By Omar Ghraieb | (Global Voices Online) | – – To say that both technology and communication have been experiencing a steady advancement until the past few years is something of an understatement. The world went from slowly becoming one village, thanks to the World Wide Web, to becoming one home, thanks to social media. […]
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Israel/ Palestine
Shimon Peres doubts Israel can win Permanent war or Survive Annexation of West Bank
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Former Israeli president Shimon Peres, 92, gave an interview with the Associated Press Monday in which he spoke bluntly about the mistakes of prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, without naming him. Of the Greater Israel project of the country’s right wing, which aims at annexing the Palestinian […]
Israeli Forces shot 2600 Palestinians with live, rubber Bullets in October: Red Crescent
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces shot and wounded at least 2,617 Palestinians with live and rubber-coated steel bullets through October, the Palestinian Red Cross said Sunday, as clashes carried on into the new month. A Red Crescent spokesperson told Ma’an that at least 760 Palestinians were shot with live […]
Abbas submits further files on Israeli Crimes to Int’l Criminal Court
Ma’an News Agency | – – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on Friday submitted additional files documenting Israeli violations of international law to the International Criminal Court in the Hague, the Palestinian foreign minister said. Riyad Al-Maliki told Fatah-affiliated radio station Mawtini on Saturday that Abbas and his delegation had urged the ICC’s […]
Israeli soldiers tell Palestinians: ‘We will gas you until you die’
By Megan Hanna | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – On October 29, Israeli military forces issued a disturbing message to residents of Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem, telling them that unless they stopped throwing stones “we will gas you until you die.” Israeli military forces raided the camp and fired tear gas and flash […]
Amnesty: Israeli forces have ‘ripped up the rulebook’
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Amnesty International on Tuesday demanded that Israel stop unlawful killings in occupied Palestinian territory, stating that Israeli forces appeared to have “ripped up the rulebook.” “There is mounting evidence that, as tensions have risen dramatically, in some cases Israeli forces appear to have ripped up the […]
Jerusalem: A City Governed by Fear
By: Emily Mulder | ( Ma’an News Agency ) | – – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Mohammad, a 20-year-old Palestinian and resident of Jerusalem, was attacked by a group of Israelis on Oct. 14. His uncle, Aziz Abu Sarah, told Ma’an he had met the teen for lunch earlier in the day and given him the […]
Tel Aviv: Israelis Rally against Netanyahu’s Policies toward Palestinians
By IMEMC | – – Thousands of Israeli protesters have taken to the streets in Tel Aviv to denounce Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies, which they blame for the recent wave of tensions in the occupied Palestinian territories, as well as in the besieged Gaza Strip. On Saturday night, the demonstrators held signs that read, […]
Let’s not forget: the real drivers behind Palestinian anger
By Hugh Lovatt | ( Your Middle East) | – – “Israeli society continues to turn a blind eye to the suffering it inflicts on Palestinians” An end to the violence will only happen when the Israeli public decides to move in the direction of de-occupation, something that is unlikely to occur so long as […]