‘Change in Israel will only happen when there are costs that force our eyes open’

Meron Rapoport

February 13, 2024

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Few books can aptly be described as “prophetic,” but the latest release by the Israeli political sociologist Yagil Levy is certainly one of them. Levy submitted the manuscript of “Shooting and Not Crying: The New Militarization of Israel in the 2000s” in April 2022, and the book was published in February 2023 by Lamda – The Open University Press, as if to prepare us for the events of October 7. 

Will Egypt Ditch Camp David Accords If Israel Invades Rafah?

Juan Cole

February 12, 2024

It is being widely reported based on press leaks that the Egyptian government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has privately threatened Israel. Cairo is said to have warned that the 1978 Camp David Peace Treaty will be suspended “with immediate effect” if the government of Binyamin Netanyahu tries to take over the Philadelphi Corridor at the Gaza-Egypt Border and if it expels the Palestinians of Gaza into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula at the Rafah border crossing as a result of an invasion of Rafah City. Israel attempted to convince an Egyptian delegation to Tel Aviv on Friday that Cairo should cooperate with the Israeli war plan, but allegedly was rebuffed.

 

غزه آئینهٔ تمام‌نمای سیاست‌های سلطه‌جویانۀ جنایتکاران جنگی

سایت گروه ۱۰ مهر".ا

شانزده بهمن ۱۴۰۲

در پی افزایش قدرت جبهۀ مقاومت در غرب آسیا و گسترش دامنۀ مبارزه در جهان علیه جنایات آمریکا و اسرائیل در غزه، دولت‌های این دو کشور به سیاست مهلک ایجاد قحطی و گرسنگی جهت ادامۀ نسل‌کشی در سرزمین‌های اشغالی فلسطینیان دست یازیده‌اند. برخی از دولت‌های غربی، مانند آلمان، ایتالیا، کانادا، استرالیا، و انگلستان، در پیروی از آن‌ها طی روزهای گذشته کمک‌های مالی خود به «آژانس امدادرسانی و کاریابی برای آوارگان فلسطینی در خاور نزدیک» (آنروا) را قطع کردند.ا

برخلاف رأی اولیهٔ دیوان بین‌المللی دادگستری، اسرائیل و آمریکا با توسل به همهٔ توطئه‌ها به پاکسازی قومی در غزّه ادامه می‌دهند

سایت گروه ۱۰ مهر.ا

شانزده بهمن ۱۴۰۲

در روز جمعه ۲۶ ژانویهٔ ۳۰۲۴، دیوان بین‌المللی دادگستری، با ۱۶ رأی مثبت و یک رأی منفی، قرار موقت و رأی اولیه خود را در تأیید نظر آفریقای جنوبی، به‌نفع مردم فلسطین و به ضرر اسرائیل صادر کرد. رأی اولیه بر آن است که آنچه در نوار غزه می‌گذرد از مصادیق جنایات بین‌المللی، از جمله نسل‌کشی است. واضح است که این جنایات بین‌المللی از جمله نسل‌کشی، با حمایت همه‌جانبهٔ دولت آمریکا از رژیم کودک‌کُش صیهونیستی صورت پذیرفته و به طرق مختلف و در نهایت قساوت هنوز هم ادامه دارد.ا

Israel’s Gaza war ‘reminiscent of the Nazis’ – Erdogan

RT

February 10, 2024

A Prescription for Peace in Gaza

Yazeed Ibrahim

Ira Helfand

Robert Dodge

David E. Drake

February 9, 2024

Since Hamas’ October 7 attack triggered the most recent, brutal round of violence in Gaza, the discourse surrounding the conflict has remained stunningly stagnant. Both sides find themselves emboldened at home.

The Orphans of Gaza

Elizabeth West

February 8, 2024

I’ve a bee in my bonnet when it comes to the children of Gaza, and so far, have not found any means to swat it away. The buzzing is making me a little crazy. This may be a very good thing….

The Silence of the Damned

Chris Hedges

February 7, 2024

There is no effective health care system left in Gaza.

 

Deal With Iran Politically and Diplomatically, Not Militarily

Melvin Goodman

February 7, 2024

There is a consensus on the right and the left that the only way to deal with Iran is with military force.  The conservative Chicken Hawks in the Senate and the House of Representatives believe targeting Iran—and not merely Iranian proxies—is essential. 

Palestinians abused, forced to chant anti-Hamas slogans in ‘safe corridor’

Ruwaida KamalAmer and Ibtisam Mahdi

February 6, 2024

For several weeks, the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip has witnessed intense Israeli bombardment by ground and air, as well as fierce clashes between Israeli forces and Hamas fighters. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced last week that the army had successfully dismantled Hamas’ capabilities in the city — a claim Israel made earlier about Gaza City in the north, only to be proven wrong. But in Khan Younis, as in the rest of Gaza, it is we civilians who are bearing the brunt of the violence. 

Grappling with Nuclear Dangers at 90 Seconds to Midnight

Frida Berrigan

February 6, 2024

What’s in your basement? Mine is full of things I’ve mostly forgotten about — tools I bought for projects I never completed, long abandoned sports equipment, furniture I planned on refinishing ages ago, and unused cans of paint I thought I wanted when someone was giving them away.

Neck-Deep Again in the Big Muddy, But Any Reason for Hope?

Robert C. Koehler

February 4, 2024

Thus began a recent, and oh so typical, piece of war reportage. It was purveyed by the New York Times but it’s something you find in almost any mainstream source. The essence of the news is that the U.S. will continue to support Israel’s right to “defend itself” by bombing the crap out of Gaza and will keep feeding it the military equipment necessary to do so, but it sternly urges Israel to try not to kill too many babies or other civilians. Get it? War must be — and is, when we wage it — a moral undertaking.

Palestinians Uncover Dozens Killed Execution-Style in Schoolyard in Gaza

Sharon Zhang

February 2, 2024

Dozens of bodies of Palestinians have been uncovered in a mass grave in a schoolyard in northern Gaza, with witnesses saying they appeared to have been killed “execution style” by Israeli forces. A human rights lawyer has said the killings are “clearly a war crime.”

For Western Media, Only Israeli Lives Matter

Des Freedman

February 1, 2024

Twenty-four Israeli soldiers were killed in two separate incidents in Gaza on Jan. 22. Mainstream media outlets around the world reacted in unison: this was the “deadliest day” for Israel since Oct. 7.

 

Gaza: Suspending UNRWA Aid Risks Hastening Famine

Human Rights Watch

February 1, 2024

Human Rights Watch – (New York) – Governments should continue funding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), given its vital role in averting a humanitarian catastrophe and the risk of famine in the Gaza Strip, while the agency investigates allegations that 12 of its staff were involved in the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attacks in southern Israel, Human Rights Watch said today.

 

On a Unified Call for a Ceasefire in Gaza

Eric Cheyfitz

January 31, 2024

A response to Representative Mike Sigler’s comments at the Tompkins County Legislature’s meetings on Jan 2, and 16, 2024, concerning  A Unified Call for a Ceasefire in Gaza; Urgent Humanitarian and Local Imperatives of the Tompkins County Human Rights Commission:

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.