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Cook: Remembering Land Day
Znet Article, March, 30 2009
Jonathan Cook
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Palestinians across the Middle East were due to commemorate Land Day today, marking the anniversary of clashes in 1976 in which six unarmed Palestinians were shot dead by the Israeli army as it tried to break up a general strike.
Cook: Ottoman archives show land deeds forged
Znet Article, March, 25 2009
Jonathan Cook
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A legal battle being waged by Palestinian families to stop the takeover of their neighbourhood in East Jerusalem by Jewish settlers has received a major fillip from the recent souring of relations between Israel and Turkey.
Cook: Bedouin baby's power struggle with Israel
Znet Article, March, 18 2009
Jonathan Cook
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Little Ashimah Abu Sbieh's life hangs by a thread -- or more specifically, an electricity cable that runs from a noisy diesel-powered generator in the family's backyard. Should the generator's engine fail, she could die within minutes.
Cook: Palestinian villages become Israel’s playground
Znet Article, March, 10 2009
Jonathan Cook
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As spring sets in early, Israelis have been pouring into one of the country’s most popular leisure spots. Visitors to Canada Park, a few kilometres north-west of Jerusalem, enjoy its spectacular panaromas, woodland paths, mountain-bike trails, c...
Cook: Israel’s military Mephistopheles
Znet Article, February, 27 2009
Jonathan Cook
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Officials claim unelected former general “running the country."
Cook: The only Palestinian woman in Israel’s parliament
Znet Article, February, 24 2009
Jonathan Cook
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When Israel’s 18th parliament opened today, there was only one Arab woman among its intake of legislators.
Cook: Israeli university welcomes 'war crimes' colonel
Znet Article, February, 09 2009
Jonathan Cook
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The Israeli government has moved quickly to quash protests over the appointment of the army's senior adviser on international law to a teaching post at Tel Aviv University. Col Pnina Sharvit-Baruch is thought to have provided legal cover for war c...
Cook: Did the Israeli army wage a Jewish jihad in Gaza?
Znet Article, February, 04 2009
Jonathan Cook
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Religious extremists' rapid rise through the ranks of the Israeli Army...
Cook: Israel’s Doctrine of Destruction
Znet Article, January, 20 2009
Jonathan Cook
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In the last days before Israel imposed a unilateral ceasefire in Gaza to avoid embarrassing the incoming Obama administration, it upped its assault, driving troops deeper into Gaza City, intensifying its artillery bombardment and creating thousand...
Cook: The Plot Against Gaza
Znet Article, January, 17 2009
Jonathan Cook
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Israel has justified its assault on Gaza as entirely defensive, intended only to stop Hamas firing rockets on Israel’s southern communities. Although that line has been repeated unwaveringly by officials since Israel launched its attack on 27 De...
Cook: Israeli assault injures 1.5 million Gazans
Znet Article, January, 16 2009
Jonathan Cook
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This week the death toll in Gaza passed the 1,000 mark, after nearly three weeks of Israeli air and ground attacks. But surprisingly, no one has reported an even more appalling statistic: that there are some 1.5 million injured Palestinians in Gaz...
Cook: Israel Bars Arab Parties from Election
Znet Article, January, 14 2009
Jonathan Cook
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The only three Arab parties represented in the Israeli parliament vowed yesterday to fight a decision by the Central Elections Committee to bar them from running in next month's general election.
Cook: Is Gaza a testing ground for experimental weapons?
Znet Article, January, 13 2009
Jonathan Cook
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Concerns about Israel's use of non-conventional and experimental weapons in the Gaza Strip are growing, with evasive comments from spokesmen and reluctance to allow independent journalists inside the tiny enclave only fuelling speculation.
Cook: Blueprint for Gaza attack was long planned
Znet Article, January, 12 2009
Jonathan Cook
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As Israel rejected the terms of the proposed United Nations ceasefire at the weekend, Israeli military analysts were speculating on the nature of the next stage of the attack on Gaza, or the “third phase†of the fighting as it is being referre...
Cook: Criticism of Israel's war crimes mounts
Znet Article, January, 10 2009
Jonathan Cook
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Criticism by international watchdog groups over the increasing death toll in Gaza mounted this week as the first legal actions inside Israel were launched accusing the army of intentionally harming the enclave’s civilian population.
Cook: Israel's aim: To make the Gazan prison even more secure
Znet Article, January, 07 2009
Jonathan Cook
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There are two persistent myths about the aim of Israel's onslaught on Gaza: the first that it is an entirely defensive move, a way to end the rocket fire of Hamas; and the second that it is designed to restore the army's credibility after its fail...
Cook: The real goal of the slaughter in Gaza
Znet Article, January, 01 2009
Jonathan Cook
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Ever since Hamas triumphed in the Palestinian elections nearly three years ago, the story in Israel has been that a full-scale ground invasion of the Gaza Strip was imminent. But even when public pressure mounted for a decisive blow against Hamas,...
Cook: Israeli Electioneering with Bombs
Znet Article, December, 30 2008
Jonathan Cook
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Of the three politicians who announced the military assault on Gaza to the world on Saturday, perhaps only the outgoing prime minister Ehud Olmert has little to lose or gain from its outcome.
Cook: Arab town blamed for Jewish Pride march’s cancellation
Znet Article, December, 19 2008
Jonathan Cook
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Jewish peace groups have accused the Israeli police of fuelling racism by cancelling a “Jewish Pride†march by a far-right group that was to have taken place through one of the largest Arab towns in Israel.
Cook: Hebron Settlers Take Their Fight Into Israel
Znet Article, December, 06 2008
Jonathan Cook
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Extremist settler groups currently involved in violent confrontations with Palestinians in the centre of Hebron have chosen their next battleground, this time outside the West Bank.
