Middle East

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

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 […]

Israel/ Palestine

Why the United States has Blood on its Hands in Palestine

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

( Code Pink) -The U.S. corporate media usually report on Israeli military assaults in occupied Palestine as if the United States is an innocent neutral party to the conflict. In fact, large majorities of Americans have told pollsters for decades that they want the United States to be neutral in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But U.S. […]

Israel/ Palestine

Gaza: The Trauma of the Present and reliving the Trauma of the Past: Life Lacking a sense of Safety

Middle East Monitor

By Yasser Abu Jamei MD | – ( Middle East Monitor) – After [the weekend’s] … bombing raids in the heart of Gaza City, Gazans are once again struggling with traumatic memories. The atrocities that are happening now bring memories. Israeli planes have shattered our families so many terrifying and memorable times for decades. For […]

Bahrain

Israel-Palestine conflict: why Gulf leaders are staying quiet – for now

The Conversation

By Simon Mabon | – It’s generally reckoned to be one of Donald Trump’s few major foreign policy achievements. On August 13 2020, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel signed a historic agreement normalising relations between the two states, and in the weeks that followed, other Arab states followed Abu Dhabi’s lead in what […]

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Israel’s Total War on Palestinians: Hospital Crisis Grips Gaza in Deadliest Day of Israeli Airstrikes

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In the deadliest single day of the Israeli air campaign on Palestinian Gaza, 42 were killed on Sunday, according to the BBC, including 16 women and 10 children. The BBC reports from the Gaza ministry of health that “The overall death toll in Gaza now stands at 197 people, including […]

Israel/ Palestine

Israel’s Credibility Problem: Air Strikes destroy buildings housing more than a dozen media outlets in Gaza

Committee to Protect Journalists

( Committee to Protect Journalists) – New York – Israeli forces must refrain from bombing media outlets, and should ensure that journalists can work safely and without fear, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On May 11 and 12, Israeli warplanes bombed and destroyed the Al-Jawhara and Al-Shorouk office buildings in Gaza City, which […]