Tag: palestine

The Obama administration views Israel as one of the top spying threats facing its intelligence services, leaked documents reveal.

Killing the messenger is not going to rescue Blumenthal's cause: it would only attribute him the characteristics of just another Judas and he has himself to blame for it

No sooner had peace talks restarted under the warped patronage of the United States than Israel’s prime minister Netanyahu published bids for the construction of more than 1,000 new housing units in Palestinian East Jerusalem and existing illegal West Bank squats.

While a fanfare of trumpets announced the resumption of so-called peace talks between Israel and the trampled Palestinians, to be held under the watchful eye of America’s Zionist ‘facilitators’, the Israelis were awarding special priority grants and other government funding to a number of their outlying West Bank “settlements”.

A story of transformation from a “Jewish, lesbian New Yorker” into a “Cosmopolitan queer and avid BDS advocate" reveals some shocking intimate details...

"Over the past thirteen years, Israeli soldiers have murdered more than 1,500 Palestinian children – about one murder every three days."

The question is whether Israeli ‘Left’ and Arabs have enough in common...

Alan Dershowitz vs. Gilad Atzmon – A Talmudic Deliberation

- Let us hope that real negotiations lead towards peace. The alternative is too dismal to contemplate.

The second war being commanded by the Minister of Defense took place on the same territory but against a different enemy. In the confused reality of the occupied West Bank, the Minister is the sovereign.

Can you imagine being jailed for that you did not commit? Can you understand being jailed without a legal process? Without having had the chance to defend yourself?

By Mohamed Khodr     In The Name of God, The Most Merciful, The Most Gracious  “Alif. Lam. Ra,   A Divine Revelation (Qur’an) which We have bestowed upon...

Few holidays are more confused than the fast day of Tisha B'Av ("the ninth of Av") in Israel.

In a surprise last-minute move, the European Union has set forth a strong set of economic sanctions against Israel, leaving that nation both surprised and reeling.

Many years ago, Henry Kissinger said that Israel doesn't have foreign policy. Everything is decided upon inner and personal issues.

Walking amid the colorful pasankalla sugared noodles, the Bolivian general keep asking himself aloud: "How come this gringo keeps seeing me?"

The Palestinian embassy in London has just issued a rare media briefing.

Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today welcomed a Supreme Court ruling on federal benefits for married same-sex couples and urged the Department of Veterans Affairs to implement the decision and provide equal treatment for the spouses and children of all veterans.

Gaza is now a vast Laboratory - the Israelis are the ‘scientists’ and the ‘technicians’, the Palestinians are the ‘guinea pigs’

The world of conscience, humanity, equality, and freedom of self determination for all peoples, urges world Parliamentarians to condemn and refuse to sign the "London Declaration on Combating Anti-Semitism".

It was an unlikely topic to be featured. Not because it lacks importance, but because it happened 25 years ago. "Uvda"* chose to disclose new details on the assassination in its last program of the Spring 2013 Season.

- "Truth is heavy, therefore few care to carry it"...the Talmud

Every so often we come across a secular Jewish ‘anti’ Zionist’ who argues that Zionism is not Judaism and vice versa. Interestingly enough, I have just come across an invaluable text that illuminates this question from a rabbinical perspective.

Every year at this time, the Palestinians remember the “Nakba” or catastrophe and mourn their failings, while Israel celebrates its independence and success as regional and world power.

I'm tired of politics, of the injustices, the corruption, the assassinations, the gross illegal behaviour of the strong, the plundering of the poor and the indignities wrought on the weak.

Three of my favorite musicians - Elvis Costello, Roger Waters, and Brian Eno - are boycotting Israel. And now one of my favorite scientists, Stephen Hawking, is joining them.

William Cook in his masterly way tells us not to give up The-truth-tellers-lament-in-a-time-of-darkness even if "overwhelmed by darkness of the times".

Like many historians, Pappe, though familiar with the facts of history, seems either unable to grasp or reluctant to address the ideological and cultural meaning of those facts.

Like many historians, Pappe, though familiar with the facts of history, seems either unable to grasp or reluctant to address the ideological and cultural meaning of those facts.

A phoney CIA report on Israel is being distributed by a notoriously iffy Canadian website. The problem is its conclusions may be right for all the wrong reasons. We'll dive into those reasons as soon as we divest ourselves of this purported "study."

My goofiest TV debate opponent yet. Compared to him, Hannity and O'Reilly almost look sane.

My answer is “No” but I think the question needs to be asked. It was provoked in my mind by a recent Ynet op-ed article by Ziv Lenchner, described as a left-leaning, Jewish Israeli artist. The headline over his piece was Israelis to Obama - we don’t care, don’t bother us.

The Zionists finally convinced me they're right. Here are the top ten reasons.

We spoke about Jewish power, Zionism, Palestine, the Lobby. Controlled opposition, history & concealment, Being & Time and more.

Will bumper cars replace bombs in Israel and Palestine?

Was rock star "Perry Farrell," née Peretz Bernstein, grinning a "we got away with it" grin when he posed with that guy in the "9/11 was an inside job" T-shirt? Or was he just too stoned to read?

I find myself wondering how many of our present day leaders, President Obama in particular, are aware of what happened in Palestine that became Israel on 10 March 65 years ago today.

Holocaust Denial Laws, may actually have been passed to save the Goyim from the inevitable inflation of future demands for further compensation

JVP promotes the two state solution because, like AIPAC, it is primarily concerned with Jewish tribal interests rather than human rights, ethics, or universal thinking.

There is one absolute pre-condition for ending the Israel-Palestine conflict by diplomacy and negotiations on the basis, as it would have to be, of justice for the Palestinians and peace with security for all

BDSit will be remembered as possibly the most repugnantly treacherous chapter in the history of the Palestinian struggle. And this is indeed painful and tragic.

I am sure Israel will not dare blind fold President Barrack Obama as he crosses from Israel to the Israeli Occupied Territories to prevent him from seeing the barbered wires and the Apartheid Wall.