Ma’an News, 2/21-14 – At least 13 Palestinians were injured and five detained after Israeli forces violently dispersed protests in the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Friday marking the 20th anniversary of the Ibrahimi mosque massacre. The clashes erupted following a large demonstration organized by the activist group Youths against Settlements calling for […]
By Rania Khalek. Electronic Intifada, 2/17/14 – The Jewish Journal has an incredible write-up of the Los Angeles Police Department’s (LAPD) recent visit to Israel. For nine days early this month, eight of the LAPD’s highest ranking officers toured Israel on a trip organized by LAPD Deputy Chief and commander of the Counter-Terrorism and Special Operations Bureau, Michael Downing, […]
Ma’an News, 2/19/14 – Israeli warships opened fire at fishermen off the coast of Gaza City early Wednesday, a fisherman said. A fisherman told Ma’an Israeli ships fired gunshots at Palestinian fishing boats, and that a shell hit the water near the boats. No injuries were reported. An Israeli army spokeswoman said that “warning shots […]
By Philip Giraldi. The American Conservative, 2/12/14 – The connection between America’s wars in the Middle East—and its wars more generally—with the more fundamentalist forms of Christianity in the United States is striking. Opinion polls suggest that the more religiously conservative one is, the more one will support overseas wars or even what many might describe as […]
By Philip Giraldi. AntiWar.com, 2/18/14 – Why is the United States so reluctant to negotiate with other countries and so prone to leap immediately to the option of using force or chicanery in lieu of a more deliberative foreign policy? It might partly be because we Americans are not very good at the subtlety and […]
By Philip Weiss. Mondoweiss, 2/18/14 – The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York has spiked a planned appearance by John Judis, author of the groundbreaking new history of Truman and the establishment of Israel, as too controversial. I’m told that Judis had agreed on a date, June 1, with the programming director of the museum, Gabriel Sanders, and […]
IMEMC, 2/19/14 – The Israeli Police in occupied Jerusalem kidnapped a Palestinian photojournalist, identified as Mohammad Abed-Rabbo, over a Facebook post and picture he shared. Abed Rabbo was moved to the al-Maskobiyya interrogation facility, west of Jerusalem, and was interrogated for more than one hour. The interrogators told him he was under interrogation for publishing a […]
By Barbara Erickson. TimesWarp, 2/18/14 – 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 […]
IMEMC, 2/19/14 – Palestinian medical sources reported, on Wednesday, February 19, 2014, that a Palestinian child was injured after being rammed by an Israeli settler’s vehicle near the Ibrahimi Mosque, in Hebron city, in the southern part of the West Bank. The sources said that the child, Ahmad Naim Borqan, 7 years of age, was […]
Ma’an News, 2/19/14 – A group of Israeli settlers hurled stones at Palestinian schoolchildren in Nablus on Wednesday, locals said. Witnesses told Ma’an that the settlers stormed the village of Burin and threw stones at pupils at a local school. Another group of settlers assaulted a 50-year-old man near the illegal Yizhar settlement south of […]
