Dan Steinbock lays out the background of the Netanyahu government’s apparent final solution, now underway, for the Palestinian territory. Part 4 in a 5-part series. People outside Indonesian Hospital in Jubilee, just north of the Gaza Strip, after an Israeli airstrike on Gaza on Oct. 8. (Palestinian News & Information Agency, or Wafa, for APAimages, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) This is the fourth article in a five-part series. Here is part one, two and
Auteur: corinna barnard
Consortium News:ㅤTargeting Gaza From US Spy Hub in Australia
Peter Cronau reports on Canberra’s secret support for Israel’s brutal assault on Palestinians in Gaza through NSA intelligence satellites in the U.S. Pine Gap base near Alice Springs. Smoke and flames billow after Israeli forces struck a high-rise tower in Gaza City, Oct. 7. (Palestinian News & Information Agency, Wafa, for APAimages, CC BY-SA 3.0) Peter Cronau Declassified Australia The Pine Gap U.S. surveillance base located outside of Alice Springs in Australia is collecting an
Consortium News:ㅤTargeting Gaza From US Spy Hub in in Australia
Peter Cronau reports on Canberra’s secret support for Israel’s brutal assault on Palestinians in Gaza through NSA intelligence satellites in the U.S. Pine Gap base near Alice Springs. Smoke and flames billow after Israeli forces struck a high-rise tower in Gaza City, Oct. 7. (Palestinian News & Information Agency, Wafa, for APAimages, CC BY-SA 3.0) Peter Cronau Declassified Australia The Pine Gap U.S. surveillance base located outside of Alice Springs in Australia is collecting an
Consortium News:ㅤAfter Gaza, Conflict in Asia
As the world’s failure to stop massacre after massacre in Gaza shows the deep failure of the U.N.-centered international system, Vijay Prashad turns attention to the conflict looming over Northeast Asia. Yuta Niwa, Japan, “Exterminating a Tiger-Wolf-Catfish,” 2021. By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research It is impossible to look away from what the Israeli government is doing to Palestinians not only in Gaza, but also in the West Bank. Waves of Israeli aircraft pummel
Consortium News:ㅤWithout Hamas, Gaza Would Still Not Be Free
As a classic settler-colonial state, Israel is doing the only thing it knows how to do, writes Jonathan Cook. So long as the West keeps cheerleading, that includes genocide. Palestinians inspect the ruins of Aklouk Tower destroyed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on Oct. 8. (Naaman Omar, Palestinian News & Information Agency, or Wafa, for APAimages, CC BY-SA 3.0) By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net It shocks me that in my threads I keep coming across
Consortium News:ㅤGaza-Israel Catastrophe — Far-Right Terror
After the Camp David Accords, the assassins’ message to peacemakers was loud and clear, writes Dan Steinbock: “Don’t even try.” Part 3 of a 5-part series. Sept. 23, 2012: Pro-Israeli settlements demonstrators, dressed in white, in march through East Jerusalem. (Tal King, Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0) This is the third in a five-part series. Here is part one and two. By Dan Steinbock The World Financial Review Among peace activists in Israel, a longstanding
Consortium News:ㅤPatrick Lawrence: Deeper Into Depravity
In the U.S., those who oppose Israel’s atrocities are getting hit by accusations of anti-Semitism. This reflects a nation in decline, that no longer knows how to make sense of itself. Outside Indonesian Hospital in Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, on Oct. 9. (Palestinian News & Information Agency. or Wafa, for APAimages, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) By Patrick Lawrence ScheerPost Diego Ramos, ScheerPost’s managing editor, forwarded me a video clip last week he
Consortium News:ㅤAS`AD AbuKHALIL: Do You Condemn Israel?
The author confronts Western leaders and media for treating the Middle East region with ignorance, racism and disregard for Arab suffering. Casualty in Gaza Strip, Oct. 17, during the 2023 War. (Fars Media Corporation, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0) By As`ad AbuKhalil Special to Consortium News It has become customary for Arabs invited on Western TV news programs to be asked, off the bat, to condemn this or that act that Israel classifies as terrorism.
Consortium News:ㅤGaza-Israel Catastrophe — Autocracy
Dan Steinbock describes the process by which the Netanyahu government has sought to transform Israel from within and annex the occupied territories. Part 2 of a 5-part series. Demonstrating against the Israeli government’s plans to suppress the Supreme Court, Feb. 26. (Oren Rozen, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 This is the second in a five-part series. Here is part one. By Dan Steinbock The World Financial Review Since January, the Netanyahu government has pushed
Consortium News:ㅤSCOTT RITTER: John Kirby v. Russian Military
Something is happening between Ukraine and Russia that has the U.S. National Security Council spokesperson desperately trying to prepare the U.S. audience for significant developments. Russia’s National Defense Management Center headquarters in Moscow. (Mil.ru, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0) By Scott Ritter Special to Consortium News The Biden administration has a lot to cope with now when it comes to Russia. As the 2023 War in Gaza has drawn attention away from a losing effort in
Consortium News:ㅤChris Hedges: The Exterminators
Genocide lies at the core of Western imperialism. It is not unique to Israel. It is not unique to the Nazis. It is the building block of Western domination. A Bird in the Hand – by Mr. Fish. By Chris Hedges Original to ScheerPost During the siege in Sarajevo, when I was reporting for The New York Times, we never endured the level of saturation bombing and near total blockage of food, water, fuel and
Consortium News:ㅤIsraeli Apologists’ Apartheid Coda
Jonathan Cook examines Jonathan Freedland’s latest column in The Guardian. Nov. 5, 2017: Solidarity with Palestine protesters in London versus British law enforcement. (Alisdare Hickson, Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0) By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net Will The Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland ever write a column on Israel that doesn’t rehash dishonest, Zionist talking-points that were discredited decades ago? It would be too tedious to deal with most of the misdirections in his latest contribution. Let’s just pull out
Consortium News:ㅤGaza-Israel Catastrophe: ‘Strategy of Tension’
The current war is the latest manifestation of a strategy dating from the aftermath of the 1973 October War and rise of U.S.-Israeli ties, writes Dan Steinbock. First of a five-part series. Sept. 16, 2006: A family in Susiya in the south hills of al-Khalil, a Palestinian area often attacked by Israeli colonists from the nearby settlement of Hebron. (Michael loadenthal, Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Dan Steinbock The World Financial Review Roughly 50 years
Consortium News:ㅤThe Genocidal Language Behind Israel’s Intent in Gaza
Long before Oct. 7, the Zionist-Israeli discourse was always that of racism, dehumanization, erasure and, at times, outright genocide, writes Ramzy Baroud. Lt. Col. Raphael Eitan, on left, with other Israeli commanders, visiting IDF and U.N. soldiers in Lebanon, June 1982. (IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) By Ramzy Baroud Common Dreams “(Tutsis) are cockroaches. We will kill you.” Arabs are like “drugged cockroaches in a bottle.” The first quote was a line repeated
Consortium News:ㅤCraig Murray: The Chances of a Regional War
As countries with influence over Israel actively encourage the slaughter, Murray considers what will happen internationally and what is happening in Western societies. Protest in Tehran opposing Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip, Oct. 14. (Amin Ahouei, TasminNews, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0) By Craig Murray CraigMurray.org.uk Oct. 23 saw possibly the most violent bombardment of Gaza until that point, notably concentrated on precisely the areas into which Israel ordered the population to evacuate. I
Consortium News:ㅤGermany’s Ban on Public Solidarity With Palestine
While other European countries are witnessing mass protests in solidarity with Palestine, Germany has been policing such scenes off its streets, Peoples Dispatch reports. Israel solidarity demonstration in Berlin on Oct. 8, 2023. (Leonhard Lenz, Wikimedia Commons, CC0) By Peoples Dispatch Germany is home to Europe’s largest Palestinian community, with roughly 80,000 Palestinians living in the country. For years, German authorities have tried to stifle Palestinian activism, viewing it as a nuisance to its explicit
Consortium News:ㅤZionist Think Tank’s Blueprint for Gaza Ethnic Cleansing
As Israel’s carpet bombing of Gaza leaves over 5,000 dead and at least one million people displaced, a Tel Aviv-based think tank produces an ethnic cleansing plan, Kit Klarenberg reports. Smoke and flames billow after Israeli forces struck a high-rise tower in Gaza City, Oct. 7, 2023. (Ali Hamad, Palestinian News & Information Agency, Wafa for APAimages, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) By Kit Klarenberg The Grayzone In a white paper released over a week
Consortium News:ㅤJOHN KIRIAKOU: US Prison Chief’s Dim Prospects
If Colette Peters is really intent on cleaning up the U.S. Bureau of Prisons she has her work cut out for her. Things are not going well on her watch so far. Attorney General Merrick Garland officiates Colette Peters’ installment as director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons on Aug. 2, 2022. (Bureau of Prisons) By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News In a previous column I recounted how I had recently had dinner with a
Consortium News:ㅤGaza, Hamas & Netanyahu’s Likud
Dan Steinbock says the Hamas war is manna from heaven to Israel’s far-right government. Netanyahu himself has contributed to the expansion of Hamas since the 1990s. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on Oct. 12. (State Department, Chuck Kennedy, Public domain) By Dan Steinbock The Hamas-Israel War, as it is portrayed by international media, reflects very poorly the realities in the region and even less the