Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. His article appeared in the Middle East Eye.
Thursday 15-June-2017
Israeli and US officials are in the process of jointly pre-empting Donald Trump’s supposed “ultimate deal” to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They hope to demote the Palestinian issue to a footnote in international diplomacy.
Wednesday 31-May-2017
A decision by Donald Trump this Thursday could prove fateful for the immediate future of Jerusalem the wider Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the region.
Tuesday 16-May-2017
A display of Israeli-style community policing before an audience of hundreds of young schoolchildren was captured on video last week.
Wednesday 19-April-2017
Israel is to hold lavish celebrations over the coming weeks to mark the 50th anniversary of what it calls the “liberation of Judea Samaria and the Golan Heights” – or what the rest of us describe as the birth of the occupation.
Wednesday 8-March-2017
Israel controls all access to the occupied Palestinian territories and now regularly denies entry to solidarity activists and those who support the boycott movement.
Friday 24-February-2017
For more than 15 years the Middle East “peace process” initiated by the Oslo accords has been on life support. Last week United States president Donald Trump pulled the plug whether he understood it or not.
Friday 10-February-2017
The Israeli parliament passed the “Regularization Bill” on Monday night (6/2/2017)–a piece of legislation every bit as suspect as its title suggests.
Friday 16-December-2016
At first glance it looked like a generous promotional stunt by Israel to aid the Palestinians’ struggling tourism industry. Israeli military authorities published this month a video on social media publicizing Palestinian attractions in the West Bank.
Thursday 17-November-2016
While the United States presidential election bitterly divided the American public most Israelis were sanguine about the race.
Friday 4-November-2016
Israel has just emerged from its extended three-week high holidays a period that in recent years has been marked by extremist religious Jews making provocative visits to the al-Aqsa mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem.
Tuesday 7-June-2016
In a familiar muddying of the waters Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spent the past week talking up peace while fiercely criticizing Friday’s summit in France.
Wednesday 25-May-2016
In a surprise move Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week forced out his long-serving defence minister Moshe Yaalon. As he stepped down Yaalon warned: “Extremist and dangerous elements have taken over Israel.”
Saturday 27-February-2016
Benjamin Netanyhu’s government is drafting legislation that ought to resolve in observers’ minds the question of whether Israel is the democracy it proudly claims to be.
Wednesday 13-January-2016
A small scene from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict unfolded last week on a Greek airport runway.
Tuesday 8-December-2015
Once it fell to politicians and diplomats to solve international conflicts. Now according to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu responsibility lies with social media.
Wednesday 29-October-2014
t is astonishing that the reconstruction of Gaza bombed into the Stone Age according to the explicit goals of an Israeli military doctrine known as “Dahiya” has tentatively only just begun two months after the end of the fighting.