University of Michigan Professor Juan Cole‘s newsletter, “Informed Comment” has been part of my regular reading for years. The historical perspective he brings to his commentary gives it a depth missing in much of the current dialog, as the follwoing article illustrates (reprinted here with his permission). [I highlighted/bolded a couple of points that…
CHRIS HEDGES August 12, 2023 (excerpt from the The Chris Hedges Report) The long nightmare of oppression of Palestinians is not a tangential issue. It is a black and white issue of a settler-colonial state imposing a military occupation, horrific violence and apartheid, backed by billions of U.S. dollars, on the indigenous population of Palestine. It is the all powerful against…
MIDDLE EAST MONITOR08/31/2022 By Wafa Aludaini | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – A press release issued by Al-Mezan Centre for Human Rights condemned the discriminatory restriction on movement and the arbitrary permit system imposed by the Israeli occupation on Palestinian patients obstructing their access to hospitals outside Gaza. We tried all possible ways to…
“Almost everything said in the U.S. about Israel’s assault on the Palestinians is a lie — because we are implicated By CHRIS HEDGES PUBLISHED MAY 15, 2021 4:00PM (UTC) “Nearly all the words and phrases used by the Democrats, Republicans and the talking heads on the media to describe the unrest inside Israel and the…