Uri Avnery HOW LUCKY we are to have the extreme Right standing guard over our democracy. This week, the Knesset voted by a large majority (47 to 34) for a law that threatens imprisonment for anyone who dares to deny that Israel is a Jewish and Democratic State. The private member’s bill, proposed by [...]
Maan News 29 May 2009 In light of the recent meeting between Presidents’ Abbas and Obama (videos inside), the team at Palestine Monitor collected a set of headlines from the Ma’an News Agency. We hope that this small sample will provide a window into the realities of settlements on the daily life of those living [...]
Ramzy Baroud – The Palestine Chronicle “We’ve accomplished quite a few things, and I think the most important one is to cement the principle that the path to peace is through negotiations and not through violence.” These were the ‘encouraging’ words modestly uttered by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during a joint press conference with [...]
Rannie Amiri “There are agents, like Mahmoud Rafea, who confessed to have delivered bags with explosives. Other collaborators have confessed to have carried out field reconnaissance missions. Others have facilitated the entrance and exit of Israelis after accomplishing their missions. This is what is meant by executive agents. The door must be opened wide … [...]
Stuart Littlewood Corruption runs far deeper than fiddling MPs’ expenses… UK politicians are currently reeling from a public lashing for fiddling their expenses big-time. Such is their arrogance that many, when confronted with their crimes, don’t see that they have done anything wrong. The guilty ones who step down will be [...]
“Assalamu Alaikum”; Quite an enjoyable video. I really liked the music, and thank the group for spreading peace with their art and music. View the live performance by Hellmut Hattler; a group that goes around Israel / Palestine and presents “The Wall” as a sample of this conflict. “An eye for an eye, and soon [...]
Dina Jadallah The last few days have witnessed an inflection point in the history of Israel. It has effectively shed its democratic veneer and blatantly embraced its racist, fascist and colonialist ideology. I am referring to the passage of three bills in the Knesset. One would require loyalty oaths to maintain citizenship. A second states [...]
Eva Bartlett | In Gaza “Life is hard for Palestinian farmers in the border region near Israel. The IOF shoot at us every day, any time. They shoot at the international volunteers (ISM) also.” This was Jaber Abu Rjila testifying some of what he has experienced in the last decade on his land less [...]
Katherine Orwell – International Middle East Media Center Editorial Group In its newest annual report Amnesty International condemns the behavior of the Israeli army during its three-week offensive war on the Gaza Strip that began on the 27th of December 2008. Amnesty states that Israel repeatedly ignored international laws of armed conflict, by directly attacking [...]
Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Israeli sources reported that the United States administration insists that Israel should fully freeze settlement construction in the occupied Palestinian territories, and on its demand that Israel should open border terminals in the Gaza Strip in order to allow Gaza reconstruction. The US position came during Tuesday talks in [...]
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