Jonathan Cook
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Even the World Bank Understands Palestine is being disappeared By Jonathan Cook
Two recent images encapsulate the message behind the dry statistics of last week’s report by the World Bank on the state of the Palestinian economy. Continue reading
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Israeli army recruitment plan aims to incite Christian-Muslim tensions By Jonathan Cook
Critics of a new Israeli army recruitment campaign say it’s designed to fragment the Palestinian community and make it more difficult to obtain their rights. Continue reading
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Movie Review: “We Steal Secrets”: A Masterclass in Propaganda. The Assassination of Julian Assange By Jonathan Cook
I have just watched We Steal Secrets, Alex Gibney’s documentary about Wikileaks and Julian Assange. One useful thing I learnt is the difference between a hatchet job and character assassination. Gibney is too clever for a hatchet job, and his propaganda is all the more effective for it. Continue reading
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How 20 Tents Rocked Israel: Palestinians Take the Fight to their Occupiers By Jonathan Cook
At a time when Palestinians hoped for a watershed moment in their struggle for national liberation, the Fatah and Hamas leaderships look as mutually self-absorbed as ever. Last week they were again directing their energies into a new round of reconciliation talks, this time in Cairo, rather than keeping the spotlight on Israeli intransigence. Continue reading
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Ruppert Murdoch’s Bid to Persuade Gen. David Petraeus to Run as Republican Candidate in the 2012 Presidential Election By Jonathan Cook
A taped conversation shows that in early 2011 Murdoch sent Roger Ailes, the boss of his most important US media outlet, Fox News, to Afghanistan to persuade Gen David Petraeus, former commander of US forces, to run against Barack Obama as the Republican candidate in the 2012 presidential election. Murdoch promised to bankroll Petraeus’ campaign… Continue reading
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ColdType, August 2012
Cover story is Jonathan Cook’s analysis of the West’s build-up to war in Syria, in which the West’s choice of ‘White Hat’ fighters are those democracy/freedom lovers from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, who are using oil money to fund the dissident forces. Continue reading
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Israel’s grand hypocrisy By Jonathan Cook
As protests raged again across the Middle East, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, offered his assessment of the Arab Spring last week. It was, he said, an “Islamic, anti-western, anti-liberal, anti-Israeli, undemocratic wave”, adding that Israel’s Arab neighbours were “moving not forwards, but backwards” Continue reading
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Is Britain plotting with Israel to attack Iran? By Jonathan Cook
Last February Britain’s then defense minister Liam Fox attended a dinner in Tel Aviv with a group described as senior Israelis. Alongside him sat Adam Werritty, a lobbyist whose ‘improper relations’ with the minister would lead eight months later to Fox’s hurried resignation. Continue reading
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The Negev’s Hot Wind Blowing By Jonathan Cook
The al-Turis are determined to stay on their ancestral lands to maintain their traditional pastoral way of life; Israel wants the land for a forestation program, to beautify the Negev and attract more Jews to settle there. Continue reading
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Palestine Self-Determination: UN Bid Heralds Death of Palestine’s Old Guard By Jonathan Cook
Amid the enthusiastic applause in New York and the celebrations in Ramallah, it was easy to believe — if only a for minute — that, after decades of obstruction by Israel and the United States, a Palestinian state might finally be pulled out of the United Nations hat. Will the world’s conscience be midwife to… Continue reading
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Palestine’s ‘last village’ faces the bulldozers: Lifta to make way for Jewish vacation homes By Jonathan Cook
Although most Israeli drivers barely notice the buildings, this small ghost town — neglected for the past six decades — is at the centre of a legal battle fuelling nationalist sentiments on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide. Continue reading
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On an old anniversary, a new sense that change is possible By Jonathan Cook
Waving Palestinian flags, the marchers braved a minefield, then tore down a series of fences, allowing more than 100 to run into Israeli-controlled territory. As they embraced Druze villagers on the other side, voices could be heard saying: ‘This is what liberation looks like.’ Continue reading
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Guest Media Lens Alert – Tilting Towards Israel By Jonathan Cook
Towards the end of last year, we sent out two media alerts – Put The Palestinians On A Diet and Too Toxic To Handle? – about the corporate media’s failure to report the release of documents detailing Israel’s deliberate policy of near-starvation for Gaza. “The idea”, explained a senior Israeli official, “is to put the… Continue reading
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WikiLeaks’ harsh lesson on imperial hubris By Jonathan Cook
The new disclosures…provide a useful insight, captured in the very ordinariness of the diplomatic correspondence, into Washington’s own sense of the limits on its global role — an insight that was far less apparent in the previous WikiLeaks revelations on the US army’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Continue reading
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Israelis Risk Jail to Smuggle Palestinians – 600 sign up for campaign of disobedience By Jonathan Cook
Nearly 600 Israelis have signed up for a campaign of civil disobedience, vowing to risk jail to smuggle Palestinian women and children into Israel for a brief taste of life outside the occupied West Bank. Continue reading
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“Israel is regional bully with nuclear weapons” – Jonathan Cook
‘The reason why Israel can’t allow Iran to have nuclear weapons is because if Iran developed its own nuclear arsenal, it would totally change the balance of power in the Middle East,’ he says. ‘At the moment Israel is the regional bully, it has its own nuclear weapons, it can pull them out as it… Continue reading
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ColdType JUNE 2010 Issue
Peace, Pirates & Propaganda: 17-Page Special Report on Israel’s Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla with Contributions from Alan Maas, Daniela Perdomo, Mary Rizzo, Jonathan Cook, Craig Murray, William Bowles, Dennis Bernstein & Jesse Strauss Continue reading
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Terror on Aid Ship: “Plan Was to Kill Activists and Deter Future Convoys” By Jonathan Cook
An Arab member of the Israeli parliament who was on board the international flotilla that was attacked on Monday as it tried to take humanitarian aid to Gaza accused Israel yesterday of intending to kill peace activists as a way to deter future convoys. Haneen Zoubi said Israeli naval vessels had surrounded the flotilla’s flagship,… Continue reading
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Did Banned Media Report Foretell of Gaza War Crimes? By Jonathan Cook
Shraga Elam, an award-winning Israeli reporter, said Mr Blau’s suppressed article might also have revealed the aims of a widely mentioned but unspecified “third phase” of the Gaza attack, following the initial air strikes and a limited ground invasion, that was not implemented. He suspected the plans involved pushing some of Gaza’s population into Egypt… 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
The New Dark Age 