(Middle East Monitor) – The UN finally published its database this month listing companies which profit from Israel’s brutal military occupation of the West Bank. This move was only made after years of unexplained delays. Rather helpfully, though, the Zionist Federation – an anti-Palestine, pro-Israel lobby group in Britain — admitted that, “The United States […]
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Israel/ Palestine
On Hanging from the Blades of an Israeli Bulldozer: Al-Naem is Every Palestinian
( Middle East Monitor ) – How is one to apply rational political analysis to what is inherently irrational? What kind of political theory must one consult to formulate and test hypotheses when the information at hand is so grizzly, sadistic, and reeking with unbearable contradictions? Seeing the gaunt body of Mohammed al-Naem hanging from […]
Sanders calls out “reactionary racist Netanyahu” while Bloomberg charges Mideast with “age-old hatreds”
At Tuesday night’s Democratic debate in South Carolina on CBS, Major Garrett, chief Washington correspondent for CBS News, asked Bernie Sanders a leading question. The question assumes that American Jews are a one-issue constituency who only care about Israel, and, indeed, it assumes that American Jews support the Netanyahu government. According to Gallup, about a […]
Heartened by Trump’s backing, Israel has ramped up Plans for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
By Nabil Al-Sahli | – In line with the demographic goals of the Zionist occupation state, the recently announced Trump deal includes a clause to move the Triangle region in northern Palestine occupied since 1948, to be under the authority of the Palestinian Authority. This will break the concentration of Israeli-Arab citizens in this area […]
Trump’s so-called Mideast ‘peace plan’ dispossesses Palestinians
By Rachad Antonius | – Nothing is further from a peace effort than the plan that Israel and the Donald Trump administration have concocted for Palestine. Previous American administrations have all been pro-Israel, and they’ve made every effort to circumvent international law. But previous U.S. administrations have never formally challenged international law, and they considered […]
Trump’s Ham-fisted Mideast “Plan” gave Iran an opening in the Next Palestinian Movement
By Omar Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor) – There are early signs that another uprising, or Intifada, will erupt in occupied Palestine. A couple of weeks ago, a spokesperson of the Gaza-based Al-Quds Brigades, an armed wing of the resistance faction Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), called on Palestinians to take up arms and […]
The Kushner “Deal of the Century”: If Only America’s Profound Betrayal of the Palestinian People Came as a Shock
Eau Claire, WI (Special to Informed Comment) – President Trump unveiled his administration’s Israeli-Palestinian peace plan at the White House on January 28, 2020, telling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel that there are ‘many, many countries who want to partake in this,’ and predicting that “you are going to have tremendous support from your […]
The Kushner-Netanyahu Plan for Israel to Annex Squatter Settlements in West Bank aims at Forever Blocking a Palestinian State
By Ghassan al-Shami | – (Middle East Monitor) – Israel and its allies in Washington view the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem as the focal points for the implementation of the deal of the century, which aims to liquidate the Palestinian cause. Hence, the process has already started there, with the maps prepared which show […]
94% of Palestinians reject Trump’s Kushner Plan, with Massive Rallies, and 2/3s say Two-State Solution is Dead
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Some 94% of Palestinians reject the Kushner Plan for Palestine, and two thirds of Palestinians ,according to a recent opinion poll, support the way in which President Mahmoud Abbas has tackled it. Abbas has cut off diplomatic relations and security cooperation with Israel and the United States. In fact, 82 […]