Stories written by PhilipGiraldi

IMEMC, 3/2/14, – Saleh Mlihat, 70, was killed on Sunday, after being run over by an Israeli colonial settler, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Mosa Mlihat said that his father was run over during crossing the main street and transferred to hospital immediately, Al Ray reports. Local sources said that a settler ran […]

Ma’an News, 3/1/14 – A Palestinian woman was shot dead by Israeli forces in the southern Gaza Strip late Friday, witnesses and medics said. Witnesses said 57-year-old Aminah Atiyeh Qudeih was shot and killed by Israeli forces east of Khan Younis when she approached the separation barrier between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Ambulances were not […]
Following is a report prepared by The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies’ “Study Group on a New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000.” The main substantive ideas in this paper emerge from a discussion in which prominent opinion makers, including Richard Perle, James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks, Jr., Douglas Feith, Robert Loewenberg, David Wurmser, and Meyrav […]

Library of Congress, 3/29/1990 – The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Savage] is recognized for 60 minutes. Mr. SAVAGE. Madam Speaker, I rise tonight to deal with the problem that occurred in my recent primary election, the one in which–let me just say that I was successful, […]

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 […]