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Morality cannot be divided: how Netanyahu’s corruption has exposed Israel’s ‘democracy’
During his time as the longest-serving PM, he turned corruption into common practice — his impending slap-on-the-wrist sentence will cement it into the heart of the nation's political decline, writes RAMZY BAROUD
While other Israeli officials have been charged, tried and sentenced before for far less significant crimes, Netanyahu could potentially walk free, despite the fact that during his years in power, his illegal practices have turned corruption in Israel from a normal phenomenon into an epidemic
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
FORMER Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his prosecutors are reportedly finalising the details of a plea deal that would practically water down, shelve or drop altogether all three major corruption cases that led to his high-profile trial in May 2020.
If such news actualises, Israel would officially sink to a new low in terms of political nepotism and corruption.
News of the possible deal has, once more, placed the controversial Israeli politician back at the centre stage of media coverage.
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RAMZY BAROUD looks at how Western media are being forced to kowtow to the Establishment’s war narratives
Israel and the US talk as if they’ve won a victory, but the reality is that world opinion has turned decisively against the Israeli regime, says RAMZY BAROUD
