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Znet Article Cook: Hurtling towards the Next Intifada

Znet Article, August, 31 2006 Jonathan Cook
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This is an edited version of an interview published in German in the newspaper Die Junge Welt on 1 July 2006 between Andrea Bistrich and the British journalist Jonathan Cook, based in Nazareth, Israel, about his new book “Blood and Religio...

Znet Article Cook: After Lebanon, Israel Is Looking For More Wars

Znet Article, August, 25 2006 Jonathan Cook
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Nazareth. Late last month, a fortnight into Israel's war against Lebanon, the Hebrew media published a story that passed observers by. Scientists in Haifa, according to the report, have developed a "missile-trapping" steel net that can shield buil...

Znet Article Cook: Lebanese deaths, and Israeli war crimes, kept off the balance sheet

Znet Article, August, 16 2006 Jonathan Cook
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During Israel’s war against the people of Lebanon, our media, politicians and diplomats have colluded with the aggressors by distracting us with irrelevancies, by concocting controversies, and by framing the language of diplomacy. In the f...

Znet Article Cook: How I Found Myself With The Islamic Fascists

Znet Article, August, 12 2006 Jonathan Cook
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It occurred to me as I watched the story unfolding on my TV of a suspected plot by a group of at least 20 British Muslims to blow up planes between the UK and America that the course of my life and that of the alleged "terrorists" may have run in ...

Znet Article Cook: Hypocrisy and the clamor against Hizbullah

Znet Article, August, 09 2006 Jonathan Cook
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A reader recently emailed to ask if anyone else was suggesting, as I have done, that Hizbullah’s rocket fire may not be quite as indiscriminate or maliciously targeted at Israeli civilians as is commonly assumed. I had to admit that I have...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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,...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 “apparently”, or another favourite “reportedly”, they are usually distancing themselves from an event or an interpretation in the supposed interests of balance. But I think we should re...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Cook: Israel's Marriage Ban Closes The Gates To Palestinians

Znet Article, May, 25 2006 Jonathan Cook
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In approving an effective ban on marriages between Israelis and Palestinians this week, Israel's Supreme Court has shut tighter the gates of the Jewish fortress the state of Israel is rapidly becoming. The judges' decision, in the words of the co...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article Cook: Apartheid targets Palestinian home-owners inside Israel

Znet Article, March, 13 2005 Jonathan Cook
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You won't hear about the story of my Palestinian friend Ali Zbeidat and the threatened demolition of his "illegal" home, either from the hundreds of international correspondents in Jerusalem or from the Hebrew media - not even from those remarkabl...

Znet Article Cook: Look again, Gandhi

Znet Article, September, 09 2004 Jonathan Cook
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"I am coming to speak about peace and non- violence," Arun Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi's grandson, told the Jerusalem Post newspaper shortly before he arrived in the Middle East to preach a message of mutual respect, love and understanding to two confl...

Znet Article Cook: Israel in the Future

Znet Article, June, 06 2004 Jonathan Cook
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Eretz Israel Times, February 2014 It was a momentous week for the Jewish state. The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics published the latest census figures for the year 2013 showing that the Arab population in Greater Israel was the smallest eve...

Znet Article Cook: Matrix Reloaded- Yet Again

Znet Article, November, 16 2003 Jonathan Cook
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Israeli academic Jeff Halper has coined the phrase "the matrix of control" to describe the system of settlements, outposts, bypass roads, confiscated land masquerading as national parks, military zones, checkpoints and now hundreds of kilometres o...

Znet Article Cook: Absent Voices

Znet Article, August, 18 2003 Jonathan Cook
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As Sharon manoeuvers in the shadow of the roadmap, the shortcomings of the mainstream Israeli peace camp have never been more evident, writes Jonathan Cook from Nazareth This Saturday a convoy of Jewish and Arab Israeli peace activists will vent...

Znet Article Cook: Racism Reinforced

Znet Article, August, 09 2003 Jonathan Cook
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Click to view caption Farahti with three of their four children. Ahmed Farahti is facing deportation back to West Bank even though he has been married to Samar for eight years Morad as-Sana and his wife Abir returned home from their honeym...

Znet Article Cook: Whose Security?

Znet Article, June, 16 2003 Jonathan Cook
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It took only two days from last week's handshakes at the Aqaba summit between US President George W Bush and the Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers, Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas, setting the seal on the latest peace initiative for the Middl...

Znet Article Cook: Democracy's Oasis: A Mirage

Znet Article, June, 08 2003 Jonathan Cook
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Israel's image as a democratic state took a further heavy battering last week as two separate reports were issued, the first by Amnesty International into Israeli military policies in the occupied territories, and the second by a United Nations wa...

Znet Article Cook: The Real Target

Znet Article, May, 23 2003 Jonathan Cook
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It was an operation organised with the kind of ruthless precision needed to capture Osama Bin Laden. In the early hours of Tuesday 13 May, hundreds of armed Israeli police and security officials massed at different locations in northern Israel and...

Znet Article Cook: Common Images Of Brutality

Znet Article, April, 11 2003 Jonathan Cook
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Al-Jazeera was showing Iraqi prisoners, their heads covered with hoods and their hands tied tightly with white plastic cuffs, on the television behind Sultan and Shareef Haroun. But the two brothers, sitting in their home again after three days ex...

Znet Article Cook: Thwarting The State

Znet Article, March, 28 2003 Jonathan Cook
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Less than a fortnight ago Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon took his cabinet ministers on a well- publicised tour of the northern sections of the 360km separation fence, ostensibly being built around the West Bank to protect Israelis from Palest...

Znet Article Cook: No White Flags

Znet Article, March, 02 2003 Jonathan Cook
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The streets of Ramallah, unlike those of most other West Bank cities, are usually free of Israeli soldiers. Despite appearances, however, the army has stamped its control on the West Bank's capital as certainly as its tanks have left deep tread ma...

Znet Article Cook: Crossing Which Borders?

Znet Article, January, 02 2003 Jonathan Cook
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Earlier this year the Israeli novelist A B Yehoshua wrote at length about Zionism, the Jewish nation- building ideology formulated by Theodor Herzl, explaining that at its core lay the concept of a border. Jewish identity in the diaspora, he obser...

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