Israel/ Palestine

As the Palestinian minority takes to the streets, Israel is having its own Black Lives Matter moment

( The Conversation) – The images and reports coming from Israel, Jerusalem and Gaza in recent days are shocking. They are also surprising to those who thought the 2020 Abraham Accords and subsequent agreements to normalize relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan would place the conflict between Israelis and […]

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Gaza and Israel’s Kidnapper’s Dilemma: Keeping a Million Children Brutalized in its dark Basement

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A war is when two antagonists fight one another all-out, until in fairly short order one wins and the other loses. On December 11, 1941, Mussolini declared war on the United States. Then later on the US invaded Italy from Tunisia under Gen. Patton. On July 25, 1943, Mussolini lost […]

Israel/ Palestine

Letter from a Father in Gaza: Our Six-Year-Old can’t block out the Sounds of Israel’s Bombardment

Middle East Monitor

By Yasser Abu Jamei, MD | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – I am writing this letter looking at my terrified 6-year-old son, who keeps putting his hands over his ears trying block the sounds of Israel’s bombardment, my two daughters, aged 13 and 10 and my wife. These faces show the anxiety of […]

Israel/ Palestine

Israeli settlers’ aggressive takeover of Palestinian homes in Jerusalem is part of a decades-long struggle

Global Voices

Written byأيمن حسونة Translated byYasmeen Omera ( GlobalVoices.org) – “If I don’t steal your house, someone else will.” This is how an Israeli settler called “Yakob” responded to the Jerusalemite journalist Muna ElKurd when she asked him to leave the garden of her home in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. shows Israeli settler trying to take […]

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Why the Al-Aqsa Mosque has often been a site of conflict

The Conversation

By Ken Chitwood | – The violence that spread from Jerusalem to cities across Israel and the Palestinian territories, leaving at least 60 dead so far, has both historical and contemporary roots. In recent weeks, tension has flared over the eviction of Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, Israeli authorities blocking access to the […]

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Shooting Fish in a Barrel: Israel bombs Palestinian Refugees from Israel in Gaza, 50% of them Children

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Steve Hendrix, Shira Rubin and Michael E. Miller at WaPo report that Israeli air strikes on the densely populated urban areas of the Gaza Strip had by Thursday evening killed 109 Palestinians, among them 28 children, and had wounded 621 persons. The Israeli Air Force deliberately destroyed some of Gaza’s […]

Israel/ Palestine

How Trump’s “Abraham Accords” Inflamed Tensions by Marginalizing Palestinians and how Biden must hold Israel Accountable

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, CA (Special to Informed Comment) – Formal military units and street gangs are fighting it out separately throughout Israel, Palestine and the territories. Both Arab and right-wing Jewish street gangs have been fighting it out with each other AND cops. Nadav Eyal of the newspaper Yediot Ahronoth characterized it saying, “We are seeing the […]

Israel/ Palestine

Protests by Palestinian citizens in Israel signal growing sense of a common struggle

The Conversation

By Maha Nassar | – The world’s attention has turned again to deadly scenes of Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip and the launching of rockets by the militant group Hamas into Israel. It follows two weeks of protests in East Jerusalem against attempts to forcibly displace Palestinians from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah and […]

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Civil War? Palestinian-Israelis Join Protests en Masse for First time in Decades, as Squatter Militias Attack

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Wednesday, Israeli caretaker Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared a state of emergency in Lod, a small city of 77,000 people just southeast of Tel Aviv, 30 percent of whom are Palestinian-Israelis (my term for them, on the model of “Italian-Americans”). It had witnessed street demonstrations and rock throwing, and […]