Israel this week may have finally gone too far. After Benjamin Netanyahu lectured Congress about the money and weapons it is required to provide him, he went home and bombed southern Beirut, killing a senior Hezbollah commander, and blew up a guest house in Tehran where Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’s political operation, was staying. U.S. political figures dutifully reaffirmed Israel’s right to defend itself as the entire region seems poised to spiral into war. Israeli society continues to splinter as rightwing protests erupted after Israeli police detained several IDF soldiers accused of carrying out rape and sexual assault on Palestinian prisoners.
Our reporters and contributors published excellent work on all these developments this week.
Faris Giacaman looks at “Netanyahu’s willing executioners” and finds “it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that both the Israeli state and society are partners in the genocide” in Gaza.
Abdaljawad Omar says these assassinations are less about weakening the resistance groups and more about restoring the Israeli public’s belief in the power of their military and intelligence apparatus.
Tareq Hajjaj wrote about the Israeli murder of Al Jazeera reporter Ismail al-Ghoul in Gaza. Tareq also looked at the catastrophic polio epidemic in Gaza that the Israeli assault has brought. On the Mondoweiss Podcast, Yumna Patel spoke to Yara Asi, a Palestinian public health expert, about this polio outbreak.
Frances Madeson filed an on-the-ground report from St. Louis where Congress member Cori Bush is fighting for reelection against more than $9 million dollars AIPAC and other Israel lobby groups poured into her opponent’s campaign.
We also published two long reads examining the relationship between Israel, Palestine, and Africa. Kribsoo Diallo surveys the history of Zionist influence in Africa and the impact of the genocide in Gaza on African grassroots solidarity with Palestine. Nylah Iqbal Muhammad talks to two experts on Congo about the intersections between the genocides there and in Palestine.
Thank you for posting all of those in one spot. Mondoweiss absolutely one of “the” places to go for accurate and often heart wrenching reporting on Gaza etc.
Anyone else noting “The Intercept” has basically been missing in action when it comes to doing any in depth pieces on the assassinations etc. What is up over there?