enough to force Netanyahu’s hand

Sanam Vakil Nineteen months on from the 7 October Hamas attacks and the war in Gaza, Israel is under a new wave of international pressure and increasingly isolated from its partners and allies. Benjamin Netanyahu’s government recently announced its intention to reoccupy Gaza yet again, and called up Israeli reservists. In tandem, the illegal expansion… Read More International opinion has rounded on Israel, but it’s not enough to force Netanyahu’s hand

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Israeli Strikes Kill Hundreds in Gaza as IDF Announces ‘Extensive Ground Operations’

By Dave DeCamp / Antiwar.com Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza in recent days as the Israeli military has launched a new phase of its assault on the Strip, dubbed “Gideon’s Chariots.” On Sunday, the IDF announced it was conducting “extensive ground operations” in northern and southern Gaza, and medical sources told Al… Read More Israeli Strikes Kill Hundreds in Gaza as IDF Announces ‘Extensive Ground Operations’

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Israel’s New Gaza Operation Should Be Called ‘Chariots of Genocide’

Yousef Al-Bayouk weeps over his brothers, Moath and Moataz, who were killed in Israeli strikes, as mourners attend their funeral at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis. Photograph: Hatem Khaled/Reuters what about Gaza? What about its sacrifice? How have we reached a situation in which no Zionist politician can come out in its defense? Not one righteous… Read More Israel’s New Gaza Operation Should Be Called ‘Chariots of Genocide’

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Juan Cole: As Israelis Blockade Food to Gaza, 9,000 Children have been Admitted for Acute Malnutrition

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said Friday that “Malnutrition is … on the rise. More than 9,000 children have been admitted for treatment of acute malnutrition since the beginning of the year.” At least 10 NGO aid kitchens have closed in recent weeks for lack of food, and 25 UN… Read More Juan Cole: As Israelis Blockade Food to Gaza, 9,000 Children have been Admitted for Acute Malnutrition

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The Cross and the Pieta. The Passion of Palestine

In terms of a population-adjusted equivalence, Gaza has experienced a 9/11-equivalent every five hours, or over four population-adjusted 9/11s every day for the last year and a half. If the US had experienced the same per capita death toll, population-adjusted deaths would number 8,350,000. (This number arrived at by applying Gaza (population 2.2 million death… Read More The Cross and the Pieta. The Passion of Palestine

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Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte arrested in Manila after ICC warrant

Duterte is wanted by the international criminal court over his so-called ‘war on drugs’, which rights groups say left 30,000 people dead Rebecca Ratcliffe The former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has been taken into custody after the international criminal court issued a warrant for his arrest for his so-called “war on drugs”. The former leader, who… Read More Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte arrested in Manila after ICC warrant

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Juan Cole: Cyberpunk Nation

The opening weeks of the second Trump administration have produced daily headlines that read — no, this is not hyperbole! — like science fiction. The spectacle of a South African tech billionaire and his cronies staging a twenty-first-century cybercoup with the acquiescence of an aging lunatic of a president beggars belief. Elon Musk has given… Read More Juan Cole: Cyberpunk Nation

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