By Barbara Erickson. TimesWarp – In The New York Times, Palestinian land has become something else again. It is not the State of Palestine, not simply Palestine, not the occupied Palestinian territories and not really Israel either. It is all murkier than that. This should not be difficult for the Times. There is plenty of established precedence to point […]
John Whitbeck’s commentary: Transmitted below is an encouraging article on the European Parliament’s overwhelming (534-49) vote condemning the U.S. government’s lawless global assassination program, President Obama’s primary means of demonstrating to his critics that he does truly believe in American “exceptionalism”, and calling for criminal accountability for those complicit in the program. By Tyler Cullis. […]
By Alan Hart. AlanHart.net – I have long thought that Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, a senior member of the PLO’s Executive Committee and the Palestine Legislative Council, is the most articulate spokesperson in Israeli occupied territory for her cause. Her latest comment is a bleak assessment of the prospects for getting a real peace process going. […]
By Eva Illouz. Haaretz – Open Haaretz on any given day. Half or three quarters of its news items will invariably revolve around the same two topics: people struggling to protect the good name of Israel, and people struggling against its violence and injustices. An almost random example: On December 17, 2013, one could read, […]
By Stuart Littlewood. My Catbird Seat – “The time when we could condemn Israel and think that that was enough has long passed. The Israelis do not care about condemnation. They are self-righteous. We must now take action against them. We must impose sanctions. If the spineless Obama will not do it, we must do it—even […]
By Richard Silverstein. Tikun Olam, 2/26/14 – Today, I spoke to the Seattle Metropolitan Democratic Club with Dick Blakney about U.S. policy toward Iran. My talk dealt with the latest developments in the Israel Lobby’s attempt to sabotage the administration’s diplomatic initiative to resolve the nuclear impasse. I also took the advantage to speak in broader historical […]
By Jonathan Cook. The National, 2/26/14 – The 24-hour visit by German chancellor Angela Merkel to Israel this week came as relations between the two countries hit rock bottom. According to a report in Der Spiegel magazine last week, Merkel and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu have been drawn into shouting matches when discussing by phone […]
By PCHR-Gaza. IMEMC, 2/27/14 – In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 20- 26 February 2014, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found that during the past week, Israeli forces wounded 29 Palestinian civilians, sixteen of whom were wounded in the Gaza Strip and […]
IMEMC, 2/27/14 – Settler bulldozers, on Thursday morning, began to raze lands in Ja’loud village, to the south of Nablus, in order to expand settlements in the region. Al Ray News Agency reports that Ghassan Daghlas, a PA official who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, said that settlers started to bulldoze tens of […]
IMEMC, 2/27/14 – Amnesty: Some Israeli West Bank killings may be war crimes Israeli forces are using excessive, reckless violence in the occupied West Bank, killing dozens of Palestinians over the past three years in what might constitute a war crime, Amnesty International said on Thursday. Photo: Israeli army soldiers fire tear gas towards Palestinian […]
