On August 22 a drone strike against the house of “suspected militants” in North Waziristan killed 20 people. It also destroyed a neighboring house full of women and children.[1]
South West Asia
Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak approved an order for 20 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters in a deal valued at around $2.75 billion, according to Haaretz. The Israeli Air Force expects to take delivery of the first aircraft in 2015. The article quotes Barak saying the F-35 costs $96 million a […]
A French periodical has revealed the location of a secret Israeli espionage center, which ranks among the world’s largest and most significant. The base, which intercepts information for the Israeli Spy Agency (Mossad) and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), is placed near Kibbutz Urim not far from Beersheba, the largest […]
[ Palestinian olive trees torched by israeli settlers ] The results of an analysis spanning over 1000 events of settler violence, as well as trends in the violence over time, to better understand how these attacks affect Palestinians. Learn what type of violence occurs, who is most vulnerable and most […]
[ If the last nine years have taught us anything it’s that there is – currently – no enforcement mechanism for International Law ] Back on 23 August 2010 Israel’s most prestigious human rights organization, B’Tselem released a short report on the condition of water supplies in the Gaza Strip. […]
Did 9/11 make us all go mad ? How fitting, in a weird, crazed way, that the apotheosis of that firestorm nine years ago should turn out to be a crackpot preacher threatening another firestorm with a Nazi-style book burning of the Koran. Or a would-be mosque two blocks from […]
Documentary maker Anthony Lawson argues, in a 15-minute video critique of BBC Panorama’s ‘Death on the Med’, [youtube]afBr10f38TI[/youtube] that the BBC’s “biased and often untruthful treatment of Israel’s worst atrocity since Operation Cast Lead should trigger a public enquiry about who is really in charge of one of the most […]
By Friday, September 14 (2001), the tone of television coverage had moved from shock to fury, legitimizing, even advocating, total vengeance, no matter what the consequences. This was especially evident in one of the worst journalistic innovations of the past twenty years, the use of the sensationalizing banner headline designed […]
[ … just like it already has been doing for decades ] The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to introduce any terms agreed in a Middle East peace deal over a period of decades rather than years, it has been claimed. Amid growing but guarded optimism surrounding last […]