“A New Year’s message from the West Bank.”
‘Love from the land of war and pain.’ A New Year’s greeting arrived this morning from a friend in New Askar refugee camp, in the West Bank governorate of Nablus. It’s a powerful message of hope, and I publish it…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: After the First 70,669 Deaths
I take the 15 victims at Bondi Beach and divide them by the 71,000 deaths in Gaza as of this writing. I get a fraction of 0.0002143. I read in a BBC report that the victims of the Dec. 14 shooting…
Patrick Lawrence: Trump’s ‘End of History’ Moment
The Trumpster is not yet finished his first year back in the White House, and I cannot imagine how our crumbling republic will survive three more years of this man-child and the misfits and miscreants with whom he has surrounded…
“Oil and ideology.”
Is the flotilla off Venezuela’s coast bluff or a prelude to invasion? And either way, what is behind it? Roughly a quarter of the U.S. Navy’s fleet now floats in the Caribbean off the coast of Venezuela, including the U.S.S. Gerald…
“When a mountain falls.”
Stories from Ramla Prison Clinic. Listen, world, to what I want to tell you. By God, the pain and suffering carried by the sick prisoners in Ramla Prison Clinic: If you placed it on a mountain, that mountain would collapse….
“‘Why can’t I see white?’”
Writings from an Israeli prison ‘hospital.’ This is Part Two of a three-part series on Rateb al–Hribat and his writings while in Israeli prisons. Now in his mid-forties, Rateb spent twenty-two years in the Israeli gulag, where he wrote two…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Zionism on the Upper East Side
What has lately transpired in the New York of Zohran Mamdani is a very direct extension of the impunity that encourages and protects the Israeli terror machine in Gaza and the West Bank. We watch in horror from afar as…
“‘Raw reality’ in Palestine.”
In conversation with a former political prisoner. I learned about Rateb al–Hribat from my Arabic interpreter, a young woman named Sadeel. This was November of last year and we, Sadeel and I, were traveling in the West Bank as I…
“Extrajudicial killings as policy.”
Murder codified in ‘law.’ Video documentation raced like wildfire through the West Bank last Thursday, showing Israel security forces shooting two unarmed Palestinians in the city of Jenin. Muntaser Billah Abdallah, 26, and Yousef Asaasah, 37 were shot at close…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: New Year’s Notes on Purported Leaders
It is no use hoping for any alteration in the collective West’s course so long as today’s “purported leaders” remain in office. “Heaven is high and the emperor is far away.” So did Chinese peasants celebrate their distance from the…