Trump gave red meat to the neocons in his Iran speech, using the word “regime” 29 times in an evident threat to change the regime. He needs their support politically, and Netanyahu and the Israel lobby are very happy with the result.
Belgium, France, Spain, Sweden, Luxembourg, Italy, Ireland, and Denmark are demanding that Israel pay over €30,000 ($35,400) in compensation for destroyed solar panels and classrooms the countries had installed in Bedouin communities in the West Bank.
The Telegraph’s recent travel article about Israel didn’t mention Palestinian Arabs once. They make up two thirds of the population of Western Galilee, the region extolled in the article as the “Tuscany of the Middle East.” Culture in Israel is Ashkenazi Jewish. Anything else, even if occasionally present, is seen and interpreted from that perspective.
Did the law in Britain and the United States allow apartheid South Africa to advertise job opportunities to white Britons and Americans that were not also available to those countries’ black citizens? This is exactly what is happening right now in the US and Europe in a different context: Israel.
In the aftermath of one of the most devastating hurricanes to hit the Texas coast in years, one city is requiring all applicants for relief money to provide in writing a guarantee they do not and will not support the boycott of Israel.
Israel’s reactionary response to Palestinian reconciliation demonstrates the country’s future is clearly one of violence, xenophobia, and intransigence.
The Israeli military needs your help! It is holding a contest to choose a “celebratory logo” to mark the Israel Defense Forces’ 70th birthday. To be honest, the choices are not very exciting. But don’t worry, we have ideas!
Haidar Eid writes: The way I look at it is that by allowing Israel to impose this unprecedented blockade on 2 million civilians and launching three massive wars on them in 2008, 2012, and 2014, the post-WWII International Community has failed to uphold principles of justice and peace. It is therefore incumbent on civil society to take the lead. Hence the hope created amongst Palestinians by the huge successes achieved the BDS movement. It is, as I keep repeating, the only window of hope we victims of occupation, apartheid and settler colonialism have in the era of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu.
Jennifer Bing just returned from Gaza and says there a new spirit of hope following the Palestinian reconciliation deal. “We are happy to feel any kind of hope, but reconciliation must result in the liberation of Palestine,” a fisherman on the docks in Gaza City tells her. “We are the port to the world, but the blockade needs to end.”
Avi Gabbay, the new leader of Labor in Israel, is emulating Netanyahu, saying he will not evacuate settlements and won’t form a governing coalition with Palestinian parties. Liberal Zionists are outraged, but they should understand, this is Zionism.