USA Keeps Fighting for Iran

Scott Horton

January 31, 2024

According to neoconservative theoreticians David Wurmser and Richard Perle, George W. Bush’s Iraq War II (supported by Senator Biden) was supposed to weaken Iran and Syria and therefore Hezbollah’s threat to Israel. Instead, the war empowered Iran as the U.S. put their best friends from the Hakim family’s Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) and their Badr Brigade in power. Gen. David Petraeus turned their death and torture squads into the Iraqi army.

Freezing Aid to Gaza: Israel’s International War against the UNRWA

BinoyKampmark

January 30, 2024

Imperilled, tormented Palestinians in Gaza had little time to celebrate the January 26 order of the International Court of Justice.  In a case brought by South Africa intended to facilitate a ceasefire and ease the suffering of the Gaza populace, Israel received the unwanted news that it had to, among other obligations, ensure compliance with the UN Genocide Convention, including by its military; prevent and punish “the direct and public incitement to genocide” against the Palestinian populace in Gaza and permit basic services and humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip.

Turning Zeitoun into Shivat Zion: Israeli summit envisions Gaza resettlement

Oren Ziv

January 30, 2024

The strangest sight at the “Conference for Israel’s Victory,” which took place on Sunday evening at Jerusalem’s International Convention Center, wasn’t the map depicting dozens of new settlements that Israeli settlers hope to establish throughout the Gaza Strip after the war is over. It was the moment when thousands of people danced around the hall singing celebratory songs — a rare spectacle in post-October 7 Israel, with most of the nation still mourning the victims of the Hamas-led attacks and fearing for the safety of the hostages in Gaza.

Israelis look at a giant map of the Gaza Strip depicting future Israeli settlements at the "Conference for Israel's Victory" in Jerusalem, January 28, 2024. (Oren Ziv)

Netanyahu and the IDF Provided All the Evidence the ICJ Needed

Melvin Goodman

January 29, 2024

The International Court of Justice in The Hague ruled last week that Israel must prevent genocide in Gaza and provide greater assistance to the Palestinians.  Sadly, the ICJ did not call for a cease-fire, which is desperately needed, but it demonstrated genuine understanding of the Israeli war crimes that point to genocidal intentions as stipulated by the Geneva International Genocide Convention in 1948.

From the Siege of Leningrad to the Siege of Gaza: Colonialist Mentality

YakovM. Rabkin

January 28, 2024

Montréal (Special to Informed Comment) – Eighty years ago, on January 27, 1944, people in the street were hugging each other and weeping with joy. They were celebrating the end of a nearly 900 days brutal siege. Soviet forces lifted the siege of Leningrad after ferocious battles. Exactly a year later they liberated Auschwitz. Even today, walking in Saint-Petersburg’s main avenue, the Nevsky Prospect, one notices a blue sign painted on a wall during the siege: “Citizens! This side of the street is the most dangerous during artillery shelling”.

How Dare You Shrug at the Doomsday Clock?

RobertC. Koehler

January 28, 2024

I inhale the big, do-nothing shrug that always follows the annual posting, by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, of its global metaphor for Armageddon.

The Doomsday Clock was reset at 90 seconds to midnight on January 23, 2024.

(Photo: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)

ICJ Ruling on Genocide Presents 'Political Dilemma' for Biden

Phyllis Bennis

January 27, 2024

It’s a tool in the campaigns for cease-fire now underway around the world. But will the President of the United States pick it up?

ICJ Finds It’s “Plausible” That Israel Is Committing Genocide in Initial Ruling

SharonZhang

January 26, 2024

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) found that it is “plausible” that Israel is committing genocide in a highly anticipated initial ruling on Friday, ordering Israel to take steps to avoid going even further in its violence in Gaza but stopping short of calling for a ceasefire.

 

دیوان بین‌المللی دادگستری چگونه به شکایت آفریقای جنوبی علیه اسرائیل پاسخ خواهد داد؟ دولت اسرائیل: این ادعاها «تهمت» است

نویسنده: جان مرشایمر

شکی نیست که بسیاری از حقایق توصیف‌شده در سند آفریقای جنوبی قبلاً در رسانه‌ها گزارش شده است. با این حال، آنچه این گزارش را بسیار مهم می‌کند این است که همهٔ این حقایق را در یک مکان گرد هم می‌آورد و توصیفی جامع و کاملاً مبتنی بر واقعیت از نسل‌کشی اسرائیل ارائه می‌دهد. به‌عبارت دیگر، تصویر بزرگ را بدون غفلت از جزئیات ارائه میدهد.ا

No one is listening to Gaza’s pleas — including our leaders

By +972 Magazine

The following was written by a Gaza-based Palestinian journalist, known to +972 Magazine, who requested anonymity for themselves and their interviewees out of concern for their safety.

Three Articles about Israil's and United States' Genocide on Information Clearing House- January 25, 2024

Biden Must Choose Between a Ceasefire in Gaza and a Regional War

MedeaBenjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies

In the topsy-turvy world of corporate media reporting on U.S. foreign policy, we have been led to believe that U.S. air strikes on Yemen, Iraq and Syria are legitimate and responsible efforts to contain the expanding war over Israel’s genocide in Gaza, while the actions of the Houthi government in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Iran and its allies in Iraq and Syria are all dangerous escalations.

In Gaza We Are Witnessing the 21st Century Version of How the West Was Won

Joseph Gerson

January 24, 2024

In a terrible historical irony, Israel has been caught and is paying the price for holding the European colonial bag.

An End to War in Gaza and an Independent Palestinian State

John Ripton

January 23, 2024

No lasting progress is made when guns and tanks, missiles, and bombs undermine and displace diplomacy. All of humanity suffers. And no peace will be possible without the promise of a safe and secure home for all the people of Palestine.

Western Media Bias, Israeli Apologetics, and Ongoing Genocide

Richard Falk

January 22, 2024

I found it shocking that the New York Times published on January 17th no less than three opinion pieces by Jewish authors, unbalanced by a single Palestinian or principled critical voice. Daniel Levy, a former Israeli former peace negotiator, yet for many years a critic of what I would call the maximalist Zionist approach to ending the Israel/Palestine struggle over territory and statehood. In this latest piece Levy fails to use the word ‘genocide,’ yet helpfully pronounces as dead the two-state solution long rejected by Israeli leadership but to this day embraced by US policymakers as a PR tactic to suggest that Washington is not a blind follower of Israel. I have no quibble with the Levy opinion piece. It deserved to be published, but was very much overshadowed by its two companion contribution by NY Times regulars.

100 years since the death of Vladimir Lenin

Joseph Kishore

January 22, 2024

Yesterday marked the 100th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, known as Lenin. Lenin ranks among the most remarkable figures in world history. He was the theoretical and political genius who founded the Bolshevik Party and led a revolution that not only transformed Russia and created the Soviet Union, but gave an immense impulse to all the revolutionary political struggles of the 20th century.

Paradigm Shift: A Time of Universal Lunacy and Deceit

Paul Edwards

January 21, 2024

An astonishing thing has happened in America that has never occurred in the lifetime of anyone now living.  No, it’s not the crushing win of Trump in Iowa, nor the absurd determination of Democrats to run the senile ninny who has made a joke of our Presidency for another term.  These, in their way astonishing, are mere trivialities in this time of universal lunacy and deceit.

 

‘Refuse to fight’: Jewish, Arab activists call for peace in Israel’s Haifa

Aljazeera

January 20, 2024

Israeli Jews and Palestinian Israelis come together to demand an end to the war on Gaza.

 

People hold placards and shout slogans as they take part in a protest calling for a ceasefire and the release of Israeli captives held in Gaza, in the northern Israeli port city of Haifa on Saturday [Ahmad Gharabli/AFP]

Why Joe Biden Is a Foreign Policy Failure

JeffreyD. Sachs

January 17, 2024

Only an exceptional president could resist the endless war-profiteering of this mammoth war machine; alas, Biden doesn’t even try.

 

An anniversary West would rather forget

M.K. BHADRAKUMAR
January 16, 2024

On the 75th anniversary of the battle that lifted the Siege of Leningrad in World War 2, people walk in snowfall to the Motherland monument to place flowers at the Piskaryovskoye Cemetery where the victims were buried, St. Petersburg, Russia, January 26, 2019

Half a Million Gazans Are Suffering From Acute Hunger. Let That Sink In

Nir Gontarz

January 19, 2024

The scope of the crisis in Gaza is becoming clearer; according to the UN, Israel is creating conditions that are making life in Gaza impossible; but Israeli leaders are unbothered