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Znet Article Cook: The real goal of Israel’s blockade

Znet Article, November, 17 2008 Jonathan Cook
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The latest tightening of Israel’s chokehold on Gaza – ending all supplies into the Strip for more than a week – has produced immediate and shocking consequences for Gaza’s 1.5 million inhabitants.

Znet Article Cook: Israel tightens chokehold on village of entrepreneurs

Znet Article, November, 13 2008 Jonathan Cook
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The sun is sinking fast behind the trees of an olive grove on the outskirts of the West Bank village of Nilin. After a day of confrontations between the Israeli army and the Palestinian villagers over Israel’s building of its separation wall on Ni...

Znet Article Cook: Travesty of tolerance on display

Znet Article, November, 05 2008 Jonathan Cook
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Museum lays waste to ancient Muslim cemetery.

Znet Article Cook: Message of massacre lives on for Palestinians

Znet Article, October, 30 2008 Jonathan Cook
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In a conflict that has produced more than its share of suffering and tragedy, the name of Kafr Qassem lives on in infamy more than half a century after Israeli police gunned down 47 Palestinian civilians, including women and children, in the village.

Znet Article Cook: Israel bars visit to father’s grave

Znet Article, October, 29 2008 Jonathan Cook
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Salwa Salam Qupty clutches a fading sepia photograph of a young Palestinian man wearing a traditional white headscarf. It is the sole memento that survives of her father, killed by a Jewish militia during the 1948 war that established Israel.

Znet Article Cook: Israel’s ‘city of coexistence’ shows its true colors

Znet Article, October, 17 2008 Jonathan Cook
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Israel has been suffering its worst bout of inter-communal violence since the start of the second intifada, with a week of what has been widely presented as “rioting” by Jewish and Arab residents of the northern port city of Acre.

Znet Article Cook: Intellectual Cleansing 2

Znet Article, October, 14 2008 Jonathan Cook
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In many ways, my introduction to journalism was far from typical. In the mid-1980s, after university, I was casting around for a career and decided to “try” journalism. I called the local free newspaper in the city in which I had graduated, Southa...

Znet Article Cook: Israeli best seller breaks national taboo

Znet Article, October, 10 2008 Jonathan Cook
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No one is more surprised than Shlomo Sand that his latest academic work has spent 19 weeks on Israel’s bestseller list – and that success has come to the history professor despite his book challenging Israel’s biggest taboo.

Znet Article Cook: Israel’s army and settlers fall out

Znet Article, October, 03 2008 Jonathan Cook
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The Israeli army officer in charge of the occupation of the West Bank, Gen Gadi Shamni, has lambasted extremist Jewish settlers, blaming rising levels of violence on the encouragement of their leadership and right-wing rabbis.

Znet Article Cook: Israel’s breeding ground for Jewish terrorism

Znet Article, September, 30 2008 Jonathan Cook
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The words “Jewish” and “terrorist” are not easily uttered together by Israelis. But just occasionally, such as last week when one of the country’s leading intellectuals was injured by a pipe bomb placed at the front door of his home, they find the...

Znet Article Cook: Archaeology becomes a curse for Jerusalem's Palestinians

Znet Article, September, 27 2008 Jonathan Cook
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From just outside Jerusalem’s Old City walls, the simple stone and cinder-block homes of Silwan cascade southwards into a valley known as the Holy Basin.

Znet Article Cook: Jaffa’s ‘renewal’ aims at expulsion of Palestinians

Znet Article, September, 15 2008 Jonathan Cook
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The ground floor of Zaki Khimayl’s home is a cafe where patrons can drink mint tea or fresh juice as they smoke on a water pipe. Located by Jaffa’s beach, a stone’s throw from Tel Aviv, the business should be thriving.

Znet Article Cook: Israel's dark arts of ensnaring collaborators

Znet Article, September, 12 2008 Jonathan Cook
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Israel’s enduring use of Palestinian collaborators to entrench the occupation and destroy Palestinian resistance was once the great unmentionable of the Middle East conflict.

Znet Article Cook: Palestinian village faces army reign of terror

Znet Article, September, 02 2008 Jonathan Cook
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The window through which Salam Amira, 16, filmed the moment when an Israeli soldier shot from close range a handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinian detainee has a large hole at its centre with cracks running in every direction.

Znet Article Cook: Israel's outposts seal death of Palestinian state

Znet Article, August, 25 2008 Jonathan Cook
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Yehudit Genud hardly feels she is on the frontier of Israel’s settlement project, although the huddle of mobile homes on a wind-swept West Bank hilltop she calls home is controversial even by Israeli standards.

Znet Article Cook: The Struggle Against Jerusalem’s Quiet Ethnic Cleansing

Znet Article, August, 01 2008 Jonathan Cook
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In the first hours of dawn, Nader Elayan was woken by a call from a neighbour warning him to hurry to the house he had almost finished building. By the time he arrived, it was too late: a bulldozer was tearing down the walls. More than 100 Israeli...

Znet Article Cook: Palestinian family denied even half a house

Znet Article, July, 26 2008 Jonathan Cook
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It must be the smallest Israeli settlement in the occupied Palestinian territories: just half a house. But Palestinian officials and Israeli human rights groups are concerned that it represents the first stage of a plan to eradicate the historical...

Znet Article Cook: Zionism’s Dead End

Znet Article, June, 27 2008 Jonathan Cook
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Separation or ethnic cleansing? Israel’s encaging of Gaza aims to achieve both…

Znet Article Cook: Nakba March

Znet Article, May, 16 2008 Jonathan Cook
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Heads of state have rubbed shoulders with celebrities to pay homage to the Jewish state on its 60th birthday, while a million Israelis reportedly headed off to the country’s forests to enjoy the national pastime: a barbecue.

Znet Article Cook: Two-State Dreamers

Znet Article, March, 12 2008 Jonathan Cook
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If the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the world’s most intractable, much the same can be said of the parallel debate about whether its resolution can best be achieved by a single state embracing the two peoples living there or by a divisio...

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