Source: RT Thousands of people gathered in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square over the weekend to encourage an end to hostilities through peace negotiations between Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and […]
theguardian: by Orlando Crowcroft — An estimated 10,000 people attend a rally for peace in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square. Photograph: Sharron Ward/Demotix/Corbis A Palestinian man and his Jewish bride-to-be are facing hostile protests in the Israeli town of Rishon Letzion after Israel’s high court refused their application to ban demonstrations […]
Source: Haaretz In 2014, 63 Israelis converted from Judaism and 19 from Islam to other religions. An Israeli who wants to convert to Islam must appear before the Muslim religious […]
Epigraph: This day all good things have been made lawful for you. And the food of the People of the Book is lawful for you, and your food is lawful […]
Summary by Rami G. Khouri One of the fascinating dimensions of the battle between Israel and Palestine is how Israeli leaders and their American apologists keep changing their propaganda message aimed at generally ignorant Western audiences. This strategy has actually worked for some time, as many Western powers have shunned […]
U.S. Military Aid and the Israel/Palestine Conflict The U.S. provides Israel $8.5 million* in military aid each day, while it gives the Palestinians $0** in military aid. “Since the October War in 1973, Washington has provided Israel with a level of support dwarfing the amounts provided to any other state. […]
Interview Conducted by Julia Amalia Heyer SPIEGEL.DE Israel pulled out of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, but left behind death and destruction. Israeli sociologist Eva Illouz tells SPIEGEL that her […]
Occupation must end, says Palestinian PM Palestinian Prime Minister Dr. Rami Hamdallah is a technocrat, leading a government of nonpartisan technocrats. He enjoys the confidence of President Mahmoud Abbas and all Palestinian factions. With Gaza in ruins following the devastating Israeli attacks, all eyes are on him for reconstruction and […]
Aljazeera: by Sarah Kendzior Why Israel and its supporters fear Gaza’s dead. In the beginning, they were the “telegenically killed”. That is what Charles Krauthammer, in his July 17 article in Washington Post stated. To Krauthammer, Palestinians are not people but production values. War does not destroy families: It “produces […]
theguardian: by Joseph Wakim — Many Muslim Australians watched with horror as their American counterparts were humiliated at Barack Obama’s annual Iftar dinner at the White House on 14 July, when he appeared with Israeli ambassador Ron Dermer. With Dermer’s tweeted support, Obama said during the dinner that “Israel has the right to defend itself […]
Source: Duluth News Tribune By M. Imran Hayee on Aug 10, 2014 By withdrawing ground troops from Gaza last week, Israel showed signs of finally winding down its Operation Protective Edge, after nearly a month of pounding Gaza in an attempt to debilitate Hamas. In reality, Israel fell for the sinister […]
theguardian — It is clear that more and more people across the world – justifiably or not – are asking why western governments may assert a moral and legal right to mount air strikes in defence of embattled women and children dying in the mountains of northern Iraq, but […]
BBC News — http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/releases/smp-html/player.html?1.3.13 “I’m here for children of Gaza,” one protester told the BBC’s Mark Sanders Tens of thousands of people have taken part in a rally for Gaza in London. The demonstration came amid renewed violence between Israel and Palestinian militants after a three-day ceasefire ended on Friday. […]
Source: The Middle East Monitor: British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has added his support to growing calls for an arms embargo on Israel, as the impact of the attack […]
Epigraph: On account of this, We prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in […]
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/bcvideo/1.0/iframe/embed.html?videoId=100000003047774&playerType=embed President Obama’s hair is definitely grayer these days, and no doubt trying to manage foreign policy in a world of increasing disorder accounts for at least half of those […]
The Jakarta Post: The Religious Affairs Ministry has added the Baha’i faith to the list of official Indonesian religions, which already comprises Islam, Christianity, Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism. […]
The Jakarta Post: The Indonesian government on Monday officially banned the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, saying the militant outfit should not be allowed to spread its teachings in […]
Haretz.com: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked United States legislators to assist Israel in fending off charges that Israel committed war crimes during its month-long operation in Gaza, the New York Post reported on Wednesday. “The prime minister asked us to work together to ensure that this strategy of going […]
They Made Them Do It…. BY ROBERT BONOMO Let’s do a thought experiment and imagine that the Arabs had gotten the better of the Israelis in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War […]