The Culture of Impunity and the absurdity of Israel investigating itself. Israel’s IDF soldiers shoot to kill, then they investigate themselves and find that they did nothing wrong, or it was only by mistake! — By John Brown (Translated by Sol Salbe) Last night (27th May), IDF gun-totters invaded the Palestinian town of al Khader and shot dead a 15-year-old youth, Zeid Ranim. The police and IDF spokespeople’s versions varied from initially suggesting the youth threw a Molotov cocktail, to later saying that Molotov cocktails…

Investigation of Sheerin Abu Akleh’s death, CNN — By Rogel Alpher (Translated by Sol Salbe) Haaretz • May 26, 2022 Anyone who cares about investigating the truth in the event of the death of Al-Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh should welcome the broadcast of the investigative report on CNN. This is a worthy professional attempt to get to…

Her name is Shireen Abu Akleh — By Elias Khoury (Translated by Tony Maron) اسمها شيرين أبوعاقلة Shireen, the brave and noble journalist, who we followed to Sheikh Jarrah, Bab al-Amud, Jenin, Old Jerusalem and Mayar, to read in her voice and words the alphabet of love and defiance. Shireen, the Jerusalemite girl whose shyness and humility…

How unreceptive, arrogant, cruel and stupid it must be, to be able at all to think (not to say actually carry out) about hitting coffin-bearers with batons at a funeral procession. Still, there is no cloud without a silver lining. Now, hopefully, the world will finally realise who we really are. [Israel is] an abominable colonialist state. — By Kobi Niv • (Translated by Sol Salbe) There was nothing in Shireen Abu-Akleh’s funeral that would have justified the police presence, certainly not in such a massive way, not the intervention in the funeral procession, and certainly not the beatings suffered by the coffin bearers. But “they started it.”

The gradual penetration of a lying culture, and the cover-up efforts by the Israeli military have increased. ■ There must be an independent international commission of inquiry into the circumstances of the death of Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh — Yossi Melman (Translated by Sol Salbe) Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi, Defence Minister Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett must hurry and announce today (Wednesday) their agreement to establish an independent international commission of inquiry into the circumstances of the death of Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, in Jenin…

Factsheet by The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) — General Facts & Figures The Palestinian “Nakba” (“catastrophe” in Arabic) refers to the mass expulsion of Palestinian Arabs from British Mandate Palestine during Israel’s creation (1947–49). The Nakba was not an unintended result of war. It was a deliberate and systematic act necessary for the creation of a Jewish majority state in historic Palestine…

Jewish feminists celebrated the fact that Yael Sherer, a brave activist fighting violence against women, lit a torch on Independence Day. But as a Palestinian and feminist, for whom this day is a reminder of the Nakba, this event tore my heart — By Samah Salaime • 7 May 2022 (Translated from Hebrew by Sol Salbe) For all Palestinians, the Independence Day celebrations of the State of Israel are an ongoing ceremony of pouring salt on the Nakba’s wounds.

As Palestinians mark the 74th anniversary of the #Nakba, we should take a moment to debunk one of the most enduring myths surrounding the 1948 war — (Excerpt from Haaretz article, May. 3, 2022) By Seraj Assi In a time-honored fable perpetuated by both Arabs and Israelis alike, the war is depicted as an epic battle between a Jewish David and an Arab Goliath. This is the sheer mythologizing of history.

By Avigdor Feldman (Translated from Hebrew Haaretz by Sol Salbe) Me and lawyers Michael Sfard, Dan Yakir and Hassan Jabareen [Adalah] were chosen by Baron Munchausen, the Honorary President of the Red Cross, to be sent to Ukraine and find out if the warring parties are complying with the humanitarian…