#GazaUnderAttack | The Experts’ Verdict: Every Israeli Missile Strike is a War Crime

Dissident Voice / by Jonathan Cook / August 1st, 2014 Today’s Guardian includes an article that appears to be excusing Israel of responsibility for the massive death toll it has inflicted on Palestinian civilians. But, more significantly, it includes a lot of useful – and damning – information about just how “indiscriminate” Israel’s weapons really […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | They Aren’t Hiding It Anymore: Calls for Genocide, Rape of Palestinian Women enter Israeli Mainstream

By Jonathan Cook Global Research, July 22, 2014 As we watch the horrifying slaughter unfold in Gaza, bear in mind the Israeli psychosis that fuels and justifies it. Here are comments from three rightwing Israelis – two leading politicians and a professor – who very much reflect a strain of mainstream thinking in Israel, one that the international media largely avoids […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | How US and Blair Plotted ‘Ceasefire’ Scam ~ by Jonathan Cook

Islam Times | July 17, 2014 | By Jonathan Cook Islam Times – We now have confirmation from the Israeli daily Haaretz of what we should have suspected: that the idea for the so-called Egyptian “ceasefire proposal” was actually hatched in Washington, the messenger boy was arch-war criminal Tony Blair, and the terms were drafted […]

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Gaza crushed between Israel and Egypt ~ by Jonathan Cook

Al Ray Agencies | Oct 2, 2013 | Jonathon Cook The furore over the recent chemical weapons attack in Syria has overshadowed disturbing events to the south, as Egypt’s generals wage a quiet war of attrition against the Hamas leadership in Gaza. Hamas has found itself increasingly isolated, politically and geographically, since the Egyptian army […]

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Jonathan Cook: Israel’s thriving arms trade is a setback to peace agreement

By Jonathan Cook | The National – 23 July 2013  Jonathan Cook Over the past decade, Israel has surged up the arms trade’s international rankings. Despite having a population smaller than New York City, Israel has emerged as one of the world’s largest exporters of armaments. Last month, defence analysts Jane’s put Israel in sixth […]

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Jonathan Cook: Treatment of Palestinians is apartheid by any other name – by Jonathan Cook

By Jonathan Cook |  Jonathan-Cook.net | 9 July 2013 Were it not for the razor wire, giant concrete blocks, steel gates, watchtower and standard-issue surly teenage soldier, it would be impossible to tell at what point the barren uplands of Israel’s eastern Negev give way to the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank. The […]

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Jonathan Cook: Arab funding for Jerusalem comes a decade too late

Jonathan Cook Website | April 6, 2013 This was the background to a March 26 pledge by the Arab League to establish a $1 billion fund to protect East Jerusalem’s Arab and Islamic characters. Both have been rapidly eroded as Israel has intensified its hold on the occupied half of the city over the past […]

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Obama Comes to Bless Israel’s Government of Settlers ~ by Jonathan Cook

Dissident Voice | Jonathan Cook | March 20th, 2013 Those who hoped that Barack Obama would be arriving in Israel to bang Israeli and Palestinian heads together, after four years of impasse in the peace process, will be sorely disappointed. The US president’s trip beginning today may be historic – the first of his presidency […]

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Israeli Ministry of Tourism map annexes over 60% of the West Bank ~ by Jonathan Cook

Jonathan Cook Net – 2 November 2012 Is Israel preparing to annex Area C, as a growing number of analysts have recently been speculating? This week, on a visit to the Israel’s tourism bureau in Nazareth, I came across an official brochure, “Your Next Vacation: Israel”, that suggests the answer. The brochure is supplied to […]

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The Myth of the US-Israel Special Bond ~ by Jonathan Cook

Forget Iran: It’s Israel’s Nuclear Gun Pointed at Obama’s Head by Jonathan Cook / September 10th, 2012 | Dissident Voice It is possibly the greatest of American political myths, repeated ad nauseam by presidential candidates in their election campaigns. President Barack Obama has claimed that the United States enjoys a special bond with Israel unlike […]

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Israeli Eradication of History: Disappearing Mosques

A Palestinian man holds prayer beads as he stands near an Israeli border police officer outside a damaged mosque in West Bank village of Jaba near Ramallah 19 June 2012. (Photo: Reuters – Mohamad Torokman) By: Jonathan Cook Al Akhbar English | Published Monday, July 9, 2012 The discovery of a rare aerial photo of […]

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Jonathan Cook: The myth of Israel’s liberal Supreme Court exposed

25 February 2012 – Israeli Occupation Archives By Jonathan Cook, MERIP – 23 Feb 2012 Jonathan Cook Little more than a decade ago, in a brief interlude of heady optimism about the prospects of regional peace, the Israeli Supreme Court issued two landmark rulings that, it was widely assumed, heralded the advent of a new, […]

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Room for Jews Only in Israel’s ‘Villa in the Jungle’ ~ by Jonathan Cook

Ethnic Cleansing – Topic | Settlement Construction – Category – Pictures By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth The wheel is turning full circle. Last week the Israeli parliament updated a 59-year-old law originally intended to prevent hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees from returning to the homes and lands from which they had been expelled as […]

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Welcome to the world’s first bunker state ~ by Jonathan Cook

By Jonathan Cook, http://www.jkcook.net – 18 Jan 2012 Room for Jews only in Israel’s ‘villa in the jungle’ Jonathan Cook Nazareth – The wheel is turning full circle. Last week the Israeli parliament updated a 59-year-old law originally intended to prevent hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees from returning to the homes and lands from […]

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Israel’s New House Rules: Deepening Authoritarianism ~ by Jonathan Cook

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during his Likud Party conference on 15 December 2011, in Tel Aviv. (Photo: AP – Oded Balilty) By: Jonathan Cook | December 23, 2011 | Al Akhbar Nazareth – As the Arab world rids itself of autocrats one after the other, a series of legal and political moves by […]

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