By Sara Roy. The Conversation – In the near three decades that I have been involved with Gaza and her people, I have never seen the kind of physical and psychological destruction that I see there today. In all Gaza’s long and tormented history, there is no precedent for its extraordinarily dangerous position in 2014. The […]
By Judy Maltz. The Jewish Daily Forward – (Haaretz) — Inspired by Taglit-Birthright’s free trips to Israel for college students, a brand new program will bring Jewish newlyweds from North America on heavily subsidized honeymoons to the Holy Land. The program, Honeymoon Israel, has just obtained initial funding to finance two pilot trips this spring, each […]
The Jerusalem Post – Israeli right-wingers on social media have launched an online campaign of incitement against President Reuven Rivlin in reaction to the newly installed head of state’s conciliatory gestures toward the Arab community.A picture of Rivlin in Arab headdress known as akeffiyeh was making the rounds and going viral on social media, where extremists […]
By Jonathan Cook. CounterPunch – It is astonishing that the reconstruction of Gaza, bombed into the Stone Age according to the explicit goals of an Israeli military doctrine known as “Dahiya”, has tentatively only just begun two months after the end of the fighting. According to the United Nations, 100,000 homes have been destroyed or damaged, leaving […]
By Charlotte Silver. The Electronic Intifada – With only a week before Rasmea Odeh’strial is set to begin in federal court in Detroit, US District Judge Gershwin A. Drain dealt her defense a major blow in several pre-trial rulings published on Monday. Drain decided that Odeh would not be allowed to present any evidence about theweeks of […]
Al Jazeera – In 1967, at the height of the Arab / Israeli Six Day War, the Israeli Air Force attacked the USS Liberty, a US Navy spy ship that was monitoring the conflict from the safety of international waters in the Mediterranean. Israeli jet fighters twice identified the ship as American before hitting the […]
By Mohammed Omer. Middle East Eye – RAFAH: “One does not know how far this could reach,” said a farmer in Egypt’s Rafah region. Abu Taleb who owns agriculture land planted with citrus and apple trees says he fears that the intention of the Egyptian military to establish a buffer zone will swallow his land. Egyptian forces […]
CNBC – WASHINGTON, Oct. 28, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following is being released by the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy: A federal lawsuit seeks immediate release of a closely held government report about how American branches of Israeli charitable and educational institutes fund secret nuclear weapons research and development programs. An unclassified 1987 study […]
PR Newswire – The following is being released by the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy: A federal lawsuit seeks immediate release of a closely held government report about how American branches of Israeli charitable and educational institutes fund secret nuclear weapons research and development programs. An unclassified 1987 study conducted for the Department of […]
By Rula Jebreal. International New York Times (not published in U.S. print NYT) – My mother, Zakia, was so proud that my sister and I spoke better Hebrew than Arabic. Osman, my father, believed that by achieving the highest levels of education, we would one day be treated as equal in our country, Israel. He sincerely believed […]
