Israel/ Palestine

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 […]

Colonialism

Israeli forces suppress protests marking Balfour Declaration centenary

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Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Clashes erupted between Palestinians and Israeli forces in Bethlehem city on Wednesday following a march commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, the 1917 document which supported establishing a Jewish state on what would become British Mandate Palestine, and paved the what for the to […]

Bill of Rights

Is Israel trying to Occupy the US 1st Amendment?

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Anti-BDS Legislation backed by Israel Lobbies threatens Americans’ Freedom of Speech

Israel/ Palestine

Widespread theft of Palestinian olive harvest by Israeli Squatters

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Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Over the past few days, Israeli settlers have reportedly stolen the harvest of hundreds of Palestinian olive trees in the northern occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian sources. Official Palestinian Authority (PA)-owned Wafa news agency reported that Israeli settlers from the illegal Kedumim settlement, stole the […]