By Robert Naiman The government of Benjamin Netanyahu has launched a new war on Palestinians in Gaza, a war whose purported justifications make George W. Bush's excuses for his illegal invasion of Iraq smell nice by comparison. So far, the United States, Netanyahu's chief enabler, has been unwilling to stop the carnage, as it could […]
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Israel/ Palestine
Stop Saying ‘If X fired Rockets at U.S.’: It’s Racist, & assumes we’re Colonial
By Juan Cole Is anyone else disgusted by the propaganda trick of trying to get Americans to sympathize with Israel’s massive attack on the civilian habitations of Gaza by saying “if the US was subjected to rocket fire by X [usually Mexicans], what would it do?” This hope that Americans are racists and that their […]
Israeli Rhetoric Hides War Crimes against Gaza
By Chloé Benoist As Israeli forces began their assault on the Gaza Strip, Israel’s leaders and media ramped up a rhetoric offensive, using dehumanizing discourse to garner support for deadly military action in the besieged Palestinian territory. Operation “Protective Edge” – Israel’s latest military offensive to be given a name with nurturing undertones after “My […]
ABC News’ Diane Sawyer Mistakes Stricken Palestinians for Israelis
By Juan Cole In the current round of fighting between mighty Israel and the little Gaza Strip, Israeli airstrikes have killed 53 Palestinians. The supposedly deadly little rockets fired from the Gaza Strip have killed or injured no Israelis, though they have done some property damage. In fact, those rockets have no guidance systems and […]
Bush Trifecta lands on Obama: Gaza, Iraq and Afghanistan Imploding
By Juan Cole President Barack Obama of Hawaii had fondly dreamed of bidding turbulent and unrewarding West Asia farewell and turning the attentions of American diplomacy to East and South East Asia. From his point of view, the Bush administration had unwisely entangled the US too deeply in the Middle East, where no good deed […]
Mother Of Murdered Israeli Teen Condemns anti-Palestinian Violence
“With the Israeli army saying it is commencing a new military operation against Gaza, and Hamas vowing revenge, the words of a mother of a murdered Israeli teen need to be heard.” AJ+ Labs “Mother Of Dead Israeli Teen Speaks Amid Rising Tensions”
Gaza by the Numbers: Who the People are, how They got There
By Juan Cole Population of Palestinians of Gaza: 1.7 million Number of Palestinians in Gaza whose families were expelled as refugees from their homes in what is now southern Israel: 1.2 million Number of Palestinians in Gaza still living in the 8 recognized refugee camps, “which have one of the highest population densities in the […]
Palestinians attack Jerusalem Rail to Protest Annexation of Arab East
By Hanna Baumann The destruction of tram stations during the protests in East Jerusalem is much more than vandalism, it shows that Palestinians are not quietly acquiescing to the ‘unification’ of the city, which they understand as the annexation of occupied land. Decolonising space. The Shuafat tram stop. Photo courtesy of Tarek Bakri The clashes […]
Can Palestinians ever Get a Break in the American Press?
By: Yazan al-Saadi As tragedy and uninterrupted terror strikes the besieged Palestinian population once more, Western media outlets have been busy producing and presenting articles and television reports on the events taking place. These “news reports” – for the lack of a better terminology – are presented as factual and true, objective and neutral, unblemished […]
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