Tag Archives: Jerusalem

  By Abby Zimet Baby injured in Israeli airstrikes is taken to Gaza’s Suheda al-Aqsa Hospital Photo by Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images Words still fail, horrors still unfurl. Last night, Israeli airstrikes killed over 400 Palestinians. The dead now total over 5,000, likely many more; almost half are children. And unless fuel and other supplies can soon get into …

  Evidence is now emerging that up to half the Israelis killed were combatants; that Israeli forces were responsible for some of their own civilian deaths; and that Tel Aviv disseminated false ‘Hamas atrocities’ stories to justify its devastating air assault on Palestinian civilians in Gaza. By Robert Inlakesh Via The Cradle Two weeks after the Hamas breakout assault on Israel …

  The cynicism and duplicity of Western governments in the face of an appalling, daily massacre of Palestinian civilians is monstrous. By Finian Cunningham The cynicism and duplicity of Western governments in the face of an appalling, daily massacre of Palestinian civilians is monstrous. Hundreds of men, women and children are being murdered every day by non-stop Israeli aerial bombardment …

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  Palestinians don’t just die, they get killed. They are actually being subjected to ethnic cleansing, to genocide for the last 75 years.” By Brett Wilkins A U.K.-based Palestinian journalist took a Sky News presenter to task during a weekend interview in which the 23-year-old Gaza native challenged the Western media’s misleading framing, double standards, and lack of critical context during coverage …

  This is not the State Department I know. That’s why I left my job. By Josh Paul For more than a decade, I worked in the State Department bureau responsible for arms transfers and security assistance to foreign governments. In that time, I was involved in many complex and morally challenging debates over what weapons to send where. What I …