Ha’aretz is reporting that French company Veolia is pulling out of a controversial project to build a light rail system in Jerusalem. The rail is planned to connect West Jerusalem to Israeli settlements in the West Bank, making life in…
Max Blumenthal writes: On the eve of President Barack Obama’s address to the Muslim world from Cairo, Egypt, I stepped out onto the streets of Jerusalem with my friend Joseph Dana to interview young Israelis and American Jews about their…
Today, Yousef Akel Sadiq Srour, 36, who was shot in the chest with live fire and killed during the weekly nonviolent protest against the Wall in the Palestinian village Ni’lin. Ma’an News Agency is reporting that at least three other…
Seham gave us her pre-speech thoughts and now she weighs in after Obama’s speech in Cairo: If only he would have mentioned that Al-Azhar University was a beacon of Islamic and Arabic thought before it was plunged into backwardness by…
It’s funny that Obama had to travel all the way to Cairo for MSNBC to start talking about what’s going on in Washington, DC. Keith Olbermann had Lawrence Wilkerson, State Department chief of staff under Colin Powell, on his show…
Antony Loewenstein responds to Obama’s speech in Cairo: Back in 2005, then US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave a rousing speech at Cairo’s American University. “For sixty years”, she argued, “my country, the United States, pursued stability at the…
As if the Israeli settler movement couldn’t alienate themselves any further from US popular opinion, they are now kicking off a campaign against “the most anti-Semitic American president” Barack Obama. The Ha’aretz article reporting on the effort shares some pretty…
On Monday George Mitchell met with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak in New York to continue the ongoing US-Israeli discussion on settlements. Ha’aretz reported on an interesting moment from the meeting in their article “Obama: U.S. will be ‘honest’ with…
Here is an interesting Al Jazeera report on the legal strategies being used to challenge the Israeli occupation. It focuses on the Bil’in’s attempts to stop the settlement being built on their land, and a case against the light rail…