Stuart Littlewood Fr Manuel Musallam recently retired at the age of 71 after serving as the parish priest of the Holy Family Church in Gaza for 14 years. For most of that time the Israelis would not allow him to visit his family and friends in the West Bank. So, in spite of failing health, [...]
Sonja Karkar “There isn’t one I haven’t heard” or so goes one of the lines in a well-known American musical. Yet, this time the world is imbuing the words with new meaning when it comes to US/Israel relations. The hope is that at long last the US is going to discipline Israel. Alas, in the [...]
Sami Jamil Jadallah | The Jefferson Corner It was not so difficult to find one or two words that best describe Israel relations with the US and the US relations with the Arab world. For over the past 45 years Israel has been telling the US “ toz” and the US has been telling the [...]
The serious row between Washington and Tel Aviv is about far more than the construction of homes in east Jerusalem; it goes to the heart of the close military alliance between the two states. (This article was first published on 18 March 2010) Paul Rogers, 22 March 2010 | OpenDemocracy.net A rare public dispute between [...]
Jonathan Cook - Nazareth Under cover of a sudden interest in developing new green technologies, the Israeli government hopes to weaken the Gulf states by making their oil redundant and thereby defeating ‘Islamic terror’. Uzi Landau, the national infrastructures minister, outlined a vision of a world without oil this week to Israel’s most loyal [...]
Sam Bahour In 2010, Jews in Israel and around the world will celebrate Passover beginning on March 30th. Passover is the seven-day holiday of the Feast of Unleavened Bread commemorating the ancient Hebrews’ escape from enslavement in Egypt. (In Israel, March 30th is also Land Day: the day when Palestinians commemorate and protest the confiscation [...]
Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home Wow, what a day: over 100 native Palestinian Christians and Muslims and internationals including Israelis, breached the tight security separating the Palestinian cities of Bethlehem from the occupied city of Jerusalem. Donkeys and people arrested! We were initially some 150 strong and started from [...]
Sonja Karkar Australians for Palestine Women for Palestine 22 March 2010 One man dead in Israel and the whole world knows. He actually was not Israeli, but an unfortunate immigrant worker from Thailand. We have been told who killed him too: not by name, but by some shadowy nom de guerre, used by jihadist groups [...]
Jonathan Cook in Jerusalem The Israeli government has indicated that it will press ahead with a plan to enlarge the Jewish prayer plaza at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City, despite warnings that the move risks triggering a third intifada. Israeli officials rejected this week a Jerusalem court’s proposal to shelve the [...]
"This Time We Went Too Far" By NORMAN FINKELSTEIN | CounterPunch Editors’ Note: This article is excerpted from Norman Finkelstein’s important new book about the Gaza conflict, “This Time We Went Too Far” published this month by OR Books. To purchase a copy of the complete book please visit OR Books. This book is not [...]
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