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Israel: a sick lion, not a rising one

June 19, 2025

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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,” […]

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 […]

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: […]

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 […]

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 […]