October, 2023

• 11 October

  Israel-Palestine war: This humiliation has shaken the Israeli psyche to its core

  

  An Israeli soldier rests his head on the gun barrel of an armoured vehicle as Israeli soldiers take positions near the border with Gaza in southern Israel on 9 October 2023 (AFP)   The military is a source of Israeli national pride, perceived as an unassailable force that guarantees the sustainability of the Zionist settler-colonial project. No longerThe recent military operation against …

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• 11 October

  Israel-Palestine war: Why Hindu nationalists are backing Israel against Hamas

  

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, hug after attending an agreement-signing ceremony in New Delhi in January 2018 (AFP)   In recent years, Israel’s crackdown on Palestinians has become the Indian benchmark in its own fight against minorities and KashmirisIn a flash, the aura of invincibility was shattered. Images of Israeli commandos and soldiers being seized and …

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• 9 October

  The West’s hypocrisy towards Gaza’s breakout is stomach-turning By Jonathan Cook

  

  There will be little sympathy in the West as, yet again, besieged Palestinians are bombed by Israel, the immense suffering justified by the term ‘Israeli retaliation’ Palestinian civilians in wait as rescue efforts continue among the rubble of the Ebu Dakka building, destroyed by Israeli fighter jets in Khan Younis, Gaza, on 7 October 2023 (Reuters) The current outpouring of …

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• 9 October

  They’re Repeating The Word ‘Unprovoked’ Again, This Time In Defense Of Israel

  

  Skillful manipulators make frequent use of a cognitive bias known as the illusory truth effect, a glitch in the way human minds tend to operate which makes it hard for us to differentiate between the experience of hearing a well-evidenced fact and the experience of hearing something that they’ve heard repeated multiple times. By Caitlin Johnstone We’re seeing the western …

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• 9 October

  Israeli lawmaker blames pogroms against Palestinians for ‘terrible’ attacks By Eliyahu Freedman

  

  Ofer Cassif, a member of the Knesset, said he warned the situation would ‘erupt’ if the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not change its policies towards Palestinians [File: Atef Safadi/EPA] Ofer Cassif says he warned the situation would ‘erupt’ if Israel did not change its treatment of Palestinians.An Israeli lawmaker has told Al Jazeera that his party …

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• 9 October

  Why do Palestinians not deserve support for their self-defence?

  

  Smoke and flames rise after Israeli air forces targeting a shopping center in Gaza Strip, Gaza on October 07, 2023. [Mustafa Hassona – Anadolu Agency] Israeli occupation forces raid Palestinian cities, villages and refugee camps in the occupied West Bank almost every day. They storm Palestinian homes, detain whoever they want and most times kill Palestinians, including women, children and …

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• 8 October

  Islamic Jihad chief denounces normalisation talks with Israel

  

  Ziad al-Nakhala, Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, at the Palestinian embassy in Lebanon’s capital Beirut on September 3, 2020 [ANWAR AMRO/AFP via Getty Images] The head of Islamic Jihad denounced Arab attempts to normalise relations with Israel on Friday, as the group staged demonstrations in the Palestinian Territories and neighbouring states amid Israeli efforts to make peace …

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