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Hebron hell: ‘voluntary’ ethnic cleansing

July 11, 2025

By Gideon Levy & photographer Alex Levac (Haaretz, 11/07/2025) The market square is empty, as the iconic song about another Old City – the one in Jerusalem – goes. Hebron’s main marketplace has been almost completely deserted for years. Anyone who wants to understand why, need only gaze upward: Hanging from the metal grilles Palestinians […]

The massive financial cost of warfare

July 3, 2025

This is a lightly edited Haaretz report on the Iranian response to the US backed attack on Iran. Such details, important as they are, have not had much publicity because the Israeli military continues to censor and block information. 500 Missiles, 200 Interceptors, $1.5 Billion: Numbers Behind Iran’s Attacks on Israel The IDF reported 36 […]

Murdering the future

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 […]

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 […]