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Month: July 2009
Israel Defies US on Settlements
The Israeli prime minister had defied US demands to suspend a settlement construction project in East Jerusalem, sparking what Washington calls "intense" negotiations between the allies. Binyamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that he would not […]
Netanyahu Activates Ticking Time Bomb
By Ira Glunts The public disagreement between Israel and the U.S. over continued settlement expansion in the West Bank and Jerusalem has heated up considerably. At a cabinet meeting on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu […]
Thomas Friedman Paints Iraq
By Belen Fernandez In a July 14 column on the New York Times website entitled "Goodbye Iraq, and Good Luck," Thomas Friedman informs us that he is in Kirkuk "tagging along" with Admiral Mike Mullen, […]
Hamas Sets Preconditions for PA Elections
The Islamic Hamas movement has announced its preconditions for the Palestinian Authority (PA) elections scheduled for January 2010. In a press statement on Monday, Sami Abu Zuhri, the movement’s spokesman in Gaza, said that one […]
Settlers Set Palestinian Olive Branches on Fire
Jewish settlers have set fire to at least 1,500 olive trees owned by Palestinians in the West Bank after officials evacuated a number of illegal buildings. The assailants on horseback attacked the Palestinian farms on […]
Citizens Must Hold Media Accountable
By Tammy Obeidallah Western media has eroded into little more than sound bytes of celebrity gossip or inane stories about how cutting calories can help people live longer. When there is no way to get […]
Israel Envoys in Ethiopia to Renew Jews’ Influx
Israel has sent envoys to Ethiopia to examine the applications of 3,000 Ethiopians who claim to be descended from Jews as 2,000 French Jews are to emigrate to Israel this year, an agency helping to […]
Nasrallah Blasts Silence to Israeli Brutality
Hezbollah’s secretary general blasts the international community for accepting Israeli aggression towards the Palestinians and the Lebanese. "Israel is a racist state; a state which was invented; a state which was placed at the heart […]
Israel ‘Angry’ over Switzerland-Hamas Talks
The Israeli Foreign Ministry has slammed Switzerland for holding diplomatic talks with representatives of the Hamas movement. "We are angry, since Hamas is still considered as a terrorist organization by the European Union, even if […]
Israel, US War Games Due Off California
Israel plans military exercises at a US naval facility using its Arrow interceptor missiles in a series of drills that also deploys American missile systems. The Israeli Air Force (IAF) will ship the required hardware […]
Europe Raising Its Ire
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington Some key European governments, unlike the Obama administration, have now come up with some tangible steps to start the ball rolling towards a peace settlement between an anxious Palestinian […]
Dangerous Wastewater in the West Bank
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago B’Tselem is the Jerusalem-based independent Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (OPT) with a well-deserved reputation for accuracy and integrity. It was founded in 1989 to […]
Israel Troops Speak out on Gaza War
Some troops fighting in Israel’s war on Gaza were urged by their commanders to shoot first rather than worry about killing civilians, a document from an Israeli activist group shows. Published on Wednesday, the document […]
PLO official Stands by Abbas Claim
Farouk Kaddoumi, a Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official, has told Al Jazeera he stands by documents that he says show that Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, was involved in a conspiracy to assassinate Yasser Arafat, […]
Clinton Wants Arabs Gestures for Israel
Taking a softer tone on Israeli settlement building, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged Arab countries to take immediate steps to normalize relations with Israel. "We know that progress toward peace cannot be […]
Gaza and the Language of Power
By Ramzy Baroud Nearly six months have passed since the Israeli army ceased pounding the tiny stretch of land that is the Gaza Strip. Since then, Gaza continues to appear on the news once in […]
Israel/West Deal: Iran for Peace
Israel and Western countries are shaping a deal for an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities in return for "concessions" on the construction of Jewish settlements on occupied Arab territories and peace talks. "Israel has […]
Israel Traps Gazans in Deprivation and Despair
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago Founded in Geneva, Switzerland in 1863, the International Committee of the Red Cross is an "impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and […]
Israel Warships Move within Cruise-missile Range of Iran
Tel Aviv takes a step closer to war with Tehran as two Israeli warships sail through the Suez Canal within cruise-missile range of Iran. Earlier this week, two Israel Navy gunboats, the Hanit and the […]
Israel Offers Palestinians Shoppers, Not Statehood
By Jonathan Cook – Jenin The reality of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s promises of ‘economic peace’ for the Palestinians is nowhere under greater scrutiny than in Jenin, the northern West Bank city being aggressively promoted […]
Freedom Song in Xinjiang
Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai Xinjiang does not exist. For nearly a century, China has done everything to help the world forget about the existence of its large and once vibrant Muslim region. Like Arthur […]
Obama Assures US Jews on Israel
US President Barack Obama has assured the leaders of 16 American Jewish groups about America’s unbreakable relations with Israel, asserting that he is applying equal pressure on Arab countries and Palestinian leaders to achieve peace. […]
Israeli Warships Make Rare Suez Canal Crossing
Two Israeli navy ships made a rare crossing of Egypt’s Suez Canal Tuesday, headed from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea in the latest of "unusual" navy drills spotted in Suez over the past month, […]
Solana Palestine Remark Draws Israel’s Ire
Reacting to EU remarks about creating a Palestinian state without Israel’s consent, Tel Aviv claims the EU Foreign Policy Chief made the comments for his own personal gain. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Monday […]
‘Abbas Played Role in Arafat Assassination Plot’
A senior official in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) says the ‘assassination’ of the late Authority Chief Yasser Arafat was the result of an Israeli-Palestinian plot. Farouk Qaddumi, head of PLO’s political department, said in […]
Britain Revokes Israel Arms Permits
Britain has revoked licenses for the sale of military components to Israel after conducting an export review in the wake of Israel’s war on Gaza, officials have said. Five arms-export licenses have been cancelled out […]
Israel to Scrap Arabic Names off Public Signs
English and Arabic names for cities and towns on road signs will be scrapped in favor of only the Hebrew terms, the Israeli transport ministry said Monday. In its latest efforts to enforce the ‘Jewish […]
Left and Islam: Thinking Outside the Secular Box
By Gilad Atzmon – London "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." — Karl Marx […]
Israeli Dr. Strangelove Taunts ‘Goyim’
By Ira Glunts Dr. Uzi ‘Strangeglovitch’ Arad mocked proponents of a Palestinian state and taunted advocates of an Israeli/Palestinian peace process this week in a revealing interview published (1) on Friday, July 10 in the […]