Al-Monitor – The Obama administration said Monday that it wouldn’t cut off funds to the Palestinian Authority (PA) despite its unity government with Hamas, setting up a bruising battle with Congress. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters that the administration believes the PA has “every desire and intent” to abide by its commitment to […]
Europe and the U.S. are both at risk of falling into an Italian spiral of public theft. By Philip Giraldi. The American Conservative – Even well-informed Americans are unlikely to know much about the level of corruption prevalent within the member states of the European Union (EU). A fascinating article in the London Review of Books by UCLA professor […]
By Philip Giraldi. UNZ – The major organizations that comprise the Israel Lobby are well known: the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the American Jewish Committee (AJC), the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations and Christians United For Israel (CUFI). All are well known, benefiting from large budgets and […]
IMEMC – Palestinians protested Wednesday in front of the United Nations office in Ramallah against the latest wave of home demolitions and displacement of the Palestinian Bedouin community in the village of Abu al Jaj. The community was evicted on May 21, 2014, rendering 71 Palestinians homeless. The demonstration demanded the United Nations and international […]
IMEMC – Israeli soldiers have again surfaced in recently publicized video footage, on Wednesday, as they violently beat a Palestinian elderly in Al-Aqsa mosque compound, occupied Jerusalem. A number of soldiers appear in the footage as they surround a helpless elderly man in the compound, Al Ray reports. One of the soldiers is actually seen […]
IMEMC – At least Five Palestinians were injured when more than 200 Israeli militants invaded the yards of the al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem. The Palestinians managed to push the invading radicals away. Local sources said that dozens of Israeli police officers accompanied the settlers, attacking local worshipers before withdrawing and taking the settlers with […]
IMEMC – Palestinian medical sources in occupied Jerusalem have reported that an elderly Palestinian physician has died due to the effects of teargas inhalation. He was hurt and hospitalized several days ago. The sources said that Dr. Samih Abu Oheish, 64, from Abu Dis Town southeast of occupied Jerusalem, was hospitalized in a critical condition […]
IMEMC – Pope Francis, on his last day of a 3-day pilgrimage to the Holy Land, called for allowing all believers free access to holy sites in Jerusalem, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP). Late Sunday afternoon, Pope Francis arrived in Tel Aviv, where he urged Israeli President Shimon Peres and other authorities to adopt a […]
Palestinian Christians make cross from wall as gift to Pope Francis IMEMC – Workers from an Israeli construction company were stopped by protesters, on Friday, as they were painting a section of the massive so-called “separation barrier” which is to extend approximately 430 miles througout the West Bank region upon completion. The workers were painting, […]
IMEMC – After more than four years in a coma, a Turkish man has died of serious injuries he suffered after Israel’s navy attacked, in international waters, the MV Marmara solidarity ship, part of the Freedom Flotilla, killing nine activists and wounding dozens more. Turkish sources said Ugur Suleyman Soylemez, 51 years of age, had […]
September 30th, 2013
September 30th, 2013
November 4th, 2013
