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Netanyahu’s ceasefire is meant to keep Gaza imprisoned
Jonathan Cook says by bolstering Hamas, Netanyahu hopes to ensure Palestine remains disunited, divided territorially and ideologically, and in no position to exert pressure on Israel via Europe or the UN to begin peace talks or concede Palestinian statehood. Read more [...]
Israel stooges freak out over Baroness Jenny Tonge’s remarks – again
Stuart Littlewood highlights UK Baroness Tonge’s longstanding battles with the Israel lobbies in the Liberal Democratic Party and the UK at large, and comments on the Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s stab in her back despite her long history of campaigning for Palestinian rights. Read more [...]
Fathi Harb burnt himself to death in Gaza. Will the world notice?
Jonathan Cook asks whether Gaza resident Fathi Harb’s self-immolation will shame the West into action, or whether the West will continue to blame the victims to excuse its complicity in seven decades of Israeli outrages against the Palestinian people. Read more [...]
Taking on militants: A fight for the soul of Pakistan
James Dorsey argues that Pakistan’s social fabric is being fundamentally altered for the worse by official acquiescence and open support for Saudi-funded groups that promote intolerance, misogyny and sectarianism. Read more [...]
Blasphemy case highlights devastating impact of Saudi ultra-conservatism on Pakistani society
James Dorsey examines the corrosive impact of Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabi ideology on the Pakistani society and state, and argues that for both Pakistan and Saudi Arabia the outcome is a quagmire from which they will struggle to extricate themselves. Read more [...]
What to do with militant or radical Islam?
Magdi Abdelhadi points to the housework that Muslims must do before the ideology of Islamism can be defeated, and Alan Hart argues that Western governments must cut off the policy oxygen on which Islamism flourishes. Read more [...]
Israel’s bloody and pointless wars on Lebanon
Reflecting on Israel’s disastrous wars against Lebanon in 1982 and 2006, Uri Avery asks whether all Israelis can look forward to is more wars conducted by the same kind of idiotic politicians and generals. Read more [...]
Israel ignoring “tectonic change” in public opinion
Uri Avnery argues that, oblivious to Israelis, a tectonic change in public attitude towards Israel is underway, as shown by the UK parliament’s and Sweden’s decisions to recognise the state of Palestine. Read more [...]
The question of state legitimacy
Lawrence Davidson considers the role of the United States and Israel in eroding international human rights law and how this could lead to a drastic deterioration in the domestic rule of law. Read more [...]
Anthony Reuben, BBC journalist serving Israel
Nureddin Sabir highlights the BBC Head of Statistics Anthony Reuben’s’ incredible twisting of numbers to support Israel’s claims that the Israeli Wehrmacht’s recent onslaught on Gaza had been targeted and not indiscriminate. Read more [...]
