Geography Archives: Israel

The U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza has led to a precipitous loss in the population’s life expectancy. Even as the ceasefire allows aid to enter Gaza, this profound demographic loss will take generations to revert.

The U.S. president suggests that Jordan and Egypt should take in more Palestinians from Gaza.

Ever since Tel Aviv’s 1948 creation, much has been said and written about ‘Greater Israel’—the notion Zionism’s ultimate end goal is the forcible annexation and ethnic cleansing of vast swaths of Arab lands for Jewish settlement, based on Biblical claims that this territory was promised to Jews by God.

A senior BBC editor at the center of an ongoing scandal into the network’s systematic pro-Israel bias is, in fact, a former member of a CIA propaganda outfit, MintPress News can reveal. Raffi Berg, an Englishman who heads the BBC’s Middle East desk, formerly worked for the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Broadcast Information Service, a unit that, by his own admission, was a CIA front group.

The ceasefire is publicized as a demonstration of Trump’s and U.S. leverage with respect to Israel when it actively seeks results rather than merely wants to make a rhetorical impression, but there is more to this ceasefire that is immediately apparent.

Gil Mualem-Doron’s fake ads for villas in Gaza are actually based on a real Israeli estate agent advertising property on Gaza’s beachfront.

Gazans sift through 50 million tons of rubble, finding 200 bodies.

The new White House website said Trump rescinded Executive Order 14115 issued on Feb. 1, 2024, which authorized the imposition of certain sanctions “on Persons Undermining Peace, Security, and Stability in the West Bank.”

Former detainees recounted abuse, violence and humiliation, even up to a few hours before they were released.

Grayzone reporter Max Blumenthal also confronted Blinken, asking if he was ‘compromised by Israel’

After 15 months of the most horrific live-streamed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Israel has been forced into an interim ceasefire. How long it will last is anyone’s guess but Israel’s contempt for any restraining agreements doesn’t offer much hope.

Communist Party of Israel & Hadash: The agreement and ceasefire are important and welcomed, but it cannot be sufficient.

Israel assumed that by destroying Gaza, it would eradicate the resistance. However, that calculation was deeply flawed. The resistance in Gaza is directly tied to the Palestinian people. It’s not about eliminating a specific number of fighters but about the enduring bond between the people and the resistance itself.

Palestinian creator and producer Rashid Masharawi discusses ‘From Ground Zero,’ a collection of twenty-two films by Palestinian filmmakers in Gaza.

The latest is the martyrdom of 31-year-old Thabat Ibrahim Muhammad Salim, a volunteer doctor at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, on 5 January, 2025.

When news broke over the weekend that President Biden just approved an $8 billion deal for shipping weapons to Israel, a nameless official vowed that “we will continue to provide the capabilities necessary for Israel’s defense.”

Over all, Washington has provided the regime with $310 billion in military and economic aid, which has been regularly adjusted for inflation, according to the Council on Foreign Relations, an American think tank.

Needs assessment by NGO reveals the huge psychological impact of the war with Israel on young people.

On December 12, the Biden administration released its National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Hate. But as Biden speaks of “countering hate,” he continues to expedite the shipment of weapons that are being used to kill Palestinians.

Aid group accuses Tel Aviv of deliberate ethnic cleansing in latest damning report.