Evidence of Israeli “Cowardly Blending” Comes to Light

War Crimes Airbrushed from History
By JONATHAN COOK
Counterpunch
January 4, 2008
 
It apparently never occurred to anyone in our leading human rights organisations or the Western media that the same moral and legal standards ought be applied to the behaviour of Israel and Hizbullah during the war on Lebanon 18 months [...]

Why did Israel attack Syria?

by Jonathan Cook

Global Research, September 27, 2007

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Israel’s air strike on northern Syria earlier this month should be understood in the context of events unfolding since its assault last summer on neighbouring Lebanon. Although little more than rumours have been offered about what took place, one strategic [...]

Revisiting the summer war - A MUST READ

THIS IS A MUST READ.  Israeli press confess that ISRAEL started the war, not Hezbollah.  Any rational thinker knew this already, but now we have it in print.  Also that the UN cartographer has said the Shebaa farms are lebanese, therefore Israel still occupies Lebanon in violation of UN resolution 425 (although the UN seems [...]

Blood and Religion: Jonathan Cook

“Blood and Religion - The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democractic State”(Pluto Press 2006). Interview with Jonathan Cook, a former staff journalist of the Guardian and Observer newspapers, from Nazareth, Israel about his last book. Middle East Panorama on Resonance FM, London 16 June 2006
Listen to the audio interview here
http://progressivepodcast.info/archives/5

Olmert’s testimony reveals the real goal of the war in Lebanon

by Jonathan Cook

Global Research, March 13, 2007

Nazareth. 12 March 2007. Israel’s supposedly “defensive” assault on Hizbullah last summer, in which more than 1,000 Lebanese civilians were killed in a massive aerial bombardment that ended with Israel littering the country’s south with cluster bombs, was cast in a definitively different light last week by Israeli prime [...]

End of the Strongmen

Do America and Israel Want the Middle East Engulfed By Civil War?
By JONATHAN COOK
Counterpunch
December 19, 2006
The era of the Middle East strongman, propped up by and enforcing Western policy, appears well and truly over. His power is being replaced with rule by civil war, apparently now the American Administration’s favoured model across the region.
Fratricidal fighting [...]

Prime suspects: Pierre Gemayel’s assassination

Prime suspects
While many seem to have made up their minds that Pierre Gemayel’s murder was down to Syria, the blame could still lie elsewhere.
Jonathan Cook
The Guardian: Comment is Free
November 24, 2006
Commentators and columnists seem agreed: Pierre Gemayel’s assassination must have been the handiwork of Syria. President Bush thinks so too. Case, apparently, closed.
I do not [...]

Robert Fisk - The Whole Story?

 http://www.ukwatch.net/article/2173
Jonathan Cook
September 5, 2006 [last updated 11:35]
From Jonathan Cook.net
More than a little uncomfortably, I find myself with a bone to pick with one of our finest champions of humanitarian values and opponents of war. During Israel’s attack on Lebanon this summer, the distinguished British journalist Robert Fisk did sterling work —as might have [...]