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Israelis Keep Hurting Their Own PR Interests By Talking

by Caitlin Johnstone, published in Caitlin Johnstone’s Newsletter, November 13, 2023 One problem Israel keeps running into is how the institutionalized dehumanization of Palestinians which keeps the apartheid state operational also causes Israelis to say things that non-Israelis will find extremely shocking, which hurts Israel’s PR interests. We saw this illustrated in a recent New Yorker interview with Daniella Weiss,[…]

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Biden Signed on to Netanyahu’s ‘Vision’ of Crushing Palestinian Hopes

by Philip Weiss, published on Mondoweiss, July 22, 2022 Apartheid in Israel, potentially, Genocide in Gaza, accepted in the Middle East and the West as just a fact of life that shouldn’t interfere with business as usual. I’ve just been reading that reports on what it cost Egypt to enter an alliance with Israel and the United States.  It’s a[…]

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Israel Pounds Gaza, Stoking Fears of Invasion

Photo Gaza,  March 25, 2019 by Jean Shaoul, Published on WSWS, May 6, 2019 Just days after being sworn into Israel’s new parliament following the victory of his far-right bloc in last month’s elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorised a massive aerial assault on Gaza’s defenceless population, targeting at least 150 sites over the weekend. In addition, the Israel Defense[…]

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‘Israel has never been so divisive in modern political history’

Image: The anti-boycott legislation fails to move forward. Josh Ruebner’s screenshot of the vote on January 10, 2019.  — anti-BDS bill fails again in Senate — by Philip Weiss, originally published on Mondoweiss, January 11, 2019 Israel has never been so openly politicized in the United States as it is right now. Yesterday afternoon Senate Democrats voted to block the[…]

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The Tide is Turning: Israel Is Losing on Two War Fronts

Image: Block the Boat, Oakland CA, 8/16/14 ~Alex Chis, Flikr by Ramzy Baroud, from RamzyBaroud.net, November 21, 2018 The November 12 botched Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip is delineating Tel Aviv’s failure to utilize its army as a tool to achieve Palestinian political concessions. Now that the Palestinian popular resistance has gone global through the exponential rise and[…]

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Trump and Israeli Collusion

“Trump is the one true believer in Israeli’s right to reign supreme in its region and in command of American foreign policy.” by Margaret Kimberley, originally posted on Black Agenda Report, May 9 Donald Trump’s decision to exit from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreement on Iranian nuclear capability is in keeping with his doctrine of joining Israel[…]

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Israeli demolition of entire Palestinian villages continues with no end in sight

Republished from If Americans Only Knew Stories keep pouring in of Israel demolishing Palestinian villages; many of the buildings destroyed were donated by EU organizations; schools have been razed; residents are often required to pay tens of thousands of dollars for the destruction of their own homes; nearly 160,000 Bedouins live in “unrecognized” villages built before 1948 that Israel has[…]

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