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Month: January 2017

Amid Diplomatic Row with Mexico: Netanyahu Defends ‘Wall’s a Great Idea’ Tweet
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defended his ‘wall’ remarks, accusing the media of spinning it as support for Donald Trump’s plan to build a wall along the Mexican border. Unimpressed, Mexico’s FM called it […]

Israel Terminates Partnership with EU Program
Israel has decided not to partner with an EU cultural program because it includes an article banning cooperation with illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories, QudsPress reported yesterday. QudsPress said that Israeli newspaper Haaretz […]

How Did Moving the Embassy become the Lesser of Two Evils?
By Hani Al-Masri There have been developments regarding moving the embassy, as there has been a trade-off between the Israeli government and American administration involving postponing the move of the embassy in exchange for the […]

Final Vote Next: Israeli Committee Approves Outpost ‘Legalization Bill’
The widely condemned outpost “Legalization bill” passed its final committee vote on Tuesday, according to Israeli media, only necessitating one more round of votes for it to be adopted into Israeli legislation. The bill is […]

UNRWA Uses Solar Power to Overcome Long-Standing Electricity Crisis
The United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has increased its dependency on alternative energy to run its facilities in the besieged Gaza Strip, which suffers from an acute electricity crisis, the […]

Groups Warn against Deterioration of Palestinian Prisoners’ Conditions in Israeli Jails
The Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) have warned against the deteriorating medical conditions of Palestinian prisoners who are subjected to Israel’s deliberate policy of medical […]

2 Palestinians Die ‘of Natural Causes’ at Gaza-Egypt Border Crossing
Two travelers died “of natural causes” at the Rafah crossing on Sunday, on the second of a three-day opening of the border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian border committee said in […]

Netanyahu Refuses to Apologize to Mexico over Support for Trump’s Wall
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to apologize for his tweet in support of US President Donald Trump’s planned wall on the Mexican border, despite being urged to do so by Interior Minister Arye […]

Divest from War, Invest in People
By Kathy Kelly All Trump, all the time. With a punishing, disorienting barrage of executive orders, President Trump is reversing hard fought gains made in environmental protection, health care, women’s rights, immigration policy, and nuclear […]

Giant Malaysian Store Removes Israeli Product from Its Shelves
Malaysia’s Giant Hypermarket removed Israeli products sold in its branches following pressure from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS) in Malaysia. BDS-Malaysia chairman, Mohd Nazari Ismail, said “Giant Hypermarket removed Israeli clothes of the […]

Israeli Court Asks State to Prove Stone Throwing Law is Not Discriminatory
The Israeli Supreme Court has demanded that the Israeli state prove that it was not directly discriminating against Palestinians in Israel and occupied East Jerusalem by passing a 2015 law that strips social benefits for […]

UK Committee to Investigate Israeli Embassy Scandal (VIDEOS)
A committee of UK parliamentarians plans to investigate a scandal surrounding an Israeli diplomat who was caught promising to “take down” Britain’s foreign office minister in an Al Jazeera investigation. The parliament’s Foreign Affairs Select […]

Netanyahu: All Embassies to Israel Should Move to Jerusalem
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirmed on Sunday his support for the US embassy to Israel moving from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, further adding that “all embassies should come here.” In a statement during the […]

Mexico Rebukes Israel over Netanyahu Wall Tweet
Mexico’s government rebuked Israel on Saturday for a tweet by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that appeared to applaud US President Donald Trump’s plan to build a border wall with Mexico to keep out illegal immigrants. […]

Trump’s America: Land of Dystopia and Resistance
By Yoav Litvin Dystopia On January 20 2017, surrounded by family and the usual suspects, the real-estate mogul, sexual-predator and conman Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. Now known as […]

Palestinian Female Prisoner Goes on Hunger Strike in Israeli Jails
A lawyer from the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has revealed that Palestinian prisoner Randa al-Shahatit, from the village of Dura in the occupied West Bank, began an open hunger strike on Thursday to protest her […]

Israel Committed Systemic Killings against Palestinians in Gaza says PACE
The Palestinian Information Center reported that “the European-Palestinian relations council welcomed a resolution made by a The Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly accusing Israel of engaging in systematic unlawful killings of Palestinian civilians in Gaza […]

Israel Returns Body of Slain 18-year-old Palestinian Girl to Family in Al-Khalil (Hebron)
Israeli authorities Friday evening returned the body of 18-year-old Majd al-Khadour to a Palestinian liaison and a representative of the family for burial in the village of Bani Naim in the southern occupied West Bank […]

Making Israel Greater Again: Justice for Palestinians in the Age of Trump
By Yoav Litvin “You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful women. I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. […]

‘Normalize That!’: Occupation, Colonization and Apartheid
By Haidar Eid Normalizing oppression has always been one of the tools used by the colonizer against the resistance of the oppressed and colonized. It is cheap and it works! It turns native against native, […]

Islamic-Christian Commission Condemns New Rail Plan in Jerusalem
The Islamic-Christian Commission for Patronizing (supporting) Jerusalem and Holy Sites has strongly denounced the Israeli plan to connect the Aqsa Mosque’s Western Wall with the rail line coming from Tel Aviv. In a press release […]

Rafah to Open for First Time in Two Months, Siege to Continue
Palestinian authorities in the Gaza Strip declared on Thursday that Rafah crossing would be opened for three days starting Saturday to allow the passage of Palestinian passengers from and into the besieged coastal enclave. Local […]

Pateh, Qusay and Ahmad: On Forgetfulness and ‘Remembrance Day’
By Romana Rubeo When I was a teenager, I had a poster adorning my bedroom wall: “A people without memory are a people without a future.” I always loved to believe that, somehow, “Historia magistra […]

Israel, Turkey, Hamas and Offshore Gas: Interview with the Ambassador of Palestine in Greece, Marwan Emile Toubassi
Interviewed by Charalampos Tsitsopoulos Regional Realignments and Palestine Tectonic changes are currently taking place in the Mediterranean region. How do Palestinians view Greece’s regional role, especially given the traditionally strong ties between Greece and the […]

White Silence Equals Violence: Awaiting a Verdict
By Kathy Kelly This morning, here in Minneapolis, six jurors decided beyond a reasonable doubt that I am guilty as charged and my co-defendant, Dan Wilson was found innocent. The court case stems from an action […]

PLO Official: Two-state Solution Possible if Israel is ‘Deterred’
Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said “maintaining the two-state solution necessitates deterring the Israeli government from its continued breaches, not rewarding it over its violations of international law and international legitimacy,” Quds Press reported yesterday. Erekat’s remarks […]

EU Warns of any Attempt to Move US embassy to Jerusalem
European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini expressed Wednesday opposition to any plan by U.S. President Donald Trump to move the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to occupied Jerusalem. During a meeting with the […]

Paris and the End to a Western-dominated Era in the Middle East
By Ramzy Baroud No, it was not just ‘another Middle East peace conference,’ as a columnist in Israeli ‘Jerusalem Post’ attempted to depict the Paris Peace Conference held on January 15, with top official representations […]

Palestinian Leadership Threatens to Withdraw Recognition of Israel
A senior member of President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party has threatened to withdraw the Palestinian Authority’s recognition of Israel in response to the planned relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. During […]

Army will Go ‘Full Force’ in Future Wars, Collapsing EU Shouldn’t Lecture: Israeli Defense Chief
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said the army will stop at nothing to defeat the enemy in conflicts to come, and they won’t stop until the adversary “waves a white flag.” He also slammed attempts […]