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U.S.A

Palestinian lawsuit reopened in U.S. court against billionaire Israeli American donor Sheldon Adelson

February 20th, 20190 Jewish-American mogul Sheldon Adelson faces a billion-dollar lawsuit that the U.S. appeals court has reopened, seeking to hold him and other Israeli donors and supporters (more than 30 people) liable for war crimes and support of Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the...

Opinions

Now Chad, then Mali: Why African countries are normalizing with Israel

February 4th, 20190 Forget the hype. Israel’s “security technology” has nothing to do with why some African countries are eager to normalize relations with Israel. What is it that Israel is able to offer in the technology sector to Chad, Mali and others that the United States, the European Union, China, Russia, India, Brazil, South Africa and...

Palestine

Israel will authorize thousands of illegal settler homes in occupied West Bank

December 14th, 20180 TEL AVIV — Israel will authorize thousands of the settler homes built illegally in the occupied West Bank, some of them decades ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday. The move is likely to please pro-settler members of Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition while further angering Palestinians, who want the West...

Lebanon

Israel asks Lebanon to destroy tunnel allegedly dug by Hezbollah across border

December 7th, 20180 Israel asked Lebanon’s army and U.N. peacekeepers on Thursday to destroy a tunnel it said had been dug by the Hezbollah group across the border into what it called its territory. Israel’s occupation forces said this week it had identified a number of passages and sent diggers and troops close the front line with Lebanon to block...

Opinions

Netanyahu’s predicament: The era of easy wars is over

December 3rd, 20180 When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his army to carry out a limited operation in the besieged Gaza Strip on November 12, he certainly did not anticipate that his military adventure would destabilize his government and threaten the very survival of his right-wing coalition. But it did, far more than the multiple...

U.S.A

U.S. envoy expects criticism to anticipated ‘peace plan’ from both Palestinians and Israelis

September 16th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration is prepared for Israeli criticism of elements of its coming Middle East peace plan, the U.S. envoy to the region said, even as Washington faces growing Palestinian accusations that it will be heavily tilted in favor of Israel. Jason Greenblatt, a chief architect of the long-awaited peace...

International

Twenty-five years on, Oslo Accords peace hopes a fading memory

September 12th, 20180 JERUSALEM — As Palestinians prepare to lower the flag over their shuttered mission in Washington, no one can predict when they will return to the city where just a quarter of a century ago a diplomatic triumph was celebrated on a sunlit White House lawn. Hosted by then-U.S. President Bill Clinton, Palestinian and Israeli leaders...

International

Israel closing embassy in Asuncion after Paraguay moves mission back to Tel Aviv

September 9th, 20180 JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is also the foreign minister, ordered the closure of Israel’s embassy in Asuncion, Paraguay on Wednesday hours after the Latin American nation said it had decided to return its embassy from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv. The United States and Guatemala also moved their embassies...

World

Iran threatens to hit U.S., Israeli targets if attacked

August 22nd, 20180 Iran warned on Wednesday that it would hit U.S. and Israeli targets if it were attacked by the United States after President Trump’s security adviser said Washington would exert maximum pressure on Tehran going beyond economic sanctions. A U.S.-Iranian war of words has escalated since Trump withdrew Washington from the world...

Opinions

Common enemy: Why Israel is embracing fascism in Europe

August 5th, 20181 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban visited Israel on July 19, where he met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials. Orban’s visit would have not required much pause except that the Hungarian leader has been repeatedly branded for his often racist, anti-Semitic remarks. So why is Orban wining and dining with...

Opinions

Israel’s false, Apartheid “democracy”

August 3rd, 20181 By Mohamed Mohamed Since its inception, Israel has been a discriminatory state, posing as a (false) democracy. This is not a matter of opinion; it is a fact and there is plenty of evidence to back it up. On Thursday, July 19, the Israeli Knesset passed the “Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People” bill into...

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