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By Michael Blum | ( Your Middle East | – – Israel’s “chained women” fight for right to divorce. She is one of Israel’s “chained women” — the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of wives denied a divorce by their husbands and prevented from breaking free by the country’s use of Jewish law. The 30-year-old mother of […]

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Civility? Professor Proposes Israel “flatten” a City of 1 million

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By Belén Fernández | ( TeleSur ) | – – No, Israel Should Not Flatten Beirut: A debate over whether Israel should commit war crimes and wipe out a city of at least 1 million people is somehow acceptable. This week, the prominent Israeli newspaper Haaretz ran an opinion piece by Amitai Etzioni, titled “Should […]

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Israel frets about “Iran as Neighbor” if Aleppo falls & al-Assad Regime Wins

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – An Arabic site that aggregates Facebook and other social media postings reports that Israeli officials are filled with anxiety and consternation about the possibility that the regime of Bashar al-Assad will conquer Aleppo with Russian and Iranian help, and will go on to reconstitute itself. It […]

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Are Palestinian-Israelis going from 2nd Class Citizens to 3rd Class?

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By Nadim Nashif and Raya Naamneh | Al-Shabaka | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – Israel still portrays itself as a Jewish and democratic state. Yet in practice, as its Palestinian citizens can attest, it functions as a Jewish ethnocracy, leaving small margins of freedom for its Palestinian citizens that have been steadily shrinking in […]

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71 UK doctors call on World Medical Association to Expel Israel over Torture

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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, […]

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Israeli PM Netanyahu Still trying to derail Iran Nuclear Deal

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – BBC Monitoring reports that over the weekend, even as the great Powers were certifying that Iran was in compliance with the UNSC deal permitting only civilian enrichment of uranium, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who had attempted to derail the negotiations, continued to try to derail […]

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Why Arson was suspected in Fire at Offices of Israeli Human Rights & Peace Group B’Tselem

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Nir Hasson | Haaretz | (Video News Report) | – – Update: N.B. an investigation by the Jerusalem fire brigade appears to have concluded that an electrical wiring fault was responsible for the fire at the offices of B’Tselem. Initial reports by Haaretz and others, as below, suspected arson. The reason is that a school […]

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Israel’s working poor

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By Jacob Wirtschafter | ( Your Middle East) | A poverty report has added fuel to long-standing debates about religion, intercommunal politics, and Israel’s national priorities. An energy boom and its high-tech achievements as the vaunted “start-up nation” notwithstanding, Israel is seeing more and more of its children living in poverty. Figures released by the […]

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Shin Bet: Jewish Terrorists Out to ‘Violently Overthrow’ Israeli Government

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By IMEMC | – – Israel’s domestic security agency Shin Bet, on Thursday, cautioned that a Jewish terror organization is seeking to “violently overthrow” the Israeli government, Israeli media reported. Israeli soldiers at the Israeli outpost of Achiya near the Palestinian village of Duma on Aug. 4, 2015, a week after a deadly arson attack […]