Tag: Palestine / Israel

Hamas’s attack will be remembered as Israeli intelligence failure for the ages

Peter Beaumont Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel, on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur war, will be remembered as an intelligence failure for the ages. In the space of several hours, dozens of Gaza militants broke through the border fence into southern Israel, surprising local military positions. Gunmen kidnapped and murdered Israelis in the southern border… Read More Hamas’s attack will be remembered as Israeli intelligence failure for the ages

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Israel imposing apartheid on Palestinians, says former Mossad chief

Tamir Pardo comments, slammed by ruling Likud party, carry weight because of high regard for intelligence agency in Israel Chris McGreal A former head of the Mossad intelligence agency has said Israel is imposing a form of apartheid on the Palestinians, joining a growing number of prominent Israelis to compare the occupation of the West Bank to… Read More Israel imposing apartheid on Palestinians, says former Mossad chief

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Belgian Minister Says What Biden Won’t: Israel Is Wiping Entire Palestinian Villages Off the Map

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I heard Noam Chomsky speak in my youth about the press coverage of the Middle East in the United States, and as I remember it he at one point remarked that it was sometimes the regional newspapers, such as the San Francisco Chronicle that had the most… Read More Belgian Minister Says What Biden Won’t: Israel Is Wiping Entire Palestinian Villages Off the Map

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Slavoj Žizek: Manipur is not only in India

With the new Netanyahu government, the anti-Palestinian violence (the pogrom in Huwara, the attacks on the Stella Maris Monastery in Haifa, etc.) is no longer even formally condemned by the state. To a Western European with a vague knowledge of Italian, “Manipur” automatically associates with “mani pulite” (pure hands), the big anti-corruption campaign in the… Read More Slavoj Žizek: Manipur is not only in India

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Israel to deny Palestinian-Israelis Preparation for University, in Exact Parallel to Apartheid South Africa

JUAN COLE Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – White Power nationalism in South Africa during the Apartheid period from the 1940s until the early 1990s demanded that the 20% of the population that was white control the lives of the 68% of the population that was Black. (Actually, during this era the whites declined to only… Read More Israel to deny Palestinian-Israelis Preparation for University, in Exact Parallel to Apartheid South Africa

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West Bank crisis: How Israel occupied itself

Juan Coleand / TomDispatch On July 24th, the Israeli Knesset passed a measure forbidding the country’s High Court of Justice from in any way checking the power of the government, whether in making cabinet decisions or appointments, based on what’s known as the “reasonability” standard. In the Israeli context, this was an extreme act, since right-wing parliamentarians… Read More West Bank crisis: How Israel occupied itself

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Israelis’ defiance of Netanyahu holds a lesson for anyone who cares about democracy

Jonathan Freedland Beware the strongman leader who fears jail. Donald Trump is running for president in part because he sees a return to the White House as a literal get-out-of-jail-free card: reinstalled in the Oval Office, he would be able to pardon himself for the mounting pile of serious federal crimes for which he is indicted. His… Read More Israelis’ defiance of Netanyahu holds a lesson for anyone who cares about democracy

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Israeli lawmakers pass a key law to weaken the judiciary despite public outrage

By Joe Hernandez; Daniel Estrin Israeli lawmakers on Monday approved controversial changes to the judiciary, part of a package of proposed actions that’s roiled the country in protests in recent months and sparked opposition from broad swaths of Israeli society. The vote in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, capped a monthslong campaign by Israel’s far-right government to… Read More Israeli lawmakers pass a key law to weaken the judiciary despite public outrage

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UN condemns Israel’s use of excessive force in attack on Palestine

In a rare condemnation of Israel, the UN has denounced the country’s excessive use of force in its largest military operation in two decades targeting a refugee camp in the West Bank. The UN secretary general, António Guterres, clearly angered by the impact of the Israeli attack on the Jenin refugee camp, said it had left… Read More UN condemns Israel’s use of excessive force in attack on Palestine

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Israeli Officials Now Promoting Impunity for Settler-Colonial Violence

RAMONA WADI ( Middle East Monitor ) – If Israel’s National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, can find excuses for the hilltop youth’s colonial violence, how much more is the concept of settler-colonial presence as a form of violence normalised? During a meeting called by Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir described the hilltop youth as “sweet boys” forced into… Read More Israeli Officials Now Promoting Impunity for Settler-Colonial Violence

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