Near where I live, there’s a roadhouse where the restaurants always fold after two years.…
Another sign that the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions movement is biting. A few weeks back Code Pink announced…
For months we’ve been crowing on the site about how the Netanayahu/Lieberman government is hurting American Jewish support for, and identification with, Israel. Well now we’re getting confirmation from the horse’s mouth.
An internal memo from Nadav Tamir, the Israeli General Counsel in Boston, to the Israeli Foreign Ministry charges that the Netanyahu government of hurting the US/Israeli relationship. He sums the current perception of Israel in the Unites States – “Nowadays, there is a sense in the United States that Obama is forced to deal with the obduracy of the governments in Iran, North Korea, and Israel.”
This past Monday over 200 masked and camouflaged Israeli soldiers swarmed into the West Bank village of Bil’in at 3 a.m. and raided five homes. Eight people were arrested, seven Palestinians and one international activist from the United States, including Mohammad Khatib a leader of the Bil’in Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements (pictured right).
These arrests were part of on ongoing effort by the Israeli military to end the nonviolent resistance in Bil’in by carrying out now routine late night raids.
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The top Republican on the US House of Representatives’ foreign affairs committee…