Media Can Tell Readers Who's Killing Whom–When They Want To By Jim Naureckas

15 May 2018 — FAIR

If you’ve been noticing the headlines about Israeli forces killing Palestinian protesters that seem carefully designed to avoid mentioning who’s doing the killing, you may be wondering: Is that how media always do it? The answer is no: Journalists know very well how to include the identity of the killers in the headline—when they think that’s information that’s important for the reader to know.

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Gaza Slaughter News Links 14-15 May 2018: 58 Dead and Nobody Gives a Shit!

15 May 2018 — williambowles.info

Tension in Gaza as Palestinians begin to bury 58 dead
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-44116340

My March of Return
http://mondoweiss.net/2018/05/my-march-of-return/

Challenging the ongoing dispossession and displacement of the Palestinian people on the 70th commemoration of the Nakba
http://mondoweiss.net/2018/05/dispossession-displacement-commemoration/

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Nakba Day: Remembering Palestine’s 1948 Humanitarian Disaster

14 May 2018 — Global Research News

Israel at Seventy: Symbol of War, Racism, Reaction

By Joyce Chediac, May 14, 2018

The settler state of Israel turns 70 on May 14. In imperialist capitals, especially Israel and the U.S., this state built on the bones of the Palestinian people will be praised and celebrated. The U.S. will open its embassy in Jerusalem the same day. Continue reading