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…
Over the next few days we’re hoping to devote attention to President Obama’s speech in Cairo and offer various reactions. The following is from our regular contributor Seham: Well, I hate to rain on any ones parade but I am…
Israeli Government Press Director Daniel Seamen reacting to the US demand that Israel stop settlement growth in Jerusalem: “I have to admire the residents of Iroquois territory for assuming that they have a right to determine where Jews should live…
Israeli anxiety over the Obama administration actually being serious about settlement growth seems to getting worked into a full blown lather. Ha’aretz is following the frenzy closely and reports on a meeting between George Mitchell and Israeli officials in London…
(Photo: Electronic Intifada) From the Reuters article “Settlers seek takeover of East Jerusalem area”: Israeli settlers are waging court battles to evict dozens of Palestinians from homes in an East Jerusalem neighborhood, a move threatening to widen Israel’s rift with…
Max Blumenthal reporting for Mondoweiss from Israel and the occupied territories: TEL AVIV–Violence erupted in the Palestinian town of Safa today as fanatical masked settlers from the Jewish settlement of Bat Ayin set upon a group of activists from the…
One takeaway message from the Obama-Abbas meeting is that the realists are getting heard in the Obama administration. Much has been made of Hillary Clinton’s recent hardball approach with Israel regarding settlements. On Wednesday she told reporters that the administration…
Last week’s meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and President Obama was a circus. Surrounded by intense media scrutiny and intrigue, the meeting was preceded and followed by endless speculation and analysis. Today’s meeting with Mahmoud Abbas? Not so much. The face…
Al Jazeera recently produced this interesting report on Palestinians trying to move into Israeli settlements in Jerusalem: It’s interesting that Israel’s massive restrictions over Palestinians in Jerusalem is forcing them to find the loophole, which in this case is moving…