By Gideon Levy Tens of thousands came out to protest against the surrogacy law. Palestinians and others will have to wait their turn About 80,000 people, mostly young, crowded into Rabin Square on Saturday night. Tel Aviv’s biggest square had not seen a gathering this large in a long time; certainly nothing intended as a…
by Abdullah Al-Arian Or how Egypt’s ruling regime tried to exploit the Egyptian football team to bolster its image. Fresh off a massively disappointing performance at the 2018 World Cup, the president of the Egyptian Football Association (EFA), Hany Abo Rida, deflected criticism of his team’s woeful play by casting blame on the Muslim Brotherhood. The Pharaohs lost…
Donald Trump was not adlibbing when he said his meeting with Putin might be the easiest part of his Europe trip. That was his intention too Before he left Washington last week for the Nato summit, his UK visit and talks with Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump raised eyebrows by suggesting that the meeting in Helsinki on Monday might…
By Josh Wood UAE’s futuristic cities and booming economy were built on foreign know-how and labour funded by petro dollars, and its military is no different Military show at the International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) in Abu Dhabi, 19 February 2017 (AFP) In California’s Mojave Desert last year, an American man wearing…
By SIMONA WEINGLASS As police raid Israeli-operated boiler rooms in Asia and Eastern Europe, local law enforcement has yet to indict a single operative from an industry that has stolen billions In this photo provided by the Philippine National Police, SAF (Special Action Force) members escort Israeli nationals following a raid at Clark Freeport Zone,…
Planned legislation covers a two-and-a-half year period, which includes the Rabaa massacre of 2013 Some senior Egyptian military officers could be granted immunity from prosecution for any acts committed following the 2013 military coup after parliament provisionally ratified a draft law. The legislation, which was proposed by the government, was ratified on Tuesday “in…
by Maram Humaid & Linah Alsaafin The 11-year-old was killed by Israeli forces on the 14th Friday protest in the Gaza Strip [Photo courtesy of the Abu al-Naja family/Al Jazeera] On Friday afternoon, as Israeli soldiers from the other side of the fence were firing tear gas, rubber-coated steel bullets and live ammunition, Yaser Abu…
The overall human rights situation in Bangladesh remained at an alarming level in the first six months of 2018 due to a sharp rise in cases of extra-judicial killings and custodial deaths, and a high number of cases of rapes and sexual assault of women across the country, a rights body said in its report.…
Israeli daily Haaretz alleges the three Arab states have warned Israel of creeping Turkish influence in East Jerusalem. Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Palestine have warned Israel on separate occasions about Turkey’s creeping influence in occupied East Jerusalem, according to a report by Israeli newspaper Haaretz. The report notes that senior officials from the three Arab countries told Israel that Turkey was “extending its…
Snipers (sharpshooters) constitute about a quarter of all soldiers in the IDF’s combat units. The standard course for the training of snipers lasts five weeks. The best snipers, however, are Russian immigrants who fought in Chechnya. Snipers are organized in teams that form part of infantry battalions. Snipers are equipped with special rifles of various makes.…