Yousef Munayyer in The New Yorker: Sooner or later, hopefully sooner, the all-too-familiar scenes of violence in the Gaza Strip—the sight, on Sunday, of children’s bodies being pulled from a flattened house; the rocket launches—will temporarily stop. As after every round that preceded this, a ceasefire will eventually be reached. The question is what we…
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“We don’t target journalists” except when we do
Note to mainstream reporters: challenge Israeli government lies, like here on Al Jazeera English against Israeli propagandist Mark Regev:
Stopping killer robots before they wage war on their own
A fascinating and necessary new report from Human Rights Watch:
“The time for bombing is over”
Gideon Levy in Haaretz: The Palestinian people want to be free of the occupation. Life is like that sometimes. But how to accomplish that? At first they tried doing nothing. For 20 years they were idle, and indeed nothing happened. They then tried rocks and knives, the first intifada. And still nothing happened, except for…
MSNBC features, shock horror, Palestinians talking about massacre in Gaza
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The face of mainstream Israeli hate; Beitar Jerusalem
A powerful short film by ESPN sports journalist Jeremy Schaap: E:60 “BEITAR JERUSALEM” ~ JEREMY SCHAAP from Bluefoot Entertainment on Vimeo.
A Rabbi speaks out about Israeli crimes in Gaza
Always an inspiration, Rabbi Brant Rosen writes: Israel’s military assault on Gaza in 2008-09 represented an important turning point in my own relationship with Israel. I recall experiencing a new and previously unfamiliar feeling of anguish as Israel bombarded the people living in that tiny, besieged strip of land over and over, day after day…
Jeremy Scahill speaks about America’s global assassination program and Left silence
One of America’s finest journalists: