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Palestine, War Crimes
Richard Falk has called for an international probe into the death of a Palestinian detainee in Israeli custody. (Photo: Wayne Schoenfeld)

U.N.’s Richard Falk Demands Probe Into Death of Detainee in Israeli Custody

Falk, an American law professor serving in the independent post, suggested the United Nations Human Rights Council might set up an international forensic team to investigate Jaradat’s death.

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Palestine
right of return

The Palestinian ID Cards War

The system of ID cards is used as a weapon to further cement the fragmentation of the Palestinian population as it confines the Palestinians to their geographic Israeli-controlled Bantustans, forbidding Palestinians with Gaza IDs entry into the West Bank and Jerusalem and vice versa.

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Israel, Palestine

Stephen Lendman: Netanyahu’s Rage to Judaize Palestine

Israel presses on with plans for 6,000 new settler homes. They won’t stop until virtually all Palestine is colonized. Israel planned it long ago. Netanyahu’s expediting what most Knesset members approve.

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Israel, Palestine
Khaled-Meshaal

Alan Hart: Scoop! Bibi’s letter to Khaled Meshal

In light Khaled Meshal could respond to Netanyahu’s letter with these words: “No, prime minister, it is me who has to thank you for what you are doing to destroy your state!”

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Israel, UK

No consequences (again) for Israel’s hateful conduct?

Civil society calls for trade sanctions but Hague says EU has ‘no enthusiasm’. Now he shames us again by shirking firm action against the racist Israel’s endless land thieving and general lawlessness.

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Israel, Palestine

Uri Avnery: The strong must lead to sweet Palestine

The quest for peace based on the co-existence between Israel and Palestine has taken a big step forwards. Unity between the Palestinians should be the next. US support for the actual creation of the State of Palestine should come soon after.

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Boycott, Europe, Israel

Ireland to advance EU-wide ban of Israeli settlement products

Ireland is planning to utilize its upcoming term as President of the Council of the European Union, which begins on January 1 2013, to advance efforts to achieve a joint decision between all 27 member states to ban products from West Bank Settlements.

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Israel, Palestine, Zionism

Survey: Most Israeli Jews would support apartheid regime in Israel

The survey indicates that a third to half of Israeli Jews want open discrimination against its Arab citizens. The large majority wants an apartheid state.

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Israel, Palestine

The Galilee First!

The Galilee First. The international community, and Palestinian leadership, should call for the world to witness the reality of Palestinians inside Israel.

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History, Israel, Opinion, Palestine, Zionism

Ilan Pappe: Israel is an Apartheid State

Liberal Zionists though find it dangerous, and for many years have been trying to square the circle in an attempt to justify Israel’s apartheid policies. Jewish communities, of course, are allergic to the very idea. No, it’s not the recognition that Israel is an apartheid state that’s dangerous, it’s Israel itself that is dangerous; dangerous to Palestinians, dangerous to Jews in Israel and abroad, and dangerous to the world beyond.

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Iran, Israel, Palestine, United States, War

Noam Chomsky: Israel is a pretty crazy state. The U.S. is just a rogue state

An Interview With Noam Chomsky: Everybody is already furious at Israel. Even in Europe, it is regarded as the most dangerous state in the world, and it is becoming a pariah state. People in the U.S. should be breaking through the media and general doctrinal barriers to come to know what is going on.

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Economics, Gaza, Palestine, War Crimes, Zionism

World Bank report obscures nature of Palestinian economic crisis

Why does Prime Minister Fayyad wish to ‘improve’ the Paris Protocols, despite the severe limitations that it imposes on the PA’s ability to choose their own economic regime and adopt trade policies?

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Gaza, Human Rights, Opinion, Palestine

Fatah Israeli Collaborators

Call it an open secret. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, unelected Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, and like-minded Fatah officials collaborate with Israel’s occupation harshness.

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Israel, Palestine, War Crimes, Zionism

Stealing Palestinian Resources

Israel invents its own version of reality. Orwellian doublespeak defines it. Fundamental occupying power obligations are violated. State authorities and settlers reap benefits. Numerous military orders violate international law. It’s been twisted, inverted, manipulated, distorted, undermined, and spurned to justify the unjustifiable.

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Israel, Palestine, War Crimes

Two water pipes for two peoples: Palestinians and Israelis

In a new series, Haaretz explores the inequitable distribution of drinking water in the West Bank, where supply for the Palestinian falls far short of that of their settler neighbors as well as the standard set out by the WHO.

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Economics, Israel, Palestine

Palestinians revolt against PA

Protesters, who are not affiliated with a single political faction, are vowing to keep up the pressure until their demands are met. Their demands include the sacking of the Fayyad government and the annulment of the 1994 Paris Economic Protocol, which critics say put the entire Palestinian economy at Israel’s mercy.

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Featured Articles, Israel, Palestine, Politics, United States, Zionism

What might Netanyahu do when his American mob tells him Romney won’t win?

Even before his latest reported gaffe the polls were indicating that Romney will fail in his Zionist-backed bid to deny President Obama a second term in the White House. There is also a growing realization in America that, on Netanyahu’s behalf, the Zionist lobby and its stooges in Congress have overplayed their hand in trying to influence the American election and push the US into war.

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Economics, Israel, Palestine, Zionism

Protest in Ramallah – an ominous sign for the Israeli occupation

Uri Avnery argues that foreign aid and Israeli handouts from stolen Palestinian tax revenue provide only temporary relief from Israel’s economic strangulation of the Palestinians, and that a “Palestinian Spring” targeted at the occupation may come sooner rather than later.

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Economics, Israel, Palestine, Peace, Zionism

It’s the Occupation, Stupid

Yes, we can, no, you can’t is policy. That’s what occupation is all about. Tyranny defines it. Author Sandy Tolan calls it the “show that time and the world forgot.”

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Israel, Palestine, Peace, Zionism

Is Palestine a lost cause?

Alan Hart outlines a strategy for saving the Palestinian cause from extinction: making Israel accountable for its occupation by dissolving the quisling Palestinian Authority and exposing Zionism’s propaganda, and mobilizing Palestinians everywhere to engage by peaceful and democratic means in the struggle to end the Zionization of their homeland.

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Israel, News, Palestine

Settlers run rampage in West Bank

Burning mosques, burning vehicles, settlers appear to have a blank cheque to harass and aggress Palestinians, writes Khaled Amayreh in occupied Jerusalem.

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Christianity, Israel, Palestine, War Crimes

Happy Christmas, O prisoners of the Little Town of Bethlehem

O little town of Bethlehem
How still we see thee lie
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting Light
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight

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Human Rights, Israel, Palestine

What happens when a Gazan wants to marry a West Bank woman?

Did you know that Israel allows Gaza residents to enter the West Bank to attend their relatives’ weddings but not to get betrothed themselves? You don’t believe it?

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Israel, News, Palestine, West Bank

It’s not that Israel is finding new ways to expel Palestinians, it’s that no one cares

Interior, justice and defense ministries decided to cease respecting a gentlemanly agreement with with Palestinians and their spouses holding passports of mostly western countries. Israel canceled their resident status.

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Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Terrorism, War Crimes, Zionism

Palestinian Right of Self-Defense

Repeatedly, Israel preemptively bombs, shells, and inflicts other forms of lawless violence on Gazans, bogusly claiming self-defense. When they respond, Israel calls it terrorism.

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Gaza, Israel, Palestine, War, War Crimes, Zionism

Netanyahu and the Border Incident: The Return of the Generals

With a sigh of relief, Netanyahu returned to his usual stance. Here he was, surrounded by generals, the he-man, the resolute fighter, the Defender of Israel.

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Israel, Palestine, United States, Zionism

Daily Rogue State Israeli Lawlessness

It begs the question why Israelis put up with lawless governance harming them as well as Palestinians. When will weeks of social injustice outrage arouse them to embrace universal equity?

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Gaza, Israel, Palestine, War, War Crimes, Zionism

‘Jewish state’ means Jewish fascism

New U.S. formula: Palestinian recognition of the “Jewishness” of Israel in exchange for an American endorsement of a Palestinian “state” on unspecific parts of the West Bank and few scattered neighborhoods of occupied East Jerusalem.

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Gaza, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, Zionism

US Congress loves being lied to about the Israel-Palestine conflict…

Stuart Littlewood reminds Israel’s stooges and other ignoramuses in the US Congress of a few basic facts about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict – the sheer injustice suffered by the Palestinians at the hands of Israel and its US supporter – and concludes: “There is only one thing worse than being lied to, Congress. And that’s acting on a lie.”

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Israel, Palestine, Zionism

Counting the cost of a Palestinian state

The size of the territory allotted for Palestine state continued to shrink with every new Israeli settlement. Do the Palestinians want this state? No, clearly not.

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Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Zionism

Palestinian people power – could it be a game-changer?

Just imagine it… Several hundred thousand or better still one or two million Palestinians or more marching peacefully to the 1967 borders.

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Israel, Palestine

Welcome to Palestine – if you can get in

Israel is threatening to refuse to allow Palestinians living in the occupied Palestinian territory to receive visitors from abroad. We are not talking here about visitors such as the 5 million Palestinian refugees whom Israel has refused to allow to return to their homes after being expelled by force and fear when Israel was founded in 1948. Rather, the issue now is that foreigners who desire to visit the occupied Palestinian territory are being denied entry into Israel.

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Israel, Palestine

Abbas: A September Palestinian State or Lose World Support

The Palestinian Authority, under Mahmoud Abbas, must immediately stop the limping and lackluster effort and present their resolution this September to the U.N. General Assembly to recognize a Palestinian State. This will be the only worthy initiative that the PA has ever adopted since its founding in which the far majority of the world is supportive.

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Israel, Palestine, Zionism

The truth behind another Israeli expulsion trick

The artificial division between Areas A, B and C was supposed to be erased from the map, and dropped from the discourse, in 1999. Instead, Israel has sanctified and perpetuated it.

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Gaza, Grassroots Activism, Israel, Palestine, War Crimes, Zionism

Message to Congress: Take a Slow Boat to Gaza [Satire]

The “Department of State” strongly urges that U.S. citizens refrain from all travel to the Gaza Strip, an area living under such breathtakingly awful conditions thanks to Israel that even Hitler would have objected. But we digress. We also recommend that all US citizens refrain from traveling to Israel ever again and that they actively participate in the boycott campaign against Israel known as the BDS.

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