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Month: March 2015

‘I Kind of Feel Left out’: Top US Legislators Deny Israelis Briefed Them on Iran Talks
US legislators said they found out from the news – just like everyone else – that Israel had allegedly leaked information on the Iran talks to them. “I read that story this morning, and frankly, […]

For Hamza: Arms Sanctions against Israel’s Everyday Terrorism
“By This is for the child that is searching for an answer, I wish I could take your tears and replace them with laughter, Long live Palestine, Long live Gaza!” – Lowkey By Vacy Vlazna […]

Displaced by Israel, Palestinians Make Homes in Caves
Scores of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have made homes in caves on the outskirts of Al-Khalil (Hebron) because the Israeli occupation authorities continue to prevent them from building homes on territories earmarked for […]

Egypt Rations Electricity to Gaza’s Rafah
The Egyptian Electricity Company has started to ration the amount of electricity feeding the Palestinian city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip, a source in the Palestinian electricity distribution company told Al-Resalah […]

Israel, US Boycott UN Session on Gaza Conflict
Israeli and American representatives were conspicuously absent from the UN Human Rights Council session on the Palestinian territories on Monday. The session aimed to look into the Gaza conflict which killed 2,200 people in 50 […]

West Punished Palestine When It Voted Freely; Endorses Israel’s Vote for Occupation
By Ghada Ageel The 2006 elections were an amazing demonstration of Palestinian democracy in its multi-coloured beauty. The people under occupation expressed their determination to resist Israel’s attempt to force them to surrender through its […]

Netanyahu’s ‘Flip-Flop’ and the Willful Blindness of the Mainstream Media
By Jeremy R. Hammond When Benjamin Netanyahu declared this week that he would work to prevent a Palestinian state from being established if reelected as Israeli Prime Minister, the mainstream media described it as […]

International Women’s Day at Qalandiya
By Tamar Fleishman Around a thousand Palestinian women and some men marched on the main road leading from Ramallah to Qalandiya checkpoint. The women waved Palestinian flags and held posters and photos of relatives that […]

The Messages from Israel’s Election
Those of us who know the nature of the beast could not have been surprised by the results of the Israeli election. Like many of my friends, I was also relieved that a liberal Zionist […]

The New (Deplorable) American Order
Have you ever undertaken some task you felt less than qualified for, but knew that someone needed to do? Consider this piece my version of that, and let me put what I do understand about […]

Pro-Palestinian Ad Campaign Takes over Walls of US Cities
Commuters in cities across the United States were surprised this month to find their daily trips to work adorned with posters and banners calling on their government to end military support to Israel. The posters […]

Two Children Shot During Clashes with PA Security Forces
Two Palestinian children were injured, one seriously, in clashes with Palestinian security forces near Balata refugee camp in eastern Nablus on Friday. Locals told Ma’an that Mohammad Rakiz Abu Assab, 10, was shot in the […]

Amongst Frustrated Allies, Patience Has Run out with Israel
The British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond didn’t mince his words. Israel, he said, was guilty of “what looks and feels like a deliberate attempt to sabotage the two-state-solution.” The diplomat went on, claiming that the […]

Netanyahu the Mythbuster: ‘Special Relationship’ No More
For Netanyahu’s main challenger, Isaac Herzog, Palestinians hardly existed. The occupation was a non-issue for him and for most Israeli political rivals for that matter. His foreign policy programme was either identical to Netanyahu’s or […]

Netanyahu Unmasks Israel
Desperate to win reelection, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stripped off Israel’s mask and exposed the ugliness that has deformed his country over the past several decades. He abandoned the subterfuge of a two-state solution, […]

The Price Israel Must Pay
Two weeks ago, the United States had a Benjamin Netanyahu problem. The Israeli prime minister seemed to have gone rogue. His ambassador to Washington had secretly negotiated with Republicans to have Netanyahu address a joint […]

Minister: We Will Have an Economic Clash with Israel
A plan launched by the National Committee against Israeli Punitive Measures has continued in cooperation with the private sector to stimulate Palestinian economic growth and goods production, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Economy, […]

Democracy Now: After Netanyahu Wins Israel Vote with Racism, How Will World Respond?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has won a surprise election victory, putting him on course for a fourth term in office. Netanyahu’s Likud Party is poised to control 29 or 30 seats in the 120-member […]

Israel Votes Apartheid
By Neve Gordon Benjamin Netanyahu is truly a magician. Just this past Friday, most polls indicated that his Likud party would likely receive around 21 seats in the Israeli Knesset, four seats less than Yitzhak […]

The Militarists and Haters Win in Israeli Elections
Winners: Netanyahu, AIPAC, US Republican Party, Sheldon Adelson (American Jewish billionaire funder of the right), Hamas, Islamic State, the right-wing Mullahs in Iran. Losers: Israeli, World Jewry, the Palestinian people, the forces for peace and […]

What Netanyahu’s Victory Means for America
The American political class has spent decades convincing itself that the Israeli political class really does want a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The last six years have been the hardest—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin […]

UN Backs Away from Including IDF on List of Children’s Rights Violators after Pressure
Senior UN officials in Jerusalem have been accused of caving in to Israeli pressure to abandon moves to include the state’s armed forces on a UN list of serious violators of children’s rights. UN officials […]

Israel Election: Canada Takes Wait-And-See Attitude On Implications
Canada is taking a wait-and-see attitude on the foreign policy implications of the Israeli election, although Stephen Harper has tweeted his own congratulations to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud Party won re-election in […]

Netanyahu’s Victory: Now What President Obama?
By Alan Hart “Love him (Netanyahu) or hate him, this is the face of Israel.” That’s how Uriel Heilman concluded an article for the JTA (Jewish Telegraph Agency) on Netanyahu’s election victory after noting that […]

‘Islamic State’ as a Western Phenomenon: Reimagining the IS Debate
By Ramzy Baroud It is as if leaders of the so-called “Islamic State” (IS) are getting tips on demonising Muslims from world leading Islamophobes and as if they are trying to live up to the […]

Netanyahu, Herzog Tied in Exit Polls, Joint List Takes 13
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and challenger Isaac Herzog came out tied with 27 seats out of 120 in the first exit polls in Israeli elections on Tuesday. The Joint List was received 13 seats in […]

US Opens up to Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood, Syria, and Iran
By Nicola Nasser The appointment of Robert Malley as White House Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf Region is not considered a sufficient indicator that there will be any radical change […]

Israeli Elections on Twitter
On #Israeli social media, Bibi is now the star of virtually all political parodies. From pop song re-mixes to his own video games. — Paula Slier (@PaulaSlier_RT) March 17, 2015 The Central Election Committee ordered […]

Egypt Demolishes 1,020 Rafah Homes for Gaza Buffer Zone
The Egyptian army demolished 1,020 houses in the border city of Rafah as part of the second stage of the establishment of a buffer zone along the border with the Gaza Strip. Egyptian security officials […]

On Israeli Election Day, Netanyahu Warns of Arabs Voting ‘in Droves’
Israelis went to the polls on Tuesday to elect a new government, and the country’s incumbent leader was very worried. Over the past few months, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saw what some assumed would be a […]