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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.
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.
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...
Cook: Travesty of tolerance on display
Znet Article, November, 05 2008
Jonathan Cook
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Museum lays waste to ancient Muslim cemetery.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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…
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.
