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“As for the Israeli decision to cut off water and power to west Beirut, I consider this unbelievable in the 20th century, inhumane, and unnecessary in the present circumstances.”
Yigal Kipnis, “1982, LEBANON AND THE ROAD TO WAR”, Routledge, 2025, p. 238
Yigal Kipnis, “1982, LEBANON AND THE ROAD TO WAR”, Routledge, 2025, p. 238
September 12, 2026 at 7:48 AM
“As for the Israeli decision to cut off water and power to west Beirut, I consider this unbelievable in the 20th century, inhumane, and unnecessary in the present circumstances.”
Yigal Kipnis, “1982, LEBANON AND THE ROAD TO WAR”, Routledge, 2025, p. 238
Yigal Kipnis, “1982, LEBANON AND THE ROAD TO WAR”, Routledge, 2025, p. 238
August 25th 2025-an IDF double tap strike hit the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, killing 22 people, including 5 journalists. The attack claimed, among others', the lives of Reuters photographer Hatem Khaled who later died.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Visual evidence upends Israel’s official story for deadly attack on Gaza hospital
The August 25 attack on Nasser Hospital killed 22, including five journalists.
www.reuters.com
August 25, 2026 at 9:19 AM
August 25th 2025-an IDF double tap strike hit the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, killing 22 people, including 5 journalists. The attack claimed, among others', the lives of Reuters photographer Hatem Khaled who later died.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
«Η οικιακή βοηθός που τις παρέλαβε αποφάσισε να πάρει την μια βαλίτσα με 1 εκατομμύριο μάρκα και να φύγει στις Φιλιππίνες όπου είχε γεννηθεί.»
Το Δίκτυο - Φάκελος Siemens, Τ. Τέλλογλου, 2009, σελ. 90
Το Δίκτυο - Φάκελος Siemens, Τ. Τέλλογλου, 2009, σελ. 90
July 18, 2026 at 9:11 AM
«Η οικιακή βοηθός που τις παρέλαβε αποφάσισε να πάρει την μια βαλίτσα με 1 εκατομμύριο μάρκα και να φύγει στις Φιλιππίνες όπου είχε γεννηθεί.»
Το Δίκτυο - Φάκελος Siemens, Τ. Τέλλογλου, 2009, σελ. 90
Το Δίκτυο - Φάκελος Siemens, Τ. Τέλλογλου, 2009, σελ. 90
An excellent exhibition at Sotheby’s, mostly as its open to the public and does not require an entrance fee.
June 16, 2026 at 11:53 AM
An excellent exhibition at Sotheby’s, mostly as its open to the public and does not require an entrance fee.
“Out of more than 5,900 Israeli shipments containing citrus, dates, tahini, and other produce exported to Europe over the past 8 years (2017 – 2026), 1 in 6 shipments (17.2%) were sourced from settlements.“
www.globalecho.law/importingocc...
www.globalecho.law/importingocc...
Importing Occupation – Global Echo
www.globalecho.law
June 10, 2026 at 9:15 AM
“Out of more than 5,900 Israeli shipments containing citrus, dates, tahini, and other produce exported to Europe over the past 8 years (2017 – 2026), 1 in 6 shipments (17.2%) were sourced from settlements.“
www.globalecho.law/importingocc...
www.globalecho.law/importingocc...
“Fifteen international doctors told de Volkskrant that during their work in hospitals in Gaza, they saw children aged 15 years and younger with gunshot wounds to the head or chest. …”
www.europeanpressprize.com/article/what...
www.europeanpressprize.com/article/what...
What the wounds are telling us - European Press Prize
To view the full article in English in its original layout, including all images and graphics, please follow this link. Please note: the original publication contains explicit and disturbing images an...
www.europeanpressprize.com
June 8, 2026 at 9:31 AM
“Fifteen international doctors told de Volkskrant that during their work in hospitals in Gaza, they saw children aged 15 years and younger with gunshot wounds to the head or chest. …”
www.europeanpressprize.com/article/what...
www.europeanpressprize.com/article/what...
“Supposedly, peace had come, and the sound of congratulatory backslapping drowned out the evidence that the spirit of occupation was alive and well and basic human rights were being violated even more than before.”
Amira Hass, Drinking the Sea at Gaza, Holt, 2000, p.243
Amira Hass, Drinking the Sea at Gaza, Holt, 2000, p.243
June 6, 2026 at 1:07 PM
“Supposedly, peace had come, and the sound of congratulatory backslapping drowned out the evidence that the spirit of occupation was alive and well and basic human rights were being violated even more than before.”
Amira Hass, Drinking the Sea at Gaza, Holt, 2000, p.243
Amira Hass, Drinking the Sea at Gaza, Holt, 2000, p.243
“Mentions of child casualties & victims in Ukraine and Gaza during the first 100 days…on CNN and MSNBC.”
Adam H. Johnson, “How to Sell a Genocide
The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza”, Pluto Press, 2026, page 124
Adam H. Johnson, “How to Sell a Genocide
The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza”, Pluto Press, 2026, page 124
June 6, 2026 at 12:52 PM
“Mentions of child casualties & victims in Ukraine and Gaza during the first 100 days…on CNN and MSNBC.”
Adam H. Johnson, “How to Sell a Genocide
The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza”, Pluto Press, 2026, page 124
Adam H. Johnson, “How to Sell a Genocide
The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza”, Pluto Press, 2026, page 124
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And the winners of the Paul Foot Award for investigative and campaigning journalism 2026 are... Peter Geoghegan and Khadija Sharife of Democracy for Sale.
June 1, 2026 at 7:50 PM
And the winners of the Paul Foot Award for investigative and campaigning journalism 2026 are... Peter Geoghegan and Khadija Sharife of Democracy for Sale.
Meanwhile, and until the hopeful day Prof Bartov is describing, unspeakable crimes continue to take place in his name, and in ours….
Settlers force re-burial of Palestinian man in West Bank, family says reut.rs/4d2mlsI
Settlers force re-burial of Palestinian man in West Bank, family says
Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank forced Palestinians to exhume the body of their father from his freshly dug village grave, his family said, near a settlement re-established by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government.
reut.rs
May 11, 2026 at 8:04 AM
Meanwhile, and until the hopeful day Prof Bartov is describing, unspeakable crimes continue to take place in his name, and in ours….
“One hopeful conclusion that he draws from Israel’s campaign in Gaza is that, in the long term, it will liberate Israel itself from its status as a unique state rooted in the Holocaust.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
Israel: What Went Wrong? by Omer Bartov review – the long view
An erudite account of the foundation of the state and its subsequent moral and political decline
www.theguardian.com
May 11, 2026 at 8:01 AM
“One hopeful conclusion that he draws from Israel’s campaign in Gaza is that, in the long term, it will liberate Israel itself from its status as a unique state rooted in the Holocaust.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
“The logic of settler-colonialism is the elimination of the natives in order to take over the land and its resources. Ethnic cleansing is the means by which this goal is achieved.”
Avi Shlaim’s review of Omar Bartov’s latest book “Israel: What Went Wrong?”
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
Avi Shlaim’s review of Omar Bartov’s latest book “Israel: What Went Wrong?”
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
Israel: What Went Wrong? by Omer Bartov review – the long view
An erudite account of the foundation of the state and its subsequent moral and political decline
www.theguardian.com
May 11, 2026 at 7:54 AM
“The logic of settler-colonialism is the elimination of the natives in order to take over the land and its resources. Ethnic cleansing is the means by which this goal is achieved.”
Avi Shlaim’s review of Omar Bartov’s latest book “Israel: What Went Wrong?”
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
Avi Shlaim’s review of Omar Bartov’s latest book “Israel: What Went Wrong?”
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
“My position as a white, Jewish-Israeli citizen awarded me ready access to…state and military archives and libraries,
government-sponsored research reports, newspapers…This vast trove of papers demonstrates…Israeli universities’ many ties to the…state…”
government-sponsored research reports, newspapers…This vast trove of papers demonstrates…Israeli universities’ many ties to the…state…”
May 6, 2026 at 9:57 AM
“My position as a white, Jewish-Israeli citizen awarded me ready access to…state and military archives and libraries,
government-sponsored research reports, newspapers…This vast trove of papers demonstrates…Israeli universities’ many ties to the…state…”
government-sponsored research reports, newspapers…This vast trove of papers demonstrates…Israeli universities’ many ties to the…state…”
Άνθρωποι με ονοματεπώνυμο οι νεκροθάφτες #υποκλοπες
April 27, 2026 at 8:07 AM
Άνθρωποι με ονοματεπώνυμο οι νεκροθάφτες #υποκλοπες
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.”
Baghdad Sketches by Freya Stark, Baghdad: The Times Press, 1932, p.11
Baghdad Sketches by Freya Stark, Baghdad: The Times Press, 1932, p.11
April 25, 2026 at 6:37 PM
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.”
Baghdad Sketches by Freya Stark, Baghdad: The Times Press, 1932, p.11
Baghdad Sketches by Freya Stark, Baghdad: The Times Press, 1932, p.11
«Aλλά δεν άκουσα ποτέ κρότον κτιστών ή ήχον.»
Α. Παπανικολάου, Επικοινωνιακό Απόρρητο και Εθνική Ασφάλεια, εκ. Σάκκουλα, 2025, σελ. 682
#WorldBookDay
Α. Παπανικολάου, Επικοινωνιακό Απόρρητο και Εθνική Ασφάλεια, εκ. Σάκκουλα, 2025, σελ. 682
#WorldBookDay
April 23, 2026 at 12:50 PM
«Aλλά δεν άκουσα ποτέ κρότον κτιστών ή ήχον.»
Α. Παπανικολάου, Επικοινωνιακό Απόρρητο και Εθνική Ασφάλεια, εκ. Σάκκουλα, 2025, σελ. 682
#WorldBookDay
Α. Παπανικολάου, Επικοινωνιακό Απόρρητο και Εθνική Ασφάλεια, εκ. Σάκκουλα, 2025, σελ. 682
#WorldBookDay
“The evidence that I saw in the documents… the evidence that I saw in the archives, didn’t support the Zionist narrative about Israel being a peace-loving state so I was radicalised in the archives” Avi Shlaim, 18:01 …
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open.spotify.com/episode/3M3C...
Ep 21 - Professor Avi Shlaim (Israeli Historian on Zionism, Arab-Jews & Decolonizing History)
open.spotify.com
April 19, 2026 at 9:44 AM
“The evidence that I saw in the documents… the evidence that I saw in the archives, didn’t support the Zionist narrative about Israel being a peace-loving state so I was radicalised in the archives” Avi Shlaim, 18:01 …
open.spotify.com/episode/3M3C...
open.spotify.com/episode/3M3C...
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Avi Shlaim, British-Israeli historian and Oxford Professor, joins @tweeter_anita & I to discuss his jaw-dropping archival discoveries, which have reshaped the history of the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
Uncovering The Secret Files of The Arab-Israeli Conflict
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Uncovering The Secret Files of The Arab-Israeli Conflict
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April 16, 2026 at 4:10 AM
Avi Shlaim, British-Israeli historian and Oxford Professor, joins @tweeter_anita & I to discuss his jaw-dropping archival discoveries, which have reshaped the history of the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
Uncovering The Secret Files of The Arab-Israeli Conflict
share.google/gAo0ZtgkFHlg...
Uncovering The Secret Files of The Arab-Israeli Conflict
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A special treat for @EmpirePodUK members-
The great Avi Shlaim, the Sherlock Holmes of the Israeli archives, talks to @anitaanand.bsky.social & I about his discoveries:
Uncovering The Secret Files of The Arab-Israeli Conflict
The great Avi Shlaim, the Sherlock Holmes of the Israeli archives, talks to @anitaanand.bsky.social & I about his discoveries:
Uncovering The Secret Files of The Arab-Israeli Conflict
April 16, 2026 at 4:07 AM
A special treat for @EmpirePodUK members-
The great Avi Shlaim, the Sherlock Holmes of the Israeli archives, talks to @anitaanand.bsky.social & I about his discoveries:
Uncovering The Secret Files of The Arab-Israeli Conflict
The great Avi Shlaim, the Sherlock Holmes of the Israeli archives, talks to @anitaanand.bsky.social & I about his discoveries:
Uncovering The Secret Files of The Arab-Israeli Conflict
«Παρασκηνιακά, οι ραβίνοι της Βιέννης αποφάσισαν να διερευνήσουν τις ιδέες του Χερτσλ και έστειλαν δύο αντιπροσώπους στην Παλαιστίνη. Αυτή η αποστολή…κατέληξε σε ένα τηλεγράφημα…: Η νύφη είναι όμορφη, αλλά είναι παντρεμένη με άλλον.»
«Τρεις Κόσμοι» σελ.53 @saltopublishing
«Τρεις Κόσμοι» σελ.53 @saltopublishing
April 15, 2026 at 10:32 AM
«Παρασκηνιακά, οι ραβίνοι της Βιέννης αποφάσισαν να διερευνήσουν τις ιδέες του Χερτσλ και έστειλαν δύο αντιπροσώπους στην Παλαιστίνη. Αυτή η αποστολή…κατέληξε σε ένα τηλεγράφημα…: Η νύφη είναι όμορφη, αλλά είναι παντρεμένη με άλλον.»
«Τρεις Κόσμοι» σελ.53 @saltopublishing
«Τρεις Κόσμοι» σελ.53 @saltopublishing
«Η αναβάθμιση της υπόθεσης ήταν στην πραγματικότητα αναβάθμιση της ασάφειας και των κενών της υπόθεσης, ήταν η συγκάλυψή της.»
April 15, 2026 at 8:37 AM
«Η αναβάθμιση της υπόθεσης ήταν στην πραγματικότητα αναβάθμιση της ασάφειας και των κενών της υπόθεσης, ήταν η συγκάλυψή της.»
«Η Βαγδάτη ήταν γνωστή ως η Πόλη της Ειρήνης και το Ιράκ ο τόπους του πλουραλισμού και της συνύπαρξης. Εμείς στην εβραϊκή κοινότητα είχαμε πολύ περισσότερα κοινά - γλωσσικά και πολιτισμικά- με τους Ιρακινούς…παρά με τους Ευρωπαίους ομοθρήσκους μας».
April 13, 2026 at 9:02 AM
«Η Βαγδάτη ήταν γνωστή ως η Πόλη της Ειρήνης και το Ιράκ ο τόπους του πλουραλισμού και της συνύπαρξης. Εμείς στην εβραϊκή κοινότητα είχαμε πολύ περισσότερα κοινά - γλωσσικά και πολιτισμικά- με τους Ιρακινούς…παρά με τους Ευρωπαίους ομοθρήσκους μας».
Avi Shlaim @ #ReclaimtheNarratives
One day I said to my mother ‘Did we have any Zionists friends?’ And she said ‘No, Zionism is an Ashkenazi thing’
youtu.be/BzfzKlNl8jU?...
One day I said to my mother ‘Did we have any Zionists friends?’ And she said ‘No, Zionism is an Ashkenazi thing’
youtu.be/BzfzKlNl8jU?...
Avi Shlaim @ReclaimtheNarratives
YouTube video by Reclaim the Narratives
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April 9, 2026 at 6:37 AM
Avi Shlaim @ #ReclaimtheNarratives
One day I said to my mother ‘Did we have any Zionists friends?’ And she said ‘No, Zionism is an Ashkenazi thing’
youtu.be/BzfzKlNl8jU?...
One day I said to my mother ‘Did we have any Zionists friends?’ And she said ‘No, Zionism is an Ashkenazi thing’
youtu.be/BzfzKlNl8jU?...
“Out of Place A Memoir”,
Edward W. Said,
Pub: Alfred A. Knopf, New York (1999)
Edward W. Said,
Pub: Alfred A. Knopf, New York (1999)
March 12, 2026 at 12:23 PM
“Out of Place A Memoir”,
Edward W. Said,
Pub: Alfred A. Knopf, New York (1999)
Edward W. Said,
Pub: Alfred A. Knopf, New York (1999)