Image from @ynet Pope Francis is making a historic trip to the Middle East. He was made very welcome in Jordan. He deliberately landed in Bethlehem for his trip to Palestine and at the time of writing had landed in Israel. This is a tricky trip as he manoeuvres around tricky issues including the logistics. …
Category: Israel
To Palestinians, Israel is a colonialist, racist, ethnic cleansing, occupying, Apartheid state
Not a day passes without Israel doing something or planning something that angers me. The most recent revelation was reported by Amira Hass in Haaretz yesterday, 21 May. IDF uses live-fire zones to expel Palestinians from areas of West Bank, officer admits. I sat back and wondered what kind of a state does this to …
Abuse of power by IDF commanders: it is official
The online Israeli news website Ynet, reported that IDF ombudsman report reveals abuse of power among commanders . It reports "A career soldier who poured bleach on another soldier's head, an officer who checked his soldiers' body wastes, a commander who forced soldiers to drink until they vomitted and an army doctor who told a …
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Israeli Journalist Amira Hass describes the occupation in 2006.
Here is an excellent description of what the military Israeli occupation means for Palestinians. Haaretz reporter, Amira Hass who lives in Ramallah, uses examples of what this means to her own friends. From Occupation to Enclosure: Fragmenting the Palestinian State
Palestine Solidarity Campaign update 16/5/2014
War criminals not welcome here, Livni
For Israeli war criminals, the UK is open for business
Image from the Times of Israel Update 14/5: Join protest against Livni on 15 May in London Israeli 'Justice' Minister, Tzipi Livni is a suspected war criminal. This is for her role in 'Operation Cast Lead', the devastating attack on Gaza in 2008/9. She was Israel's Foreign Minister. It is ironic that a 'Justice Minister' …
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For Palestinians, the Nakba is the mother of all catastrophes
It is 66 years since beautiful, peaceful Palestine was taken violently by Zionists to create a state for the followers of Judaism, a supposedly peaceful religion. In the course of achieving this, over 800,000 peaceful Palestinians ended up as refugees outside their homeland. Zionists have written thousands of words on the reasons for this. They …
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More mistreatment of Palestinian children by the IDF in Hebron
Thanks to @palestinecideo and the ISM for two further videos of IDF intimidation and attempted arrest of Palestinian children in Alkhalil, Hebron. Far from the 'most moral army in the World' Israeli Hasbara tries to portray, it is a murderous, cowardly instrument of intimidation by an Apartheid state. "#Palestine #Video 15-year-old #Palestinian boy assaulted and …
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On ‘Independence Day’, Israel’s body is in the Middle East but its soul is elsewhere
As Israel marks its 'Independence Day', it remains an entity torn between its geographical location, in the Middle East, and the nations it aspires to be amongst, the US and Europe. The Zionist movement decided, and Britain colluded in planting the Zionist state in Palestine. Perhaps they thought the 'Arabs' will eventually have to accept …
US officials say Israel is to blame for talks failure but impose no sanction on it
In a very revealing article, Nahum Barnea Inside the talks' failure: US officials open up presents what he considers an official US analysis of why the talks failed. In essence blame is squarely laid at Israel and Netanyahu's door. [update 5/5/2014 According to Dr Daoud Kuttab (Twitter @daoudkuttab), the unnamed US Official is believed to …
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