Politics: Human Rights

Lead Feature

The anti-Israel party?

By Paul Evans

newstatesman.com' s weekly tour of the political blogosphere with your guide Paul Evans

As the invasion intensified, Mohammed Omer, a Gazan journalist injured by Israeli police last year and now in hospital in Amsterdam, spoke by telephone to former contacts and friends
Israel's politicians, and people, are seeking total victory in Gaza. They won't get it. By Haim Baram

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A revenge strategy

By Haim Baram
08 January

Israel’s politicians, and people, are seeking total victory in Gaza. They won’t get it

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Voices from an unwinnable war

By James Macintyre
08 January

Until now, young Israelis have been able to ignore the plight of Palestinians in Gaza. The invasion has changed all that

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Cable wades into Chagos injustice row

By Sean Carey
07 January

Senior Lib Dem Vince Cable has thrown his weight behind a new cross party group that aims to persuade David Miliband to right a very old British injustice

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Israel's targets in Gaza

By Ben White
06 January

Ben White looks at some of the objects of Israel's military onslaught in Gaza - an attack that has already cost hundreds of civilian lives

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No time for comedy...

By Jonathan Calder
06 January

The economic crisis, the relentless attacks on Gaza and a very real threat to trainspotting. Jonathan Calder returns with his unique perspective of the world

Feature

Gaza under fire

By John Pilger

Every war Israel has waged since 1948 has had the same objective: expulsion of the native people and theft of more land. But why are we in the west silent on this truth?