mastodon 4.7.3Bulgarian journalist and editor working on the Middle East, Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Currently with Al Jazeera English.
An Israeli politician saying what foreign doctors on medical missions in #Gaza have been saying for a long time.
"Israel is on the way to becoming a pariah state, like South Africa was, if we don’t return to acting like a sane country,” the left-wing leader said in an interview with the Kan public broadcaster.
“And a sane country does not fight against civilians, does not kill children as a hobby, and does not give itself the aim of expelling populations."
Palestine is no longer in the news, but Israeli executions of Palestinian children continue.
Israel continues to be the biggest mass killer of journalists.
If you read one thing this holiday season, let it be this oped by Rev Munther Isaac:
"Jesus was not born into serenity but into upheaval.
He was born under military occupation, to a family displaced by an imperial decree, in a region living under the shadow of violence...
Indeed, Christmas is a story of empire, injustice and the vulnerability of ordinary people caught in its path."
"I don’t know what glory there is in being light-skinned descendants of Black people because of resettling in northern climes with weak UV rays."
https://www.juancole.com/2025/11/nationalists-europeans-multiracial.html
27,000 human beings were massacres in the span of 3 days. THEEE DAYS.
#Canada has decided that 95-year-old Richard Falk, a former UN rapporteur on Palestine, is a "national security threat".