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13 votes
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Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of May 13
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16 votes -
How GPS warfare is playing havoc with civilian life
15 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of May 6
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18 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of April 29
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14 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of April 22
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8 votes -
Iran's missile strike on Israel - The attack, defence & Israel's counter-strike
14 votes -
US House approves $95 billion aid bill for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan (gifted link)
41 votes -
Israeli missiles hit site in Iran
21 votes -
Is there a documentary from a reputable source that documents the relationship between the Jews and Israel/Palestine?
Ever since the Hamas attack, I think I have understood the position of the Palestinians, that they were there first and then Britain unfairly divided up the landed and gave some of it to Jews so...
Ever since the Hamas attack, I think I have understood the position of the Palestinians, that they were there first and then Britain unfairly divided up the landed and gave some of it to Jews so they could have a homeland where they wouldn't have to deal with Anti-semitism after what they went through during WWII.
But Jews/Zionists claim that they have some ancestral right to that land and I have not found it easy to come across anything from a reputable source that explains what backs up their claim (wikipedia and random YouTube videos don't count).
16 votes -
Saudi Arabia and UAE refused to open airspace to Israeli and US aircraft during Iran attack
9 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of April 15
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5 votes -
Iran launches dozens of drones toward Israel
42 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of April 8
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9 votes -
US literary magazine retracts Israeli writer’s coexistence essay amid mass resignations
25 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of April 1
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18 votes -
Historian Avi Shlaim: ‘I remain hopeful Israel will start to act rationally’
2 votes -
‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
36 votes -
Daniel Kahneman, who plumbed the psychology of economics, dies at 90
16 votes -
Daniel Kahneman, renowned psychologist and Nobel prize winner, dies at 90
19 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of March 25
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11 votes -
Israel is a strategic liability for the United States. The special relationship does not benefit Washington and is endangering US interests across the globe.
33 votes -
The Israeli settlers shrugging off sanctions to menace the West Bank – Measures against extremists do little to temper a movement emboldened by the Gaza war
18 votes -
Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’
27 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of March 18
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8 votes -
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox don’t serve in its armed forces. That’s getting harder than ever to justify and threatens Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition.
39 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of March 11
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3 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of March 4
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14 votes -
“Between the hammer and the anvil” – The story behind the New York Times October 7 exposé
13 votes -
After George Galloway’s triumph in Rochdale, urgent questions loom for Keir Starmer – and the left, too
14 votes -
Opinion - Israel must decide where it’s going—and who should lead it there: the case for early elections
10 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of February 26
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9 votes -
The Israeli settlers attacking their Palestinian neighbors – With the world’s focus on Gaza, settlers have used wartime chaos as cover for violence and dispossession
24 votes -
Shaun on Palestine
23 votes -
Active US Air Force serviceman self-immolates himself in front of the Embassy of Israel
36 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of February 19
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20 votes -
The West is losing Muslim Liberals – Indifference to Palestinian suffering in Gaza is alienating moderates across the Islamic world and tarnishing the appeal of liberal democratic values
36 votes -
India’s water transport workers' union says won’t help ships carrying arms bound for Israel
14 votes -
Israel to launch Rafah offensive unless hostages home by Ramadan
16 votes -
California's push for mandatory ethnic studies classes runs into the Israel-Palestine conflict in designing a curriculum
22 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of February 12
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6 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of February 5
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10 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of January 29
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16 votes -
Gaza ceasefire deal matters more than deterrence
10 votes -
The UN agency that aids Palestinians fired several workers and is investigating charges of their involvement in the 7 October attacks
24 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of January 22
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4 votes -
Why is Israel sending Palestinian taxes to Norway? Public money destined for Gaza has been frozen by Israel since November.
13 votes -
A Louisiana teen traveled to the West Bank to learn about his roots. He was shot dead.
17 votes -
EU seeks ‘consequences’ for Israel over opposition to Palestinian statehood
13 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of January 15
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12 votes -
Arab nations develop plan to end Israel-Hamas war and create Palestinian state
19 votes -
Benjamin Netanyahu tells US he opposes creation of Palestinian state after Gaza war
19 votes -
Citing safety, dozens of Jewish families are leaving Oakland public schools
37 votes -
The price of Benjamin Netanyahu’s ambition – the Prime Minister seems unable to distinguish between his own interests and his country’s
21 votes -
Coverage of Gaza War in the New York Times and other major newspapers heavily favored Israel, analysis shows
35 votes -
More than 1,400 Finnish music industry professionals have signed a petition urging a ban on Israel from Eurovision over alleged "war crimes" in Gaza
23 votes -
Israel is murdering Palestinian journalists in Gaza – The pattern of killing cannot be denied. Is there a lack of sympathy because the victims aren’t American or European?
35 votes -
Some German Jews say their country goes too far defending Israel – and they find themselves attacked for antisemitism
46 votes -
Israel’s Supreme Court overturns a key component of Benjamin Netanyahu’s polarizing judicial overhaul
22 votes -
Sudanese war continues as the world ignores it in favor of wars in Ukraine and Gaza
30 votes -
Hannah Arendt would not qualify for the Hannah Arendt prize in Germany today
27 votes -
Book recommendation request: An introduction to the Israeli-Arab conflict for non-academics
Hello, If this topic came up and such a recommendation has been made, please just point me to that post. I would like to read an introduction to the Israeli-Arab conflict. I would like the book:...
Hello,
If this topic came up and such a recommendation has been made, please just point me to that post.
I would like to read an introduction to the Israeli-Arab conflict.
I would like the book:
- to be written by an author with relevant credentials
- to not be written for academics
- to not be written by an Arab, Israeli, or European author
- something that was published before the October 7th invasion of Israel
Thanks much
15 votes -
Al Jazeera journalist Samer Abudaqa killed in Israeli attack in Gaza
32 votes -
Thoughts on anti-Zionism?
I have been pretty consistently pro-Palestine and critical of injustices perpetrated by Israel, but the anti-Zionist stance has always seemed to me to be counterproductive. On the issue of just...
I have been pretty consistently pro-Palestine and critical of injustices perpetrated by Israel, but the anti-Zionist stance has always seemed to me to be counterproductive.
On the issue of just the legitimacy of the state of Israel, here's my basic stance: All land controlled by all governments was taken at some point through conquest (this is not a whataboutist stance, it's a tautology), but in the post-colonial era we all decided that might isn't right and that a mixture of international law, norms, and democratic principles should dictate the legitimacy of territorial claims. So, the Ottoman empire fell. The British seized control of the land of Palestine and retained a moderately weak mandate over the land (moderately weak in the sense that they were the essentially undisputed administrators of the land and had a military presence, but the territory would likely try to break away if the British tried to exercise significant control over it). With this moderately weak mandate, they pushed for the creation of the state of Israel that, by extension, I would consider a moderately-weakly legitimate state under the pre-WWII paradigm. Israel fights a defensive war against the Arab states and succeeds, converting the state of Israel as defined by the original 1948 partition plan from a weakly legitimate state into a properly legitimate state. At this point, the post-WWII frameworks kick in, and all the developments in the conflict past this point should be a function of that lens (ie. Palestine wrongfully denied sovereignty, illegality of settlements, etc.).
Zionism, in the most basic sense, is the belief in the creation of a Jewish state of Israel. There are more extreme and moderate versions of it, but that's all that it is at its core. Anti-Zionism is opposition to the creation of a Jewish state of Israel (I would not consider opposition to settlements or, strictly speaking, even to the accession of new territory into Israel proper past the 1948 borders after the two wars to be anti-Zionist itself). The anti-Zionist stance before the establishment of Israel was reasonable, but past that point is primarily a claim of one nation over the land of another nation. It's perfectly understandable at the end of the day for the Arabs and, particularly the Palestinians, to be upset about the whole situation and even to feel that a great injustice was done unto them. But that should all be relegated to the world of international affairs between established states. Ultimately, in my eyes anti-Zionism is not anti-semitic, but it's definitely anti-peace.
36 votes -
Masha Gessen’s Hannah Arendt Prize has been canceled because of their essay on Gaza
22 votes -
Iran has accused Swedish EU employee Johan Floderus of spying for Israel and "corruption on earth", a crime that carries the death penalty under Tehran's Islamic laws
9 votes -
Civilians make up 61% of Gaza deaths from airstrikes, Israeli study finds
47 votes -
Gaza and the future of information warfare
7 votes -
Israel-Hamas War Megathread, November 27 to December 7
It seemed about time to roll it over. Here's the previous topic.
23 votes -
Israel knew Hamas’s attack plan more than a year ago
38 votes -
Israeli spyware firm NSO demands “urgent” meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken amid Gaza war lobbying effort
22 votes -
A bitter season in the West Bank - the Gaza war offers West Bank illegal settlers opportunity and impunity
8 votes -
Gaza civilians, under Israeli barrage, are being killed at historic pace
33 votes -
Israel-Hamas War Megathread, November 16 to November 26
I was going to post these every week but I forgot, so let's just say they're occasional. Here is the previous topic.
37 votes -
The games industry must not stay silent on Palestine
16 votes -
From a scholar of genocide: Both Israel and Palestinian supporters accuse the other side of genocide – here’s what the term actually means
12 votes -
The extreme ambitions of West Bank settlers
44 votes -
Outrage grows after ‘chilling call for genocide’ by Florida Republican
30 votes -
From the river to the sea: The story behind Palestine's fight for freedom
11 votes -
Israel-Hamas War Megathread, November 6 to November 15
Thought I’d start a new topic since it’s been a while and there’s more to discuss. Here is the previous topic.
20 votes -
US diplomats privately criticize US public policy stance towards Israel in leaked memo
26 votes -
Hamas using Gaza hospitals as military positions, Israel claims as it presents new evidence
29 votes -
Israel-Hamas War Megathread, October 27 to November 5
This is a place to post links to news and analysis of the conflict when you’d prefer not to post them top-level.
51 votes -
Jewish and Palestinian and other Muslim students at US universities prepare to file lawsuits against their schools
13 votes -
Israel-Hamas war becomes flashpoint on US college campuses
32 votes -
Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu appoints new head of subcommittee related to the West Bank - from the Religious Zionist Party
15 votes -
Benjamin Netanyahu lobbied EU to pressure Egypt into accepting Gaza refugees
15 votes -
"Did the entire media industry misquote a Hamas spokesperson?" (searching for sources of the initial hospital bombing claims)
31 votes -
US asks Qatar to ‘turn down the volume’ of Al Jazeera news coverage
34 votes -
IDF shares proof of Hamas terror base built under main Gaza hospital
21 votes -
Israel agrees to US request to delay Gaza invasion
18 votes -
Peace, a forgotten word, renews its claim in the Holy Land
6 votes -
What Israel should do now: Israel’s current approach is clearly wrong. Here’s a better way to fight Hamas — and win.
26 votes -
What we know about the explosion at the hospital in Gaza
24 votes -
Gaza neonatal unit warns babies at risk 'within minutes' if power fails
15 votes -
Mitch McConnell backs US President Joe Biden’s $106bn aid request for Israel and Ukraine
34 votes -
We must not kill Gazan children to try to protect Israel’s children
24 votes -
Egypt-Gaza border crossing opens, letting desperately needed aid flow to Palestinians
21 votes -
Thirsty families in Gaza eke out trickle of water
20 votes -
Damning evidence of war crimes as Israeli attacks wipe out entire families in Gaza
46 votes