Middle East

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu once again rejected the Biden peace deal on Sunday, vowing complete victory. After Biden’s performance in the debate last Thursday, Netanyahu is apparently more assured than ever that he can defy Biden without facing any consequences. The woolly-mindedness of the president in turn perhaps […]

Israel/ Palestine

How Israel uses Starvation to Subdue the Palestinians

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor ) – Humanitarian aid should never be politicised though, quite often, the very survival of nations is used as political bargaining chips. Sadly, Gaza remains a prime example. Even before the current war, the Gaza Strip suffered under a 17-year hermetic blockade, which has rendered the impoverished area virtually ‘unlivable’. That […]

Democratic Party

AIPAC’s Destructive Reach in American Politics: How it made an Example of Rep. Jamal Bowman

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Rep. Jamal Bowman’s loss to George Latimer for the 16th District of New York in the Democratic primary illustrates the destructive reach of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and Israel wading into American electoral politics. Their agenda is driven by a single issue, about which […]

Displaced and Refugees

Gazans’ extreme Hunger could leave its Mark on subsequent Generations

The Conversation

Hasan Khatib, University of Wisconsin-Madison | – As Israel’s offensive in Gaza rages on, people across the entire Gaza Strip find themselves in increasingly dire circumstances, with nearly the entire population experiencing high levels of food insecurity, including malnutrition, hunger and starvation. A famine review analysis from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification reported on […]

Anti-Zionism

Liberal Zionism and the woke facade of Israeli genocide

Yoav Litvin

( The New Arab ) – Israel’s ongoing genocide is part of a downward spiral for the Zionist project. In the words of acclaimed historian Professor Ilan Pappe: “We are witnessing a historical process – or, more accurately, the beginnings of one – that is likely to culminate in the downfall of Zionism.” Yet Zionism’s […]

Donald Trump

Trump called Biden a “Weak Palestinian:” is the P-word the new N-Word?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – During CNN’s sh*tshow — I mean, debate — Trump at one point insisted that Biden let the Israelis “go” at the Palestinians: You got to ask him, as far as Israel and Hamas, Israel is the one that wants to go. He said the only one who wants to keep […]

Israel Lobbies

US an “Open Field” for Manipulation by Israeli Propaganda: Mass Consciousness Activities

Middle East Monitor

By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel has long relied on its much-vaunted hasbara — propaganda — to obscure the brutal reality of its colonial occupation of Palestine. Essentially a sophisticated propaganda machine, the hasbara industry, as Professor Ilan Pappe demonstrates in his new book, has been instrumental in shaping […]

Drones

How Drones form part of Hezbollah’s deterrence Strategy against Israel

The Conversation

By Emilie El Khoury, Queen’s University, Ontario | – (The Conversation) – The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah recently released videos showing footage from one of its drones flying over the Israeli city of Haifa and the surrounding area. Hezbollah released the videos shortly after American special envoy Amos Hochstein went to Beirut in a bid […]

Children

Israeli Forces have killed or Separated from their Families 35,000 Palestinian Children in Gaza

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Save the Children said Monday that in addition to the some 14,000 children killed by the Israeli military according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, another 4,000 are estimated dead under rubble, and 17,000 are wandering around on their own, unaccompanied and separated from their parents (who may have been […]