Israeli government officials announced plans to build 3,000 settlement units in the critical E-1 area of the occupied West Bank—a day after Palestine was admitted to the UN.
The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution to upgrade Palestine to a “non-member state” at the United Nations, implicitly recognizing a Palestinian state.
Israel launched new air-strikes across the Gaza Strip, even as Egypt’s foreign minister Mohamed Kamel Amr announced a ceasefire to end eight days of violence.
Mourners clashed with Israeli troops at funerals in Hebron and Ramallah as Palestinians across the West Bank continue to protest the Israeli assault on Gaza.
Israel’s armed forces launched multiple air-strikes across the Gaza Strip, after killing Ahmad al-Jaabari, the head of Hamas’ military wing the Qassam Brigades.
Noam Chomsky, writing on his visit to the Gaza Strip, gets numerous facts wrong. But worse is his acceptance of the "two-state solution," a betrayal of secular-democratic principles.
Israel is explicitly using its own Mizrahi citizens as bargaining chips against the claims of stateless Palestinian refugees in its new “Justice for Jewish Refugees” campaign.
Israeli warplanes swooped low over Lebanese villages in a show of force apparently aimed at Hezbollah the day after a mysterious incursion by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said he would resign if that is the will of the people, amid growing protests across the West Bank over the rising cost of living.
Israel’s Supreme Court ordered the state to release the “red lines document” which purportedly established the minimum caloric intake required for Gaza residents.
Obama capitulates at the last minute and puts wording in the Democratic platform calling for an undivided Jerusalem. Now who exactly is getting “thrown under the bus”?
