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I was the first foreign correspondent to track down Israel's secret torture prison back in 2003. Now Israel has opened a new one called Sde Teiman, where Palestinian inmates are held in horrifying conditions. The purpose of ‘black sites’ is to remind those who have been colonised and enslaved of a simple lesson: resistance is futile.


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Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed as "absurd and false" the suggestion that there is any equivalence in the atrocities committed by Israel and Hamas. He's right: Israel's war crimes are far worse than Hamas'. I explain why


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The establishment media’s role is to draw attention away from what the students are protesting – western complicity in genocide – and engineer a moral panic to leave the genocide undisturbed.


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The western media is pretending the West's efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza are serious. But a different script has clearly been written in advance by Israel and the US. I set it out step by step.


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There's a reason western leaders and media want us focused an imaginary "antisemitism" threat posed by marches in London and student sit-ins across the US. So long as western publics are focused on evil anti-war protesters, they will ignore the kind of evil that dares, in broad daylight, to kill 15,000 children, destroy hospitals, and hide bodies in mass graves.


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With the Middle East on the brink of war, the West suddenly demands 'restraint' between Israel and Iran – after months of fuelling a genocide in Gaza. I analyse how the US and its allies created a Frankenstein's monster in the region by indulging Israel's every military excess.


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