In The Iron Wall (2001), Israeli historian Avi Shlaim shows that in July 1981, US diplomat Philip Habib brokered a ceasefire between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Israel. For the next year, the PLO infuriated Israel by refusing to violate the ceasefire and thereby provide an excuse for Israel’s long-planned attack on PLO refugee camps and bases in Lebanon. Then, on 3 June 1982, a member of the Abu Nidal organization shot and wounded Shlomo Argov, the Israeli ambassador in (...)
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Israel’s fabricated rocket crisis
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Gideon Levy / An open response to A.B. Yehoshua
18 January 2009, by Gideon LevyDear Bulli,
Thank you for your frank letter and kind words. You wrote it was written from a "position of respect," and I, too, deeply respect your wonderful literary works. But, unfortunately, I have a lot less respect for your current political position. It is as if the mighty, including you, have succumbed to a great and terrible conflagration that has consumed any remnant of a moral backbone. You, too, esteemed author, have fallen prey to the wretched wave that has inundated, (...) -
Fear Not
19 August 2010, by Israel Shamir1. Crying Wolf
So many people have circulated so many warnings of the forthcoming US-Israeli attack on Iran that it is hard to ignore them. A piece written by a few ex-spooks warning of a new round of war is one of these messages. In our view, spooks, ex or not, are not the most reliable people, and the CIA is not the best reference. However, this item fits with the dire predictions and accompanying Israeli U-boats to the shores of Iran. Rumours of Israeli advance forces being placed in (...) -
Liban, un massacre pour quoi faire
18 septembre 2006, par Amin KammouriehLe Monde : Article paru dans l’edition du 12.08.06
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Israel’s Righteous Fury and its Victims in Gaza
9 January 2009, by Ilan PappeMy visit back home to the Galilee coincided with the genocidal Israeli attack on Gaza. The state, through its media and with the help of its academia, broadcasted one unanimous voice — even louder than the one heard during the criminal attack against Lebanon in the summer of 2006. Israel is engulfed once more with righteous fury that translates into destructive policies in the Gaza Strip. This appalling self-justification for the inhumanity and impunity is not just annoying, it is a (...)
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«التغريبة» الإسلامية الى أوروبا تغيِّر ديموغرافية العالم!
2 تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 2015, بقلم ريمون عطااللهلعل التطور الجديد الأهم في الحرب السورية المستمرة منذ خمس سنوات، موجات اللاجئين الزاحفين الى أوروبا بحراً وبراً بمئات الألوف من الشباب والنساء والأطفال، قاطعين آلاف الأميال من البر التركي الى جزر اليونان القريبة، ومن هناك الى مقدونيا، ومشياً على الأقدام باتجاه بلاد الصرب، ليعبروا منها الى دولة المجر القريبة، ومنها الى النمسا، قاصدين ألمانيا، متدافعين الى هناك بفعل ما أشيع بينهم بأن الحكومة الألمانية فتحت أبواب الهجرة اليها على مصراعيها. لكن هذا الطوفان البشري الزاحف من الجنوب والشرق باتجاه (...)
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Nous, Juifs contre les frappes d’Israël
20 avril 2007Voici vingt-quatre ans, Israël lançait au Liban l’opération « Paix en Galilée », qui allait, par les bombardements terrestres et aériens, faire des centaines de victimes civiles et qui devait aussi, du fait de l’appui apporté par Israël à ses supplétifs libanais, conduire aux massacres de Sabra et Chatila. C’est alors que, grâce à l’initiative de Pierre Vidal-Naquet notamment , fut lancé un appel de cent intellectuels juifs qui se désolidarisaient des soutiens inconditionnels à l’opération (...)
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Logique de purification ethnique à Gaza
6 janvier 2009, par Dominique EddéQuel est le bénéfice attendu par Israël, au terme de cette énième entreprise de bombardement, "Plomb durci" ? Sécuriser les citoyens israéliens. Anéantir le Hamas. Connaît-on un cas de figure ayant prouvé, par le passé, que la méthode pouvait marcher ?
L’opération "Raisins de la colère", accompagnée du massacre de Cana, au Liban, en 1996 ? Elle a renforcé le Hezbollah et s’est soldée par le retrait des troupes israéliennes du Liban sud en 2000. L’opération "Rempart à Jénine", au (...) -
Victorious, but vilified: Israel has ’destroyed its image and its soul’
18 January 2009, by Donald Macintyre, Kim SenguptaAfter three weeks of carnage in Gaza, there were tentative signs of a ceasefire last night. But the bitter legacy of the past 22 days for Israel is that, while it declares victory on the battlefield, the country’s reputation has rarely sunk so low.
Yesterday the United Nations called for a war crimes investigation after two children, aged five and seven, were killed when, it claimed, an Israeli tank shell hit a school sheltering some of the more than 40,000 internally displaced refugees. (...) -
My message to the West – Israel must stop the slaughter
18 January 2009, by Ismail HaniyehI write this article to Western readers across the social and political spectrum as the Israeli war machine continues to massacre my people in Gaza. To date, almost 1,000 have been killed, nearly half of whom are women and children. Last week’s bombing of the UNRWA (UN Relief Works Agency) school in the Jabalya refugee camp was one of the most despicable crimes imaginable, as hundreds of civilians had abandoned their homes and sought refuge with the international agency only to be (...)