As he stepped off a bus in Issawiya in East Jerusalem, 5-year-old Muhammad Jamal Ubeid was struck in the face by a rubber bullet fired by Israeli forces. He suffered a bone fracture.
By mid-afternoon on Christmas Eve crowds had thinned from the limestone plaza that is Manger Square, buffering Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity and its winding old city. International tourists lingered, but the bulk of the celebrators were Palestinians—Christian and Muslim alike. A handful of children under ten years old wore costumes and sold candies for 25-cents.
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Ally Cohen was monitoring Israeli checkpoints in Hebron with the International Solidarity Movement when she fell and sprained her ankle. She was in immobilized in pain and stuck just outside a settlement on Hebron’s infamous Shuhada Street. Just when she thought the situation could not get any worse a car pulled up next to her and Anat Cohen stepped out.
All the free-speech rules go out the window for Israel. You can make a movie about killing a foreign dictator and the president will stand up for you, but if you liken Israel to ISIS, as Chris Hedges did, then you get disinvited from a speaking gig at Penn
The west didn’t try to “weaken” Hitler in WW2 but destroy him; and Israel must undertake the same approach with Hamas, says Moshe Feiglin, deputy speaker of the Knesset and a Likud leader
William Pfaff says the 2016 American elections threaten Israel’s “total isolation” from western democracies in the wake of the Gaza slaughters and the rise of a defiant Netanyahu coalition
An email chain expressing concern about Israel’s image in the wake of the Gaza slaughter has been leaked in the recent Sony hacking scandal, and shows Hollywood producers joined with rightwingers in support for the Jewish state.
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“Orders came to evacuate one village, to destroy another village. We were told that we had to expel them, the Palestinians. Expel them to Gaza. To leave no one… We didn’t let them come back. Those were the orders from our command. We did some really ugly things… War is ugly.”