Israel/ Palestine

By Mike Merryman-Lotze | (Otherwords) | – – Every day Palestinians live in fear of another U.S.-funded attack by the Israeli government. This fall, the U.S. agreed to provide $38 billion in military aid to Israel over the next ten years, ensuring America’s continued role in funding the occupation of Palestine. Meanwhile, my friends and […]

TeleSur | – – Coalition whip MK David Bitan also wants to strip citizenship from B’Tselem director Hagai El-Ad, after he made calls to sanction Israel. “The only democracy in the Middle East” has a prominent politician calling for legislation to bar Israelis from advocating for sanctions against the state at global colloquiums. Coalition whip […]

IMEMC News | – – Late last week, Israeli settlers reportedly took over a Palestinian-owned area of land in al-Humma region of the northern Jordan Valley, and laid down an infrastructure, according to a local official. Jordan Valley Panorama, h/t Wikipedia M’otaz Bsharat, in charge of the settlement file in the Jordan Valley, said that […]

Tommaso Segantini interviews Norman Finkelstein | (TeleSur) | – – Renowned scholar and political activist Norman Finkelstein speaks with teleSUR English about a range of issues around Israel’s occupation of Palestine. The year 2017 will mark the 50th anniversary of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories during the 1967 war. In this exchange with freelance journalist […]

By Sandy Tolan | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – Washington has finally thrown in the towel on its long, tortured efforts to establish peace between Israel and the Palestinians. You won’t find any acknowledgement of this in the official record. Formally, the U.S. still supports a two-state solution to the conflict. But the Obama administration’s recent […]

By Ma’an News Agency | – – GAZA (Ma’an) — The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov Thursday expressed concerns over the situation in Gaza, and urged Israel to understand that its policies on the besieged enclave only “escalates violence.” Mladenov stressed in the statement that Israeli authorities must come […]

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Following a controversial UNESCO vote that saw the adoption of a draft resolution that sharply criticized Israeli policies around the Al-Aqsa Mosque, while supposedly rejecting Jewish ties to the holy site — referred to by Jews as the Temple Mount — was received warmly by the […]

By IMEMC | – – The population of the Gaza Strip reportedly exceeded two million, on Tuesday night, following the birth of Walid Jihad Shaat, from the Rafah district, southern Gaza. Official sources stated, according to Al Ray, that the Gaza Strip broke the barrier of 2 million yesterday evening, when the newborn baby was […]