Uprooting the Bedouins
By Neve Gordon – Israel Despite the fact that it was the seventh demolition since last July, this time the destruction of the Bedouin village Al-Arakib in the Israeli Negev was different. The difference is […]
Month: December 2010
French Firm Quits Israel Rail Project
Pressure from pro-Palestinian groups has forced a French multinational firm to drop out of an Israeli light rail project that cuts into occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem). The assertion will bolster an international campaign to boycott […]
NGO Monitor War on Truth, Electronic Intifada
By Stephen Lendman NGO Monitor web site (ngo-monitor.org) says it "was founded to promote accountability, and advance a vigorous discussion on the reports and activities of NGOs claiming to promote moral agendas, such as humanitarian […]
Hezbollah Discovers Israeli Spy Devices
Israel has remotely detonated two of its spying devices in southern Lebanon after they were discovered by the Hezbollah resistance movement. At least two Lebanese were injured after the espionage devises were detonated remotely in […]
Obama’s Israel Policy: A Very Big Carrot
By Maidhc
Helen Thomas: Zionists Control US Foreign Policy
Renowned American author and veteran journalist Helen Thomas says the "Zionists" are in full control of the US foreign policy and its other institutions. Thomas, a former White House journalist, said Israel can never be […]
To Gaza with Humble Apologies
By Lillian Rosengarten I am a Jew symbolic of the carnage of Gaza.I will walk on the ravished desolation of destroyed livesplaces where Apache helicopters fired yet another missileon to crowds reduced to charred remains.I […]
New Language for Middle East Peace
By John V. Whitbeck The recent passage by Israel’s Knesset of a law requiring either a two-thirds Knesset majority or approval by an unprecedented national referendum before Israel can "cede" any land in expanded East […]
WikiLeaks ‘Vindicated Israel’
By Jeff Gates The U.S. is under attack by an enemy within. Skilled at game theory warfare, this foe targets the most sensitive realm of U.S. national security: its relations with other nations. The online […]
Lebanon at Stake: Turkey Must Reveal Its Cards
By Ramzy Baroud The timing of the Turkish Prime Minister’s two-day visit to Lebanon could not be more judicious. Lebanon’s enemies have been banging the drums of war louder than ever before. All the malevolent […]
Outsourcing Airport Security to the Shin Bet?
By Belen Fernandez Perhaps I am out of the loop, but is it normal in mainstream U.S. media these days to suggest that domestic airport security be outsourced to the Israeli Shin Bet? At first […]
International Day of Solidarity with Palestine
By Stephen Lendman On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly passed Resolution 181, the Palestine Partition Plan, granting 56% of historic Palestine to Jews (with one-third of the population), 42% to Palestinians, with Jerusalem […]
UK to Ease Law for War Crimes Suspects
A new bill proposed by the British government gives the chance to war crimes suspects visiting the UK to escape without facing an arrest threat, newspaper reports said. Under proposed new laws in the Police […]
Asian Aid Convoy Set to Leave for Gaza
Asia’s first humanitarian aid convoy has begun its ground journey to the Gaza Strip, trying to break Israel’s four-year-long blockade on the coastal enclave. A group of pro-Palestine activists is set to leave India on […]
WikiLeaks Documents Benefited Israel: Turkey
Israel, as opposed to others in the Middle East, has benefited from the alleged US documents, released by whistleblower website WikiLeaks, Turkey says. "It seems to us that the country which … is not mentioned […]
Israeli Troops Kill 2 Palestinians in Gaza
The Israeli military has announced in a statement that its soldiers shot at least two Palestinians dead in the besieged Gaza Strip. The military said on Thursday that the Palestinians were killed as they were […]
UN: 80 Percent of Gazans Depend on Aid
The UN has expressed concern that more than 80 percent of the 1.5 million Palestinians in the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip depend on relief supplies for their survival. On Tuesday, the director of the United Nations […]
WikiLeaks: More Israeli Game Theory Warfare?
By Jeff Gates ‘The United States is the real victim of WikiLeaks. It’s an action aimed at discrediting them.’ — Franco Frattini, Foreign Minister of Italy. The impact of the WikiLeaks release of diplomatic cables […]
Hamas Ready to Put Peace Deal to Vote
The Islamic resistance movement of Hamas says it will accept a peace deal with Israel if the Palestinian nation approves any such accord in a referendum. Palestinian democratically elected Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said on […]
‘No More Freeze in Israel Vocabulary’
The Israeli foreign minister has expressed strong opposition to any curbs on the expansion of Jewish settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian lands. Calling Israel’s partial settlement freeze in the West Bank a failure, hawkish […]
Cleaning House Essential for Mideast Peace
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington, D.C. Considering that the United States, Israel and the Palestinian Authority have shamefully ran out of original ideas and remain deadlocked on the issue of peace negotiations, it may thus […]
