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Jonathan Cook

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Jonathan Cook is a Palestine columnist for The National

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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on January 5, 2020. Ronen Zvulun / AFP
The US might finally unveil deal of the century, in the run-up to Israel's election

More than any of his recent predecessors, Mr Trump has shown a repeated willingness to meddle in Israeli elections to the benefit of Mr Netanyahu

CommentJanuary 19, 2020
Jonathan Cook
Palestinians attend a Christmas tree lighting celebration in Gaza City earlier this month. Mahmud Hams / AFP
Bit by bit Israel aims to squeeze out the Palestinian Christians

Its decision to trap the minority group in Gaza this Christmas is a prelude to a seemingly contradictory plan to sap the people of the will to stay and struggle for what is theirs

CommentDecember 22, 2019
Jonathan Cook
Palestinian Muslim worshippers gather for an early morning prayer service around the Ibrahimi mosque or the Tomb of the Patriarch in Hebron, West Bank. EPA
Hebron plan is Israel's reminder to Palestinians that settler-power knows no limits

Proposed destruction of the West Bank city's market to make way for a settlement is the government's way of making the apartheid system as the rule of law

CommentDecember 10, 2019
Jonathan Cook
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has been indicted on criminal charges, including bribery, fraud and breach of trust. AFP
With a corruption trial looming and no mandate to govern, Benjamin Netanyahu must go

As the deadlock over forming a government continues, charges against the caretaker prime minister have tipped the country into an uncharted constitutional crisis

CommentNovember 24, 2019
Jonathan Cook
Palestinian protesters run from Israeli soldiers near the Jewish settlement of Qadumim in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on November 8. Jaafar Ashtiyeh / AFP
Israel's violation of human rights is not new but last week there was a difference

Infringements of Palestinians at the hands of Israeli soldiers who enjoy impunity went viral on social media

CommentNovember 10, 2019
Jonathan Cook
Palestinians seeking redress from Israel for the settlements will have to fight an endless array of separate claims against individual settlers. AFP
UN expert's call to stop Israeli settlement of Palestinian territories falling on deaf ears

It is assumed that the Trump administration is preparing to approve the annexation of West Bank as part of its peace plan

CommentOctober 27, 2019
Jonathan Cook
Bedouin girls in Rahat, the largest Bedouin township in Israel. Heidi Levine for The National
Bedouin mass eviction is part of Israel's concerted efforts to drive Palestinians from their historic lands

Thousands have been driven out of their homes because their numbers pose a major demographic threat to the state

CommentOctober 15, 2019
Jonathan Cook
Protesters wear masks of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz and Avigdor Leiberman of Yisrael Beiteinu. Ammar Awad / Reuters
Why the three parties at the heart of discussions to form a unity government in Israel can't agree

Likud, the Blue and White party and Yisrael Beiteinu are ideological bedfellows – but other fears have prompted a stalemate

CommentSeptember 30, 2019
Jonathan Cook
Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have fallen short of the 61-seat majority he needs to form yet another far-right government comprising settler and religious parties. AFP
Israelis have given their verdict: Benjamin Netanyahu could be on his way out

There looms the possibility of weeks of horse-trading and the Joint List of Arab legislators becoming the official opposition

CommentSeptember 18, 2019
Jonathan Cook
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ​​​​​​. AP
With strikes against Iran, Benjamin Netanyahu risks jeopardising his closest alliance

The US has not taken kindly to Israel’s actions in Iraq, fearing that a local backlash could endanger the 5,000 troops it has stationed there

CommentSeptember 09, 2019
Jonathan Cook
A Palestinian protester after Friday prayers at the site of demolished buildings in the West Bank. AFP / Hazem Bader
Sur Baher home demolitions illustrate a vicious spiral of oppression in Palestine

The more the West represses criticism, the more Israel luxuriates in its impunity

CommentJuly 28, 2019
Jonathan Cook
Jawad Siyam points to large cracks in the walls of Silwan, where Israel's tunnel digging has damaged Palestinian homes. Heidi Levine / The National.
Israel’s machinery of dispossession has crushed the hopes of an inspirational family

The struggle of Jawad Siyam perfectly illustrates the relentless oppression faced by all Palestinians

CommentJuly 14, 2019
Jonathan Cook
Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and adviser, speaks at the US-sponsored "Peace to Prosperity Workshop" in Bahrain. AFP
In Manama, the horizon of peace stretched further away from Palestinians

The Peace to Prosperity workshop, held in Bahrain, is just the latest in a long-running series of impossible propositions

CommentJune 30, 2019
Jonathan Cook
A Palestinian villa in the West Bank village of Turmus'ayya, with the Israeli settlement of Shilo in the background. Anne Paq / The National
For Israel, annexation of the West Bank is a long-established goal

With Benjamin Netanyahu under pressure and the US signalling its support, the time to realise this catastrophic ambition may be fast approaching

CommentJune 16, 2019
Jonathan Cook
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. Ronen Zvulun / AP
The clock is ticking on Netanyahu's legal and political manoeuvring

The battle lines in the new election have been drawn between the far-right and centre-right

CommentJune 02, 2019
Jonathan Cook
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