Netanyahu’s Ceasefire Is Meant to Keep Gaza Imprisoned

Netanyahu’s Ceasefire Is Meant to Keep Gaza Imprisoned

Palestinians in Gaza should have been able to breathe a sigh of relief last week, as precarious ceasefire talks survived a two-day-long, heavy exchange of strikes that threatened to unleash yet another large-scale military assault by Israel. Late on Tuesday, after the most intense bout of violence in four years, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas,…

The Unraveling of the Netanyahu Project for the Middle East

The Unraveling of the Netanyahu Project for the Middle East

Nahum Barnea, a leading Israeli commentator, writing in Yedioth Ahronoth in May (in Hebrew), set out, unambiguously, the ‘deal’ behind Trump’s Middle East policy: In the wake of the US exit from JCPOA [which occurred on 8 May], Trump, Barnea wrote, will threaten a rain of ‘fire and fury’ onto Tehran … whilst Putin is expected to…

Netanyahu’s Latest Ticking Iran Bomb Stunt at the UN General Assembly

Netanyahu’s Latest Ticking Iran Bomb Stunt at the UN General Assembly

Iran’s nuclear program is the most intensively monitored on the planet. It has no military component, no credible evidence suggesting otherwise. All the huffing, puffing and posturing histrionics by Netanyahu and other Iranophobes can’t refute cold hard facts. IAEA officials have unimpeded access to all Iranian sites designated for inspection. Twelve consecutive agency reports unequivocally…

Uri Avnery: One of My Few Heroes in the Middle East

Uri Avnery: One of My Few Heroes in the Middle East

It was somehow fitting that first news of Uri Avnery’s plight should reach me from one of Israel’s staunchest enemies, the Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt. One legend sending sad news of another, you see, a socialist preparing to mourn a fellow socialist, sending his sympathy for the 94-year-old Israeli political philosopher. That same philosopher was…

Trump to Netanyahu: Palestinians Must be Completely Conquered

Trump to Netanyahu: Palestinians Must be Completely Conquered

The Washington correspondent of Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, Amir Tibon, headlined on the night of Tuesday, August 14, “Trump Administration Wants to See a Gaza Cease-fire ‘With or Without the Palestinian Authority’,” and he reported that, “The Trump administration wants to see a long-term cease-fire in Gaza, with or without the support of the Palestinian Authority,…