Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – The Israeli military has repeatedly attacked medical workers and healthcare facilities in Lebanon, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch documented three attacks, involving apparent war crimes, in which Israeli forces unlawfully struck medical personnel, transports, and facilities, including paramedics at a civil defense center in central Beirut on October […]
Archives for November 2024
Israel’s Relations with the UN have hit a new Low with ban on UN Relief and Works Agency
By Lisa Strömbom, Lund University | – (The Conversation) – Israel’s relationship with the United Nations has historically been strained, but over the past year, tensions have reached new levels. On October 28, the Israeli parliament (the Knesset) passed a law to prohibit operations of the UN’s relief and works agency (Unrwa) – the UN […]
How did the Mideast become a Nuclear Flashpoint?
Eau Claire, WI (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The state of world politics since the end of the Cold War has been marked by more conflicts and wars. The United States’ imperialist impulses during the Cold War had to consider the threat of Communism in Europe and at the global level. Today, the ongoing […]
Israel’s Wars and Occupation Today are not about Self Defense
By Stephen R. Shalom | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – “Israel has the right to defend itself,” President Joseph Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and countless commentators have declared multiple times over the past year. But does Israel in fact have such a right? Even if there were an Israeli right to self-defense, […]
South Africa’s Massive New Genocide case against Israel at ICJ: “The Problem is, We have too Much Evidence”
by Dr Binoy Kampmark ( Middle East Monitor ) – The timing, as with so much in the ongoing wars in Gaza and Lebanon, was most appropriate. The Israeli Knesset had signalled its intent on crippling and banishing the sole agency of humanitarian worth for Palestinian welfare by passing laws criminalising its operations by 92 […]
No Extermination without Representation: Election 2024
Oxford (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – On Tuesday, the American people go to the polls in one of the most consequential elections for the United States and the world. Normally, outsiders should not interfere in other countries’ elections, although the United States has a habit of interfering in other countries’ elections, often overtly and […]
CNN Finally Covered the Gaza Genocide – from the Point of View of Israeli Troops with PTSD
( Middle East Monitor ) – When Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza in which it has killed at least 43,000 Palestinians, and displaced the entire population, CNN’s way of showing some humanity in the face of such violence was to focus on the trauma of those responsible for the killing and maiming. The […]
Gaza: Yes, the UN can suspend Israel over its Treatment of Palestinians
By Aidan Hehir, University of Westminster | – (The Conversation) – “Where is the UN?” is a question that has often been asked since the start of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza. As the death toll rises and the conflict spreads, the UN appears woefully unable to fulfil its mandate to save humanity “from the […]
As UN warns entire Population of Gaza is at Risk of Death, Bill Clinton says he’s not keeping Score
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Bill Clinton is a Rhodes scholar and a voracious reader. He is not a stupid man. He is, however, morally stupid. I’m not referring to his personal life but to his remarks on Israel’s behavior in its total war on little Gaza. Clinton came to Michigan and said, “I understand […]
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