Bunker buster bombs kill 84; shady “aid group” to start food distribution within weeks – as food spoils outside Gaza; US court hits Israeli spyware firm NSO with $167m fine; GOP works to crush dissent speech; France makes Netanyahu furious; more.
May 15 marks the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, or the Catastrophe — the destruction of historic Palestine, the catastrophe of dispossession, and the mass ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population in 1948, which continues to this day.
This year’s May 14 and May 15 will be remembered by a particularly horrendous proof that international law has been shattered: A state is intentionally starving an entire population.
Although Edan Alexander was a soldier captured at a military outpost, U.S. news outlets rarely described him as a prisoner of war.
Risk of famine across all of Gaza; Hamas frees soldier Edan Alexander; Israeli settlers almost pulled off animal sacrifice in Al Aqsa; more land theft in West Bank; Shireen Abu Akleh; bill would enable Trump to denounce any nonprofit as a “terrorist-supporting organization,” lose tax-exempt status; Google saw Israel as uncontrollable; Gaza flotilla update
New inspector general report proves the so-called Gaza pier was more or less a massive diversion by the Biden admin gone wrong, and a bigger failure than earlier reported.
US aid plan for Gaza looks like ‘bait to force displacement’; Trump cuts ties with Netanyahu; when Israel turned on Kissinger; judge frees Rümeysa Öztürk, warns of grave threat to free speech
U.S. media largely ignored The Great March of Return that lasted almost two years. PBS was perhaps the most egregious example. See the Frontline film that PBS refused to show Americans. Had this film not been blocked, quite likely vastly more Americans would have seen Palestinians’ courageous attempt to use nonviolence… and perhaps the desperate October 7th breakout would not have occurred.
Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill sits down with a top leader of the Islamic resistance movement for a wide-ranging discussion on how Hamas views the current moment.
Israel bombs a school instead of a mosque – killing many; why starvation is the weapon of choice for Israel; New details on Israel’s plan for controlling aid in Gaza; nearly 100 Dems in Congress push for humanitarian aid to Gaza; profiting from annihilation.