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Israel: a sick lion, not a rising one
By Gideon Levy, Haaretz, 18/06/2025 The fate of the war now depends on the whims of a capricious and voluble American president. He bombs Iran; there might be a victory. He doesn’t bomb, and Israel will have embarked on another futile war, more superfluous and dangerous than all of its predecessors. The involvement of the […]
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Iran – another Israeli failure?
June 16, 2025
Gideon Levy’s view of the ‘war” on Iran (Haaretz, 15/06/25) Israelis like wars, especially when they begin. There has not been a war yet which Israel – the entire country – has not rooted for at its onset; there has yet to be a war – other than the 1973 Yom Kippur War – that […]
Posted in: Sound Israeli journalism
Apartheid & Zionism: the same fight
June 10, 2025
When the Afrikaner nationalists, with an outspokenly fascist core at their centre, began to to move down the authoritarian slide toward fascism, South Africa saw the emergence of the Black Sash in 1956. These were women whose conscience bound them to protest about the erosion of the few vestiges of democracy left in what had […]
Posted in: Commentary
Germany, Gaza and the Holocaust
June 7, 2025
GERMANY’S HOLOCAUST BETRAYAL By Gideon Levy in Haaretz, May 29, 2025 Germany has betrayed the memory of the Holocaust and its lessons. A country that saw its highest task as not to forget has forgotten. A country that told itself that it would never remain silent is silent. A country that once said “Never Again,” […]
Posted in: Human Rights, Sound Israeli journalism
Pro army propaganda and true journalism
June 5, 2025
The headline is mine and this is part of an attempt to reveal — and encourage — honest journalism, that continues to survive in an increasingly fascist state of Israel. What follows is the latest op-ed item by Gideon Levy, in Haaretz, Jun 4, 2025 Two pictures and a conclusion: The editor of the Presspectiva […]
Posted in: Sound Israeli journalism
Trump, ‘Boers’ and propaganda
June 4, 2025
(First published in Groundup, South Africa) Words can be plucked out of historical and literary context and weaponised. As such, they can be used to harm individuals and groups or to rally bullies and persecutors. There have been classic examples in recent history, and last week there was a globally broadcast example of a more […]
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Bus drivers, soccer and Zionism
June 2, 2025
Another example of: they cannot say they didn’t know If you’re shocked by Israelis beating an Arab bus driver, How are you not stunned by genocide? That was the question Gideon Levy asked Israelis in Haaretz on June 1 after Beitar Jerusalem soccer fans (picture below) brutally assaulted Palestinian bus drivers. Here is his column: […]
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Elon Musk’s environmental poison
May 31, 2025
Ever wondered why Elon Musk took charge of Donald Trump’s massive state cost-cutting exercise , DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) which included eviscerating the environmental protection agencies? One of the clearest answers has now arrived in the form of an excellent report from the Portside website in the United States. Watch it and be deeply […]
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Terry Bell Writes 
June 19, 2025
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