The current war is the latest manifestation of a strategy dating from the aftermath of the 1973 October War and rise of U.S.-Israeli ties, writes Dan Steinbock. First of a five-part series.
Dan Steinbock
The World Financial Review
Roughly 50 years after the Yom Kippur War [or October War]
Now is the time for U.S. church leaders to raise their collective moral voice as they did during the civil right movement, the Vietnam War, and South African apartheid against Israel’s settler colonial apartheid.
Recent bombshell revelations that Israel Police have been using powerful NSO Pegasus software to hack the phones of private citizens, journalists and political officials are the latest in a series of controversial movements confirming Israel as an official surveillance state. Israel has long been considered the only democracy in the Middle East. Yet personal privacy,…
Israel has long been considered the only democracy in the Middle East. Yet personal privacy and limits on police overreach no longer seem to be part of the Jewish State’s democratic principles.