Israel ordered the construction halted saying some of the land on which the stadium was being built had been designated for its use.
Work on a football stadium being built in the West Bank, and financed by the international football federation FIFA, has been stopped.
Israel ordered the construction [...]
Contemporary Israeli cinema gives some hope that Israeli society will soon confront, or is confronting, the violence Zionism has done not only to others but also to Israelis, writes Hamid Dabashi*
The consecutive appearance of three major Israeli war films, Joseph Cedar's Beaufort (2007), Ari Folman's Waltz [...]
Contemporary Israeli cinema gives some hope that Israeli society will soon confront, or is confronting, the violence Zionism has done not only to others but also to Israelis, writes Hamid Dabashi*
The consecutive appearance of three major Israeli war films, Joseph Cedar's Beaufort (2007), Ari Folman's Waltz [...]
Continuing in disarray, the Palestinian arena appears locked between warring factions, delayed elections and a moribund peace process with Israel, writes Khaled Amayreh in Ramallah
Having discovered -- rather belatedly -- the futility of open- ended peace talks with Israel, the Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership is contemplating taking a number of [...]
GAZA CITY — Water in the Gaza Strip is so salty that it is unfit for human consumption, a Palestinian official in charge of water supplies inside the besieged coastal territory said on Saturday.
"The water is no longer fit for human consumption, with analysis and international studies showing" [...]
Hamas had called for halting rocket attacks in Israel to allow Gazans to rebuild [REUTERS]
At least seven Palestinians have been injured in a round of Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, Palestinian witnesses said.
Witnesses told Al Jazeera that the first strike hit a [...]
RAMALLAH/NABLUS -- Israeli forces detained six Palestinians from Nablus and Salfit overnight including the commander and four officers of the Palestinian Authority Intelligence Services.
High-level negotiations between Palestinian and Israeli officials have been ongoing since dawn in an effort to have the men released, with American officials entering the [...]
Hizballah finally feels confident enough to take a much-needed breather.
By Nicholas Noe
Four and a half years after Syrian troops were unexpectedly cajoled out of Lebanon, and more than three years after the end of a (nearly) "open" war with Israel, the Shi'ite movement Hizballah appears not' [...]
Kahane, a US rabbi who emigrated to Israel, advocated the expulsion of all Arabs.
By Jonathan Cook - Nazareth
A plan by right-wing legislators in Israel to commemorate the anniversary this month of the death of Meir Kahane, whose banned anti-Arab movement is classified as a terrorist organisation, [...]
from: Circus Isreal
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Japanese author Taro Gomi’s beloved children’s book, Everyone Poops, will soon be available in Hebrew. The book candidly and delightfully presents defecation as a natural bodily function performed by virtually every sentient life form on our shared planet. In Everyone Poops, eliminating waste is unselfconscious, essential [...]
Pappe abandoned his academic career in Israel and relocated to the UK.
By Jonathan Cook - Nazareth
Right-wing groups in Israel want to create a climate of fear among left-wing scholars at Israeli universities by emulating the 'witch-hunt' tactics of the US academic monitoring group [...]
. . . it would be no bad thing if all our Westminster politicians had the Second Principle of Public Life tattooed on their forehead – Integrity: Holders of public office should not place themselves under any financial or other obligation to outside individuals or organizations that might seek to [...]
AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained a Palestinian women on Tuesday night in downtown Al-Khalil after she refused to strip for search.
Local and press sources said that the IOF troops ordered Om Wisam Duvesh to take off her clothes for search and when she refused, [...]
GAZA - The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) refused to allow the travel of Palestinian journalist Talal Abu Rahma outside of the Gaza Strip via the Erez crossing to receive an international award that he won recently.
Abu Rahma said on Tuesday that the British embassy in Tel Aviv [...]
Israeli construction in Gilo, an ever-expanding illegal settler-colony built on stolen Palestinian land. The hill on which this illegal settlement is built was a green orchard before the Zionist invaders torn up the fruit trees, flattened the top of the hill and built their illegal settlement [...]
Palestinians sit on the ruins of a demolished house
JERUSLAM – Israeli bulldozers demolished a two-family Palestinian home in the town of Al-Isawiya in occupied East Jerusalem on Wednesday, the second home demolition in two days.
Residents of the town said Israeli forces entered the village [...]
Construction at the Gilo settlement is expected to add about 900 housing units [EPA] Gilo is an illegal settlement built on stolen Palestinian land near Bethlehem. The Zionist government constructed and Apartheid road known as "the tunnel road" from Jerusalem to Bethlehem that only illegal Jewish [...]
"The US and Israel have avoided the Security Council for more than 16 years. To go back to it today would be a major shift" -- Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera's senior political analyst
Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, has warned the Palestinian leadership against any attempts to unilaterally declare statehood for [...]
Despite Israel and America's best efforts, the Goldstone Report refuses to go away, writes Graham Usher at the United Nations
Last week the UN General Assembly endorsed the Goldstone Report, so named after its principle author the retired and respected South African Judge Richard Goldstone. It calls on Israel [...]
(Image: Lance Page, Truthout; Adapted: an agent / flickr)
By Ira Chernus
Nobody seems to know just what Barack Obama said to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when the two met recently at the White House. In fact, when it comes to Middle East policy, nobody seems to [...]
By Haaretz Staff
Human Rights Watch has accused Israel of launching an "organized campaign" of lies and misinformation against it in the wake of the organization's support of the Goldstone report, British newspaper the Guardian reported Friday.
The Goldstone report claims Israel and Hamas both committed war crimes during the [...]
ANALYSIS / Next round of Gaza hostilities will be more intense
By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent
The Israeli reactions to the conclusions reached by the Goldstone Commission about Operation Cast Lead are characterized by large doses of affront and anger. But the issue of the next war is [...]
By RANNIE AMIRI
After five long years, and at great expense to a state hoped-to-be-called Palestine, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has finally realized that subservience to the United States and Israel pays little in dividends. Indeed, what he has done to the cause of Palestine, the unity of its people, [...]
By Mohamad Shmaysani
A wave of stormy questions has been on the rise within Israeli security and military apparatuses after Yedioth Aharonoth unveiled a document demonstrating the level of Hezbollah’s knowledge of Israeli activities, deployments and tactics in northern occupied Palestine.
The widely read Israeli [...]
Sarkozy, right, has helped to resume good relations between France and Syria [Reuters]
Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, has said he is not willing to hold face-to-face talks with the Israeli leader, after a meeting in France aimed at restarting the Middle East peace process.
His [...]
GAZA - Israeli forces killed a young Palestinian man and injured three others in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday.
Among the injured were two brothers, according to medics, who said the shooting occurred in the Johr Ad-Dik area and that another Palestinian was hospitalized.
[...]
An Israeli soldier stops Palestinians at an internal West Bank
checkpoint north of Jenin [MaanImages - Archive]
BETHLEHEM - Vehicles will soon be permitted to traverse Israel's northernmost military checkpoint separating the Jenin area from Palestinian communities in Nazareth and the agricultural zone to the north, an [...]
By Jeff Gates
When waging war “by way of deception,” the motto of the Israeli Mossad, well-timed crises play a critical agenda-setting role by displacing facts with what a target population can be deceived to believe. Thus the force-multiplier effect when staged crises are reinforced with pre-staged intelligence. [...]
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington DC
Like most of his predecessors, Barack Obama has failed to come up with a logical approach to resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, now in its 62nd year. Many optimists on both sides of the great divide had believed that [...]
