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      Jonathan Cook

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      Jonathan Cook is a Palestine columnist for The National

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      A flypast in Tel Aviv on Israel's Independence Day anniversary celebrations. This year Israel marks 70 years of statehood amid protests from Palestinians and internal divisions. Ariel Schalit / AP
      Israel's Independence Day is a reminder of the troubling cost to Palestinians

      Those questions are especially pertinent in the wake of Israeli sharpshooters killing and wounding hundreds of Palestinians involved in unarmed protests along the perimeter fence in Gaza, writes Jonathan Cook

      CommentApril 18, 2018
      Palestinian armed with nothing more than mirrors to reflect sunlight at Israeli soldiers during a protest next to the Gaza Strip border with Israel, east of Khan Younis / AP
      With more Palestinians than Jews, Israel is waging a numerical war of attrition

      For the first time, there are more Palestinians than Jews living under Israeli rule

      CommentApril 03, 2018
      Israeli security forces take aim during clashes with Palestinian demonstrators following a demonstration in the West Bank city of Ramallah last week / AFP
      Israel has accelerated its annexation of the West Bank from a slow creep to a run

      With a Palestinian “state” effectively restricted to Gaza, the humanitarian catastrophe there needs to be urgently addressed

      CommentMarch 18, 2018
      Israeli soldiers at a temporary checkpoint in the occupied West Bank. Hazem Bader / AFP
      The lies and self-deceptions at work within Israel's 'moral' army

      Jonathan Cook reviews recent abuses against Palestinians by Israel's military

      CommentMarch 04, 2018
      Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the International Security Conference in Munich last week. Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP
      Benjamin Netanyahu's ruthless instinct for political survival remains undimmed

      The allegations against the Israeli Prime Minister continue to mount, but it is unlikely he will go quietly, writes Jonathan Cook

      CommentFebruary 18, 2018
      Ghada was taken to the Erez border crossing into Gaza, seen here from the Palestinian side / AFP
      Fourteen-year-old Ghada was the latest victim of Israel's dehumanising machine

      The teenager locked up in Gaza, despite never living there, was viewed simply as a package, to be delivered to whatever location was on the docket

      CommentFebruary 04, 2018
      A Palestinian with blood on his hands reacts as a wounded demonstrator is evacuated during clashes with Israeli troops, near the border with Israel in the east Gaza Strip on January 19. Mohammed Salem / Reuters
      Why is the Israeli army suddenly concerned about Gaza?

      For years, Gaza has been on the brink of collapse. Jonathan Cook looks at the troubling reasons behind a sudden uptick in interest by the Israeli military

      CommentJanuary 21, 2018
      Palestinian teenager Ahed Al Tamimi, 16, being hauled before an Israeli military court last month / AFP
      Ahed Al Tamimi's incarceration sheds a disturbing light on how children are targeted in Israel

      Dubbed Palestinians' Joan of Arc and subjected to sinister threats, Ahed shows resistance cannot be passive or polite

      CommentJanuary 08, 2018
      An Israeli soldier argues with a Palestinian protester dressed as Santa Claus during a demonstration in the West Bank city of Bethlehem / EPA
      Why there are few Christians left in the holy town of Bethlehem

      Israel's blockade has eroded the number of Palestinian Christians upholding ancient rites in the birthplace of Jesus, writes Jonathan Cook

      CommentDecember 24, 2017
      The infamous two-state solution is dead for all intents and purposes. EPA
      Palestinian rage will rise to the surface in time

      Jerusalem's inhabitants will have to shame Israel, the US and the watching world by striving for a single state, writes Jonathan Cook

      OpinionDecember 18, 2017
      In the row over Jerusalem, pictured here, American Jews will have a tough choice as Israel's right-wing government is increasingly attacking the liberal left / AFP
      The row over Jerusalem gives American Jews a tough choice

      Israel has turned on liberal Jews – but will those in the US continue to support a state that openly attacks them?

      CommentDecember 04, 2017
      Forced into the corner by a bull-headed Trump administration, Mr Abbas may be faced with a hard choice: either he agrees to a series of non-viable statelets under Israel’s thumb, or he steps down and dismantles the Palestinians’ government-in-waiting. AP
      Trump's 'ultimate deal' only offers hard choices for Abbas

      It is in Donald Trump’s nature to bargain ruthlessly and then cut a quick-and-easy deal, and in this environment, something has to give, writes Jonathan Cook

      CommentNovember 20, 2017
      Priti Patel attends a remembrance service in Essex on Saturday. David Mirzoeff / PA via AP
      What the Priti Patel scandal tells us about the dark operations of the UK's powerful Israel lobby

      Dirty tricks and opaque dealings characterise the workings of lobbyists, writes Jonathan Cook

      CommentNovember 12, 2017
      Britain’s foreign secretary Arthur Balfour wrote a letter on November 2, 1917 to Lord Rothschild setting forth Britain's support for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. Photo12 / UIG via Getty Images
      Balfour: how Britain broke its promise to Palestinians

      A century after its creation, the Balfour Declaration delivered only heartbreak to Palestinians, writes Jonathan Cook

      CommentOctober 30, 2017
      Israeli security at the main entrance to Al Aqsa mosque compound, in Jerusalem's Old City earlier this year. AFP / Menahem Kahana
      The US, Israel and the fake storm they kicked up over Unesco

      Why did America fall out with the cultural body? The answer lies in Israel's illegal occupation, writes Jonathan Cook

      OpinionOctober 15, 2017
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