Visiting the scene of Tuesday’s attack on a Jerusalem bus, the city’s mayor, Nir Barkat, attributed this and similar incidents to “inflammatory incitement” coming from “mosques and Palestinian leaders.” Michael Marder says violence is not an effect of fiery speeches but an eruption of the volcanic politics of occupation.
Hillary Clinton doesn’t notice any Palestinian victims of attack in a statement saying the “recent wave of attacks against Israelis” is wrong and must stop. If you want to understand why American politics is busted, and how far we have to go in changing the discourse, you need only read that statement.
As we face the looming possibility of a Third Intifada and renewed Israeli military operations in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, this may be a good time to recall the findings of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP) almost exactly one year ago and their implications for a future Israeli military action against the Palestinian population.
A South African leader says Palestinian conditions make apartheid look like a “picnic,” but NPR’s David Greene and Emily Harris deny the occupation, and portray latest violence as product of “simmering” enmity between two peoples
Both Ha’aretz and the New York Times obscure Israeli responsibility for a missile attack meters away from a home south of Gaza City, which destroyed the structure and crushed the sleeping family inside.
Amid clashes and killings that have blazed into a second week Israel’s cabinet unanimously approved mandatory minimum sentences for Jerusalemites and Israeli citizens who throw stones or launch heftier projectiles such as firebombs and fireworks.
Marco Rubio courted Sheldon Adelson in Las Vegas last week, is routinely praised by Bill Kristol, and gave his campaign the same title as a disastrous neoconservative project. Who’s he auditioning for? The pro-Israel lobby.
The scene in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis was very tense Sunday as thousands of angry protesters carried the coffins of two children who were killed Saturday evening at a protest at the city’s border fence. The protesters demanded a swift Palestinian answer to the killing of the young boys.
Ma‘an reports — Israeli forces shot dead a 13-year-old boy during clashes south of al-Bireh in Ramallah district, medics said. The child, identified as 13-year-old Ahmad Abdullah Sharaka, was shot in the neck with a live round, medics said. He is also the third 13-year-old to be shot dead by Israeli forces in the same time period.