Israel/ Palestine

By Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox ( Tomdispatch.com ) – It’s been almost two months since the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to stop killing Gazans and destroying their means of subsistence. So let’s look back and ask (1) how Israel has responded to its “orders,” and (2) how hard the Biden administration […]

Hizbullah

Will Current Israeli-Lebanese Fighting derail Historic Land Border Agreement?

The Conversation

By Mireille Rebeiz, Dickinson College | – In October 2022, Lebanon and Israel signed a maritime border agreement brokered by the U.S., a move interpreted as the beginning of normalizing relations between two countries technically at war. The next step would have been the settlement of the long-running land border dispute. But then came the […]

Displaced and Refugees

UN and EU slam Israel: Imposing on Palestinians ‘Levels of Food Insecurity never Recorded anywhere in the World’

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The European Union’s Vice-President of the European Commission, Josep Borell and the European Commissioner for Crisis management Janez Lenarčič, issued a statement on Monday on the findings of a UN-backed report that found that Israel’s total war on Gaza has put the remaining Palestinian population in imminent risk of starving […]

Israel Lobbies

How AIPAC supports Israel’s far Right Likud Party over Democratic America

Jeffrey Rudolph

( Detailed Political Quizzes ) – In a New York Times March 13, 2024, article (“Pro-Israel Lobby Faces Challenges Amid Gaza War and Shifting Politics”), it’s correctly pointed out that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) aggressively helps “fund electoral challenges to left-leaning Democrats it considers insufficiently supportive [of Israel].” However, the article misleads […]

Israel/ Palestine

Western Powers could Stop the Gaza Genocide; instead they Cover it Up with “Humanitarian Aid”

Middle East Monitor

By Caroline Lund and Brendan Ciarán Browne | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The ongoing genocide in Gaza has starkly exposed Western governments’ unequal and wholly selective application of international law whilst also managing to draw much-needed attention to the dysfunctional role that foreign donors and their development agendas play in the region. […]

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Schumer, breaking with Netanyahu, Signals that even Corporate Dems’ Support for Israel is no Longer Unconditional

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Whether driven by moral compass, or political survival; America’s Democratic leaders are finally recognizing the obvious: The continued leadership of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu (Bibi), is hurting Israel, and fueling global antisemitism. It’s also making the Jewish nation an international pariah. Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s eloquent […]

Israel/ Palestine

Nonviolence in the Holy Land: Fear, Love and Palestine with Sami Awad

Waging Nonviolence

Nonviolence Radio Nonviolence Radio Team Former Holy Land Trust Executive Director Sami Awad. (Facebook/Sami Awad) Subscribe to “Nonviolence Radio” on Apple Podcasts, Android, Spotify or via RSS. ( Waging Nonviolence) – As a Palestinian, Sami and his family have suffered directly under the long Israeli occupation and more acutely now, from the […]

Displaced and Refugees

S. Africa Will Arrest Dual Nationals Fighting in Gaza, Demands Halt to Starvation of Palestinians

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – South Africa’s Townpress reports that Naledi Pandor, the country’s foreign minister, pledged this week to arrest any South African/ Israeli dual citizen who fought in Gaza. She said at a pro-Palestinian gathering in Pretoria attended by a number of officials from the ruling African National Congress, “I have already issued […]

Israel/ Palestine

Israel Partisans’ use of Disinformation

Al-Shabaka

by Tariq Kenney-Shawa ( Al-Shabaka ) – During campaigns of genocide and ethnic cleansing, disinformation is a potent weapon—a tool to dehumanize victims, justify mass violence, and most importantly, sow seeds of doubt designed to muzzle calls for intervention. When information is weaponized, confusion and doubt no longer emerge from the “fog of war” as a […]