Israel
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Notes on Israel’s Triumph to Disaster By Bashir Abu-Manneh
Who will stop Israel in its relentless expropriation of Palestine and from triumphing to disaster? Isaac Deutscher, from whom I borrow my title, believed that the occupation of 1967 would have catastrophic consequences for Israel. It wouldn’t end well, he feared. Continue reading
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Israel’s new strategic arm: Cyberwarfare
Amid swelling tension across the Middle East, Israel is preparing for a new kind of conflict: cyberwarfare. Amid swelling tension across the Middle East, Israel is preparing for a new kind of conflict: cyberwarfare. Continue reading
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Undercover police in Jerusalem protests
Riots took place all over East Jerusalem this week in protest of settlers threatening to force their way into the Al Aqsa Mosque. As a result, Israeli security forces shut down major areas of the Old City, including the mosque compound to Muslim men under 50. The Real News’ Lia Tarachansky spoke to Toufic Haddad,… Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation online magazine – Latest publications from 14-19 March, 2010
2010-03-15 Aleksandr SALITZKY & Vladimir TATSIY China’s Accelerating Economic Growth (I) “China’s leaders described 2009 as the year when the country’s economy had to face the toughest challenges since the turn of the century while navigating increasingly complicated domestic and international situations. The job done by China to meet the challenges must have been remarkable… Continue reading
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Is Israel an Apartheid State?
The Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa, in its efforts to eliminate and prevent the kind of suffering the South African and Namibian people suffered under apartheid, commissioned a legal study of the Israel-Palestine situation. “The aim of this project was to scrutinize the situation from the nonpartisan perspective of international law, rather than… Continue reading
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URGENT ACTION ALERT: No reward for war crimes – No upgrade for Israel in the EU
One of Europe’s decision making body, the Council of the EU, will be discussing upgrading the EU-Israel association agreement next Tuesday 23rd March 2010. The agreement had been due for an upgrade in December 2008, but was suspended following Israel’s massacre in Gaza. Continue reading
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The Decline of Israel: Interview with Jonathan Cook
In a wide-ranging interview with the New Left Project, Nazareth-based journalist Jonathan Cook describes the increasingly repressive nature of Israeli society and the prospects for a solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict Continue reading
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Israeli assassination procedure
Targeted Killing is a procedure that allows the IDF to kill suspects in Terror without trial if the IDF has reasons to believe the killing will prevent future terror attacks and that an arrest it not possible. Continue reading
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On the day Yafa’s refugees return – zochrot 2010
Zochrot [“Remembering”] is a group of Israeli citizens working to raise awareness of the Nakba, the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948. Continue reading
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Amir, ten years old, abducted by Israeli soldiers from his bed By Nora Barrows-Friedman
Israeli soldiers broke into the house, snatch ten-year old Amir from his bed, threatened his parents with death by gunfire if they tried to protect him, and took him downstairs under the stairwell. They would beat him so badly that he would bleed internally into his abdomen, necessitating overnight hospitalization. In complete shock and distress,… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 