By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Last year this time, Secretary of State John Kerry was trying to put together a huge peace deal between Israel and the Arab world, according to Aron Heller and Matthew Lee of the Associated Press. The proposal built on the 2002 Arab peace plan, which offered […]
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Israel/ Palestine
Trump’s Mideast Policy is clear as Pea Soup, but likely bad for Palestinians
Jacob Eriksson | (The Conversation) | – – By the standards of his turbulent time in office, President Donald Trump’s meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was relatively nondescript. In many ways, Trump’s statements to the assembled press were characteristic of the colloquial, rambling, but above all vague, policy announcements made to date. His […]
Israeli, Palestinian officials react to Trump’s shift away from 2-state solution
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Following a controversial meeting held Wednesday between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli and Palestinian leaders reacted with praise and condemnation in response to a clear shift in US policy away from backing the two-state solution. Trump responded to a question […]
Trump plots to keep Palestinians Stateless forever
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Trump-Netanyahu Show on Wednesday was par for the course in American and right wing Israeli discourse about the Palestinians. Nobody brought up that the British colonialists conquered Palestine during World War I and instead of preparing it for statehood, as they promised the League of […]
Farewell to doublespeak: Israel’s vision for the future is terrifying
By Ramzy Baroud | Ma’an News Agency | – – Empirical historical evidence combined with a little common sense are enough to tell us the type of future options that Israel has in store for the Palestinian people: perpetual apartheid or ethnic cleansing, or a mix of both. The passage of the ‘Regularization Bill’ on […]
Israeli Gov’t Secretly funding illegal squatter Settlements in Palestine: Haaretz
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The recently dismantled illegal settlement outpost of Amona was funded through a million-dollar loan from the Israeli government, a report by Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed on Monday, further blurring the distinction between settlements recognized and unrecognized by Israel. Israeli children at the now dismantled illegal settlement […]
Rights group warns Israel could could launch ‘wide-scale’ military offensive in Gaza
Ma’an News Agency | – – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — In the wake of multiple airstrikes launched by the Israeli army inside the Gaza Strip on Monday, the Gaza-based al-Mezan Center for Human Rights expressed concern that Israel could be leading up to a wide-scale military offensive. Meanwhile on Wednesday, four Israeli bulldozers raided the […]
Israeli Parliament gives Legal Cover to Massive Land Theft from Palestinians
Al Jazeera English | (Video News Report) | – – “Israel’s parliament has passed a law to legalise about 4,000 squatter homes built on privately owned Palestinian land.” Al Jazeera English: “Israel approves controversial settlement expansion bill”
Tel Aviv: Huge Jewish-, Palestinian-Israeli Rally against racist state, home demolitions
Ma’an News Agency | – – TEL AVIV (Ma’an) — Thousands rallied in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Saturday evening in protest of home demolitions targeting Palestinian citizens of Israel, with demonstrators calling the Israeli state’s demolition campaign “racist” and an act of “incitement” against Palestinian citizens. Protesters reportedly called on Israeli Minister […]
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