Faltering Clegg Won’t Walk the Walk
By Stuart Littlewood – London A month ago, while reports were coming in that Israeli gunboats had ‘intercepted’ the Free Gaza flotilla 90 miles out to sea and told the humanitarian workers they would be […]
Month: July 2010
‘Israel Prisoner Swap Proposal Deceiving’
Hamas has rejected a prisoner swap proposal by the Israeli premier as deceitful, saying the movement wants the release of all the prisoners it has named in exchange for a captured Israeli soldier. Israeli Prime […]
World Tired of Us: Israeli Minister
Israeli Minister of Trade, Industry and Labor, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, says the world is tired of Israel and that Israel, rather than the Gaza Strip, is actually blockaded. "We’re not the ones maintaining a blockade. We’re […]
UN: Israeli Settlement Expansion Illegal
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says Israel is violating international law by expanding its settlements in the occupied Palestinian land, including al-Quds (Jerusalem). “Settlement construction should stop, as should measures which discriminate against Palestinian residents of […]
Attack on Gaza Relief Flotilla Jeopardizes Israel Itself
By John J. Mearsheimer Israel’s botched raid against the Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla on May 31 is the latest sign that Israel is on a disastrous course that it seems incapable of reversing. The attack also […]
Mavi Marmara Accounts: Violence, Theft, Abuse
By Mamoon Alabbasi – London As Israel continues to present its own account of what happened when its navy commandos raided an aid convoy destined to the besieged Gaza Strip and killed nine humanitarian activists […]
100 Kidnapped in al-Khalil in June
Israeli soldiers have kidnapped 100 Palestinians, including youth, in the West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron) and surrounding villages and towns in June. A report by the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), al-Khalil branch, revealed on […]
UK Church Boycotts Israel WB Products
A UK church has unanimously voted to boycott Israeli products in a show of protest against Tel Aviv’s illegal settlements on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. The Methodist Church of Britain on Wednesday […]
Israel Launches Airstrikes on Gaza
Israeli aircraft have fired five rockets at the Gaza Strip, striking three targets, witnesses and Palestinian security officials say. Israeli F-16 aircraft fired two rockets at a airport in the southern Gaza Strip town of […]
Millennium Goals Revisited: Noble Ideas, and Feel-Good Moments
By Ramzy Baroud When the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were first declared, they were met with a sense of promise. A decade later, despite all the official insistence that all is on track, […]
