Amnesty International – Israeli forces have killed scores of Palestinian civilians in attacks targeting houses full of families which in some cases have amounted to war crimes, Amnesty International has disclosed in a new report on the latest Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip. Families under the Rubble: Israeli attacks on inhabited homes details eight cases where residential family […]
By Philip Giraldi. The Unz – So Israel is building 2,610 new housing units in East Jerusalem and in contiguous areas on the West Bank at a time when international sentiment against its unending occupation of Palestine is growing, particularly among Europeans if one goes by recent developments in Sweden, Britain and in Ireland. The administration of President Barack […]
By Yossi Gurvitz. 972 Magazine – Is it permitted for a Jewish soldier to rape a gentile woman during wartime? This question – based on the biblical mitzvah of Eshet Yefat Toar (“a comely woman”) – was referred to nine years ago (Hebrew) by Rabbi Eyal Qarim. The questioning party seemed anxious and worried, and wanted to know whether the iron-age mitzvah(religious […]
By Nathan Guttman. The Jewish Daily Foward – When a storm wreaked havoc on East Coast air travel last winter, among the thousands of travelers stranded were several dozen Israeli-American teens from Washington and Philadelphia. But these youths, who were en route to the annual meeting of the Tzofim, the Israeli scouts, were luckier than the […]
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 […]
