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Cook: The UN Resolution on Lebanon
Znet Article, August, 07 2006
Jonathan Cook
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If there were any remaining illusions about the purpose of Israel’s war against Lebanon, the draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a “cessation of major hostilities†published at the weekend should fi...
Cook: Israel, not Hizbullah, is putting civilians in danger on both sides of the border
Znet Article, August, 04 2006
Jonathan Cook
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Here are some interesting points raised this week by a leading commentator and published in a respected daily newspaper: “The Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert embeds his soldiers in Israeli communities, next to schools, beside hospitals,...
Cook: Why do they hate us? Listen to Qana (again)
Znet Article, July, 31 2006
Jonathan Cook
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The crowds in Beirut last year demanding a Cedar Revolution, “the first shoots of democracy†supposedly planted by the United States, are a distant memory. Yesterday we saw in their place the fury of Lebanon directed against the ca...
Cook: The lies Israel tells itself (and we tell on its behalf)
Znet Article, July, 28 2006
Jonathan Cook
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When journalists use the word “apparentlyâ€, or another favourite “reportedlyâ€, they are usually distancing themselves from an event or an interpretation in the supposed interests of balance. But I think we should re...
Cook: Five myths that help Israel's war crimes
Znet Article, July, 25 2006
Jonathan Cook
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This week I had the pleasure to appear on American radio, on the Laura Ingraham show, pitted against David Horowitz, a "Semite supremacist" who most recently made his name under the banner of Campus Watch, leading McCarthyite witch-hunts against A...
Cook: Notes from northern Israel
Znet Article, July, 19 2006
Jonathan Cook
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Nazareth hit the international headlines for the first time in this vicious war being waged by Israel mostly on Lebanese civilians. Reporter Matthew Price, corsetted in a blue flak jacket in Haifa, told BBC viewers that for the first time Hizbulla...
Cook: Israelis are dying
Znet Article, July, 17 2006
Jonathan Cook
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Here we go again -- another “serious escalation†has begun in the Middle East, or so BBC World was telling audiences throughout Sunday. So what prompted the BBC’s judgment that the crisis was escalating once more? You can b...
Cook: Kidnapped By Israel
Znet Article, July, 07 2006
Jonathan Cook
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Few readers of a British newspaper would have noticed the story. In the Observer of 25 June, it merited a mere paragraph hidden in the "World in brief" section, revealing that the previous day a team of Israeli commandos had entered the Gaza Strip...
Cook: Israel's road to 'convergence' began with Rabin
Znet Article, May, 11 2006
Jonathan Cook
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With his coalition partners on board, Israel's prime minister Ehud Olmert is plotting his next move: a partial withdrawal from the West Bank over the next few years which he and his government will declare as the end of the occupation and therefor...
Cook: The real meaning of deporting Hamas Members of Parliament
Znet Article, April, 23 2006
Jonathan Cook
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The policy of "hitnatkut", or unilateral disengagement, developed by Ariel Sharon needed a swift facelift following the withdrawal of settlers from Gaza last year. And Israel's prime minister-designate, Ehud Olmert, has found it in the related con...
Cook: Britain's Duplicity and the Siege of Jericho Jail
Znet Article, March, 20 2006
Jonathan Cook
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In the looking-glass world of Middle East politics, it is easy to forget that Ahmad Saadat, the imprisoned Palestinian leader Israel summarily arrested in Jericho late on Tuesday, is wanted for masterminding the killing of the Jewish state's most ...
