On October 7, 2023, Hamas executed a devastating surprise attack on Israel, shattering the long-held belief that the country’s fortified southern border was impenetrable. Despite Israeli intelligence being aware of…
Emmanuel Macron and the macaron have many similarities. Both the French President and the French dessert are airy and insubstantial and are loved by the rich elite. For these reasons,…
If a country is entangled in a destructive and messy war what is its leader most likely to say? In most cases the answer would be that the leader would…
Israel has apparently shelved its planned attack on Iran. A combination of circumstances can be attributed to this retreat, which rubbishes Israel’s own high-pitched rhetoric that it was raring to go. Despite…
by Linda J. Bilmes, William D. Hartung and Stephen Semler U.S. spending on Israel’s military operations and related U.S operations in the region total at least $22.76 billion and counting.…
Israel occupies a land that was inhabited by and belonged to the Palestinians. Confining the Palestinians to genocidal and inhuman conditions, Israel has since its inception, invaded almost all its…
On October 1, 2024, Israel launched a ground invasion into southern Lebanon, marking a dramatic escalation in the long-standing conflict with Hezbollah. This military operation, catalyzed by a series of…
Israel has assassinated the leader of Hezbollah and killed many of its members by way of booby-trapped pagers and walky-talkies. After a blitzkrieg bombing campaign, Israel once again invaded Lebanon this…
Following the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, Israel launched an intensive military campaign in Gaza, with the stated aims of destroying Hamas’s military and governing capabilities and bringing…
With the first anniversary of the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel approaching, the death toll in Gaza climbing to more than 41,500, and Israel inflicting ever more extreme violence on the West Bank and…
The huge city of Gaza has been reduced to rubble but the killing continues with US-backed Apartheid Israel now bombing Lebanon. Perhaps the only thing that will stop the Zionazis…
Despite their heinous war on Lebanon, Israelis today are gripped with fear and psychological problems in a cyclone of fear dominated by incoming missiles, drones and blasting sirens all over…
All of humanity is less secure after a year of genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank and as Israel now unleashes its wrath on Lebanon.…
Israel launched a massive attack on Lebanon on Monday killing 492 people, including 35 children, 58 women and two medics in over a thousand separate airstrikes. Monday’s mass killing far…
Geneva - The Israeli army’s escalated military attacks against civilians and residential areas in Lebanon, particularly in the South and Bekaa regions, along with the issuance of evacuation orders, raising…
Sirens in Haifa. its surrounding areas and in the north of Israel have been going off all day, Monday, because of continuing missiles coming all the way from southern Lebanon.…
It came as a disappointment that the Supreme Court bench led by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud dismissed a joint petition filed by a distinguished group of intellectuals that the supply of arms…
Next month will see the commemoration in Israel of the tragic events of October 7th, 2023. For Israelis, that day has taken on a degree of sanctity. It is seen…
How Biden’s Bear Hug of Netanyahu Caused Washington’s Mideast Policy to Crash and Burn At least one thing is now obvious in the Middle East: the Biden administration has failed…
At the turn of the last century Palestine was part of the Turkish Ottoman Empire. About 95 percent of the population in 1896 were Arabs who owned ninety percent of…
Northern Israel is on fire. Hezbollah rockets fired from Southern Lebanon have been a constant reminder that a war-situation is here to stay and likely to develop. A batch of…
Many may not know that it was ten years before the conception of Israel that Albert Einstein speaking at New York’s Commodore Hotel said that: “A Jewish state with borders…
The government of Sir Keir Starmer, despite remaining glued to a foreign policy friendly and accommodating to Israel, has found the strain a bit much of late. While galloping to…
Despite much grandstanding in the Biden administration about halting specific arms shipments to Israel over feigned concerns about how they might be used (inflicting death is the expected form), US…
Departing Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan clearly had an unpleasant experience at the world’s largest international institution. In an interview published in the Israeli newspaper Maariv on…
If the Biden administration is truly concerned about the loss of innocent Palestinian life in Gaza, it can stop Israel’s atrocities by denying it the tools it needs to commit…
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, – the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America…
Israel's military deployed around 100 fighter jets to launch a massive bombing campaign in southern Lebanon on Sunday, endangering tens of thousands of civilians and heightening the chances of an all-out regional…
The US yesterday approved a massive $20 billion arms sale to Israel as a wider regional war looms. Israel is deliberately provoking a conflict with Iran and its regional allies,…
The push towards an all-out war in the Middle East is moving out of its sleepwalking phase to that of conscious eschatological reckoning. A blood filled, fiery Armageddon will reveal…
The north of Israel is in a complete mess. The regions near the Lebanese border have been taking a battering since 7 October 2023 when Israel launched its deadly war…
As Israel’s war in Gaza continues into its 10th month, the sidewalk protest occupation “Kibbutz Israel” outside of the Israeli Embassy endures. The “occupation” takeover of the public space first…
Failure to stop Israel’s genocide of Palestinians gambles with the fate of humanity as a whole. Following World War II, Albert Camus posed a “formidable gamble” to those who had…
What will it take to end Israel’s genocide in Gaza? That’s the question confounding people of conscience all over the world since last October. After Israeli citizens, tax-paying residents of…
The Biden administration has ended a two-month pause on the shipment of 500-pound bombs to Israel despite the frequent use of U.S.-supplied weapons by Israeli forces to commit alleged war crimes and…
The day after Palestinian freedom fighters, Hamas, attacked occupied Southern Israel on 7 October 2023, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared war on Gaza vowing to wipeout Hamas without a…
Israel’s southern Port of Eilat has declared bankruptcy because of the lack of commercial and trade activity. Eilat Port CEO Gideon Golber said: “The port is completely closed, and there…
The Biden administration has sent Israel more than 10,000 city block-destroying 2,000-pound bombs since October, Reuters reported Friday. Each of these bombs has a blast radius of up to 500 feet and…
Israeli Commander of the 12th Brigade says dismantling the Hamas structure in Rafah will take at least two years. And he is indeed taking about just one small southern city…
“There will be no civil war” in Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on June 18. But he might be wrong. Netanyahu’s statement was made in the context of…
The United States has provided Israel with more than $6.5 billion in weapons since October 7, the White House said Wednesday, underscoring the scale of the Biden administration’s support for…
Israel does not belong in the modern world. It is the child of European colonialism and Europe’s genocidal anti-Semitism, imposed by force and fire and Western guilt on a land…
A total of 18,000 Israeli women can now carry guns as approved by the authorities and as they go about their daily business in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.…
Hamas’s assault of October 7 can be likened to an earthquake that strikes an old building. The cracks were already beginning to show, but they are now visible in its…
Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is unhappy. Not so much with the Palestinians, whom he sees as terroristic, dispensable and a threat to Israeli security. Not with the Persians, who,…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is often criticized for failing to produce a vision for the ‘next day’, meaning the day following the end of the Gaza war. Some of…
You could almost sense the smacking of lips, accompanied by the rubbing of hands. The departure of Benny Gantz from the Israeli war cabinet, which had served as a checking…
The Israeli war on Gaza is going badly despite the intense destruction and soldiers of the Palestinians of Gaza. The Israelis are getting hit from both the south and the…
This writer has been a student of the Holocaust since childhood, with my Poem/Plaque " Never Again" in the Wiesenthal Holocaust museum in Los Angeles. I recently found out, through…
The Israeli economy is in the doldrums, going from bad to worse because of the country’s war on Gaza. The recent shock is the fact that the US technology giant…
Caption: Frame captured from a De-Colonizer 1948 video titled “Une conversation en hébreu sur le génocide” Even before Israel exposed its heart of darkness to the world in the aftermath…
North Israel is burning with more than 15 fires going on at the same time. The horizons of these northern areas are covered with flames and smoke. Gaza’s war had…
For any of you that may have failed to notice it, the World is now entirely seized by what can only be described as a ‘Two-State Stalemate’. In one corner,…
The latest barrage of missiles on Tel Aviv from Rafah, the first since January, sends many messages to Israel from Hamas that the Palestinian resistance will not be beaten. The…
The slaughter of Gaza has shown the world that Israel, those circle around Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, no longer function rationally. Their daily acts of ordering mayhem and destruction on…
Throughout history, fringe religious Zionist parties have had limited success in achieving the kind of electoral victories that would allow them an actual share in the country’s political decision-making. The…
[Benjamin Netanyahu asked the Chief of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at the War Cabinet Meeting somewhere in Circa 2027, May 1st.] IDF Chief: Sir, we have killed over 200,000…
As the Gaza war is about to enter its seventh month, the Palestinian death toll stands at well over 33,000, including over 12,000 children. Hundreds of schools and hospitals have…
Naturally, they tend to fool themselves the most with others being fooled on a little lower scale. Ironically, this harsh reality spells bitter truth not just on the home front…
While the Australian government continues to pirouette with shallow constancy on the issue of Israel’s war in Gaza, making vacuous utterances on Palestinian statehood even as it denies supplying the…
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