As Israel enjoys impunity on every front for every action, PM Benjamin Netanyahu has stepped into a whole new realm of chutzpah – and the world didn’t bat an eye when he signaled that Palestine has vanished, or at best is irrelevant.
Tuesday and Wednesday saw Israeli military violence in several regions of the occupied Palestinian territories, causing many Palestinian deaths and injuries.
At a special joint session, both Democrats & Republicans bobbed up & down to applaud the Israeli president even though Israel spies on the US, steals our technology, tried to sink a Navy ship & has a long record of violent human rights abuses
During a Hebron raid by Israeli forces, five female family members were forced to undress while threatened by the soldiers’ rifles and a dog from the canine unit.
Gideon Levy: Israel’s Supreme Court is just as cruel as its military court when dealing with Palestinians: it is a rubber stamp of injustice and apartheid. (Also see recent interview with Levy.)
Longtime journalist Chris Hedges offers a partial inventory of Israel’s documented human rights abuses of Palestinians – massive abuses that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. chooses to ignore: the crimes of apartheid, and the targeting and torturing of civilians, to name a few. As Hedges reminds us, to support this Israel is to “justify the unjustifiable”; and to protest Israeli policy is “a political death wish.” (part 3)
Longtime journalist & former Middle East bureau chief Chria Hedges provides a brief but powerful description – much of it firsthand – of Palestinians’ devastation at the hands of Israel. He then provides proof that this is exactly what Israel’s founders had in mind. (part 1 pf 3)
The news cycle never ends in Israel and Palestine, but coverage by mainstream can be extremely spotty. Here are a few recent stories from the region.
A detailed annotation of the errors and omissions that mislead readers on a profoundly important issue…including little-known information about Presidents Eisenhower, Reagan, and Bush Sr., who each had moments of clarity on this issue, and called out Israel for its abuses.
Bader Samer Ribhi Masri, 19, was killed during a protest against the forced closure of a Palestinian city for the convenience of illegal Israeli settlers.