Israeli politicians’ thin pretext for the latest attack on Gaza doesn’t add up, and the willing media doesn’t seem to care.

Words seem to lose their meaning among Western leaders when it comes to Palestine.

Mariam Barghouti travels to Nablus to meet the family of Ibrahim al-Nablusi, who was assassinated by Israeli forces on August 9. Al-Nablusi became a legend in the Palestinian generation born at the peak of the Second Palestinian Intifada. Although news reports hailed the young fighter as a “top commander” and “senior militant,” al-Nabulsi lived another life with his friends and family.  “When we used to ask him why he kept going, he would reply, ‘I am reviving the spirit of resistance of an entire generation’,” Ibrahim’s sister Shahd al-Nabulsi tells Mondoweiss.

Despite criticism from human rights groups and Palestine advocates, the Sierra Club has scheduled educational trips to Jerusalem, Caesarea, and Jaffa for next spring.

Lawrence Wilkerson, the former chief of staff to the late Secretary of State Colin Powell, says Israel has adopted a policy of terrorizing the Palestinian population so that it will accept apartheid. “Every time you shoot a rocket at us, we will kill 1300 of you, men, women and children it doesn’t matter. And you will kill two or three of us. OK? We will live with those odds. And we will eventually eradicate you. I’m convinced that’s their ultimate goal, eradication and/or apartheid.”

We must not simply fight for Palestine within the margins of what is socially acceptable. One way is to take a firm stand and mourn all Palestinians — including those who dared to fight.

It’s been nearly two weeks since Israel’s latest offensive in Gaza concluded and as ought to be expected from prior experience, there doesn’t seem to be any exploration of the moral dimension of Israel’s behavior on the part of the Jewish-American pro-Israel bloc.

Mondoweiss Managing Editor Faris Giacaman shares the evolution of Palestinian armed resistance over the past 25 years, and how it set the stage for the latest Israeli attack on Gaza.

Israel’s latest attack on Gaza shows it is running out of options, and creating popular opposition around the world in the process. 

A new lamentation needs to be written for the festival of Tisha B’Av to acknowledge the massive tragedy the state of Israel is inflicting on Palestinians in the name of the Jewish people.