Pillar of Cloud
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Israel’s “Operation Mow the Lawn” by Steve Niva
One can only imagine the nods of self-satisfaction when an Israel Defense Forces planner came up with “Pillar of Cloud” to name Israel’s subsequent eight-day aerial assault on Gaza. By lifting this metaphor from several well-known passages in the Torah, the IDF sought to portray the operation as a divinely sanctioned mission to clear the… Continue reading
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Why a new war on Gaza? By Thierry Meyssan
Once again Israel attacks Gaza, and the international media relays the images of desolation. But the outrage provoked by these daily horrors must not prevent us from analysing the situation and understanding its aims. Continue reading
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Video: Protests Erupt Worldwide Against Israel's Bombing Campaign in Gaza
Global demonstrations against Israel’s Operation Pillar of Cloud growing as death toll mounts. Continue reading
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Video: Protests Erupt Worldwide Against Israel’s Bombing Campaign in Gaza
Global demonstrations against Israel’s Operation Pillar of Cloud growing as death toll mounts. Continue reading
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From Stalingrad to Gaza with Love By Gilad Atzmon
Gaza child Benjamin Netanyahu, is made of different material than Barak. Unlike Bark, who is obsessed with the banal implementation of military power, Netanyahu is concerned with the power of deterrence and he is also intelligent enough to realise that the consequences of a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip may mean the total eradication… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Gaza Blitz – Turmoil And Tragicomedy At The BBC By David Cromwell and David Edwards
Newsnight’s journalistic failures on child abuse are bad enough, rightly heaping pressure on the broadcaster. But there was no comparable pressure for senior staff to ‘step aside’ over the BBC’s truly catastrophic failure to challenge US-UK propaganda on Iraq’s non-existent weapons of mass destruction and the country’s supposed ‘threat’ to the West. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 