Israel-Palestine war

Reoccupying Gaza and finishing off just one Palestinian armed group will not change the strategic reality of the Middle East, as the Israeli government has vowed to do By David Hearst A Palestinian woman comforts her children as they wait at the hospital to be checked in the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on 12 October 2023 …

Israel’s Massive Intelligence Failure The origins of Israel’s intelligence failure on the Hamas attacks can be traced to the decision to rely on AI instead of the contrarian analysis born of the earlier intelligence failure of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. As the scope and scale of the Hamas surprise attack on Israel becomes clearer, one question emerges more than …

I was nine years old (1948) when there was HUGE celebration in the Bronx at founding of the state of Israel. No one told me that Arabs had lived on that land for centuries and were displaced by force, tens of thousands of them crammed into postage-stamp-size Gaza, now host to two million Palestinians. The Religious ‘Justification’: Zionist Jews, like the …

If there’s blood on anyone’s hands it’s on those who say “Israel has a right to defend itself” 

srael is on the rampage again and Gaza’s population is facing a quiet, slow path to erasure. The ones funding and enabling it are the US and its European allies By Jonathan Cook Palestinian medics treat children wounded by the Israeli bombing on Gaza at Shifa Hospital, on 9 October 2023 (Reuters) The bloodiest hand in the current slaughter of …

Palestinians leave al-Karama neighbourhood in Gaza City on 11 October 2023 (AFP) In response to Hamas’s surprise attack over the weekend, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel’s response would “change the Middle East”. There are growing fears among Palestinians in Gaza that change could come in the form of a repeat of the Nakba, the mass Palestinian displacement of 1948, …