Netanyahu has been fairly transparent about the fact that Israel’s ultimate goal in Gaza is neither freeing the hostages nor defeating Hamas, but seizing Palestinian territory and removing its Palestinian inhabitants. By Caitlin Johnstone Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that freeing the Israeli hostages in Gaza was not his top priority, suggesting instead that defeating Hamas […]
The Israeli government, backed by the Trump administration, is laying the groundwork for the full expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, a move that has the potential to ignite a regional conflagration. CHRIS HEDGES APR 12 Israel is poised to carry out the largest campaign of ethnic cleansing since the end of World War II. Since […]
Our rulers may succeed in eliminating the Palestinians as a people, but one thing they will never be able to do is put those blinders back on our eyes. What has been seen cannot be unseen. By Caitlin Johnstone One thing October 7 did accomplish was getting Israel and its allies to show the […]
Israel has begun the final stage of its genocide. The Palestinians will be forced to choose between death or deportation. There are no other options. CHRIS HEDGES March 22 This is the last chapter of the genocide. It is the final, blood-soaked push to drive the Palestinians from Gaza. No food. No medicine. No shelter. […]
Karim Khan, chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, accuses Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant of numerous crimes including “starvation as a method of war” and “deliberately targeting civilians.” Groundxero | May 20, 2024 The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on May 20 announced that he […]
The Lavender AI system is a new weapon developed by Israel, but the kind of kill lists that it generates has a long pedigree in U.S. wars, occupations, and CIA regime change operations. By MEDEA BENJAMIN, NICOLAS J.S. DAVIES Apr 16, 2024 The Israeli online magazine +972 has published a detailed report on Israel’s use of an artificial […]
When one side in hostilities lacks an army, that side often finds its only recourse is to use what the other side calls “terrorism.” By ROBERT M. SCHAIBLE, SALLY BOWDEN-SCHAIBLE Feb 13, 2024 Common Dreams On October 7, Hamas launched a terrorist attack on southern Israel, killing some 1,100 people, a majority of whom […]
Israel’s settler colonial project perpetuates the cycle of violence against the indigenous inhabitants of historic Palestine. Palestinians have been forced to speak back in the language Israel speaks. By CHRIS HEDGES Dec 10, 2023 I knew Dr. Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, the co-founder of Hamas, along with Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Yassin. Al-Rantisi’s family were […]
A student’s perspective on the recent controversy surrounding Prof. Achin Vanaik’s teach-in session on Palestine at O.P. Jindal Global University and the consequent dissemination of misinformation and targeting of faculty members by the right wing ecosystem from within and outside the university. By Samyuktha Kannan Nov 04, 2023 On the 1st of November, some faculty members at […]
Netanyahu is in an alliance with the Zionist far right. Their goal is to provoke a second Nakba – that is to say, to physically uproot the Palestinians from the land they are inhabiting now, starting in Jerusalem and the West Bank. This policy is not new, but it has escalated in the recent months. All […]
As Palestinians in West Bank calls for a general strike today, against the ongoing US-supported Israeli pogrom killing and mutilating hundreds of innocent Palestinians including children, Amit Jugnu writes about the possibilities of the international working class rising against the Israeli occupation. At a time when the world is reeling under a pandemic for the […]