Inter Press Service, January 10, 2014 – The border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip used to buzz with activity until a few months back as traders brought in an array of Egyptian goods — from food supplies to raw material — through hundreds of tunnels. But these underground structures between Rafah in Gaza and Sinai in Egypt, have fallen silent. Things came to […]
By Rami Almeghari. Electronic Intifada, January 9, 2014 – “If you have no relatives in the West Bank, you can’t afford to visit the Church of the Nativity [in Bethlehem] with your family members. This is because of the economic hardships here in Gaza,” said William al-Turk, as he, his wife Nancy and their four daughters attendedChristmas services this week at […]
IMEMC, January 8, 2014 – A potentially violent confrontation was defused Tuesday in the Palestinian village of Qusra, south of Nablus, after a group of 11 Israeli settlers invaded the village to carry out a “revenge attack”, after Israeli troops dismantled one of their illegal settlement outpost structures. The settlers attacked a young boy, according […]
IMEMC, January 6, 2014 – A number of Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian school and a water tank in Orif village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Local residents chased the settlers out of their village and clashed with Israeli soldiers, who invaded the village and attacked the residents. Ghassan Daghlas, in charge of […]
IMEMC, January 5, 2014 – According to media sources, an Israeli settler violently assaulted a 12-year-old Palestinian girl who was on her way to school this morning, in the old city of Jerusalem, reports Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency. “Marah Munther Jalajil lives in Wadi Hilweh neighborhood, in Silwan, and goes every day to her […]
PCRH Gaza, January 3, 2014 – In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, for the week of 26 Dec. 2013 – 01 Jan. 2014, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found that an elderly Palestinian man died due to tear gas inhalation in Kofur Qaddoum village, northeast […]
By Jim Lobe. AntiWar.com, January 16, 2014 – In what looks to be a clear victory – at least for now – for President Barack Obama, a major effort by the Israel lobby and its most powerful constituent, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), to pass a new sanctions bill against Iran has stalled in […]
By Philip Giraldi. AntiWar.com, January 14, 2014 – Back a little over ten years ago I wrote an article for The American Conservative magazine called “The Jihadi War.” I had only recently left the CIA and it was the first article I had ever written for any publication, so I was grateful for a little friendly editorial advice when […]
AntiWar.com, January 14, 2012 – As their massive sacrifices in the future of Iraq go up in flames (more than 4,000 American lives lost and greater than $1 trillion in taxpayer dollars wasted) Americans watch pundits on TV argue that their government did too little and abandoned Iraq too soon. For example, John McCain and […]
By Juan Cole. Informed Comment, January 14, 2014 – Arik Scheinerman, who became Ariel Sharon, was from a Russian family that emigrated to Palestine at a time when Palestinians had been deprived of the right to set immigration policy into their own country. He would go on powerfully to shape the lives of most people in […]
