Israel/ Palestine

Growing up in Israel, the prevailing mentality surrounding me everywhere I went was that compromise shows weakness. The message was clear: compromise is a “Diaspora thing,” but for us Israelis – we stand strong, we take “what is ours,” and we don’t back down. But my father Elhanan Leibowitz OBM (of blessed memory), whose yahrtzeit, […]

Antisemitism

Confessions of an Ex-Zionist: My Judaism will not stand for the Mass Slaughter in Gaza

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – I grieve for the people of Israel and Palestine, both of whom are being abused and terrorized by their own governments and leadership. Hamas is not a legitimate government, and is not Islam. Zionism is not Judaism. Hamas and the Israeli government have used their own people’s […]

Israel/ Palestine

Americans Want a Ceasefire. It’s Our Politicians Who Are Out of Touch

OtherWords

By Farrah Hassen ( Otherwords ) – Two years ago, filmmaker Mohannad Abu Rizk asked children in Gaza about their dreams. One young girl responded, “My dream is for us to stay alive and to live in peace. We have a right to stay alive.” She’s one of the 2.2 million Palestinians living in the […]

Israel/ Palestine

‘We remain Afraid of the Future’ – how Palestinian Children’s Optimism was Fading even before this Crisis

The Conversation

By Ritesh Shah, University of Auckland | In October alone, more children were reported to have died in Gaza than the total number of children killed annually in all other conflicts since 2019. The awful statistic led to United Nations Secretary General António Guterres calling Gaza a “graveyard for children”. Since the Hamas attack on […]

Featured

Nakba 2.0: Israeli Gov’t Minister Describes War on Gaza as another Catastrophic Ethnic Cleansing

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As Maya Angelou wisely advised, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” Members of the Israeli government have been quite candid about their plans for the civilian population of the Gaza Strip, so candid that one has to wonder whether the current campaign is actually […]

Israel/ Palestine

The Nuremberg Charter and the War on Gaza

Richard Drake

( Counterpunch ) – “In preparation for the Nazi war crimes trials in 1945, representatives of Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States met to discuss the legal basis of the proceedings. They produced on August 8, 1945, the London Charter of the International Military Tribunal, a document that subsequently became known as […]

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A Tale of Two Sets of Dead Babies: The Preemies of Gaza and Imaginary Beheadings

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s repeated shelling in the vicinity of hospitals and clinics in Gaza has led 20 of 38 hospitals to close their doors to patients, since they lacked the electricity, medicine and functioning equipment they needed to treat patients. The Israeli government’s cut-off of electricity has killed premature babies in incubators, […]

Israel/ Palestine

Gaza: Where should the Birds fly after the Last Sky?

Middle East Monitor

By Ahmad Rayees | – Where should the birds fly after the last sky? Where should we go after the last sky? ( Middle East Monitor) – In the haunting verses of Mahmoud Darwish‘s poetry, the tragic tale of Gaza unfolds—a narrative of shattered hopes, enduring resistance and the stark reality of life under Israeli […]

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Israel’s War on Gaza’s Hospitals and Patients: al-Shifa Bombed again, as 20 of 36 Hospitals Go Dark

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Update: Reuters reports that Al-Shifa hospital complex has been forced to cease operations after its final remaining generator was hit in a bombardment. As I write, dozens of premature babies in incubators are in danger, and two have reportedly died. The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that Friday saw an […]