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Belligerent occupations – especially ones where no hope or end is in sight – engender evermore creative and costly forms of resistance
Jonathan Cook
Jonathan Cook is a British independent journalist, who has covered issues of Palestine and Israel for much of his over 20-year career. He formerly wrote for the Guardian and Observer newspapers and is a winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism.
In the celebratory atmosphere last week as the Palestinian unity government was sworn in, ending a seven-year feud between Fatah and Hamas, it was easy to overlook who was absent
A papal visit that eschews politics to focus only on religion – elevating holy sites above the people who live next to them – betrays a Christian community that needs all the help it can get
As marches and festivals are held today by Palestinians across the region to mark Nakba Day – commemorating the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and the erasure of more than 500 villages – Israelis will be watching
There was a mad scramble by Washington last week to prevent the seemingly inevitable – an implosion of the Middle East peace talks
The last thing the US president needs is for the negotiations to collapse, after Kerry has repeatedly stressed that finding a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is imperative
The 24-hour visit by German chancellor Angela Merkel to Israel this week came as relations between the two countries hit rock bottom
Jonathan Cook responds to Gleen Greenwald interview
The delegitimisation of Israel is truly under way, and the party doing most of the damage is the Israeli leadership itself
Is there finally daylight between Israel and the US?