Israel/ Palestine

By Mamoun Fandy | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – In what looks to be a brave new world, even as its features are taking shape, a group of people has been able to change Palestinian and Israeli communities, as well as the regional environment and global awareness. They are the social media activists […]

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With 58K Palestinians Made Homeless in Gaza, AOC and the Squad Resolve to Block Precision Bombs for Israel

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations says that 58,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been made internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the past week and a half during the intensive Israeli bombardment of Gaza. The Gaza Strip, where 2 million Palestinians live, half of them children, is facing a major health crisis. Potable water […]

Israel/ Palestine

How Pro-Israel Sentiment took Hold in Japan’s Conservative Government

Michael Penn

Tokyo (Special to Informed Comment) – The recent flareup of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has revealed the degree to which pro-Israel sentiment has crept into the views of Japan’s conservative government. The most overt indication of this trend became visible in the tweeting of State Minister for Defense Yasuhide Nakayama. He entered the fray on May […]

Israel/ Palestine

A Ceasefire is not Enough: The Struggle for our Rights in Palestine must Continue until the Occupation Ends

Middle East Monitor

By Eman Abusidu | – ( Middle East Monitor) – I am a Palestinian. I know about pain. I have felt it, seen it and lived through it many times. Ever since I was born, the Gaza Strip has faced brutal Israeli military offensives and incursions. Scenes of death and destruction are the backdrop to […]

Israel/ Palestine

Palestinians are not a “Death Toll”: How Corporate Media’s “Objective Reporting” on Israel-Palestine Favors Governments

The Conversation

By Annabelle Lukin | – As lethal violence kills ordinary people in Gaza and Israel, news outlets across the globe are constructing versions of events that will keep eyeballs on their content. After all, war is the most compelling news story of all. And given many people who care about this situation have no direct […]

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The Great Palestinian General Strike from the Jordan River to the Sea even Reaches President Biden in Dearborn

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Biden came to the Ford Rouge River Plant to tout new electric vehicles, one of his signature climate-friendly programs, on Tuesday. He was met at the airport by Rep. Debbie Dingell and by Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian in the US Congress, who welcomed him but also gave […]

Israel/ Palestine

Netanyahu thought Ethnically Cleansing Sheikh Jarrah would Unite Israeli Right; Instead it United Palestinians

Ramzy Baroud

(Middle East Monitor) – From the outset, some clarification regarding the language used to depict the ongoing violence in occupied Palestine, and also throughout Israel. This is not a ‘conflict’. Neither is it a ‘dispute’ nor ‘sectarian violence’ nor even a war in the traditional sense. It is not a conflict, because Israel is an […]

Israel/ Palestine

Gaza conflict: no matter how powerful Israel’s military becomes it still can’t win

The Conversation

By Paul Rogers | – Israel is the most powerful state in the Middle East. Its military forces may not match the likes of Egypt or Turkey in numbers, but the might of its training, equipment, technologies and nuclear weapons make it unassailable. Given its long-developed capabilities in public order control, such a position should […]

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Do Americans turn a Blind eye to Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians because of White Nationalism?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Why governments in London, Paris and Washington back Israel’s Occupation of 5 million stateless Palestinians and its slow ethnic cleansing of them is not so hard to figure out. Israel represents itself as a Western aircraft carrier in a strategically crucial part of the world full of energy resources. It […]