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With the assassination of Sayed Hassan Nasrallah and a number of the Hizbullah senior leadership in Beirut – expressly without prior warning being given to the Pentagon –…
A year ago, Israel was sitting in the catbird seat. Today, it stares into the face of its demise. I have previously written about Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel,…
The long-pervasive belief in American military supremacy is a myth; a mirage; a fallacious narrative fashioned from fables and Hollywood films. The US military has not won a war…
The author looks back on the slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, on the times he interviewed him and the impact on the region of his killing. There is…
Israel is genociding the Palestinians one neighborhood at the time, one hospital at the time, one school at the time, one refugee camp at the time, one ‘safe…
The war is lost, and the struggle to keep the ‘enforced pretending’ going is breaking through, to be seen by all as a false reality. Israel is entering…
If you can’t see the causal link between the Israeli abuse of generations of Palestinians and Hamas’ crimes, then you have no insight into human nature. You don’t…
No major western leader is ever again going to be able to speak about human rights or ethical values, without attracting howls of derision. They are turning on…
Unit 601 of the IDF’s Combat Engineering Corps is clearing a vast swath of land across central Gaza splitting the 25-mile-long territory into two parts. The so-called Netzarim…
The cause of the tragic Druze deaths in Majdal Shams was the illegal Israeli occupation in Syria, a fact which the residents of the town are clear about….
Every empire falls. Its collapse becomes inevitable once its rulers lose all sense of how absurd and abhorrent they have become There is only one country in the…
Women and children are being targeted intentionally, say Israeli whistleblowers. From ground troops to commanders, the rules of war have been shredded. They just keep coming. On the…
Two prestigious law reviews censor Palestinian scholar for proposing a legal framework that ties the Gaza genocide to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948. Anyone who imagines…
The Hegemon is calculating for a World War to halt multipolarity. It supports Israel’s Gaza genocide as a necessary evil to win hard in West Asia, figuring who’s…
“We are seeing… important processes that are leading to the collapse of the Zionist project,” said Ilan Pappé, following his interrogation in the U.S. Israeli historian Ilan Pappé,…
Benjamin Netanyahu is right to dismiss as “absurd and false” the suggestion that there is any equivalence in the atrocities committed by the two sides. Here’s why There…
To be crucified is to suffer and die slowly and agonizingly. It was a common form of execution in the ancient world. It is generally associated with Rome’s…
The recent Congressional hearings leading to a bloodbath of university presidents brings back memories from my teen-age years in the 1950s when everyone’s eyes were glued to the…
In confecting a media row about the policing of London marches against genocide, the Israel lobby knew it would score a victory, whatever happened A gruesome discovery was…
Israel’s strategy from past decades will continue with its hope of achieving some Chimeric transformative “de-radicalisation” of Palestinians that will make ‘Israel safe’ (This paper is the basis…
ANIA: Hello, everyone. Welcome back to my channel. Today I have with me for the fourth time, I’m still counting, a very, very special guest, one of the best…
The isolation of Gaza is almost complete. The laws of war have been torn up and the enclave is now completely at Israel’s mercy After six months –…
Myth-busting documentary finally breaks the stranglehold of Israel and its western media acolytes over the story of what happened on 7 October For weeks, as Gaza was battered with…
Why is the same western media obsessively reheating five-month-old allegations against Hamas so reluctant to focus on Israel’s current, horrifying atrocities? Hostages tortured to death. Parents executed in…
Despite public protestations, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is helping Israel transfer 1.4 million Palestinians from Rafah to tent cities in the Sinai Desert On Saturday, western news…
In the past three months, two people in the United States have taken or risked taking their own lives in an attempt to change U.S. policies on Palestine…
It must be clear that there is no room in the country for both peoples…. If the Arabs leave it, the country will become wide and spacious for…
The liberal Arab camp thinks the ICJ ruling will lead to a peaceful settlement of the Palestinian question, while the popular camp has lost faith in international organizations,…
The Arabic word Asabiyya, or ‘moral strength’, is a soundbite in the west, but taken very seriously by the globe’s new contenders China, Russia, and Iran. It is…
South Africa, a party to the Genocide Convention, charged Israel with genocide in the International Court of Justice For nearly three months, Israel has enjoyed virtual impunity for…
Gareth Porter reviews the Netanyahu government’s process of planting stories of nonexistent atrocities by Hamas on Oct. 7 with credulous foreign-news outlets and the Biden administration. In the days after…
The Houthis are going to prevent Israel-bound commercial ships from reaching Israeli ports as long as Israel prevents food, water and medicine from reaching Palestinians in Gaza. If…
One of the greatest journalists and filmmakers of his generation has died at age 84, his family announced on Sunday John Pilger, whose books, films and articles informed…
Jesus was a Palestinian Jew born in Bethlehem. He grew up in Nazareth and was executed as a criminal in Jerusalem. It is because of him that we…
Washington’s shameful behavior marks a new low for the Biden Administration The first week in December of this year was all about America’s apparent inextinguishable love for the…
I do not believe that anything I say about what is happening in Gaza will affect Israeli or American policy in that conflict. But I want to be…
According to whistleblowers, Israel’s AI system is generating targets so fast, based on inputs so broad, that everyone in Gaza is in the crosshairs It should already have…
Israel is openly carrying out ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Yet, just as happened with the first Nakba in 1948, Israel’s lies and deceptions dominate the West’s media and…
Is this punishment on Gaza’s civilian population, prompted by desire for vengeance? Or is it an outpouring of eschatological rage and determination? The point about the Gaza crisis is that…
There can’t be democracy and colonial war; one aspires to decency, the other to fascism. Meanwhile, once welcomed mavericks are heretics now in an underground of journalism amid…
International law has essentially collapsed with the US backed Israeli siege of the Palestinian people of Gaza, in response to the Hamas attack on Israeli occupation forces on…
My title is redundant for a reason, since the root of the word radical is the Latin word, radix, meaning root. For I mean to show how the use…
Israel’s military received orders to shell Israeli homes and even their own bases as they were overwhelmed by Hamas militants on October 7. How many Israeli citizens said…
The reality of the necessity of war is permeating widely the consciousness of the Arabic and Islamic world. Tom Friedman uttered his dire warning in the New York Times on Thursday last:…
As Israel prepares for its ground invasion to decrease Gaza’s territory, it is also cracking down on dissent harder than ever, including on journalists, reports Elizabeth Vos. Further attacks on…
Catastrophe looms because journalists have failed to hold both Israel and their own governments to account How did we get to the point where Israel can order half of Gaza’s…
The war against Russia in Ukraine and the Israeli “war on terror” in Gaza are just parallel fronts of a single, horrifyingly evolving, global war. You have stolen…
Having dispatched Corbyn, the smear industry is targeting icons like Ken Loach and Roger Waters over their support for Palestinian rights and opposition to Nato’s war machine. What…
Once again, the British state broadcaster is using a bogus ‘neutrality’ to trick its audience into siding with Israeli state oppression. The late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel…
Rewriting history – essentially negating the historical relations between the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and the ongoing struggle to free Palestine – serves the interests of mainstream…