’42 knees in one day’: Israeli snipers brag about deliberately crippling Gaza protesters Six IDF snipers told Israeli newspaper Haaretz about their experiences “shooting knees” on the border with Gaza. The New Arab, 07 March, 2020 Discharged members of the Israeli Defense Forces, who served as snipers on the border with the Gaza Strip, …
Category: The Middle East
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Jun 07 2025
Gaza is not an aberration
Imperial Cowardice: Gaza and the Moral Collapse of the American Elite By Mohamed El Mokhtar, April 24, 2025 Not long ago, in a courteous written exchange, an American friend — Anglo-Saxon, an attorney by profession, graduate of George Washington University and Yale — shared with me a conviction he believed to be lucid: in …
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Jul 27 2024
Horror in the Holy Land
Survivors Describe Horror as Israel Massacres 90 Palestinians in “Safe Zone” By Tareq S. Hajjaj, July 14, 2024 In a crater in the ground almost larger than a schoolyard, a group of young men dig through the sand and pull out the bodies. “His head is there! His head is there!” someone yells. A …
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Jun 05 2024
From the river to the sea
A very concise defense of Palestinians By Monsieur Jacques d’Nalgar, 5 juin 2024 de l’ère commune Zionists are bloody goddamned fascists… A less-concise defense of Palestinians… Leaving aside moral arguments for ending 70-plus years of festering injustice, leaving aside comparisons to South Africa’s systemic apartheid racism, and even leaving aside the ultimate irony of …
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Feb 08 2024
The better they got…
Zajal on Arak By Zein El-Amine, Jan 26, 2015 I remember when electricity came to my village. I must have been about seven or eight. The government installed a transformer in the village center. The thing was housed in a metal locker. The villagers called it ‘The Clock.’ At first, The Clock was a thing …
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Sep 24 2023
Another obituary
Dr. Jim Ragland, of Allen, Texas, died September 24, 2023 at the age of 99. He was born in Ada, Oklahoma in 1924 to James Jordan Ragland and Zelda Keithley Ragland. He was preceded in death by his wife of almost 70 years, Leola Lee Ragland, his parents, and his sister JoAnn Craddick. He is …
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Jul 29 2023
Before there was Trump
Is This the End of Bibi? By David Remnick, July 22, 2023 Netanyahu’s coalition of zealots, the resistance in the streets, and the Israeli Kulturkampf. Benjamin Netanyahu has been Prime Minister of Israel longer than anyone in the history of the state, longer than F.D.R. was President of the United States. And yet, for …
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