No innocent civilians in #Gaza, says former head of #Israel’s National...
Giora Eiland is a retired Major General from the Israel Defense Forces. As head of Ariel Sharon’s National Security Council, Eiland helped draft Israel’s disengagement plan for removing Israeli...
View ArticleInternational criminal court urged to investigate #Gaza ‘crimes’
The Guardian reports: Senior British lawyers have written to the international criminal court (ICC) in The Hague, urging it to investigate “crimes” committed in Gaza, including the destruction of...
View ArticlePalestinian leaders poised to join #ICC in order to pursue #Israel for...
The Guardian reports: Palestinian political leaders are poised to join the International Criminal Court (ICC) with the aim of putting Israel in the dock on war crimes charges, officials said today....
View ArticleNever ask me about peace again
On August 3, Asmaa al-Ghoul’s family in Rafah was targeted in an Israeli missile strike: My father’s brother, Ismail al-Ghoul, 60, was not a member of Hamas. His wife, Khadra, 62, was not a militant of...
View ArticleIsraelis believe #Hamas was more successful than #Israel in latest war
The Jerusalem Post reports: More Israelis believe Hamas emerged victorious in Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip than think that Israel did, according to a poll published Wednesday. The poll...
View Article‘This is not war. This is eradication’
The Washington Post reports: The scale of destruction and loss over nearly a month of war, Gazans and international aid workers say, is far more devastating than that left after the two previous...
View Article#Israel’s campaign to destroy #Gaza’s economy
The New York Times reports: For nearly four decades, Al Awda Co. has stocked Gaza’s shelves with sweets and snacks, starting as a humble refugee-camp bakery and growing into a 180,000-square-foot...
View ArticlePalestinians returning home find #Israeli troops left faeces and venomous...
LIVE: Netanyahu: IDF is great, moral army. I'm proud of it, wish to thank them for protecting Israel with the bodies http://t.co/9DYU57KbO5 — Ynetnews (@ynetnews) August 6, 2014 The Guardian reports:...
View ArticleHow #Israel used its own civilians as human shields while assaulting #Gaza
Max Blumenthal writes: Throughout the ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip, perhaps no phrase has featured as prominently or persistently in the lexicon of Israeli propaganda as “human shields.” Repeated...
View ArticleHamas far from disabled after weeks of fighting
The Guardian reports: As war returned to Gaza on Friday, many outside observers were asking why Hamas and the other smaller Islamist groups active in Gaza had let the ceasefire lapse and fired dozens...
View ArticleIsraelis won’t negotiate a ceasefire unless there’s a ceasefire
Middle East Eye: As violence resumes in Gaza, the Israelis have withdrawn their delegates from the Cairo ceasefire talks saying they won’t negotiate “under fire.” Though these are not the first time...
View ArticleHow the #Israeli discourse on terrorism seeks to justify blatant #WarCrimes
Rémi Brulin writes: Appearing on CNN a few days into the current offensive in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described Hamas as “the worst terrorists, genocidal terrorists.” He said...
View ArticleHow #Hamas beat #Israel in #Gaza
Ronen Bergman writes: Israel’s leaders are determined to represent Defensive Edge as a victory, and it is therefore unlikely that public inquiry panels will be set up as they were after the Lebanon war...
View ArticleHow #Israelis make money from killing #Palestinians
Haaretz reports: “Battle-tested” is the best marketing slogan for defense industries the world over, so for Israeli military manufactures Operation Protective Edge has yielded a major competitive edge....
View ArticleSandy Tolan: Going wild in the Gaza war
The carnage in the Gaza Strip has been horrendous: more than 1,900 dead, mainly civilians; its sole power plant destroyed (and so electricity and water denied and a sewage disaster looming); 30,000 to...
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