Rateb Jabour reports that the Israeli army planted a new field of explosives, and fenced it, east of Yatta city, in the occupied West Bank, so as prevent development projects and expansion of Palestinian communities.
Scott Walker needs rightwing Jewish money to mount a serious campaign for presidency, so he’s going on his first trip to Israel, where he will meet Benjamin Netanyahu and Elliott Abrams. Walker is competing for Paul Singer’s money, and Sheldon Adelson’s.
The unrecognized Bedouin village of al-Araqib was in court Wednesday, where the state of Israel argued the southern desert town must pay $500,000 [2 million Shekels] to cover the cost of demolitions, and more than 1,000 police deployed to carry out the destruction. Since 2010 al-Araqib has been razed to the ground 83 times, more than any other locality in Israel.
Even as Sen. Ben Cardin spearheads legislation to subvert Obama’s deal with Iran, he and colleagues ignore Israel’s 30-year defiance of nuclear nonproliferation and oversight
In early December, 2014, Daoud El Ghoul and four other Palestinians from Jerusalem were given an Israeli military order banning them from Jerusalem for 5 months. Following the order, Daoud and the four others went to the West Bank to live out the order. However six days after arriving in the West Bank, Daoud was given another order banning him from the West Bank. Although this is not the first time Israel has exiled Palestinians from their homeland, a temporary military order banning a person from their home town is a relatively new practise. Even though this may seem like a new and isolated event, it is important to place Daoud’s ban within the larger context of settler colonialism.
Katie Miranda writes an open letter to Pamela Geller inviting her to visit her mosque so that Geller can experience what an actual Muslim-American community looks like. Miranda says it is not the caricature Geller rails against in her quest for attention and provocation, and in fact Geller may leave with a new perspective on life.
The US press celebrated the Joint Arab List as a sign of Israeli democracy before the March election. Now that it’s being completely dealt out of coalition discussions for the new government, shouldn’t the press be mentioning this apartheid policy?
The Iraq war is a glorious event for neoconservatives, which is why Jeb Bush has embraced his brother George after distancing himself for months. He needs money from Paul Singer and other members of the Israel lobby.
The struggle for social justice on the streets of Baltimore was likened to the struggle of the Palestinian people by two speakers at a recent conference exploring ways that black Christians and the African-American church can respond to the suffering and discrimination experienced by Palestinians living in Israel/ Palestine.
The Alternative Information Center reports: “Besieged Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank’s Jordan Valley have called on the international community to immediately intervene to halt Israeli military training in the area, which has already resulted in the temporary deportation of residents from four villages from their homes and threatens the future livelihood of these communities. Massive Israeli military training in the northern Jordan Valley began on Sunday, with forces using live ammunition around the homes and farms of Palestinian communities.”