Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — United States Secretary of State John Kerry delivered harsh criticism of the Israeli government’s settlement expansion policies at the Saban Forum in Washington D.C. on Sunday, saying “things are moving in the wrong direction” regarding Israeli-Palestinian peace. An annual dialogue between American and Israeli leaders from […]
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Israel/ Palestine
Under BDS Pressure, G4S Ends Most Illegal Business with Israel
IMEMC | – – Human rights campaigners to intensify pressure against the company… *G4S announces sale of most of its Israel business, following intense BDS pressure *G4S remains involved in Israeli police training and settlement construction business *BDS human rights campaigners celebrate victory, call for continuing pressure The world’s largest security company, G4S, announced today […]
Israeli Occupation economically suffocates Palestinian East Jerusalem
By: Al-Shabaka | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – In an unusual move, and after years of neglect, American and European delegations and development agencies have recently been visiting East Jerusalem and showing an increased interest in “doing something” about its deteriorating socioeconomic conditions. Moreover, the Palestinian Authority (PA) is, after a prolonged silence, working […]
Now that SecDef thinks Israeli Occupation is Apartheid, will the Lobby Blackballing Fail?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The interview of Gen. James Mattis by Wolf Blitzer at Aspen in 2013, in which the recently-retired former CENTCOM commander spoke freely on Middle East policy, has come back to haunt him now that Donald Trump has put him forward as the next Secretary of Defense. […]
Israel Plots Largest Settlement Expansion in Occupied Syrian Golan since 1980
IMEMC | – – Arab human rights organization resists Israeli plans to construct 1,600 settlement units, and expropriate 25,000 acres of Syrian land in the occupied Golan. Al-Marsad: Arab Human Rights Center in the Golan announced, in a press release, that it has written to the European Union, European governments and the Permanent Members of […]
Right-wing Israeli master plan injures rights in Palestinian E Jerusalem
Ma’an News Agnecy | JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — A recent master plan presented by right-wing Jewish activists envisions a “greater Jerusalem” extending far beyond the current municipal boundaries, and a future for the city which sees Palestinians as virtually nonexistent, according to a Monday report by Israeli newspaper Haaretz. The plan, dubbed “Jerusalem 5800,” was privately […]
Is Jimmy Carter right that Obama should Recognize Palestine?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Jimmy Carter wrote and NYT op-ed yesterday in which he called on Barack Obama to arrange for the UN Security Council to recognize Palestine and pass resolutions reaffirming the illegality of Israeli squatting on Palestinian land in the West Bank. Carter points out that there are […]
World Bank: Only 10 percent of Gazans have access to safe drinking water
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The World Bank denounced the worsening water crisis in the Gaza Strip, calling the situation in the besieged Palestinian enclave “alarming” on Wednesday. In a statement released by the World Bank, senior water and sanitation specialist Adnan Ghosheh stated that only 10 percent of the population […]
Electricity shortage causes children’s hospital in Gaza to suspend medical care
Ma’an News Agency | – – GAZA (Ma’an) — Health services in a children’s hospital in Gaza will be suspended for more than a day due to a lack of fuel to power its generators, the Ministry of Health of the besieged Palestinian enclave said in a statement on Wednesday. The ministry said that the […]
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