More than 200,000 marched in Tel Aviv, under a banner with the word “Go!” in Arabic—a key symbol of the protest movement that brought down Hosni Mubarak, and a clear reference to Bibi Netanyahu. Below, in Hebrew, were the words: “Egypt is here!”
A visit to Israel by PLA chief of staff Gen. Chen Bingde to meet with IDF chief of staff Lt.-Gen.Benny Gantz signals an effort by China and Israel to rebuild commercial military ties that have been weakened by US pressure on Tel Aviv.
A group of tent town rent protesters have issued “Letter from Tel Aviv,” calling for Jewish-Arab unity in confronting the housing crisis, protesting the “Judaization” of urban space, and rejecting the colonization of the West Bank as a solution.
A federal appeals court rules that human genes can be patented, as the Daily Mail reveals that British scientists have created more than 150 human-animal hybrid embryos. Relax, popcorn-heads, it’s only a movie.
Militant West Bank settlers have joined the Tel Aviv tent town protest, pitching a line that aggressive settlement of the Occupied Territory is the solution to the crisis. Will the protest movement take the bait?
Saif Qaddafi, the dictator’s son, announced an alliance with Libya’s Islamists to defeat the rebels—after the regime had for months portrayed the rebels as Islamist extremists. Hugo Chávez hailed Qaddafi in a speech: “Live and be victorious. We’re with you.”
US forces are accused of slaying a tribal sheikh and several other civilians near Tikrit—just as the Baghdad regime announced negotiations to keep US forces in Iraq past the Dec. 31 deadline established by the Status of Forces Agreement.
China says that new deadly attacks in Kashgar are the work of Uighur militants of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) who were trained at bases in Pakistan—an accusation that could upset Islamabad’s strategic alliance with Beijing.
Some 150,000 took to the streets in cities across Israel—the biggest protests the country has seen in decades, to demand action on rising rents and the high cost of living. But right-wing politicians seek to scapegoat African immigrants for the crisis.
Labor and indigenous leaders are wary as Ollanta Humala, elected as a populist, begins his term in office with a rightward tilt. But Bloomberg warns that Humala’s efforts at “moderation” have not quelled the fears of multinational investors.
The hacker group Anonymous has called a boycott of PayPal over its refusal to facilitate donations to WikiLeaks. While we demand answers on WikiLeaks’ apparent collaboration with the Belarus dictatorship, the boycott may still have merit. What do you think?
Caroline Glick, a writer cited in the Oslo bomber’s manifesto, rails in the Jerusalem Post that the struggle against “multiculturalism” (read: Islam) should not falter in the wake of the attacks—while more conspiranoids claim a Mossad “false flag” operation.
