This is truly absurd. Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad meets with some of America’s most right-wing Jewish leaders who don’t believe in ending the occupation or ceasing settlement building. Fayyad is becoming the “nice” Palestinian (though Israel is starting to tire of his pronouncements: maybe they’ll just kill him): U.S. Jewish leaders pressed Palestinian…
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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…
The West Bank Wild West
How many wild Jews are now operating in the West Bank? A senior army commander on Thursday accused settler leaders of losing control of West Bank areas under their control after 30 youths attacked soldiers and border guards, injuring three. A soldier and two Border Police officers were hurt in the hilltop settlement Yitzhar on…
When Jimmy Carter talks about “apartheid” he is slammed and yet these days…
Uber Zionist Jeffrey Goldberg utters the “a” word: Israel will one day be considered an apartheid state if it continues to rule over a population of Arabs that doesn’t want to be ruled by Israelis. That is why it is vital for Israel to establish permanent, internationally-recognized borders that more-or-less adhere to the 1967 border…It…
Likud warns against expanding settlements while supporting a regime that backs expanding settlements
Likud Minister Michael Eitan tells his settler brothers and sisters that Greater Israel is never going to happen (ignoring the fact that his government is currently working towards the time when it’s impossible to reverse the settlements; arguably,… that’s already happened): You can’t deceive all the time and speak about Greater Israel. It’s a dream that…
Netanyahu’s wink to the West Bank settlers
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Herzliya conference: Education begins first of all with the bible. So get to know the land.
Israel expands the occupation and wonders why apartheid is alive
The “A” word by the Israeli elite: Israel’s defense minister warned Tuesday that if Israel does not achieve a peace deal with the Palestinians, it will be either a binational state or an undemocratic apartheid state. Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s comments came in an address to a security conference north of Tel Aviv. Israeli leaders…
What Jews have created in the West Bank (hatred and racism)
Here’s a definition of fundamentalist Jewish settler violence.
Israel talks about freezing settlements but keeps on building settlements
The great Akiva Eldar’s new headline in Haaretz: Only an idiot would say Israel has frozen settlement activity
Israel starts to realise the price for its occupation
An important development sent by a key organiser of the BDS movement, Omar Barghouti: Israel’s ambassador to Denmark says Danske Bank follows a Middle East policy with a disproportionate focus on Israel by dropping investments in two companies involved in settlements. JERUSALEM: Danske Bank’s decision to abandon investments in two companies because of their activities…