CNN: How the suffering in Gaza is different from other conflicts

By Arwa Damon. A child shrieks in pain in a medical tent at a field clinic in southern Gaza. He’s 7, with severe burns on his back that are being cleaned and slathered with balm. It’s an excruciating process that would be done under anesthesia, in the sterile setting of a hospital, in ideal circumstances.

The Jordan Times: Israel wants to destroy Gaza, annex the West Bank: But what does Gaza want?

By Ramzy Baroud. What is taking place in occupied Palestine is not a conflict, but a straightforward case of illegal military occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and outright genocide. Those who insist on using “neutral” language in depicting the crisis in Palestine are harming the Palestinian people beyond their seemingly innocuous words. This morally non-committal, middle-ground

Responsible Statecraft: Is 24/7 protest coverage distracting from the real war, in Gaza?

By Jack Hunter. The media can’t seem to handle more than one major story at a time. In this case, it may be a fatal flaw The campus protests over the Israel-Gaza war and similar demonstrations throughout the United States are ongoing, with questions about free speech, law enforcement overreach, anti-semitism, and individual university responses

Asharq Al-Awsat: The Biggest Losers Are American Universities

By Sawsan al-Abtah. The plan to suppress students at American universities and paint them as “anti-Semitic” had been almost fully developed before they began protesting against the Gaza massacres. Israel has been preparing this plan for a long time, and it never lost sight of these crucial sites that cultivate opinion and decision makers and

Russia Today: Neglect, abuse, harassment: The West is ignoring the fate of Palestinians stuck in Israeli jails

By Eva Bartlett. Released detainees tell of abuse and of indefinite detention, but their plight is unlikely to gain much traction in the West For over six months, the world has watched the devastating Israeli campaign against Palestinians in Gaza, which has killed over 34,000 people so far (including over 16,000 children). Fewer are aware, however, of

Rai al-Youm: Netanyahu’s anguish

By Abdel Bari Atwan. The US student protests against Israel’s genocide herald major change I have never seen Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu look so anguished as in the video he posted on ‘X’ on Thursday, in which he condemned the student protests in US universities, branded them anti-Semitic, likened them to 1930s Germany, and

Deutsche Welle: Israel-Iran tensions: Is Syria the new battlefield?

By Cathrin Schaer. Israel has been bombing Syria covertly for years, trying to stop anti-Israel forces in that country from getting any stronger. Some experts worry that the Gaza conflict will make things worse. Only a week after a suspected Israeli attack on the Iranian embassy complex in Damascus, Syria, it was business as usual

Responsible Statecraft: Israel can still drag the US into war with Iran

By Ivan Eland. The tit-for-tat has ended for now, but Benjamin Netanyahu has many incentives to continue goading Tehran The Biden administration is breathing a sigh of relief that it has so far avoided a wider regional war between Israel and Iran. But that self-congratulation should be tempered with realization that it was a close

Russia Today: The Middle East crisis has made one thing clear about the US

By Bradley Blankenship. The veto on Palestinian statehood and Israeli strikes on Iran are signs of irreversible decline in American soft power So-called Western values, especially those touted by the United States, have long revealed themselves to be hollow and contradictory. The country’s Declaration of Independence from Great Britain famously stated that “all men are

Al Mayadeen: The Gaza syndrome

By Bouthaina Shaaban. This is a historical juncture in the life of humanity, and we can be certain that life after this juncture will never be the same as it had been before it. Almost everyone in the world feels that the last seven months have changed our lives, and in a way, dramatically changed