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Netanyahu will have to pay the price for hubris

Michel Warschawski — 2023-11-03T08:24:00Z

“The civilian population of Gaza is paying a colossal price for having dared to defy Israeli colonialism. What the Israeli army has been committing for a month now belongs in the category of crimes against humanity.”

- IV586 - November 2023 / Palestine, Israel

Six remarks about the elections in Israel

Michel Warschawski — 2019-04-18T10:14:06Z

The first comments on Netanyahu's victory, right and far right in Israeli politics, how did Arab Israelis vote.

- IV531 - April 2019 / Israel

“To put on the same level the executioner and the victim, the coloniser and the colonised, is the key formula of international diplomacy - and the reason for its impotence”.

Alain Krivine, Alain Pojolat, Michel Warschawski — 2017-01-23T08:59:43Z

This interview with anti-Zionist activist Michel Warschawski was conducted by Alain Pojolat and Alain Krivine and published in L'Anticapitaliste, weekly newspaper of the New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA) on January 12 2017.

- IV504 - January 2017 / Palestine, France, Israel

Netanyahu gets his cheque and Obama cashes in

Michel Warschawski — 2016-09-21T09:09:44Z

This week, Benjamin Netanyahu's adviser on questions of security, Jacob Neguel, went to Washington to sign a strategic ten-year agreement with the United States, a little matter of $3.8 billion [sic] After having covered Barack Obama and his administration with insults, the Israeli Prime Minister had no problem about taking the money, and I imagine he even said thank you, out of the corner of his mouth.

- IV500 - September 2016 / United States (USA), Israel

Israel, Jews and Arabs: the revolutionary perspective of living together

Henri Wilno, Michel Warschawski — 2015-03-09T07:37:37Z

Michel Warschawski has been politically active in Israel for many years. He retraced his biography in one of his books, Sur la frontière (Stock, 2002). After spending his early years in Strasbourg, he decided at the age of sixteen to go to Jerusalem, where he undertook Talmudic studies. In 1968 he joined the Israeli Socialist Organization, which had been founded in 1962 by expelled members of the Israeli Communist Party and older activists influenced by Trotskyism. The group was best known (…)

- IV482 - March 2015 / Palestine, Israel

Da'esh - Golem is turning against its creator

Michel Warschawski — 2014-10-14T10:46:35Z

The United States is once more experiencing the reality of this old Jewish saying. Supporting the most fundamentalist Muslims in Afghanistan in the hope of putting and end to Soviet influence, finding itself a few years later confronted with a total war against al-Qaida and its cloudy international, and whose result will be far from being a victory. In the background is the, always mistaken, idea that the enemies of my enemies are my friends. Back in the 1930s, the “democratic” countries thought that Hitler could be an ally against the communist danger. We know what happened then…

- IV477 - October 2014 / Syria, MENA (Middle East/North Africa), Iraq

The massacre in Gaza - Hamas has emerged victorious, but at what cost!

Michel Warschawski — 2014-10-12T19:14:52Z

As this article is being written [August 2014], the truce and the talks for a cease-fire have broken down, as a result, once again, of a deliberate Israeli provocation (the attempted assassination of the military commander Mohammed Deif, which failed but caused the deaths of several civilians, including his wife and young daughter). It is however likely that when the article is published, an agreement will have been signed: in fact, everyone is interested in ending this round, but not before having fired the last salvo with the sole purpose of proclaiming, "We won!" On this question - who won? - I will return later on in my analysis.

- IV477 - October 2014 / Palestine, Israel

The shame of France

Michel Warschawski — 2014-07-31T14:09:44Z

Since when is solidarity with victims of aggression called 'importing a conflict'?

By banning French protests last Saturday against Israeli war crimes in Gaza, Hollande and Valls disgraced themselves. The French people, however, who ignored the ban and turned out en masse in various cities throughout France to express solidarity with Gaza, can be proud.

- IV474 - July 2014 / Palestine, France

Prisoner Exchange, Symmetry and Israel's Siege of Gaza

Michel Warschawski — 2011-11-01T10:01:52Z

The Palestinian political prisoners, women and men, who will be freed are all freedom fighters who fulfilled their political and moral duty in the struggle against the Israeli colonial occupation. Gilad Shalit, on the other
hand, was a soldier, and a soldier in Israel's colonial occupation army,
which violates international law on a daily basis and regularly commits war crimes. [This article was written on October 17, 2011.]

- IV442 - November 2011 / National question

Five questions to Michel Warschawski

Michel Warschawski — 2011-09-21T13:00:56Z

This interview about the social movement in Israel with journalist and author Michel Warschawski was conducted on August 11.

- IV440 - September 2011