Non-violent resistance is growing across the West Bank and Israel appears only able to respond with violence. Not exactly the best look for international cameras. Take the area of Beit Shahor, currently resisting the arrival of extremist Jewish settlers. Here’s the description of the following video: Some 100 people gathered at Ush Ghrab in Beit…
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Hamas has a rat in the ranks?
It seems quite possible: Hamas last night vigorously denied that a renegade from its own ranks helped set up the assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a Dubai hotel room last month, a shock claim made by Dubai’s police chief, as echoes from the killing and its investigation continued to resound in the Middle…
What constant power cuts means for the people of Gaza
Hussam El-Nounou runs an NGO in Gaza that deals with people suffering mental problems: These constant and long power cuts have turned everything upside-down here. We barely get ten hours of electricity per day. To compensate, a lot of Gazans have bought small generators in order to be able to turn on their lights, televisions…
It’s simply irrational that Iran wants to nuke Israel
From the National newspaper: A very important exchange took place between a top-level official from a Gulf state and the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a recent meeting in Tehran, reported Abdul Rahman al Rashed, a columnist with the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al Awsat. “How come you believe that we are intending to build a…
Yet more land stolen by Zionism for the Greater Israel project
A new challenge in Palestine, largely ignored by the Western press: In the Palestinian town of Beit Sahour, famous for its civil disobedience campaign against the Israeli occupation in the 1980s, a new struggle is taking place. Ush al Ghrab (‘Crow’s Nest’) is a small piece of land being targeted by a group of Jewish…
Netanyahu knew all about the murder of Mabhouh
The Mossad murder of a Hamas man in Dubai will not simply disappear. The London Times has more details: In early January two black Audi A6 limousines drove up to the main gate of a building on a small hill in the northern suburbs of Tel Aviv: the headquarters of Mossad, the Israeli secret intelligence…
How J Street makes the Israeli extremists crazy (because they don’t love colonies)
Israeli right-wing politician Michael Ben Ari (National Union) on J Street: They want international legitimacy, but everybody knows they are an anti-Semitic lobby that acts against Israel. They are dangerous people and they use the Congress people in order to try to receive legitimacy. One Israeli commentator, despairing at the act by Israel’s Foreign Ministry…
New York Times Jerusalem reporter remains a story (as it should)
The story of New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner having a son now enlisted in the IDF continues to cause angst across the world. This Al-Jazeera report outlines the issues and provides evidence for the prosecution, namely that Bronner’s reporting is inherently more sympathetic to the Zionist line: The Times itself has followed…
Dutch pension fend divests from apartheid backing Israeli firm
Another small step in the global campaign against Israel: Despite Israel’s oppressive tactics against it, the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement has marked additional victories with many institutional investors divesting from or blacklisting Israeli military contractor Elbit Systems. One of the largest Dutch pension funds told The Electronic Intifada today that it is selling…
British citizens could be killed over Israeli hit in Dubai (thank you Mossad)
The likely Mossad assassination of the Hamas official in Dubai is turning into yet another PR disaster for Israel. Here’s Paul McGeough on Democracy Now! late last week explaining the latest and Robert Fisk on Al-Jazeera. Now this: The lives of the six British citizens whose identities were stolen by a Mossad assassination team are…