Jonathan Cook reports on Israeli soldiers breaking the silence on what they’ve done. “Whatever a soldier believes when they begin their military service, there is no way to behave ethically in the occupied territories,” Ido Even-Paz, a former Israeli soldier says. “It’s a system in which Palestinians are always treated as inferior… Every day the job is to inflict collective punishment…”
Looking back: In Israel’s 2006 war against Lebanon, Israel used cluster bombs that have a high level of failure to detonate, as well as white phosphorus which is in most cases illegal, and employed launch systems notorious for their inaccuracy. Israel claims everything was done within the bounds of international law – as Israel interprets it – and only in self-defense.
While serving in IDF during 1st Intifada, mayoral candidate Raz Sagi shot & killed a fleeing Palestinian teen. Sagi was sentenced to 3 mo community service, pardoned, then promoted.
Joe Meadors – passenger on the Freedom Flotilla ship intercepted by Israel and detained illegally – was on the USS Liberty in ’67, attacked by Israel, 34 Americans were killed.
Juan Cole’s upcoming book, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid a Clash of Empires, investigates the origins of Islam, focusing on Muhammad’s vision of peace.
The push to recognize Israel’s 1981 illegal annexation of the Golan Heights, part of Syria, represents an aggressive push by some pro-Israel groups and the Israeli government. Opponents say that recognition could unsettle the region and pose security concerns to the US and its allies. Israel destroyed hundreds of villages in the area…
The apparently deliberate bombing of the Arts & Crafts Village destroyed Palestinian archeology & art – a “deliberate and barbaric assault against Palestinian heritage & history.”
Israeli President Reuvin Rivlin speaks as though Israel alone has Gaza’s best interests in mind, but a little digging proves his words to be utterly disingenuous.
Zionist terrorism has existed since before the founding of Israel – and tolerated, empowered, even glorified. All the while, Palestinians have been condemned for resistance.
Professor Jeremy Salt writes: “Israel is by far the worst settler-colonial experience in history,” a state that makes murderers into heroes, and “based not on morality, justice, and law but brute force.” Because, Zionism.