An all-too-rare organization of Israeli Palestinians and Jews works for an unfantastical solution to the enduring conflict. What sets Standing Together apart is the realism that informs their strategy, politically marginal as that realism now may be.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to talk about 'total victory,' despite tensions with the United States – but the fact that he's sending a delegation to Washington highlights the balance of power between the two countries
To understand Palestine and Israel, we need more coverage of the everyday structural violence of occupation. Disinformation involves lying by commission. Decontextualization, on the other hand, is about lying by omission.
The dark meaning the Israeli state has drawn from the Shoah, and then institutionalized in a machinery of repression. Anyone calling attention to the spectacle of Washington’s blind commitment to Israel is accused of antisemitism, ignoring the Shoah.
Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on this week's Haaretz Podcast says for Ben-Gvir, Smotrich and Netanyahu, Gaza is only the beginning - they are aiming for "Armageddon, that will make it possible to expel many of the Palestinians in the West Bank."
The postwar rehabilitation of Gaza, aided by Egypt and Qatar, depends on the establishment of a Palestinian regime which, for now at least, also depends of Yahya Sinwar agreeing – and there's no one in Hamas strong enough to tell him what to do.
Four months into Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza, one might have thought that American policymakers and commentators would have learned some lessons.
Interview with Mustafa Barghouti by Democracy Now
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The Israeli military claimed the three men it targeted were involved in planning an imminent attack and were using the hospital as a hideout, without providing evidence. Hospital officials said the three men were sleeping.
About two months after the hostage exchange deal blew up, we can state with certainty that the decision to stop it was a terrible mistake. We must say clearly that the hostages have to be freed through a deal. That is the only way.
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