“‘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…
“‘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…
“What Is This? Peace in Our Time?”
The Trump regime’s 28–point peace plan for Ukraine at last addresses Russia’s legitimate interests. The only losers, if negotiations win Moscow’s acceptance, will be the warmongers. All has been fluid and very few things clear since the Trump regime’s draft…
“As our postwar ideals fade into history.”
All around us the light dims on humanity’s shared aspirations. It falls to us to restore them. When he looked back much later on the first postwar years—mournfully, a little nostalgically—Arthur Miller, the noted American playwright, wrote of “the beautifully…
“78 years of betrayals.”
The long history behind the Netanyahu–Trump ‘peace plan.’ Like most others in the West’s paying-attention minority, we thought from the first the 20–point “peace plan” Bibi Netanyahu and President Trump announced with fanfare at the White House on 29 September had nothing…
“Stick, stones, matches, gasoline.”
The technology of ethnic cleansing. What follows is an updated version of a report published two days ago at West Bank Alerts, a newsletter devoted to reporting on the ethnic cleansing of Occupied Palestine. These Alerts are based on information sent to me…
“Starvation siege.”
Olive trees and the covetousness of West Bank settlers. Texts have arrived from Palestinian friends with increasing frequency these past weeks, each one documenting an upsurge in the destruction of olive trees by Jewish settlers and the Zionist Occupation Forces…
“The ‘No!’ of Ireland’s new president.”
A critical mass gathers against the Zionist state. Catherine Connolly has such a sweet Irish face—broad and open, bright eyes with a touch of sadness about them, always either smiling or about to give the world one. She has Irish…
“Europe’s latest intelligence fakes.”
Having lived through most of the Cold War years, we thought there was no outdoing the Americans in the way of Russophobic paranoia. Who would ever have imagined the Europeans, Germany and some of the former Soviet satellites in the…
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