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Month: April 2015
PHOTOS: Blind Brothers Fight for Justice in Jeruslaem
Wadi Joz neighbourhood (immediately Northeast of the Old City of Jerusalem) – Nureddin Amro and his brother Sharif Amro are humble men. Both were born with retinitis pigmentosa, a congenital (genetic) condition, which has left […]
Standing Firm amid the Ruins: Blind Brothers Fight for Justice in Jeruslaem
By Dr. Bill Dienst Wadi Joz neighbourhood (immediately Northeast of the Old City of Jerusalem) – Nureddin Amro and his brother Sharif Amro are humble men. Both were born with retinitis pigmentosa, a congenital (genetic) […]
Israeli Soldier: Palestinians Are Our Training Targets
The Israeli army uses Palestinians as targets for their training, Haaretz reported a former soldier as saying. In an article entitled “From an Israeli combat soldier to conscientious objector”, Haaretz said that “after two years […]
‘Passover Siege’ in Hebron: Palestinians Endure so Israelis Can Enjoy Holiday
The southern West Bank city of Hebron is under what local Palestinians are calling a siege to enable tens of thousands of Israelis to celebrate the holiday of Passover this week by invading the city. […]
Gaza Public Employees Launch Strike in Renewed Unpaid Salaries Protest
The public workers union in the Gaza Strip announced that a general strike would be in effect Thursday across all public institutions in protest against the government’s continued to failure to pay salaries to tens […]
Obama and Netanyahu See Iran Differently because They See Their Own Countries Differently
Expect U.S. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to keep battling over the Iranian nuclear deal until the day it is signed, if not longer. The reason: Their conflict isn’t fundamentally about numbers […]
The Collapse of the Obama Doctrine: Yemen War as an Opportunity?
By Ramzy Baroud To suggest that the United States policies in Yemen were a “failure” is an understatement. It implies that the US had at least attempted to succeed. But “succeed” at what? The US […]
The Roadmap for a Palestinian Strategy
It is not difficult to speak of the Palestinians’ need to surmount ideological, factional and political divides. But the challenge is not as easy as a mere collective nod of agreement that division is indeed […]
Ministry of Health: Gazan Lives at Risk if Siege Continues
As millions around the world mark April 7th as World Health Day, the health situation in Gaza continues to worsen as the joint Israeli-Egyptian siege of Gaza continues in its eight year. Gaza Strip Ministry […]
Palestinians Flee Horror of IS Atrocities in Syria
After enduring two years of famine and fighting, Ibrahim Abdel Fatah said he saw heads cut off by Islamic State group extremists in the Palestinian camp of Yarmouk in Damascus. That was it. He fled […]
Islamophobia and Fraudulent Scholarship: The Unraveling of Ayaan Hirsi Ali
By Roger Sheety In a recent full-length essay for Time magazine titled “Beware of Michiganistan,” Ayaan Hirsi Ali warned in grave, apocalyptic terms of Muslim “above-average birth rates” and, therefore, of a coming “demographic change” […]
SodaStream Changes Labeling to ‘Made in the West Bank’
SodaStream, the Israeli manufacturer of home carbonation systems, has changed its product labeling to “Made in the West Bank” following complaints by human rights activists in the Unites States. The company’s main production facility is […]
Israel Destroys Home of Blind Brothers in East Jerusalem
More than one hundred Israeli soldiers turned up at Nureddin Amro’s home at 5:30 in the morning last Tuesday, accompanied by bulldozers and dogs. It quickly became clear that the soldiers had one item on […]
Mads Gilbert: ‘People are Questioning Israel’
During the latest Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip, war planes dropped bombs on the enclave day and night. The people there, besieged on all sides, had no place to go. As in previous wars, […]
IDF Targeted UN Peacekeepers in Lebanon – Spanish Military Report
Israeli military appears to have deliberately targeted UN peacekeeping watchtower in Lebanon which left a Spanish UN peacekeeper dead back in January, a confidential military report said, citing testimonies from peacekeeper’s colleagues. Corporal Francisco Javier […]
PA Seeks to Speed up ICC Probe into Israeli War Crimes
The Palestinian Authority is providing new documents to the International Criminal Court to speed up a preliminary probe into possible Israeli war crimes, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Riyad al-Malki said Monday. The probe, which […]
Torture in Israeli Prisons: 200 Methods Used against Palestinian Prisoners
Hundreds of torture methods used against Palestinian prisoners during interrogations conducted in Israeli prisoners have been observed by human rights organisations and prisoners’ rights associations. A report by the United Nations lists around 200 methods […]
2,000 Evacuated from Syria’s Yarmouk after IS Advance
Around 2,000 people have been evacuated from the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus after the Islamic State group seized large parts of it, a Palestinian official told AFP Sunday. “Around 400 families, approximately 2,000 […]
Israel Sentences Khalida Jarrar to 4 Months’ Administrative Detention
An Israeli court has sentenced Palestinian lawmaker and member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Khalida Jarrar to four months in administrative detention, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said Sunday. Israeli forces detained […]
UN Official Confirms Israeli Soldiers Launched Attacks from inside Gaza School
A senior UN official has confirmed that the Israeli military turned a school in the Gaza Strip into a military base during July’s ground offensive. The comments last week by Special Representative of the Secretary-General […]
US Rejects Netanyahu’s Demand for Iranian Recognition of Israel Read
The US State Department rejected over the weekend Israel’s demand that any final deal with Iran on its nuclear program include recognition of Israel’s right to exist, saying that was not the issue at hand. […]
IS Pushes further into Yarmouk Refugee Camp
Militants from the Islamic State group have pushed further into the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus and now control 70 percent of it, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.IS launched an assault […]
The Collapse of the Obama Doctrine in Yemen
For a long time, the US seemed invulnerable to what even Yemen analysts admit is an intricate subject to understand, let alone attempt to explain in a straightforward manner. The US drones buzzed overhead independent from all […]
Liberal Democrats Sympathize with Palestinians over Israel by 68-60: Pew
Look at these numbers from a March 2015 Pew research poll closely. Overall, they state that Americans sympathize with Israel over the Palestinians. But drill down in the Democratic numbers and you see a different […]
Widespread Searches after Israeli Settler Goes Missing near Hebron
Israeli forces erected checkpoints and carried out searches across wide swathes of the southern West Bank Thursday amid reports that an Israeli had been captured by unknown assailants. The reports said that two Israeli settlers […]
Tehran and World Powers Reach Solutions on Iran Nuclear Program
Iran and international powers have reached “solutions on key parameters” of Tehran’s nuclear program following eight-day talks in Switzerland, according to a joint statement issued by the negotiators on Thursday. During the media conference EU […]
Israel to Send African Migrants to ‘Third Country’
Israel has announced an agreement with two African countries to take in illegal African migrants who would “voluntarily return,” local media has reported. The Jerusalem Post and Haaretz reported on Thursday that Israel’s Population, Immigration […]
Baroud, White and Alsaafin: What’s next for Palestinians? (Video Debate)
After Benjamin Netanyahu’s decisive victory in the recent Israeli elections, what’s next for Palestinians? Join our three speakers as they delve into whether or not the Joint List will have any impact in the Knesset, […]
Amnesty International Paints an Inaccurate Picture of Gaza in Its Latest Report
The efforts of Amnesty International are undeniably significant in monitoring the developments in Palestine and other regions of the world. Nonetheless, Amnesty’s latest report on the events of summer 2014 in Gaza Strip does not […]
Netanyahu to Stage hunger Strike against World Peace – Satire
In a last ditch effort to block an impending nuclear deal between Western powers and Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced today, April 1, he will immediately begin an open-ended hunger strike against world […]