by Alistair Lyon | 6 Jun 2025 | Israel-Palestine, Middle East, Politics
Standing by while a whole people gets massacred doesn’t absolve countries of their responsibility in that. There is complicity in silence. A Palestinian woman holds the body of her 8-year-old daughter who was killed in an Israeli military strike on Gaza, at...
by Bernd Debusmann | 16 Dec 2024 | Decoders, History, Human Rights, Israel-Palestine, Politics
The United States has shown staunch support for Israel since its birth as a state. But that was before it decided to decimate the Palestinian territories. Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago estate, 26 July 2024, in Palm...
by News Decoder | 11 Dec 2024 | Decoder Replay, History, Human Rights, Politics, Syria
The fall of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad has given hope to millions of Syrian refugees who fled their country during its 13-year civil war. We look back at the start and evolution of the conflict. Syrians wait to cross into Syria from Turkey at the Cilvegözü border...
by Alistair Lyon | 15 Oct 2024 | History, Israel-Palestine
The assassinations of leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah, an invasion of Lebanon and the all-out assault on Gaza beg the question: Does Israel have an end game? Iranian demonstrators hold posters of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah during an anti-Israeli protest in...
by Daniel Warner | 30 Apr 2024 | Decoders, History, Human Rights, Israel-Palestine, Middle East, Politics
To understand the anger and fear in Israel and Palestine, you have to go back to Israel’s foundation and the lines drawn in the sand. A Palestinian protester argues with Israeli security forces to prevent shooting tear gas at Palestinian protesters during a...