How The IDF Murder Captured Israeli Officers Under Hannibal Directive

The Hannibal Directive is a secretive military order that authorizes the Israeli military to murder captured Israeli soldiers. The former is praised as a hero, and the latter is given a state funeral. MintPress investigates: What is its true goal? And how often is it used?

Richard Silverstein
By Richard Silverstein
An Israeli soldier mourns over the grave of a soldier killed during Israeli last assault on the Gaza Strip, during his funeral at the military cemetery in Rehovot, Israel, Friday, July 25, 2014.

Wednesday marked the one-year anniversary of one of the most tragic events in the past three decades of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Operation Protective Edge. At least 2,100 Gazans, including 495 children, were killed by the Israeli Defense Forces. Of the total, 70% or more were civilians. In contrast, 73 Israelis were killed, almost all of

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Netanyahu’s ‘Genocidal’ Cabinet Promises More Conflict, Isolation For Israel

Members of Benjamin Netanyahu’s new cabinet have previously called Palestinians “beasts” and their children “little snakes,” warned of the “cancer-like attributes” of Palestinian society, and celebrated the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, among other atrocities.

Joe Catron
By Joe Catron
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, second right, heads the new government as ministers take their place including Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, left, and Moshe Kahlon, Housing Minister, second left, as the prime minister fills cabinet posts at the last minute forming the 34th government of Israel, two months after the mid-March general elections.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, second right, heads the new government as ministers take their place including Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, left, and Moshe Kahlon, Housing Minister, second left, as the prime minister fills cabinet posts at the last minute forming the 34th government of Israel, two months after the mid-March general

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Rights Group: Israel Used “Disappearance” Of Soldier As Pretext For Killing Spree Of Palestinians

Israel’s response to the disappearance of the three Israeli teens was one of “shooting at anything and anybody,” according to an analysis published this week by the Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq.

Electronic Intifada
By Electronic Intifada

Israel used the “disappearance” of a soldier in Gaza as a pretext to kill 225 Palestinians over a three-day period last summer, a new study suggests. On 1 August last year, the Israeli military reported that one of its lieutenants, Hadar Goldin, had gone missing in the Rafah area, close to Gaza’s border with Egypt. Israel’s response was one of

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Hillary Clinton Lends Credibility To Zionist Colonialism At Saban Forum

Clinton recently participated in a forum hosted by a U.S. foreign policy think tank discussion that largely revolved around U.S. support for Israel and the so-called “two-state solution” — a discussion that took place within narrow Zionist parameters.

Ramona Wadi
By Ramona Wadi
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, left, meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, Israel, Monday, July 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

The Center for Middle East Policy, a U.S. foreign policy think tank under the Brookings Institution, hosted the 11th annual Saban Forum from Friday to Sunday. Under the banner of “Stormy Seas: The United States and Israel in a Tumultuous Middle East,” participants in the Zionist propaganda event included U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Israeli

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How I Was Censored By The Guardian For Writing About Israel’s War For Gaza’s Gas

The Pulitizer Prize-winning newspaper, The Guardian, which styles itself as the world’s leading liberal voice, casually engaged in an act of censorship to shut down coverage of issues that undermined Israel’s publicised rationale for going to war.

Nafeez Ahmed
By Nafeez Ahmed
Mideast Israel Palestinians

After writing for The Guardian for over a year, my contract was unilaterally terminated because I wrote a piece on Gaza that was beyond the pale. In doing so, The Guardian breached the very editorial freedom the paper was obligated to protect under my contract. I’m speaking out because I believe it is in the public interest to know how a Pulitizer

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VIDEO: Israel Continues Offensive On Gaza Killing More Civilians

The Israeli army keeps pounding the Gaza Strip. In the latest attack, at least one Palestinian is killed after a missile hit a group of civilians near the al-Shifa hospital. Around a dozen people including children were also injured there.

Mint Press News Desk
By Mint Press News Desk
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