Israeli flags fly over Ulpana. Photograph: Sebastian Scheiner/AP Ulpana illegal outpost must be gone by July, Israeli government is warned Judges reject coalition’s plea for delay and set new deadline for demolition of unauthorised buildings on Palestinian land The Israeli government has been given a fresh deadline for the controversial demolition of a Jewish outpost [...]
64 Years of Racism By Jamal Kanj Much has been written on Israeli policies seizing Palestinian land and building illegal ‘Jewish only’ colonies in the West Bank. However the discrimination against the original natives, the non-Jewish Israeli citizens, has gone unnoticed for 64 years. The creation of Israel in May [...]
New Israel Plans to Grab More Palestinian Lands By Jean ShaoulRecently released documents show that Israel’s Civil Administration, part of the Defence Ministry, has long earmarked up to 10 percent of the West Bank for new settlements or the expansion of existing ones. This is in contravention of international law, which [...]
(MaanImages/file) By Ramzy Baroud Last week Marwan Barghouti, the prominent Palestinian political prisoner and Fatah leader, called on Palestinians to launch a “large-scale popular resistance” which would “serve the cause of our people.” The message was widely disseminated as it coincided with Land Day, an event that has unified Palestinians since March 1976. Its meaning [...]
On Monday, the Israeli foreign ministry said that it had cut working relations with the UN Human Rights Council.The Israeli government said it will also prevent a UN team from entering its territory to assess the effects of settlements on Palestinian rights. “‘Other places are worse than us’ is frequently the justification [...]
Interviewed by: Yousef M. Aljamal, CPDS, via E-mail. 1- First, could you please give us a brief introduction about ISM? The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is a Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent, direct-action methods and principles. We founded this international coalition to support and strengthen [...]
Spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel Georg Streiter said Israel‘s recent tenders for over 1,000 settlement houses was “devastating” for peace on Monday. (MaanImages/Inbal Rose, File) BERLIN (Ma’an) — The German government issued a rare condemnation of Israeli settlement building on occupied Palestinian land on Monday, news reports said. Spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel Georg Streiter [...]
Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinians with Impunity By Stephen Lendman - Posted on 23 November 2011 Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinians with Impunity – by Stephen Lendman Palestinians are doubly cursed. Israel‘s military attacks them regularly. During the past week alone, Israeli air strikes killed four Gazans, wounding another 14. Al-Nabi Saleh village residents participating in a peaceful demonstration were [...]
Popular Resistance in Palestine – Book Review By Ludwig Watzal (Mazin B. Qumsiyeh, Popular Resistance in Palestine. A History of Hope and Empowerment, Pluto, London-New York 2011.) Palestinian resistance against an Israeli ‘belligerent occupation‘ is mostly viewed as terrorism and rocket attacks. The brutal violence that was inflicted upon the Palestinian people by the Israeli [...]
Non-violence Does Not Have to Be Passive By Jim Miles I have just watched the video of the University of California students at Davis against the heavily armed police that is becoming prominent on many internet sites and I am reminded, among others, of the non-violent responses of the Palestinians to their occupiers (see “Refusing [...]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to a parliament session at the Knesset in Jerusalem. (AFP/Gali Tibbon, File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli human rights groups on Sunday condemned an Israeli ministerial committee’s approval of two bills set to choke foreign funding to organizations in the country. Israeli military watchdog B’Tselem pledged “this government will [...]
I Weep for My Nation, Mr. President By Katherine Barwick Dear Mr. President, I am neither an expert on history nor a political activist; I am just an average American who is gravely concerned about the direction I see my country taking. I know you inherited a snake-pit of problems when you first took the [...]
Israel‘s foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, is a far-right influence on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and has helped to further politically isolate Israel [GALLO/GETTY] First this: An amazing account of what President Obama did for Israel last week has just come to light. The president personally, without consultation with Congress, intervened to save six Israeli lives. Prime [...]
Palestinians have not historically lacked legal instruments to challenge Israel [EPA] State of recognition Whether the UN grants the PA status as a state or refuses to do so, either outcome will be in Israel’s interest. Joseph Massad Last Modified: 15 Sep 2011 13:44 What is at stake in Barack Obama’s vehement refusal to recognise [...]
By Ayman Abu Shanab GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — As President Mahmoud Abbas prepares to submit a bid for recognition of Palestine as the UN’s 194th member, Palestinian factions are divided over the campaign. Abbas will head to New York on Monday ahead of the General Assembly’s annual session, while the US has already vowed [...]
Establishing a sovereign bantustan Published Friday 02/09/2011 (updated) 05/09/2011 19:19 President Mahmoud Abbas addresses a session of the General Assembly at the United Nations in New York. [Maanimages/Thaer Ganaim, File] By Jalal Abukhater Our struggle is not for symbolic statehood; it is a struggle to gain basic rights. For more than six decades, we [...]
In both Lebanon and Syria, Palestinian refugees tried to cross the Israeli border on Nakba Day [EPA] As Syrian protesters continue taking to the streets against the government of president Bashar al-Assad, the question of what role Syria’s half million Palestinian refugees will play remains unanswered. “Look at how the [Syrian] regime attacks its own [...]
Palestine and Statehood: An historical overview Published today (updated) 23/08/2011 12:17 By Abdullah Abueid Until 1923, Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire. In December 1917, British troops entered Jerusalem and ended 400 years of Ottoman rule. In 1922, the League of Nations issued the Mandate of Palestine which authorized the United Kingdom to [...]
Palestinians in no hurry to join housing protests Published today (updated) 13/08/2011 21:37 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian citizens of Israel “will not put their eggs in the same basket” with demonstrations sweeping Israel, a senior trade union official said Saturday. Muhammad Zeidan said the Arab community in Israel’s struggle was something quite different than [...]
Robbing Peter to Pay Israel by Josh Ruebner, August 13, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Nearly 20 percent of the constituents of Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL) live under the poverty line, and nearly 15 percent are unemployed. Jackson’s congressional district, covering parts of the south side of Chicago and its southern suburbs, has [...]
‘Israel is a serious violator of human rights.’ (Photo: Via UNRWA) By Hasan Afif El-Hasan Western leaders and media label any Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation as terrorism, but it refuses to give Israel the same label when its military commits daily crimes against the Palestinians. Israel destroyed Gaza and committed massacres, starves the [...]
Fear of Peace: The Israeli Motivator By Jim Miles The Weekly Standard, a weekly very conservative web magazine, has recently posted on its blog a short video with Israeli deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon explaining the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (“The Truth About the West Bank“). The general substance of the video is that because there never [...]
Analysis: When did the blockade begin? Published Thursday 28/07/2011 (updated) 29/07/2011 09:44 By Mya Guarnieri ATHENS, Greece (Ma’an) — The flotilla was intended to challenge the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, a closure that has been decried as a violation of international law. While Israel prevented the boats from reaching the Gaza Strip, the initiative [...]
One State vs. Two States Date: 06/15/2011 Description:One State vs. Two States in Historic Palestine The most popular settlement options for the Palestine/Israel impasse are the Two State and the One State solutions. Many misconceptions are associated with these options, but in order for the public to understand those misunderstandings, a comparison between the two [...]
Things You Can Say, Things You Cannot Fascism at the top by Ran HaCohen, July 13, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The anti-boycott law passed Monday night. Much has been said about what the American administration — blind as always to Middle East realities — tagged “an internal issue.” Let me just [...]
IDF Civil Administration pushing for land takeover in West Bank Inclusion of Jordan Valley, northern Dead Sea and area surrounding Ariel in ‘settlement blocs’ whose takeover the administration is advancing, would prevent establishment of Palestinian state with territorial contiguity. By Akiva Eldar The IDF Civil Administration is taking steps to increase state-ownership of West Bank lands, [...]
The Future Is Palestine By Jeremy R. Hammond The U.S. has long opposed any ‘unilateral’ action on the part of the Palestinians to seek fulfillment of their right to self-determination, and there is a very real threat that if the Palestinian Authority goes to the United Nations in September seeking international recognition of Palestinian statehood, [...]
Israel Rules out Non-violence: Method in Netanyahu’s Madness Israel’s siege mentality is asserting itself again. By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth It was an Arab legislator who made the most telling comment to the Israeli parliament last week as it passed the boycott law, which outlaws calls to boycott Israel or its settlements in the occupied [...]
Transcript PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay. I’m in Ramallah, Palestine. And now joining us from ["la-ROOJ"] Café in Ramallah is Omar Barghouti. He’s a founding member of the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. Thanks for joining us. OMAR BARGHOUTI, PALESTINIAN CAMPAIGN FOR THE ACADEMIC AND [...]
Congress Blesses Israel‘s Matrix of Control by JAMES M. WALL on JULY 17, 2011 By James M. Wall * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The US Congress announced through two July votes that since the US and Israel are obviously the colonial bosses of the Middle East, the future of the Palestinian people must be determined through “negotiations” between unequal partners, [...]
Jerusalem remains contested as the desired capital of a future Palestinian state, yet divisive West Bank barriers have made this a further challenge (GALLO/GETTY) By Yousef Munayyer * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Since the Palestine Liberation Organisation led by Yasser Arafat recognised the state of Israel over 20 years ago, the general framework for a claims-ending solution accepted by [...]
By Mohamed Khodr* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The Honorable President of the United States Barak Obama The Honorable Secretary of State Hilary Clinton The Honorable Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon The Honorable President of the General Assembly Joseph Deiss The Honorable Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Robert Sperry The Honorable Director [...]
Because Israel’s leaders prefer land to peace and there’s nothing any American president can do about that so long as the Zionist lobby and its stooges in Congress call the shots on U.S. policy for Israel/Palestine, it’s obvious that the Palestinians have nothing to gain, only more to lose, from politics and diplomacy. So [...]
‘Political language … is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” – George Orwell, ‘Politics and the English Language.’ By Roger Sheety “On June 5, 2011 more than 20 Palestinians were murdered by the Israeli Defense Forces as they marched alongside Syrian protesters towards [...]
Israel PM Netanyahu wary of France’s Middle East peace plan Vita Bekker Jun 6, 2011 TEL AVIV // Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, indicated yesterday that he could have reservations in accepting a French proposal to reignite peace talks at a Paris conference planned for as early as this month. Mr Netanyahu, speaking [...]
Boycott/Divestment/ Sanctions (BDS) Take the profit out of Occupation & Apartheid Why? Who, What, & How? WHY? When a country violating human rights does not respond to decades of pressure through diplomatic efforts, international law, or rulings by the International Court of Justice, another level of pressure is needed. For example, when member states repeatedly [...]
The Six-Day War and a Possible Resolution Israel was the clear aggressor in the 1967 war. By Ron Forthofer President Obama’s recent statements about using the 1967 borders as the basis for a settlement of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict sparked strong reactions. These reactions also show that many people are terribly misinformed about who started the [...]
The Six-Day War and a Possible Resolution Israel was the clear aggressor in the 1967 war. By Ron Forthofer President Obama’s recent statements about using the 1967 borders as the basis for a settlement of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict sparked strong reactions. These reactions also show that many people are terribly misinformed about who started the [...]
Bibi and the Yo-Yos by Uri Avnery, May 26, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum It was all rather disgusting. There they were, the members of the highest legislative bodies of the world’s only superpower, flying up and down like so many yo-yos, applauding wildly, every few minutes or seconds, the most outrageous [...]
The Fake Outrage Of The Israel-Firsters There was absolutely nothing about President Barack Obama’s Middle East speech to get excited about. (And even less in his statement following Friday’s meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.) The president did not even attempt to set out an action plan; he offered broad principles, ones that have been [...]
The rights of Israel Israel’s “lawfare” against the Palestinian people is rooted in a ficticious narrative of having a “right” to exist. Joseph Massad Last Modified: 06 May 2011 12:48 Israel’s entire basis for beginning negotiations lies in the false premise that it has a “right” to exist [GALLO/GETTY] The Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, now entering their twentieth year [...]
Israel‘s Future by GUEST POST on MAY 7, 2011 Spread it! Share5 |More By Ahmed Moor * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz In an April 27 op-ed, Rabbi Doug Kahn accurately quoted me as having written that “ending the occupation doesn’t mean anything if it doesn’t mean upending the Jewish State itself.” He did not take the line out of [...]
Hedy Epstein: As a Holocaust Survivor, AIPAC Does Not Speak for Me Posted: 30 Apr 2011 08:54 AM PDT At the end of one of my first journeys to the Israeli-occupied West Bank in 2004, I endured a shocking experience at Ben-Gurion Airport. I never imagined that Israeli security forces would abuse a 79-year-old Holocaust survivor, but [...]
US Weapons to Israel Are Disincentives to Peace by Josh Ruebner, April 23, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Israel may be forgiven for failing to realize the current fiscal woes of the United States. After all, U.S. military aid to Israel not only sailed unscathed through last [...]
The Truth about Gaza By Samah Sabawi The media coverage of Israel‘s ongoing bombardment of Gaza that left many dead and many more injured echoes Israel’s claim that it was part of an escalation that began on Thursday when Hamas militants fired an anti-tank missile at an Israeli school bus, critically wounding a teenager and [...]
