by Samah Sabawi … posted April 3, 2013 by Aljazeera … The “land swaps” rhetoric is designed to protect the large Israeli settlement blocks and their buffer zones. “As PLO representatives parrot the parlance of “land swaps”, they need to remember that these settlements are responsible not only for destroying Palestinian livelihood, but also…
The Israeli Interior Ministry has given the green light to 1,200 more homes in the occupied Eastern Jerusalem. The internationally-criticized expansion comes as retaliation for Palestinian Authority’s statehood bid. The approval of the plan for expansion in the south of East Jerusalem near the city of Bethlehem came on Monday. posted December 25, 2012 by…
According to a new survey, more than a third of Israelis would leave the country if they could, citing economic opportunities as the main reason. According to the State of the Nation Report for 2011-2012, the situation of the country’s young working families has worsened in the past five years. posted December 15, 2012 by…
“Israel was born out of Jewish Terrorism” Tzipi Livnis Father was a Terrorist” Astonishing claims in the House of Parliament. SIR Gerald Kaufman, the veteran Labour MP, yesterday compared the actions of Israeli troops in Gaza to the Nazis who forced his family to flee Poland. During a Commons debate on the fighting in…
posted November 25, 2012 by Today’s Zaman … … Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said on Sunday that Turkey has had talks with Israel through diplomatic channels to revive bilateral ties but reiterated that reconciliation is not possible until Ankara’s demands are met by the Israeli side. In a televised interview on Sunday, Davutoğlu also…
“If Anybody here, came hoping to hear a balanced presentation, then they are going to be sorely disappointed. I say this, because a lot of the things that you are about to hear to night are difficult to hear.” “Miko Peled is a peace activist who dares to say in public what others still…
by Robert Fisk posted November 26, 2012 by The Independent The people of Huj – now almost forgotten – had helped the Jewish Haganah army escape the British. The thanks they got was to be sent into Gaza as refugees. I think I found the village of Huj this weekend – but the road sign…
posted November 27, 2012 by Press TV … Leading US strategist Zbigniew Brzezinski, unofficial dean of the realist school of American foreign policy experts, has drawn an unflattering picture of US-Israel relations. … In a speech to the National Iranian American Council, Brzezinski said, “I don’t think there is an implicit obligation for the United…
posted November 22, 2012 by Information Clearing House Following is the verbatim English text of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza that was reached on Wednesday with Egyptian mediation. The text was distributed by the Egyptian presidency. Agreement of Understanding For a Ceasefire in the Gaza Strip 1: (no title given…
posted November 18, 2012 by Information Clearing House Al Jazeera’s Nadim Baba, reporting from Gaza, has said that the search continues for survivors of an Israeli air strike that killed nine members of the same family in Gaza. Our correspondent said rescue workers worked frantically to pick up the debris from “the massive crater where…