SHARE        Sunday, May 5, 2019
Hamas and Fatah - Why the Two Groups are Failing There is no tangible regional or international support for the Palestinian cause and the Trump administration barely bothers to conceal its role now as a cheerleader for Israel.

SHARE        Saturday, August 7, 2010
Suspected Torturer Gets Key Police Job in Jerusalem; Doron Zahavi Accused of Running Israel's Abu Ghraib A police officer known as "Major George" who is accused of torturing Arab prisoners in his previous role as chief interrogator in a secret military jail has been appointed to oversee relations with Jerusalem's Palestinian population, it has emerged.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, January 9, 2016
After Tel Aviv attack, Israel's Palestinians tarred as "criminals" Netanyahu said he was "not impressed" by accusations that he had incited hatred with his speech. He was "making a very large effort to ensure Israel is a state under unified law," he said. An Israeli Facebook post of a bogus video supposedly showing the village of Arara celebrating the Tel Aviv killings, went viral. It was later shown to be footage of celebrations in Lebanon at Ariel Sharon's death two years ago.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, March 12, 2021
Israel's KKK on the way to government? Party pushing for expulsion of Palestinians forms election pact with Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, October 17, 2013
Even the World Bank understands: Palestine is being disappeared The World Bank report follows a long line of warnings in recent years from international bodies on the dire economic situation facing Palestinians. But, significantly, the World Bank has homed in on the key battleground for an international community still harboring the forlorn hope that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will end in Palestinian statehood.

SHARE        Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Israel's Annexation Plan Under international law, Israel's rule in the West Bank and Gaza is considered "belligerent occupation" and, therefore, its actions must be justified by military necessity only. If there is no occupation, Israel has no military grounds to hold on to the territories. In that case, it must either return the land to the Palestinians, and move out the settlers, or defy international law by annexing the territories.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, December 28, 2012
The terror lurking in a Christmas tree Few mayors or rabbis find themselves in the uncomfortable position of needing to go public with their views on the dangers of Christmas decorations. In Israel, segregation between Jews and Palestinians is almost complete. Even most of the handful of mixed cities are really Jewish cities with slum-like ghettoes of Palestinians living on the periphery.

SHARE        Monday, April 7, 2014
Distracted by the peace process: What really happened during the talks Both the US and Israel have come to rely on the endless theatrics of the two-decade peace process. Settlement freezes, prisoner releases, rows about Palestinian Authority funding and, of course, intermittent negotiations have served as useful distractions from the main developments on the ground. The era of wishful thinking may finally be coming to an end -- and that will be progress in itself.

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, January 9, 2021
The US and UK may not will Assange's death, but everything they are doing makes it more likely Washington has wanted Assange permanently silenced and made an example of -- by demonstrating to other journalists its terrifying reach and powers of retaliation -- ever since the Wikileaks founder exposed US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan a decade ago.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, March 18, 2016
Appointment of Israeli spokesman viewed as snub to US Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the appointment of a new foreign media adviser and spokesman this week, the latest in a series of moves viewed as snubs to the Obama White House. Keyes steps in as Netanyahu's foreign media adviser at a time when Israeli officials have been accused of conducting a "witch hunt" against both the foreign press corps in Israel and Israeli social media activists.

SHARE        Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Church-run schools in Israel face "death sentence" Studies by the Follow-Up Committee for Arab Education show that Jewish pupils receive at least five times more funding than Arab pupils -- $1,100 each compared to $192. The Arab sector suffers from a shortage of more than 6,000 classrooms and 4,000 teachers. Jewish schools have twice as many computers relative to their student body than Arab schools.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, October 19, 2015
Jerusalem chaos is a warning of things to come Israel has almost completed the division and enclosure of Palestinians into disconnected enclaves. As they hear the sound of the prison doors closing, Palestinian youths are lashing out at the guards closest to hand. Strangely, in the face of all this, there are signs of a parallel breakdown of order and leadership on the Israeli side.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, April 3, 2016
Execution of Palestinian exposes Israel's military culture hardly surprising that most Israelis feel this soldier is being singled out. His crime was not executing a Palestinian -- that happens all the time -- but being caught on film doing so. That was nothing more than bad luck. The Israeli public did not reach this conclusion by accident. They have been schooled in a tribal idea of justice from a young age. Palestinians are not viewed as fully human or deserving of rights.

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Israel is on the brink of a tyranny of the majority Netanyahu is legislating the expulsion of Balad and throwing down the gauntlet to the courts. It won't end there. If Balad is unseated, the participation of the other Joint List factions will be untenable. In effect, the Israeli right is seeking to ethnically cleanse the parliament.

(2 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Palestinians To Be Cast As Fall Guys -- Again Palestinians have no control over their borders, airspace, radio frequencies, water and other natural resources, not even over the currency or internal movement of goods and people. Everything depends on Israel's good will. And few investors will be prepared to bet on that.

SHARE        Thursday, March 3, 2016
Emerging from a "reign of terror": Palestinians in Israel hold first BDS conference A private cinema in Nazareth agreed to host the event after several public venues in Haifa backed out, apparently fearful that they risked being punished by the Israeli government. The question of how feasible it is for Israel's 1.6 million Palestinian citizens to promote BDS was high on the conference agenda, with speakers addressing issues of legality and strategy.

SHARE        Wednesday, April 23, 2014
All is not lost for Palestinians, even if talks hit the buffers The most disturbing scenario imaginable for Israel is on the horizon: a campaign of popular non-violent resistance by Palestinians. It needs no formal leadership and its simple demand -- equal rights -- is one Israel and the US will struggle to counter. Israel's arsenal may be well-stocked but it has no weapons to defeat such a campaign.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, August 1, 2014
The experts' verdict: Every Israeli missile strike is a war crime Even if we assume total good faith on Israel's part that it is trying to hit only Hamas and other military sites, it is clear it cannot do so even with the advanced weaponry it has. The inherent imprecision of its arsenal is compounded many fold by the fact that it is using these weapons in densely built-up areas. Israel is committing war crimes by definition -- right now.

SHARE        Saturday, December 5, 2015
Banned Islamic leader: Netanyahu pushing region to religious war "In any normal country, there is a duty on the politicians to listen to their intelligence services. But Netanyahu simply ignored their advice," Salah said. "After Paris, we issued a statement condemning the attacks. But Netanyahu wants to libel Islam as a violent, extreme, inciteful religion. It is Netanyahu who is leading the region to a religious war."

SHARE        Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Trump may kill Netanyahu with kindness The creation of a Greater Israel could damage Israel by reframing the Palestinian struggle as a fight for equal rights in a single state. Comparisons with earlier struggles, against South African apartheid and Jim Crow in the US deep south, would be hard to counter.