Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A couple of weeks ago, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced a conference on security in the Middle East for February 13-14. Although the theme seemed general, the conclave was clearly intended by Pompeo, Saudi Arabia, and Israel to direct hate against Iran. Poland issued 70 invitations to the countries […]
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Middle East
Why do Protests Keep Happening in North Africa? It’s “al-Hogra”
(Informed Comment) – In North Africa, leftovers of “Arab Spring” protests have entered their ninth year. In Morocco, the last few years have been marked by a wave of anti-government protests throughout the country since the “Arab Spring”: the Rif hirak (movement) in the north decrying economic and social injustice; Zagora’s “thirst protests” in the […]
Israeli Snipers Killed 180, Injured 23,000 Gaza Protesters with Live Fire since March
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — More than 250 Palestinians were killed by Israeli army gunfire and over 23,000 were injured since the start of “The Great March of Return” protests in the Gaza Strip on March 30th until the end of last year, according to a report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian […]
US has “No Plan” as Syria Pullout Proceeds: Ex-Envoy
Washington, DC (AFP) – The United States has no plan for Syria as it proceeds with President Donald Trump’s order to pull American troops out of the country, a top official who quit in protest at the policy said on Sunday. Brett McGurk, who was America’s envoy to the US-led global coalition against the Islamic […]
Israel demolished 10% more Palestinian Structures in 2018: OCHA
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — During 2018, Israel demolished or seized 460 Palestinian-owned structures in the West Bank, a 10% increase compared to 2017, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territory confirmed in a new report. The OCHA report stated, “While in Area C, which makes over 60% […]
Roseanne Barr calls Natalie Portman ‘Repulsive’ over Israeli Prize Refusal
Comedian Roseanne Barr has called Natalie Portman “repulsive” after the Jacky star declined to accept an Israeli film award last year. The former Roseanne star made the comments ahead of her own visit to Israel, during which she will address the Israeli parliament. Barr, 66, who was promoting her upcoming trip to Israel in an […]
Crimes against Humanity: Israeli Snipers have shot down 45 Child Gaza Protesters
RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCIP) submitted a joint report to United Nations investigators last week detailing Israeli forces’ killing of Palestinian children during mass protests in the Gaza Strip, conduct amounting to war crimes, said DCIP in a press release. The 57-page report, drafted in collaboration with the Human Rights […]
War on BDS: How AIPAC-Israel Agenda became USG Priority
By Ramzy Baroud | – The Israeli-US war declared on the Palestinian boycott movement is coming to a head, culminating in a well-orchestrated effort aimed at suffocating any form of tangible protest of the ongoing Israeli colonization of Palestine. But an Israeli ‘victory’, even with blind US government support, is still too elusive if at […]
GOP Rep. Seeks to Block Tlaib Palestine Congressional Delegation
The newly elected Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, who represents Michigan’s 13th District, is seeking to take a delegation of congressional representatives to the Palestinian West Bank, which is militarily occupied by Israel and where some 600,000 Israeli squatters have usurped Palestinian land belonging to the nearly 3 million Palestinians living there (another nearly 2 million live […]
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