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The facts about ‘human shields’
The Israeli government has claimed consistently that the reason for the number of civilian deaths in Gaza is because Hamas uses civilians as “human shields”. But the real use of human shields is by the Zionist forces using what they call the “mosquito protocol”. Democracy Now has a good interview about the practice with a […]
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The aid debacle in Gaza
May 27, 2025
ISRAEL’S MAMMOTH SICK JOKE This week saw the horrible unravelling in Gaza of a grotesque public relations stunt that might better — if inadequately — have been described as a mammoth sick joke. It was in the chaos prompted by the “intervention” of the hastily founded and clearly politically motivated Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and its […]
Posted in: Human Rights
When compassion dies
May 25, 2025
Will Not One Israeli Say: End the War for Gaza’s Sake? By Gideon Levy, Haaretz, May 25, 2025 And there is not a single righteous person in Sodom. There are in Israel more than a few politicians and public figures calling to end the war. There are many people who are fighting courageously for the […]
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A future Nuremberg?
May 22, 2025
We have heard it all before: ‘We were only obeying orders’. It’s the standard excuse by state sponsored murderers, torturers and assorted sadists when finally brought to book. As Gideon Levy points out in this latest column in Haaretz, it applies very much in Israel today. May 22, 2025 The Israel Defense Forces has killed […]
Posted in: Human Rights, Sound Israeli journalism
Netanyahu’s genocidal legacy
May 19, 2025
Provided as a contribution to understanding and a tribute to honest journalism STOP CALLING IT A GAZA ‘WAR’By Gideon Levy, May 19, 2025 (in Haaretz) Over the weekend, the Israeli military launched a destruction operation in Gaza that all of Israel is a partner to, whether by action, by disregard or by indifference. No one […]
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‘Annihilating Hamas’ = Destroying Gaza
May 15, 2025
Gideon Levy, writing in Haaretz, May 11, 2025, highlights the dominant views in Israel and the reality that continues to be ignored. Everyone is in favor of destroying Hamas. Who would oppose this? No one would. Extremists want it to happen before the hostages are released, and the moderates say: Let’s release the hostages first […]
Posted in: Sound Israeli journalism
11. bullets and a 14-year-old boy
May 14, 2025
IDF soldiers in an ambush rained fire down on a trio of 14-year-old Palestinian Americans who may have been throwing stones, but harmlessly. Two escaped, wounded; the third was killed after being sprayed with bullets by Gideon Levy with photographs by Alex Levac (unavailable) May 2, 2025 A brightly lit, elegant, spacious living room. Hanging […]
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Satire, race and ‘Afrikaners’
May 14, 2025
I once maintained that it would be impossible to write and produce a good satirical show in today’s South Africa. Now I am sure I was right: even before any writing is complete, reality will make the subject matter redundant. Mind you, this week’s Amerikan refugee saga took matters to an even more ludicrous level […]
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Terry Bell Writes 
May 31, 2025
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