A Jerusalem hospital where Palestinian babies die alone
- Oliver Holmes - Hazem Balousha حازم بعلوشة
Israeli blockade on Gaza means parents are separated from critically ill children
The neonatal intensive care unit in Makassed hospital in East Jerusalem. Photograph: Quique Kierszenbaum
At first glance, nothing appeared out of place at ...
Israeli patriots and justice seekers should look to the Hague with hope
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
Now it’s a double header. In a combination of events, not entirely coincidental, Israel and its prime minister are both accused of crimes, and both are trying to evade justice in the same way: by hobbling the justice system in each case. The suspicions ...
The Israel Lobby’s hidden hand in the theft of Iraqi and Syrian oil
- Whitney Webb - Agha Hussain
The outsized role of U.S. Israel lobby operatives in abetting the theft of Syrian and Iraqi oil reveals how this powerful lobby also facilitates more covert aspects of U.S.-Israeli cooperation and the implementation of policies that favor Israel.
KIRKUK, ...
The systematic torture of Palestinians in Israeli detention
- Yara Hawari د. يارا هواري
Since the establishment of Israel in 1948, the Israeli Security Agency has been torturing Palestinians. Al-Shabaka Senior Palestine Policy Fellow Yara Hawari argues that the use of torture in Israeli detention is systematic and legitimized through domestic ...
International law is clear on one point: Israel's settlements are illegal
- Richard Falk
Despite the US administration's announcement to the contrary, there is no question as to the unlawfulness of Israel's settler encroachment.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made headlines around the world this week in announcing that the US had shifted ...
Yad Vashem doesn't have the courage to be a global beacon of conscience
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
For years, Barry Lando was a senior producer for CBS’ “60 Minutes,” working alongside the legendary Mike Wallace. Lando, an author who splits his time between Paris and London, recently visited Israel for the first time in some 20 years, ...
Finally the USA supports the One State Solution in Palestine
- Gilad Atzmon جيلاد أتزمون گيلاد آتزمون
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced yesterday that the US is softening its position on Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Secretary Pompeo repudiated the 1978 State Department legal opinion that stated that Jewish settlements in the occupied ...
No one in Israel knew they were committing a massacre, and they didn't care : the slaughter of the Asoarka family in Deir al-Balah
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
The bomber pilot didn’t know. His commanders who gave him the orders also didn’t know. The defense minister and the commander in chief didn’t know. Nor did the commander of the air force. The intelligence officers who aimed at the target ...
Killing Islamic Jihad leader got Israel nothing. So why do it?
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
Baha Abu al-Ata and his wife Asma, both born in 1977, were killed in a targeted killing by Israeli forces on 12 November in Gaza, while four of of their children and a neighbour were injured. Here is Gideon Levy's comment
Once again the sacrosanct ...
Israel's last war
- Gilad Atzmon جيلاد أتزمون گيلاد آتزمون
In my 2011 book, The Wandering Who?, I elaborated on the possible disastrous scenario in which Israel is the nucleus of a global escalation over Iran’s emerging nuclear capabilities. I concluded that Israel’s PRE Traumatic Stress Syndrome ...
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