On November 11, 2012, the headlines of the Hebrew media were dramatic: “IDF fires at Syria for first time since 1973.” For the first time since the Yom Kippur War, the IDF’s Artillery Corps fired…
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Israel squirms and wriggles like a worm on a fishhook over the Turkish trial into the deaths of nine unarmed humanitarian aid volunteers on board a ship bound for Gaza. Tel Aviv has called…
To humiliate and degrade: Impressions of Gaza Even a single night in jail is enough to give a taste of what it means to be under the total control of some external force. And it hardly…
Turkey Begins Nuremberg Trials against Israel: “In Absentia” Trials against Four Senior IDF Officers
On November 6, 2012, Turkey announced that a court in Istanbul will try in absentia four ex-Israeli military commanders over the IDF Freedom Flotilla raid in 2010. The Mavi Marmara was trying to break the…
A man went unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, “Thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me.” He was repeating the words Moses had said so many years before while…
Sudanese citizens have staged protests in the capital Khartoum in the aftermath of the bombing of the Yarmouk weapons factory by the Israeli Air Force (IAF). The strike, which took place on October 24, was…
Canada, Israel Call for UN Investigator’s Resignation The UN special investigator on human rights in the Palestinian territories called Wednesday for a boycott of all companies that have dealings with Israeli settlements in the West…
“And this also,” said Marlow suddenly, “has been one of the dark places of the earth.” from Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad on London as the epitome of Western Culture Far from the headlines a…
Israeli Poll Commissioned by New Israel Fund A new poll of Israeli Jews by Camil Fuchs and commissioned by the New Israel Fund has alarming findings concerning the deterioration of democratic values in Israel. * …
“The Western attitude towards democracy: It is fine as long as its outcome is the one we want.” Hundreds filled the Ewart Memorial Hall at the American University in Cairo (AUC) on Tuesday to attend…