By M.K. Bhadrakumar December 16, 2017 Western discourses largely caricature Saudi Arabia as a geopolitical sex-bomb, carousing slyly with Israel after dusk falls. Much of the gossip is of Israeli origin, which has an interest in projecting the narrative that Saudi Arabia is conspiring with US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner to attack Iran. Doomsday…
Electronic Intifada 28April 2017 Key Israel lobby groups have conceded that they have failed to counter the Palestine solidarity movement, despite vastly increasing their spending. The admission is contained in a secret report that The Electronic Intifada has obtained. The report, published here in full for the first time, outlines Israel’s failure to stem…
Middle East Eye 15 December 2017 Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital last week was a diplomatic coup of unprecedented proportions for the Israeli government. For decades, Israeli officials have argued that “only a free and democratic Israel will protect the holy sites of all the great faiths in Jerusalem”, and thus…
Newsweek 12 December 2017 A Hindu man got his 12-year-old nephew to film him killing a Muslim laborer in India, in an attempt to raise funds for his anti-Islam camapign, according to police in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan. The suspect, Shambulal Regar, shared his bank account details along with videos of the…
Middle East Eye, 15 December 2017 A few lucky children will receive the wonderful new book, P is for Palestine: A Palestine Alphabet Book, this holiday season. Those whose parents have snoozed on placing their order will need to wait till spring of 2018, as the initial print run of 2,000 copies sold out within…
Middle East Eye 15 December 2017 JERUSALEM – Four Palestinians were killed with dozens reported injured during clashes between protesters and Israeli soldiers in the second Friday of protests against Trump’s move to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The Palestinian health ministry confirmed in a statement that Yasser Sokhar, 31 and Ibrahim Abu Thuraya,…
Al-Jazeera, December 11 Amid ongoing controversy over the US decision to move its embassy to Jerusalem, a delegation claimed to represent Bahrain interfaith group has arrived in Israel to “send a message of peace”, according to media reports. A report in the Times of Israel on Sunday said the visit indicated a warming of…
Al-Monitor, December 2017 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday described Israel as a “terrorist state” and vowed to use “all means to fight” against the US recognition of Jerusalem as the country’s capital. “Palestine is an innocent victim… As for Israel, it is a terrorist state, yes, terrorist!” Erdogan said in a…
Al Jazeera December 10 The leader of Egypt’s Coptic Church has cancelled an upcoming meeting with US Vice President Mike Pence, protesting against Washington’s move to declare Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The move by Pope Tawadros II on Saturday came a day after Palestinian leaders also said that Pence, who is scheduled to visit the…
An open letter signed by 47 Malaysian NGO’s recently was addressed at Donald Trumps, pertinently on his decision in recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The letter describes the move as is in violation of international law and numerous United Nations Security Council and General Assembly Resolutions. The Palestinian territory occupied by Israel in the 1967…