Israel

By Thomas Graham, Jr. | (Informed Comment) A possible agreement on the nuclear issue with Iran has been much in the news these days. The United States has been trying to restrain the Iranian nuclear program for more than 20 years with little to show for it until a so-called interim agreement between the Permanent […]

Apartheid

Israeli Army Incursion into Central Gaza to Bulldoze Farmland

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By Saed Bannoura | IMEMC & Agencies – Several armored Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers carried out, on Wednesday morning, a limited invasion into an area east of the al-Maghazi refugee camp, in central Gaza, and bulldozed farmlands. Eyewitnesses said the vehicles, accompanied by four armored D9 bulldozers, stationed in the Kissufim military base across […]

Foreign Policy

5 Things Official Washington won’t Tell you about Netanyahu’s Israel

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Bill Van Esveld | (Human Rights Watch) – Amid the controversy around Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu’s speech to the US Congress, the Obama administration’s National Security Council (NSC) recently published “five key facts you need to know about the US-Israel relationship under President Obama.” Here are some relevant facts it neglected to mention: NSC: […]

Israel

Israeli Foreign Minister Lieberman Suggests Decapitation for Disloyal Arabs

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By IMEMC News | – Israeli Foreign Minister and the head of Yisrael Beiteinu Party, Avigdor Lieberman, lashed out at Israel’s Arab citizens, Sunday, threatening to cut their heads off with an axe. “Those who are with us deserve everything, but those who are against us deserve to have their heads chopped off with an […]

Israel

Is Israel’s Election about enacting Jim Crow for 20% of its Citizens?

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By Jo Roberts | (Informed Comment) – Israelis go to the polls on March 17 to elect a new government. The incoming Knesset will face an issue that fractured the previous coalition: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s proposal to amend the constitutional Basic Laws and define Israel as a Jewish State. In an increasingly racialized society, […]

Democracy

Tel Aviv: Tens of Thousands Rally against Netanyahu

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By IMEMC News | – Tens of thousands of Israelis rallied on Saturday evening, in Yitzhak Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, calling for the current Israeli Prime Minister to be replaced in the upcoming parliamentary elections, according to Israeli and international media. The event’s organizers, Israel Wants Change, said that more than 35 thousand people attended, […]

Israel

Palestinian from Occupied E. Jerusalem injures 5 Israeli Police in Car Attack

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JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — A Palestinian ran his vehicle into a group of Israeli officers in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem on Friday, Israeli sources said. The driver was Muhammad Mahmoud Abd al-Razeq al-Salaymeh, 22, from the Ras al-Amud neighborhood in East Jerusalem. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told Ma’an the man was driving […]

Iran

Insulting Netanyahu: How Bibi got Everything Wrong and called you Stupid

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By Farhang Jahanpour | (TFF) After all the huffing and puffing and all the aroused expectations about the speech by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the joint session of US Congress, the speech proved a great disappointment and even an embarrassment. A great deal has already been written about it, and there is […]

Apartheid

Gaza Power Plant Closes Due to Lack of Fuel

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By IMEMC News & Agencies The Gaza Strip’s sole power plant was shut down, Wednesday evening, as Qatari-donated fuel supplies finally ran out, a Gaza power authority said. “The power plant stopped producing electricity during the night, after funds from Qatari donations to cover fuel costs ran out,” the Gaza authority said. “We are unable […]