It’s interesting how our politicians can talk so loftily about the rule of law, the rules-based order, and promote tough law and order measures. Yet when confronted by the most gut-wrenching and egregious example of cruelty and lawlessness in the Middle East, they remain silent.
And it’s this silence that enables the killing to continue.
The brave young men with their killing machines the IDF heroes kill for the thrill and experience to take back home and brag about
The killing of a 59-year-old woman who eyewitnesses said was shot in the back by a member of the Israel Defense Forces while she was harvesting olives on her land in the West Bank on Thursday highlighted what one United Nations official called a “war-like” assault by Israeli soldiers and settlers in the illegally occupied Palestinian territory.
Killing of Woman Harvester Underscores ‘War-Like’ Israeli Assault on West Bank Olive Growers
Nothing is guaranteed to arouse passions and stir consciences more than a great film dramatization that shines a light on the truth of an issue in ways that earnest documentaries and studious literature often do not.
Epic series “The Promise” dramatizes Palestine, past and present
worst atrocity in British Mandate Palestine, the blowing up of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in July 1946. The Irgun Tzva’i Le’umi, an underground Jewish organisation opposed to the British presence in the region, had planted a massive bomb in the basement of the hotel, which doubled as the headquarters of the British colonial government in Palestine. Ninety-one people were killed and 46 injured, most senior government officials. It was an attack from which, some claim, the British will to govern the region never fully recovered and yet it remains, essentially, a footnote in the story of Britain’s tortuous retreat from Empire.
Israel has gone way way ahead of the “worst” atrocity since 1946
Netanyahu says the war isn’t over no matter what Biden Says
US hails Israeli announcement of killing Sinwar, calls for Gaza ‘day after
Israel’s relationship with the UN and the rest of the world is at a breaking point, and U.S. obstruction offers no solution to this crisis—it only fuels it
Not Just Its Neighbors, Israel Makes War on the Entire World
Israeli authorities should withdraw proposed legislation in parliament aimed at preventing the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) from operating in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and halt their campaign to destroy the UN’s most important aid agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza and elsewhere.
Israel Should End Campaign to Destroy Lifesaving UN Palestinian Aid Agency
“Will it ever be possible for Israel to discard the violent, exclusionary, militant, and increasingly racist aspects of its vision as it is embraced there by so many of its Jewish citizens?”
A historian who exposed the New England Journal of Medicine’s silence on Nazi atrocities confronted the journal’s treatment of Gaza during a Harvard symposium.
She Exposed a Prestigious Medical Journal’s Silence on the Holocaust. Now She’s Asking About Gaza.
“Journalism is not a crime” But the Israeli Lobby in the UK is
As far as The Electronic Intifada is concerned, it will have only the opposite effect. Our colleague Asa Winstanley can count on our full support and solidarity, and as a publication we will continue to pursue with vigor any stories documenting British complicity in Israel’s crimes.
General Mark Milley, who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Trump administration, describes the corrupt ex-president in the following way: “He is the most dangerous person ever. I had suspicions when I talked to you about his mental decline and so forth, but now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is now the most dangerous person to this country…. A fascist to the core.”
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In an almost disdainful manner, the IDF suggested in a statement that the peacekeepers had entirely misunderstood the brutal encroachment. The actions had been motivated by goodwill to evacuate soldiers wounded by an anti-tank missile. “For the sake of evacuating the wounded, two tanks drove backwards, in a place where they could not advance otherwise in light of the threat of shooting, a few metres towards the UNIFIL position.” The smokescreen had been created to aid the evacuation, while the entire operation was conducted throughout with continuous contact with the UN peacekeepers. After a time, the dressing of lies becomes tatty and banal.
Zionists and Nazis Friends with Mutual Benefits $$
What came to be known as Cultural Zionism encouraged further Jewish links to the Holy Land but vehemently opposed establishing a Jewish-privileged state there. It’s important to note here that other Jewish groups of the time, like the Bund, wanted nothing to do with the Zionist project. Some warned of the dangers inherent in it, or of its undermining cherished Jewish values. To many it was another false messiah.
Then came the 1930s. As the fate of Europe’s Jewry became ever more dire, Political Zionism gained traction, not only among Jews but Nazis as well, as evidenced in the infamous Haavara Agreement, through which some 60,000 German Jews migrated to Palestine between 1933 and 1939. It was an early German ‘solution’ to the so-called Jewish question. The scheme was problematic, to say the least. The Zionists in Palestine used it to increase their numbers, but only Jews who could pay to go did. For Germany the arrangement served to break the 1933 anti-Nazi boycott while getting rid of some of its Jews. Yet European and American organisations condemned the arrangement (as did, interestingly enough, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the most militant Zionist of his day), and as with the current crisis, the Haavara, or Transfer Agreement, tore the Jewish world apart.
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