Having gotten away with so many atrocities while the international community looks away, Israel just unveiled the latest escalation of its illegal collective punishment of Gazans, writes Abby Zimet.
Thirty-seven states, the U.N. and international NGOs all condemned Israel’s denial of aid to the starving people of Gaza at the International Court of Justice last week, Marjorie Cohn reports.
In Palestine, Israel has been the executioner and the United States has been the executor of ethnic cleansing and genocide, though it is those who uphold international law that are blamed, writes M. Reza Behnam.
Palestinians know they need moral legitimacy in their methods of resistance, write Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo, which raises the subject of Oct. 7, 2023.
A panel of ICC judges said there are “reasonable grounds to believe” Israel’s prime minister and former defense minister are guilty of “the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare” and other “crimes against humanity.”
Yara Hawari reflects on the immense losses for the Palestinian people since October 2023 and the need, after the failure of international law, for the liberation movement to set new priorities.
“The pattern of intimidation may get worse” — retired Irish officer Kevin McDonald shares his insights into Israeli tactics with Mick Hall as IDF attacks on U.N. positions in south Lebanon continue.
The pro-Israel bias in Western reporting makes the media utterly complicit in Israel’s war crimes, writes Jonathan Cook, including when Israeli soldiers throw Palestinians off a roof.
Those who can’t connect barbaric abuses of Palestinians by Israelis — generation after generation — and the crimes of Oct. 7, have little understanding of human nature, writes Jonathan Cook.