[First published by Middle East Eye] The truth slowly comes to light: Israel‘s genocide in Gaza was planned decades ago. Listen to the testimonies of four Israeli soldiers who served in Gaza. Soldier 1: “Human lives didn’t matter. You could kill, there was no law. No...
Could it be that Israel’s 30-year narrative about Iran – one that persuaded US President Donald Trump to wage a criminal and disastrous war of aggression – was always a fiction, an invention cooked up in Tel Aviv? Far from Tehran posing an existential danger to...
For decades, two irreconcilable narratives about Israel and its motivations have existed in parallel. On the one side, an official western narrative portrays a plucky, besieged “Jewish” state of Israel, desperate to make peace with its hostile Arab neighbors. Even to...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must have persuaded Donald Trump that a war on Iran would unfold much like the pager attack in Lebanon 18 months ago. The two militaries would jointly decapitate the leadership in Tehran, and it would crumble just as Hezbollah...
The joint US-Israeli war on Iran has thrust back into the spotlight a divisive debate about whether the dog wags the tail, or the tail wags the dog. Who is in charge of this war: Israel or the United States? One side believes Israel lured Trump into a trap from which...
It is near impossible to make sense – at least from the justifications on offer – of what US President Donald Trump really hopes to achieve with his and Israel's blatantly illegal war of aggression on Iran. Is it to destroy an Iranian nuclear weapons program for which...
The admission this week by US secretary of state Marco Rubio, echoed by Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House of Representatives, that Israel forced Washington’s hand in attacking Iran has rightly caused consternation. Breathing life into something that would normally be...
The Voice of Hind Rajab, a devastating dramatised retelling of Israel’s slow-motion murder of a five-year-old in Gaza, arrives in UK cinemas next week. Please take the opportunity to see it. The vast majority of Americans were denied such an opportunity when it was...
This is another masterclass from the New York Times in how to sell genocide as law enforcement. According to today’s headline, “new Israeli rules” mean “suspensions” of aid groups from Gaza – that is, the forced expulsion of 37 humanitarian organizations from...
Reprinted from Jonathan Cook's Substack: The moment the British government began proscribing political movements as terrorist organizations, rather than just militant groups, it was inevitable that saying factual things, making truthful statements, would become a...
