Fadi Alloun’s killing in occupied East Jerusalem Sunday appears to be an execution by Israeli police of the 18-year-old as he was chased by a mob of Jewish settlers, two weeks after 18-year-old Hadeel al-Hashlamoun was killed in occupied Hebron in an “extrajudicial execution.”
Israel is “a country in a grim mood on the eve of a Jewish holiday,” the Israel-centric New York Times reports on the latest wave of violence. And the paper has not one word about Israeli violence against Palestinians. All the perpetrators are Palestinian.
Settlers and soldiers descended on Ramallah following Palestinian attacks that claimed four Israeli lives in recent days, and mobs in Jerusalem chant “Death to Arabs,” as some Palestinians speculate that a third intifada has begun in response to incursions on the Al-Aqsa mosque.
Bon Jovi stands with the settler who burned the Dawabshe baby in the West Bank and the soldier who killed the four Bakr boys on the beach in Gaza, Roger Waters writes, assailing the band’s gig in Tel Aviv October 3
Yesh Din petitioned Israel to evacuate the settlement of Adei Ad, east of Shilo. Instead, Israel intends to legalize Adei Ad and four other illegal outposts, which contain settlers who have committed violence against Palestinians
Jewish Voice for Peace has strongly opposed Senator Ben Cardin’s new legislation aimed at derailing the Iran Deal. But J Street supports it. The argument against the occupation will finally come to the Democratic Party
Speaking at Cardozo Law School, Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked dispensed with “Jewish values”. Liberty, nonviolence, justice – to her and the Jewish Home party, all can be readily sacrificed to the overarching mission of ethnic and religious homogeneity.
Once again, the New York Times reports at length on Jewish deaths in Israel/Palestine — while suppressing news of Palestinian deaths.
The international community has been acting over the last twenty years as though there is a genuine peace process between the Palestinians and Israelis while Israel furthered its interests by continuing to expand its colonial settlements and to deepen its security ties with PA security apparatuses to meet its own security needs. It is now time to declare the two-state solution well and truly dead.