Israel/ Palestine

Middle East Monitor | – – The Israeli and US governments are “working feverishly” to block the publication of a United Nations database of companies complicit in West Bank settlements, according to The Associated Press (AP). The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)-mandated list of companies was due to be published in December, but will reportedly […]

Israel/ Palestine

Israel’s Bedouin as Sisyphus: Homes destroyed over & over

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By Aniqa Raihan | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – Thousands of Arab Bedouins in Israel’s Negev desert are denied power, water, sewage, and roads by the state. And their villages are under constant threat of demolition. Photo: Aniqa Raihan Before the creation of modern Israel, the Negev desert, which constitutes the southern […]

Israel/ Palestine

Is Palestinian Pres. Abbas refusing to take Jared Kushner’s Phone Calls?

Juan Cole

Middle East Monitor | – – Haaretz reported on Thursday 23 November, 2017, that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas refused Wednesday to answer a phone call from Jared Kushner, adviser to US President Donald Trump who is responsible for mediating an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. Instead of answering Kushner’s call, Abbas forwarded it to the representative of […]

Iran

Israeli Minister Confirms Secret Contacts with Saudi Arabia

Juan Cole

By IMEMC News | – – Israel’s Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz revealed that the country maintains secret contacts within Saudi Arabia and many other Muslim and Arab countries, especially those with shared concerns from Iran. Steinitz, a member of Netanyahu’s security cabinet, did not characterize the contacts or give details when asked why Israel was […]

Israel/ Palestine

Israeli Policies eroding Rights of Palestinian children in Occupied West Bank

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Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — On the anniversary of Universal Children’s Day, international NGO Save the Children released a statement highlighting ongoing the rights violations of Palestinian children in the occupied territory by Israel. Jennifer Moorehead, the country director of Save the Children in the occupied Palestinian territory called for greater […]

Israel/ Palestine

Prince Charles baffled no US President will take on Israel Lobbies

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Middle East Monitor | – – Prince Charles has come under fire after it came to light that he blamed the “influx of foreign Jews” for causing unrest in the Middle East and called on the US to “take on the Jewish lobby” in a letter penned in 1986. Writing to his friend Laurens van […]

Featured

Lebanon Hizbullah leader: Saudis dictated Hariri resignation

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Secretary-General of Hizbullah, the Lebanese party-militia, Hassan Nasrullah, gave a major speech Sunday in the wake of the resignation of prime minister Saad Hariri. Nasrullah characterized this step as a Saudi move dictated to Hariri by Riyadh. Lebanon’s three big religio-ethnic groups are Sunnis, Shiites […]

Colonialism

Abbas: British gov’t should recognize Palestine on Balfour centenary

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Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The office of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas released a statement on Thursday, the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, calling on the British government to “apologize to the Palestinian people for the suffering caused as a result of the Balfour Declaration a hundred years ago.” “The second […]

Israel/ Palestine

A century on, Balfour Declaration still colonizes Palestinians’ everyday lives

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By Simon Mabon | (The Conversation) | – – With a simple 67-word letter sent on November 2, 1917, the British foreign secretary, Lord Arthur Balfour, irrevocably changed the political and geographic landscape of the Middle East. Outlining British support for the establishment of a Jewish state, it set in motion a series of events […]