By John Chuckman. Dissident voice, 02/18/14 – Nothing that Israel does in its affairs would be of quite such great concern to the world were it not for the fact that Israel drags along, willy-nilly, the world’s greatest power, much like some impressive-looking but feeble-willed, dazed parent stumbling along behind a screaming toddler demanding yet another […]
By Jonathan Cook. Sabbah Report, 2/17/14 – Fadi al-Qatshan is one of the latest casualties of a war taking place in Gaza’s shadows, as Israel seeks ever more desperate ways to recruit collaborators while Hamas, the Islamic movement ruling Gaza, enforces tough counter-measures. The 26-year-old graduate died in November. He was killed not by a […]
By Annie Robbins and Phil Weiss. Mondoweiss, 2/17/14 – Last month the LA Times ran a cute test on its op-ed page to show that Israel doesn’t practice apartheid, and that Palestinians are treated very well by Israel. Today the NY Times runs an op-ed saying that Israel gives Palestinians all the water they need, and as the region dries out, Palestinians are […]
By Alan Hart. AlanHart.net, 2/17/14 – Way back in October 2001, a prominent and widely respected liberal London rabbi, Dr. David Goldberg, made what I thought at the time was the most remarkable statement ever made by a Jew in the 53 years that had passed since the creation, mainly by terrorism and ethnic cleansing, […]
PNN, 2/17/14 – Israeli occupation forces assaulted Saturday evening Photojournalist Yousef Shakarneh from Nahalin village west of Bethlehem, who worked as a freelancer Photojournalist with a number of local and international news agencies. Parents of the Photojournalist Shakarneh told PNN that their son was assaulted and severly beat while shooting a report about the suffering of […]
IMEMC, 2/17/14 – Israeli television Channel 7 has announced that the Israeli occupation municipality in Jerusalem approved, on Friday, the construction of 350 housing units in the settlement of Talpiot, east Jerusalem. According to a report by the Palestinian News Network (PNN), the channel added that the District Committee of the Municipality approved the settlement […]
IMEMC, 2/16/14 – A young Palestinian woman was shot and wounded after Israeli soldiers opened fire at a Palestinian car close to a military roadblock, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The sources said Nihad Kamal Aqel, 17 years of age, was shot by a live round to her thigh, and was […]
IMEMC, 2/15/14 – Israeli troops fired tear gas and live bullets at Palestinians who were throwing stones, Friday, near the border fence in northern Gaza, the army said, with Palestinian medics accounting for 17 wounded men. Clashes are common on Fridays, with regular protests near the border, in support of Gaza farmers who say troops […]
Redress 2/17/14 – The Israeli secret service Mossad is so riddled with religious recruits that it has hired an official rabbi to advise agents and employees on a wide range of issues, the ultra-right-wing Israeli news website Arutz Sheva 7 reports. The website quoted a Mossad source as telling the Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv that there are many religious people in […]
By Jonathan Cook. CounterPunch, 2/13/14 – Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rarely been so politically embattled. His travails indicate the Israeli right’s inability to respond to a shifting political landscape, both in the region and globally. The context for his troubles was his commitment in 2009, under great pressure from a newly elected US […]
