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Our Wednesday News Analysis | The complete idiot’s guide to world affairs

dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster) — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 14:56:23 +0200

Source: Jonathan Cook Blog
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-03-26/idiots-guide-world-affairs/

By Jonathan Cook
Published March 26, 2025

The left and right take the same reality-based view of the world but respond to it in different moral terms. Liberals, on the other hand, live in an alternate universe – of pure make-believe

Our Wednesday News Analysis | Would it be okay for Hamas to strike a hospital treating Benjamin Netanyahu?

dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster) — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:20:13 +0100

Source: Jonathan Cook Blog
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-03-24/hamas-hospital-strike-netanyahu/

By Jonathan Cook
Published March 24, 2025

Israel has justified bombing a Gaza hospital, killing civilians, because an injured Hamas politician was there. The laws of war only ever seem to be forgotten when it is Israel violating them

Our Wednesday News Analysis | Palestine question a key test of US foreign policy

dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster) — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 14:09:12 +0100

Source: Arab News

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2593895

By Dr. Ramzy Baroud
Published March 17, 2025

Our Wednesday News Analysis | Manifest Destiny and Zionism, a legacy of ethnic cleansing

dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster) — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:49:41 +0100

Source: Mondoweiss
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/03/manifest-destiny-and-zionism-a-legacy-of-ethnic-cleansing/

By Alexander Shelby
Published March 5, 2025

When Donald Trump proposed turning Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East” by forcefully removing its indigenous Palestinian population, he was not introducing a new idea but following an American tradition as old as Manifest Destiny itself.

Our Wednesday News Analysis | Netanyahu only ever saw the hostages as his path back to genocide

dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster) — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:46:57 +0100

Source: substack.com
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/netanyahu-only-ever-saw-the-hostages

By Jonathan Cook
Published February 26, 2025

Western leaders and media are helping bolster a propaganda narrative about the Israeli captives that makes the resumption of Israel’s slaughter all but inevitable

Our Wednesday News Analysis | Opinion | Thanks to Its Regime, Israel Is Losing the Justification For its existence

dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster) — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 13:28:43 +0100

Source: Haaretz
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-02-18/ty-article-opinion/.premium/thanks-to-its-regime-israel-is-losing-the-justification-for-its-existence/00000195-1416-d00a-adfd-7cd7ea380000

By Michael Sfard

Published February 18, 2025

Israel, a Failed State — The abandonment of its citizens in captivity in favor of pursuing the messianic ideology of the radical right, in addition to the rampant repression of government critics, has rendered Israel a failed state

Our Wednesday News Analysis | Being Jewish after Gaza: Peter Beinart's 'reckoning' is a bid to rehabilitate Zionism

dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster) — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:32:57 +0100

Source: Middle East Eye
https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/peter-beinart-being-jewish-after-gaza-destruction-book-review

By Azad Essa
Published February 14, 2025

Beinart's latest book treats Zionism as a given, erases historical Jewish opposition to the racist ideology, and gives credence to a Jewish claim over Palestine

Our Wednesday News Analysis | The strategic cost of Israel’s endless wars

dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster) — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:37:36 +0100

Source: Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2589674

By Dr Ramzy Baroud
Published February 10, 2025

Our Wednesday News Analysis | Dear world: This is what Palestinian unity looks like

dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster) — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 14:46:39 +0100

Source: Middle East Monitor
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250129-dear-world-this-is-what-palestinian-unity-looks-like/

By Dr Ramzy Baroud
Published January 29, 2025

Our Wednesday News Analysis | Nearly 40,000 Palestinian Children Orphaned by War in Gaza

dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster) — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 14:43:19 +0100

Source: Drop Site
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/20000-palestinian-children-orphaned-by-gaza-war

By Rasha Abou Jalal
Published January 22, 2025

Palestinian families have stepped in to take care of children not their own but the volume of children orphaned by the war is staggering