Stories written by PhilipGiraldi
An array of top experts testified at the National Summit to Reassess the US-Israel Special Relationship, an all-day event on March 7th at the National Press Club. Among the speakers were high level national security experts, Congressional representatives, and diverse authors and analysts on this subject. The Summit can be viewed in its entirety at […]
Under the Radar, 3/3/14 – And the winner is … Arnon Milchan! Anyone watching the Oscars on Sunday – or reading/watching news Monday morning – knows that 12 Years a Slave earned the Academy Award for Best Picture. But when the star-studded cast and director crowded the stage at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre to accept their trophies, it […]
An elite unit shot a Palestinian activist at point-blank range dozens of times. He had received a summons and failed to appear. What should be the penalty? By Amira Hass. Ha’aretz, 3/3/14 – If the order was to escalate, the takeover of the village of Bir Zeit last Thursday by the Yamam counterterrorism unit and the […]
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 […]
IMEMC, 2/27/14 – Israeli soldiers invaded various Palestinian communities, in different parts of the occupied West Bank, kidnapping 15 Palestinians, including a 9-year old child and a mentally challenged Palestinian. Soldiers also demolished a Palestinian home near Ramallah, after firing shells at it. Palestinian sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, […]
By Paul Craig Roberts – RT is the best English language news source available to Americans. On January 29, RT published a photo of 5 presidential appointees lying through their teeth to Congress. All five of these Gestapo wannabes are in violation of their oath of office to protect the Constitution of the United States. […]
IMEMC, 2/26/14 – A Palestinian woman, sick with a heart disease, died Wednesday morning at Eretz crossing, in the northern Gaza Strip. Ministry of Health spokesman Ashraf al-Qedra said that Wedad Deeb, 71, died while waiting at the Israeli side of the crossing, adding that she was on her way to a West Bank hospital to […]
PNN, 2/26/14 – Israel ratified a new law that legally distinguishes between Muslim and Christian citizens of the state, Haaretz reported Monday. The bill, which easily passed by a 31-6 vote in its third and final reading, recognizes the Christian Arab population as a separate, though not national minority for the first time. The law, which […]
