Gideon Levy on Yoav Gallant: From the “neighbor procedure” of using people as human shields, which is a gross violation of a High Court ruling, a public scandal in itself; to the spirit of words uttered by a commander who is quoted by a number of the soldiers as saying that was preferable to harm [...]
Continue reading about Gideon Levy: Man responsible for Israel’s cruelest wars only attracts praise
Most who from the beginning oppossed the so-called “security fence” argued it was a sham and had nothing to do with security. The Shin Bet itself admitted as much a couple years ago. It’s main intent, like the settlements, is to annex as much of the West Bank as possible before an agreement with the Palestinians. [...]
Uri Avnery on Bibi Yahoo’s wonder government: Some weeks ago, Netanyahu appointed Hadas to one of the most sensitive positions in the security establishment: to coordinate all the efforts to free the “kidnapped” soldier Gilad Shalit. If we do not want to assume that this man, a confidante of the Prime Minister and a former [...]
Rela Mazali, one of the leader’s of New Profile, has this to say in the Guardian: According to Ha’aretz, the criminal investigation of New Profile is motivated by “growing concern at the defence establishment of a growing trend of draft evasion”. It is not New Profile that is worrying them, we are just an easy [...]
As a follow up to yesterday’s post, one might ask why does this type of news article only appear in the UK’s Guardian? Is it not fit to print in the New York Times? Israel’s military fired white phosphorus over crowded areas of Gaza repeatedly and indiscriminately in its three-week war, killing and injuring civilians [...]
Rafael is one of Israel’s sophisticated military industries. Apparently their international sales team is a bit less sophisticated. Recently they created a video promo for the India Air show, to promote their extensive business there. Ha’aretz tells the story: Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Israel’s armament development authority, has launched a promotional film that was dubbed [...]
Amira Haas, whose writing often appears on this blog, interviews Gaza residents: n the midst of all of this were plastic bottles of urine and many closed bags – in some houses, olive-colored ones – of excrement. People assumed that the commanders stayed there. There are houses where excrement was smeared on the walls, or [...]
I don’t like to bandy about labels. But after reading this article in Ha’aretz about the rising popularity of Lieberman among Israeli youth, I don’t hesitate to express my concern about the growth of fascism in Israel [Fascism: a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands [...]
I have covered this topic before, but I never expected to see such a long and detailed investigative report in the Wall Street Journal. Read it and weep. A look at Israel’s decades-long dealings with Palestinian radicals — including some little-known attempts to cooperate with the Islamists — reveals a catalog of unintended and often [...]
When I was a high school student, the poem by Robert Southey, After Blenheim, was a standard part of the English curriculum. Now that a cease fire has come into effect in Gaza, little Wilhemene’s comment and little Peterkin’s question seem quite relevant: They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies [...]