News from Israel. Border police (Magav) officers who kidnapped and then murdered a 17-year-old Palestinian got off with light sentences, 8-1/2 years, 5-1/2 years. (Compare with the news piece on the capture of the Palestinian who has apparently admitted killing…
Journalist Noam Sheizaf writes for the daily Israeli newspaper Maariv and has a blog called Promised Land. His most recent post is a useful response to anyone who thinks that things in Israel/Palestine would be different “if only the Palestinians…
From Marcy Newman’s report yesterday on EI about “ethnic cleansing:” continued seizure of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem by religious crazies backed by the Israeli government. On 2 April, while Nasser [Jaber] was visiting his mother in the nearby Wadi…
I posted yesterday on the shameful decision by the Obama administration to boycott the Durban II conference being held in Geneva. Well, even though the US isn’t there, the show must go on, and what a show it is. Here…
Hundreds came out in Tel Aviv today to protest the Israeli army’s killing of Bassem Ibrahim Abu-Rakhma at the confiscatory wall in Bil’in yesterday. The protest was led by the non-Zionist Member of Knesset Dov Khenin, of Hadash, diversity party….
This is a fuller video than the short, shocking video we posted last night depicting the killing of Bassem Ibrahim Abu Ramah yesterday at the weekly protest of the confiscatory wall in the West Bank village of Bil’in. The video…
In my post this morning on the Times, I failed to mention the main reason that many political people I know don’t lament the Times’s collapse– because it foolishly promoted the Iraq war and has ignored the destruction of Palestinian…
In a March 29 on-line dialogue with foreign editor Susan Chira, the Times published a letter from Yisrael Medad complaining about coverage of the settlements, and gave his dateline as Shiloh, Israel. Shiloh is a settlement in the Occupied Territories….
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…