Israel’s bombing of Lebanon has killed more than a thousand civilians this year. Israel also drove out more than a half million civilians from southern Lebanon… Past Israeli attacks on Lebanon…Israel has been dragging the US into Lebanese quagmires since the 1980s…
This is a relationship without parallel in which the largest economic & military power the world has known, subordinates itself to a tiny country that would otherwise be almost entirely inconsequential. Not only systematically redistributing its own wealth to that tiny, well-off country, but unconditionally embracing that country’s geopolitical agenda, and taking extreme actions on behalf of that country in a way that causes immense harm to its own interests, while also inflicting death, displacement and despair on millions of innocents.
Gaza’s critical shortages ■ Flotilla activists face death threats; next flotilla group already under attack ■ “We’re killing [Palestinians] like we haven’t since 1967″ – IDF chief ■ Updates on Iran, Lebanon, Syria ■ Palestine and US politics ■ More
An entire street is leveled. Houses and shops are flattened, including a popular cafe. This is what is left of the town of Bint Jbeil, just a couple of miles from the Israeli border, nearly two months after Israel relaunched its ground offensive in southern Lebanon.
Flotilla activists remain in detention, tortured ■ Israel killing of Palestinians continues in Gaza, West Bank ■ Israel poised to spend tens of billions of dollars on new warplanes ■ More.
What does “ties to Hamas” mean? ■ 1% of debris removed in Gaza, 8K bodies still buried ■ More Israeli violence against Christian sites ■ Updates on flotilla, Iran, Lebanon, Syria ■ More.
Flotilla update ■ Another Israeli land grab in Gaza ■ Latest on Iran, Lebanon ■ Will Netanyahu refuse to recognize election results if he loses? ■ More.
Israel is preparing to spend nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars on its propaganda arm as it seeks to counter a worsening global image shaped by its genocide in Gaza and regional wars, according to its national budget passed in March
US sides with Israel on flotilla stoppage ■ Israel continues to block sheltering mat’ls from Gaza ■ Gaza unemployment at 68% ■ Israel may return to Iran attacks soon ■ Rubio floats a plan to disarm Hezbollah so Israel won’t have to ■ Israel earmarks $730 million to refurbish its reputation ■ More
Israel’s Chief Rabbinate declined to condemn the smashing of a statue of Jesus by a soldier in southern Lebanon, but agreed to coordinate with the military and Israel’s propaganda apparatus, known as hasbara, in handling similar incidents in the future