By: Amal Ahmad | al-Shabaka | Ma’an News Agency | – – The Palestinian people began the New Year facing a bleak political situation, with a weak and compromised leadership, a geographically and administratively fragmented people, and a civil society increasingly marked by individualism and loss of political anchor. The state-building project that promised so […]
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Israel/ Palestine
Every day Life under Occupation: Clashes near Ramallah as Israeli checkpoint strands hundreds
Ma’an News Agency | – – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Clashes broke out on Sunday afternoon between Palestinian youths and Israeli forces in the village of Jabaa near Ramallah City in the West Bank after a checkpoint was closed, keeping hundreds of cars stranded. Witnesses said that that the Jabaa checkpoint, located at one of the […]
Exasperated by Netanyahu, France Prepares to Recognize Palestinian State
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Even the staunchly pro-Israel French Socialist Party has had it with Israeli expansionism and aggression. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius announced Friday that France would make one last push to restart diplomatic negotiations between Israel and Palestine, but said that if the endeavor failed then France […]
Gaza speaks: This is what the decade-long Israeli siege has done to us
By Ramzy Baroud | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – Whenever Mariam Aljamal’s children hear the sound of thunder at night, they wet their beds. Their reaction is almost instinctive, and is shared by a large number of children throughout the Gaza Strip. Mariam’s three children — Jamal, Lina and Sarah — were all born […]
Why Israel’s Netanyahu has no standing to accuse UN Sec. Ban of inciting Terrorism
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke out this week in an address to the UN Security Council against Israel’s policy of stealing Palestinian land in the West Bank (allotted to Palestinians in the 1947 UN General Assembly partition plan that Israelis celebrate so fiercely), and of building […]
Israel’s land grab undermines Palestinian statehood – and violates international law
By Amy Maguire | (The Conversation) | – – Israel is preparing to make its largest land seizure in the West Bank since August 2014. Israeli settlers are already farming the 154 hectares in the Jordan Valley, displacing Palestinian communities. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on Israel to change its settlement policies. Settlements […]
Netanyahu voices support for Israeli squatter takeover of Palestinian Buildings in Hebron outside Israel
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated his government’s support of illegal settlements in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem “at any time” on Sunday when discussing the case of settlers who took over two buildings in Hebron this week. Israeli forces evicted more than 80 […]
71 UK doctors call on World Medical Association to Expel Israel over Torture
Ma’an News Agency | – – ‘BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A group of British doctors is pushing for the World Medical Association (WMA) to expel the Israeli Medical Association (IMA), the IMA’s chairman said on Wednesday during a meeting of the Knesset Science and Technology committee. In a discussion dealing with the academic boycott of Israel, […]
Airbnb profits from Israeli theft of Palestinian Land with Squatter Listings
AJ+ | (Video News Report) | – – “Palestinians are angry at Airbnb. The website advertises dozens of homes located in illegal Israeli settlements.” Israeli Settler Homes On Airbnb Opinion:"Airbnb takes a commission on property rentals, and so is profiting from Israel's colonisation of Palestine" https://t.co/uEo1Xs6ULG — Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) January 14, 2016 ACT […]
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