Israel/ Palestine

TeleSur | – – John Kerry claimed the Palestinian leadership enables terrorism as he defended the U.S. decision to let the U.N. resolution on Israeli settlements pass. After kicking off his speech on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Wednesday with a lengthy condemnation of what he called Palestinian terror and the Palestinian leadership’s alleged celebration of “terrorists,” […]

Israel Lobbies

After Israel Land-Theft Vote, will Trump & GOP Congress try to defund the UN?

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By Thalif Deen | (Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – The United States has had a longstanding love-hate relationship with the United Nations ever since 1952 when the world body began operations in New York city on an 18-acre piece of land which housed an abattoir where cattle was being trucked […]

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Now is the time for Obama to Recognize Palestine

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – I’d like to return today to an argument I made two years ago in The Nation, which is that President Obama should recognize Palestine before he goes out of office. For different but related reasons, Jimmy Carter made a similar plea last month. One of the […]

Human Rights

Israeli TV Regulators Ban Ad for Calling Out Racism, Homophobia

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By IMEMC | – – Calling Palestinian rights ‘problematic’ and LGBT rights a matter ‘in public dispute,’ the TV authority bans a public service announcement by Association for Civil Rights in Israel. The Second Authority for Television and Radio (SATR), a public body that supervises Israeli commercial television and radio stations, banned a public service […]

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Israel’s Netanyahu et al. Throw Trump-like Tantrums after UNSC Slam

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – PM Binyamin Netanyahu of Israel and his cabinet ministers are trying to punch above their weight. He wants to punish the UN, and apparently even the United States. Netanyahu has forbidden Israeli officials to travel to 12 of the countries on the UN Security Council who […]

Israel/ Palestine

In defiance of UN, Israel reportedly set to approve thousands of settler units

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Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Days after the UN Security Council approved a resolution affirming the illegality of Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory and called for their construction to cease, reports emerged that Israel is set to approve thousands of new settler units in occupied East Jerusalem. The Local […]

Israel/ Palestine

Palestinian Officials on UNSC Members’ Resolution: Now let them Implement it

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Via IMEMC | (PNN) | – – (PNN) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has welcomed the adoption of a new United Nations Security Council resolution (co-sponsored by Malaysia, New Zealand, Senegal, and Venezuela) regarding Israel’s illegal colonial settlements, which are seen as undermining peace in the region and the possibility of a two-state solution: “This […]

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Why the UN Resolution on Israeli Squatting didn’t Go Far Enough

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The United Nations Security Council on Friday passed a resolution with 14 member states in favor and 1 abstaining (the US), condemning Israeli government support for Israeli squatters who steal Palestinian land and squat on it in the Palestinian West Bank. Since Israel is in severe […]

Israel/ Palestine

Israeli forces suppress Bethlehem’s ‘Santa Claus march’ with tear gas, rubber bullets

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By Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces Friday suppressed Bethlehem’s “Santa Claus March,” shooting tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets at participants, with many suffering from tear gas inhalation. A number of demonstrators, including five journalists and foreigners, participated in a march near the Israeli checkpoint 300 in the north […]