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In a week that saw fresh violence erupt in Israel and Gaza, leaving dozens dead and hundreds injured, Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin and Emily Tamkin in Washington DC are joined by Ido Vock and Dimi Reider to explore what s behind the worst Israel-Palestine conflict in years. Listen now
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14th May 2021
The Guardian report that Israel has intensified attacks on the Gaza Strip as the conflict enters its fifth day. The papers report that Israeli air and ground forces were involved in the latest attacks, while noting that ground forces have not entered Gaza.
The Times reports that Israel destroyed a major tunnel network used by Hamas militants overnight.
The Telegraph examines the causes for the latest conflict between Israel and Hamas. The paper notes that “For weeks, Palestinian protesters and Israeli police have clashed daily in Jerusalem, with a series of incidents during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan contributing to the mounting hostilities between Israelis and Palestinians.”
Democratic Assemblyman Jonathan G. Jacobson of Poughkeepsie penned legislation to ban body armor ownership for anyone except police officers.
Jacobson won’t grandfather any body armor purchased before the ban goes into effect. As if that’s not enough, all vests people now own must be turned over to police within two weeks under threat of fines and/or imprisonment.
Body armor is not dangerous. It’s self-defense only. So, why does he want to ban it from the peasants? Does he want to be able to kill us?
VESTS FOR ME BUT NOT FOR THEE
According to a Newsweek writer, several Democratic members of Congress opted to wear body armor to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, multiple outlets reported Wednesday.
Palestinian activists destroy part of the separation wall in the West Bank village of Bir Nabala, near Ramallah, Nov. 15, 2013. (Activestills)
The world is a very different place from when +972 Magazine began as a blog in 2010. Benjamin Netanyahu’s now record-breaking stint in power was barely a year old; there was no coronavirus pandemic or reality TV star-turned-autocrat in the White House; and social media was not the fake news factory it has become today.
Yet for all that is unrecognizable about the world now, there are also many things that are all too familiar, not least in Israel-Palestine: the ongoing theft and settling of Palestinian land; a military occupation that has lasted over half a century; a choking siege on Gaza; racism against African asylum seekers and Ethiopian Israelis; and an abiding refusal by the Israeli state and large segments of its society to face head-on the legacy of the country’s founding, to name but a few.