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@Jonathan_K_Cook - Jonathan Cook
Israeli journalist Gideon Levy describes the conditions in which 61-year-old Palestinian MP Khalida Jarrar is being held by Israel. She is in total isolation. She has been accused of no crime since she was arrested a year ago. 'Her cell has no windows. There is no air, no fan, only a concrete bed and a thin mattress as well as a toilet that has no water most of the day. This week she told her lawyer that in order to breathe a bit, she lies down on the floor and tries to draw in a bit of air from the crack under the cell door. She doesn't drink much, in order to avoid having to use the toilet, which emits a horrific stench.' More here: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/twilight-zone/2024-08-30/ty-article-magazine/.premium/for-a-bit-of-air-the-palestinian-lawmaker-lies-down-by-the-crack-under-the-cell-door/00000191-9e54-d453-ab9f-fedc4e610000
@Jonathan_K_Cook - Jonathan Cook
A Guardian report reveals that there are 60,000 Americans living in illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank, as well as some 23,400 Americans serving in the Israeli army. Many are posting videos on social media showing them committing war crimes in Gaza. The US should be prosecuting them, but isn't. The Guardian ends its report by quoting Oona Hathaway, an academic at Yale Law School: "The US government could prosecute these US citizens if they participate in war crimes. Politically, however, that’s unlikely, for all the obvious reasons.” "For all the obvious reasons." That's how the article ends. Wouldn't you just love to see the Guardian and Prof Hathaway explain exactly what those reasons are? But apparently they are so "obvious" the Guardian and an academic at a prestige university feel, as ever, there is no need to put them into words.
@Jonathan_K_Cook - Jonathan Cook
President Truman admits here two facts that were subsequently obscured by US politicians: 1. Israel could only be created by “moving out” the Palestinians – ie ethnically cleansing them. 2. Truman believed the Palestinians, not Europe, should pay the price for Europe's Holocaust by having their homeland stolen from them and turned into a Jewish state. However, one thing Truman says is an outright lie. The Palestinians were never “compensated” for this theft. They ended up destitute in refugee camps in ghettoes like the one called Gaza.
@Jonathan_K_Cook - Jonathan Cook
Research shows terms like 'massacre' and 'slaughter' are only ever used by the New York Times to describe the killing of Israelis, never for the killing of Palestinians. Now the Intercept has found the NYT memo that specifically bars its journalists, and even interviewees, from using these terms in relation to Palestinian deaths, as well as a ban on the use of 'genocide', 'ethnic cleansing', 'occupied territories', 'refugee camps' and 'Palestine'. The term 'terrorism' is restricted to describing Palestinian attacks, according to the memo. Israeli attacks on Palestinian civilians and civilian infrastructure, such as hospitals, is excluded. The entire Palestinian narrative – and the region's history – has been erased from the NYT's coverage, exactly as Israel would want it to be. Now we just need to unearth the memos issued by the BBC, Guardian and a host of other outlets that are serving precisely the same purpose of skewing the coverage exclusively in Israel's favour. More here: https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt-israel-gaza-genocide-palestine-coverage/
@Jonathan_K_Cook - Jonathan Cook
Maayan Sherman, mother of an Israeli soldier who was one of three hostages found dead in a Gaza tunnel in December, says they were killed when Israel flooded the tunnel with poison gas. She compared his death to the gassing of Jews in the Holocaust, calling it 'premeditated murder' by the Israeli military. Despite its usual evasion, the Israeli army all but confirmed her accusation, stating: "At this stage it cannot be denied nor confirmed that they were killed due to strangulation, suffocation, poisoning, or as the result of an IDF attack or Hamas operation."
@Jonathan_K_Cook - Jonathan Cook
This is an account of the Hamas attack on one of the main communities that was targeted – and contradicts the story every single western media outlet has told us. It's from one of the very few Israeli survivors, and was broadcast on Israeli state radio. It's now been censored
@intifada - Electronic Intifada
Many Israeli civilians in Kibbutz Be'eri were killed by Israeli forces, survivor Yasmin Porat told Israeli state radio in a now censored interview. Here it is with translation. READ MORE: https://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-forces-shot-their-own-civilians-kibbutz-survivor-says/38861
