By Jonathan Cook, Foreign Correspondent, The National
NAZARETH // The fatal shooting by Israeli soldiers of an Israeli man earlier this week as he tried to scale a fence into the Gaza Strip was reportedly part of a drastic procedure the army was supposed to have phased out several years [...]
UNRWA Commissioner-General Karen AbuZayd
December 10, 2009
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM -- Israeli police ordered outgoing UNRWA Commissioner-General Karen AbuZayd to leave an East Jerusalem home on Thursday during her last official visit as the head of the relief agency.
Ma’an’s reporter on the scene said AbuZayd left after [...]
The European Union said it had 'never recognised the annexation of East Jerusalem' [AFP]
European Union foreign ministers have agreed that Jerusalem should be the capital of both Israel and a future Palestinian state following two days of talks in Brussels.
The ministers dropped an earlier [...]
The Erez crossing, where people from Gaza cross into Israel for medical treatment. Many say they have been pressed to become informants. Photograph: AP
Israeli security agents held a Palestinian patient for three weeks without charge, interrogated him repeatedly and offered access to hospital care if he [...]
Ma'aleh Levona settlement - photo by google Earth
By Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News
Illegal Israeli settlers escalated their protest against the Israeli government decision two week ago to freeze construction in illegal West Bank settlements.
On Monday morning scores of illegal Israeli settlers blocked a road' [...]
By Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News
The Land Research Center (LRC) of the Arab Studies Society in Jerusalem reported that the Israeli authorities conducted 187 violations in Jerusalem in November, and demolished 14 Palestinians homes in addition to issuing orders to demolish 170 homes.
The center prepares [...]
Bedouins have to live in makeshift housing without electricity or water because the Israeli authorities do not officially recognise their communities in the Negrev desert. Ariel Schalit / AP
December 07. 2009
By Jonathan Cook
NAZARETH, ISRAEL // About 35,000 Bedouin residents of Israel’s southern Negev [...]
The anti-Semites have become anti-Muslims; same lady in a different robe.
By Uri Avnery – Israel
It would have been the epitome of political kitsch.
Binyamin Netanyahu and ten of his ministers were to hold a joint meeting with Angela Merkel and ten members of the German [...]
Palestinian inspect a car damaged by settlers in Nablus [MaanImages]
NABLUS – Angry at their government over a slowdown in the expansion of West Bank settlements, illegal Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian vehicles and buildings and uprooted more than 50 trees on Sunday.
Illegal settlers [...]
De facto government security forces [MaanImages]
GAZA – Israel’s supposed plan to continue the siege of Gaza even if its soldier is released is a continuation of the country’s offensive against the Palestinian people, a Hamas official said Saturday.
The comments, made by Hamas spokesman Sami [...]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Jonathan Pollard, who is serving a life sentence in a US jail for spying for Israel, has called on Israel to execute one Palestinian captive everyday until Shalit is freed, according to a report published in the Jerusalem post on Tuesday.
Pollard expressed his anger [...]
Many Jews globally, including Israelis, are extremely critical of government policies.
By Stephen Lendman - Chicago
During Israel's war on Gaza, only 5 of 535 congressional members dissented on pro-Israeli resolutions.
On January 8, 2009, the Senate unanimously passed S 10: "A resolution recognizing the right of" [...]
The question that begs for answers is why does America hate us Palestinians?
By Dr. Haidar Eid - Gaza
The Palestinians have 'realized,' thanks to Hilary Clinton, that the US is biased towards Israel. According to the American Secretary of State, negotiations between "the two parties" should resume [...]
Abdel Sattar Qassem outside his home in Nablus. (Marcy Newman)
By Marcy Newman, The Electronic Intifada, 27 November 2009
Abdel Sattar Qassem, a professor and author of numerous publications on Palestinian history and Islamic thought, is well-known for his pungent critiques of Israel and the Palestinian Authority [...]
12 December 2009
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the regime will return to settlement construction after a "temporary" moratorium on new construction in the occupied West Bank.
Netanyahu said on Tuesday that a 10-month settlement freeze he had earlier announced was only a "one-time, temporary" move, [...]
The number of Arab residents of East Jerusalem Al-Quds stripped of their residency rights by the Israeli Interior Ministry strikes an all-time record.
Last year, the ministry revoked the residency of 4,577 Palestinian residents of the illegally annexed neighborhood, the Israeli daily Haaretz said on Wednesday, compared with the [...]
Israel says the Palestinian dismay at the partial halt of settlement expansions should be the last issue of concern.
Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has said that Israel disregards Palestinians' opposition to its offer for a partial freeze on its settlement activity.
"The last thing that should interest us'" [...]
There is a danger that Australia could become a safe haven for Israeli war criminals.
By Sonja Karkar
The news that former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was in Australia and was welcomed by the honourable members of our parliament came as somewhat of a shock. It is [...]
Photo M. Omer
By Mohammed Omer
Although ignored by much of the Western media, a battle which echoes the biblical story of David and Goliath is taking place in The Hague. In the modern-day version, young David is personified by a soft-spoken 15-year-old girl named Amira Alqerem. [...]
Al Ahram
An Israel-Hamas prisoner swap deal appears close to fruition, though no indication has been given yet as to who and how many it includes, writes Khaled Amayreh in occupied Jerusalem
As of Wednesday, 25 November, German and Egyptian mediators were trying hectically to finalise a prisoner swap deal [...]
Member of Netanyahu's party: Obama regime is 'worst ever' for Israel; Vice PM cancels lecture after rightist protest.
By Chaim Levinson, Haaretz
Rank-and-file Likudniks and Lawmakers in the ruling Likud party lambasted the Obama administration at a gathering on Saturday, in response to Israel's decision to temporarily freeze construction in West [...]
Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov (Yisrael Beitenu) said Saturday that despite the cabinet's decision to temporarily freeze settlement construction, his ministry would continue to develop tourist sites in the West Bank.
Speaking at an event in Holon, Misezhnikov said that the Tourism Ministry was focused on three [...]
No matter how they're packaged, "peace" initiatives will do little until Israel's oppression of Palestinians ends. (Rami Swidan/MaanImages)
By Hasan Abu Nimah
As a child in early-1940s Palestine, I grew up in a small village of 1,500 individuals with its roots in biblical times. I' [...]
Theodore Herzl: Founder of Zionism
By Alan Hart
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu described his offer to temporarily restrict construction of all-new Jewish settlements on the West Bank excluding Arab East Jerusalem as a “far-reaching and painful step”, which was part of a policy he hoped would give [...]
Construction of Har Homa, an illegal Israeli settlement in Bethlehem [MaanImages]
BETHLEHEM --Though Israel's army was ordered to issue a temporary freeze order on West Bank settlement construction on Thursday, reports from the Israeli press revealed permits were granted for 28 new public buildings.
The freeze [...]
Hamas announced Wednesday that it was postponing continued negotiations on the release of captured Israeli occupation soldier Gilad Shalit until after the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, which ends on Monday. The Hamas announcement was issued in Damascus following meetings between Khaled Mashaal, the organization's politburo Chief [...]
The 10-month suspension will not halt building in East Jerusalem or construction already approved [AFP]
A Palestinian official has described Israel's proposed 10-month suspension of settlement construction in the occupied West Bank as mere "propaganda".
Saeb Erekat, the Palestinian chief negotiator, said on Thursday that [...]
By RANNIE AMIRI
The release of the captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, appears imminent. The recent flurry of activity in Cairo of high-profile Israeli and Hamas officials along with their Egyptian and German intermediaries point to a deal taking place in upcoming days, nicely timed to Eid Al-Adha [...]
By RANNIE AMIRI
The release of the captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, appears imminent. The recent flurry of activity in Cairo of high-profile Israeli and Hamas officials along with their Egyptian and German intermediaries point to a deal taking place in upcoming days, nicely timed to Eid Al-Adha [...]
By Khalid Amayreh
Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu is a manifestly fascist-minded demagogue who thinks that everything Jewish must override everything non-Jewish, regardless of all considerations.
He is also a first-class liar who believes that lying to the world, including Jews, is the first [...]
