From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency: French official praises, blasts Israel France’s foreign minister described Israel’s “colonization” of the West Bank as illegal. Visiting the Jewish state this week, Philippe Douste-Blazy praised the success of the Gaza withdrawal but said that… Read moreFrench FM: Israeli colonization illegal
Every Friday for months now, the Palestinian village of Bi’lin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank has been the scene of creative and organized non-violent protests against the illegal construction of Israel’s “separation wall,”which will cut off much of the village’s… Read moreIsrael represses non-violent protest in occupied West Bank
The Jerusalem Post reports another incident of a pious Jew spitting at Christian clergy or symbols in the Israeli-occupied Old City of Jerusalem. According to Holocaust survivor Dr. Israel Shahak, in his book Jewish History, Jewish Religion, this practice has… Read moreJerusalem: pious Jew spits on Christians again
It will certainly be an edifying sight. Instead of Israeli military bulldozers destroying modest Palestinian homes to make way for garish and profligate suburban-style Jewish settlements, it’ll be the other way ’round. In the Gaza Strip, the world will witness… Read moreDe-suburbanification of Gaza: model for West Bank —and USA?
A Katyusha rocket fired from Jordan landed near the airport in the Israeli city of Eilat Aug. 19, and at least two more rockets narrowly missed the USS Ashland, a US Navy ship moored at the Jordanian port of Aqaba… Read moreJordan rocket attacks
The Gaza disengagement is being completed, without the armed resistance from settlers that had been feared. Reports AP: “Israeli troops dragged sobbing Jewish settlers out of homes, synagogues and even a nursery school Wednesday and hauled them onto buses in… Read moreGaza disengagement; West Bank “consolidation”
The Jerusalem Post reports Aug. 15 that New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind is among the many infiltrators to have snuck into the Gaza Strip through the IDF roadblocks. “It was very easy to get in,” Hikind told the Post… Read moreDov Hikind: international scofflaw
A report in Britain’s Sunday Times details how one group of orthodox Jewish girls are preparing to possibly kill Israeli troops who by Aug. 17 will come to evacuate Gaza settlements. Dubbed the “Commando Girls,” these young militants are led… Read moreSome settlers push back pt. IV: Jewish “Commando Girls” plan to kill Israeli troops?
In the Gaza Strip, reality parodies Monty Python. Avid surfers from several Gush Katif communities are threatening to take their boards out to sea on evacuation day and commit mass suicide by drowning. Settlement secretariats, psychologists and social workers have… Read morePopular Suicide Surfer Squad of Judea threatens strike
Finally the State of Israel is admitting that its “separation barrier,” most of which is illegally built on occupied Palestinian territory in the West Bank, is not placed where it is solely due to “security” considerations. The form of admission… Read moreIsraeli state: fence not temporary
Gershon Baskin is co-CEO of the Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information (ICPRI), a joint Israeli -Palestinian think tank which was involved with the Oslo process. In the June 28 Jerusalem Post, he writes: “Meeting with people in the halls… Read moreIsraeli peace wonk complains about AIPAC
Move over, Yoni, there’s a new kid in town. Sgt. Avi Beiber made headlines June 28 when he became the first Israeli soldier to refuse to act against Jewish settlers living illegally in the Occupied Palestinian Territories — like himself…. Read moreSettler-soldier refuses to “expel Jews”
