Arutz Sheva, arch-reactionary organ of the Israeli settler movement, is clearly overjoyed by this Nov. 13 tidbit: (IsraelNN.com) New York Senator and former US First Lady Hillary Clinton voiced her support for the Partition Wall Sunday. “The fence was built… Read moreHillary supports Apartheid Wall
For years, apologists for Israeli policy in the occupied territories, such as CAMERA, have claimed the system of “Jewish-only” roads did not exist, since they are intermittently open to Palestinian traffic. The system has been de facto and not de… Read moreIsrael to make “apartheid” road system permanent in West Bank?
Plia Albeck, legal advisor to the Israeli government and known as the “mother of settlements,” died Sept. 27 at age 68, according to the Oct. 7 edition of New York’s weekly Jewish Press. In 24 years as head of the… Read moreIsrael’s “Mother of all settlements” dies
From Israel’s largest newspaper, Yediot Aharanot. A year ago, several high school students in an upscale section of Tel Aviv chained themselves to the gate of their school to keep out an army recruiter. As one of their number, Uri… Read moreIsraeli refuseniks in graphic street theater
With the approval of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), the ultra-fundamentalist Jewish “Ateret Cohanim” organization “is at the moment conducting a dig” at a depth of 12 meters beneath a building just 80 meters away from the walls of Islam’s… Read moreSecret wars for the Temple Mount
Israel, which claims it no longer occupies the Gaza Strip and wants the world to see it that way, has not taken long to take back some Gazan land, according to AFP: Israel is to set up a “security zone”… Read moreIsrael takes Gaza land for “security zone”
Two weeks ago, the Israeli cabinet voted to demolish de-consecrated synagogue buildings left in Gaza settlements. A court challenge by settlement rabbis to not demolish them was rejected. On Sept. 9, reversing an earlier stance in favor of demolishing, the… Read moreIsrael makes Gaza synagogues political hot potato
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
