For every humanitarian and concerned individual, the focus is, for obvious reasons, on the horrors that continue to unfold in Gaza, a charnel house justifiably dubbed “Israel’s Auschwitz. But the brutishly vile motivation behind the carnage in Gaza applies elsewhere as well, and no more so than in the central military region including the West […]
August 3, 2025
European recognition of Palestine is a hollow gesture that lets Israel off the hook. Without sanctions to stop the slaughter in Gaza, it’s not diplomacy – it’s complicity writes Gideon Levy in his latest (August 3, 2025) column in Haaretz International recognition of a Palestinian state rewards Israel, which should be thanking each and every […]
July 25, 2025
To my mind, this is an important example of some honest, journalistic commentary that continues to survive in a society that continues, in the 21st Century, to behave as did those Polish and German citizens who denied knowledge of the Nazi Holocaust. — Terry Bell By Gideon Levy, July 24, 2025 Israel’s plan for the […]
July 20, 2025
In 1967, aware of what the proclaimed Aryan Nazis had done in Germany, the Israeli polymath and philosopher, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, warned of the danger of Judea-nazism emerging in the Zionist state. As Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy points out today (July 20) history is clearly repeating itself, along with an horrific irony: before the slaughter of […]
July 13, 2025
Pablo Picasso painted his famous picture in response to the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica on April 26, 1937. We now have a modern filmed version from Gaza. This report by Gideon Levy, in Haaretz, July 13, 2025 First, you hear the screams, the kind that makes your blood run cold. The camera […]
June 22, 2025
Murder is a very serious crime. And it is very clearly defined: to kill another person “with malice aforethought”. In other words, to plan to kill someone for whatever reason and then to carry out the intention is a serious violation. The same charge applies to those who pay or order someone else to carry […]
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 […]
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 […]
August 28, 2025
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