Here is the video of the IDF shooting Bassem Ibrahim Abu Rahmah that I mentioned earlier: Isabel Kershner has reported on the protest for the New York Times. She offers a version of Abu Rahmah’s death “according to other demonstrators,”…
Today, the Israeli military shot and killed Bassem Ibrahim Abu Rahmah, 30, during the weekly nonviolent protest against the Wall in the West Bank village of Bil’in. The photo to the right, from the International Middle East Media Center, is…
The JTA is reporting that Avigdor Lieberman has chosen Naor Gilon to be his chief of staff in the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Gilon was the lead Israeli official involved in the Pentagon espionage scandal involving Lawrence Franklin and ex-AIPACers Steve…
We have been following the story of Silwan on this site. It is a Palestinian neighborhood located right outside of Jerusalem’s old city, and a strategic area that Israel wants to control as part of its colonization of the West…
Reader Rie Graham has sent us this report from Dr. Mads Gilbert’s presentation in Chicago last night. The Norwegian physician is touring the US talking about his experience working in Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital during the war this past December and…
Two-state doyen Leonard Fein takes stock of the situation in his latest column for the Forward. Fein outlines how he has moved from the liberal edge of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to becoming a “hard liner:” But by now, after two…
First, a huge thank you is in order. When we started this fund raising drive we had no idea what to expect, and your response has been overwhelming. We kicked off the drive two weeks ago with a goal of…
In today’s Baltimore Sun George Bisharat urges the Obama Administration to support the UN war crimes investigation into the war in Gaza. He argues this is not only important in terms of holding Israel accountable for that war, but to…
Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai responding to George Mitchell’s current visit to Israel: The preferable course of diplomatic action at this time is two economies for two peoples and not two states for two peoples. The American emissary also knows…