AG’s fear of legal action against Israeli officials at The Hague also reason for state’s hesitance regarding authorization of the Ulpana Hill West Bank outpost. By Chaim Levinson Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the evacuation of a Hebron home taken by settlers last month after being informed that the expropriation of Palestinian homes and lands [...]
May 12 was Iraq Genocide Memorial Day, the date in 1996 that Madeleine Albright admitted that the US sanctions had killed 500,000 children in Iraq. by STANLEY HELLER In March I gagged when Newsweek had the gall to declare “Victory at Last” in Iraq as its cover story. The “victory” is that few U.S. soldiers [...]
Covering Hillary Clinton’s trip to India, USA Today‘s Richard Wolf writes (5/8/12): Fielding rapid-fire questions at a town-hall-style event in Kolkata, she denounced Iran’s nuclear arms program and urged India to reduce its Iranian oil imports further. “We appreciate what has been done, and of course we want to keep the pressure on Iran,” she [...]
On this 64th anniversary of the Nakba we mourn the ethnic cleansing that began in 1948 and that continues today with silent transfer, home demolitions, land confiscation and more. But we also celebrate an amazing resilience and success of the Palestinian endogenous people against incredible odds … We are grateful to be participants in shaping [...]
s President Obama given up on Israel? The U.S. may soon give the country its biggest defense paycheck yet Has President Obama given up on Israel? The U.S. may soon give the country its biggest defense paycheck yet By Nina Burleigh As progressives total up the ways Obama dashed their hopes for the elusive change [...]
The Real Threat to Israel is Not Iran, But It’s Own Cozy Relationship With Arab Dictators and Monarchs by PATRICK COCKBURN There has always been something stagey and contrived about Israel’s blood-curdling declarations that it is going to bomb Iran, but as a strategy it has worked astonishingly well, at home and abroad. Benjamin Netanyahu [...]
Italy and the Netherlands toned down a statement on the Middle East by EU foreign ministers Monday that, even with their intervention, sharply criticized Israel and settlement violence. According to Western diplomats, the two countries – led this time by Italy – moderated some of the language in the three-page “Conclusions on the Middle East [...]
Israel delivered significant concessions to end a mass hunger strike by around 2,000 Palestinian prisoners on Monday, in a deal that was hailed as a victory by Palestinian leaders on the eve of the most symbolic day in their calendar. Under the agreement, which was signed following mediation by Egypt and Jordan, Israel will end [...]
RAMALLAH/TEL AVIV, 14 May 2012 (IRIN) – Israeli settlers east of the separation barrier in the central West Bank occupy the land most critical for any future final status agreement under a two-state solution. But instead of limiting settlement expansion, critics say the Israeli authorities are setting a dangerous precedent by legalizing new outposts and [...]
Increasing pace of US strikes against al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula comes as US expert warns of anti-western sentiment Matt Williams and agencies Suspected US drones have killed 11 alleged al-Qaida militants in a strike in southern Yemen, local military authorities have said. The first of the two attacks took place on Saturday near the [...]