In a move akin to the four-year-long economic blockade against the occupied Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers have closed the six entrances to the village of 17,000 inhabitants and have imposed a widespread prohibition policy against all major imports and exports from the village -- including gasoline, produce, raw industrial materials and basic supplies. Ambulances have also been prevented from entering or exiting the village.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today called on the U.S. government to "unambiguously declare" that it would veto a United Nations Security Council Resolution on the issue of settlements if it is presented to the council for a vote.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought Pollard's release as part of a US incentive package in return for a temporary freeze on illegal settlement building. The DOJ refusal to release Pollard's pardon means watchdog organizations and the press cannot determine whether the settlement freeze for Pollard or some other "quid pro quo" is formalized in the clemency request.
A relief mission entirely composed of Jewish human rights campaigners has set sail from northern Cyprus to break Israel's siege of the Gaza Strip.
The activists, who are of Israeli, German, British and American nationalities, departed for the coastal sliver on Sunday, AFP reported.
Earlier in the year, Israeli commandos attacked the Freedom Flotilla, a Turkish-backed aid convoy carrying aid supplies to Gaza. The assault in international waters killed nine Turkish activists on board the fleet's lead vessel, MV Mavi Marmara.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Andy David called the Jewish cause "a provocative joke that isn't funny."
Non-Jews are “uncompassionate by nature” and should be killed in order to “curb their evil inclinations.” “If we kill a gentile who has has violated one of the seven commandments… there is nothing wrong with the murder,” Shapira insisted. Citing Jewish law as his source (or at least a very selective interpretation of it) he declared: “There is justification for killing babies if it is clear that they will grow up to harm us, and in such a situation they may be harmed deliberately, and not only during combat with adults.”
Israel recently began construction on 100 new settlement units in the southern West Bank district of Bethlehem, Palestinian lawmaker Mustafa Barghouthi announced Sunday.
This is how they do it. Establishment of the settlements violates international humanitarian law. Israel has ignored the relevant rules of law, adopting its own interpretation, which is not accepted by almost all leading jurists around the world and by the international community.
As President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet, a report reveals 42 per cent of territory is controlled by settlers
Kenneth Feinberg, cover up artist par excellence for 'events' whose true nature must be kept hidden is handed the job of administering BP's $20 billion fund for damage claims to economic victims of the Gulf oil spill
His home was demolished illegally for Israel (and in the night while he was lying in his bed) to make way for illegal Jewish-only settlements on Palestinian land. He was shot by a soldier of the Israeli army for not running away quicker.
Five Palestinian families in the Jordan Valley, in the eastern part of the West Bank, received eviction orders from the Israeli military on Sunday, just days after Israeli settlers set up an illegal outpost on the families' land and took over a water well in the area. The eviction orders told the families to vacate their homes and land within ten days so that Israeli troops could occupy it.
Israel can do anything, and the US would support them unconditionally.
Kawther Salam - Truth About Israeli Massacre
Helen Thomas is the last REAL journalist we seem to have in America today. She is not afraid to ask REAL questions. She doesn't mince words. The world would be a much better place if we had more people like Helen in the media. May she live a thousand years!
IMPORTANT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DROWN - Only one UK newspaper has mentioned the humanitarian Gaza aid mission.
The flotilla of ships full of medical aids, building materials, water purification, paper and toys has been donated by people all around the world. The crew even includes MP's, BUT only The Guardian Newspaper has reported this mission.
A group of fundamentalist settlers torched on Saturday several farmlands in Wad Al Maleh in the northern plains of the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank.
These people are totally insane.
FACING A CROWD: A Palestinian woman whose house has been occupied by Jewish settlers argued with Israelis who came to celebrate Jerusalem Day in the mainly Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, Wednesday. (Ahmad Gharabli/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
Palestinian medical sources in Bethlehem reported Saturday at night that a Jewish settler rammed his vehicle into a mother and her two girls in Al Jab’a village near Bethlehem, and fled the scene.
A Palestinian teenager has been shot dead by an Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank, witnesses and activists said.
Each bag of cement you buy will help rebuild a home for a victim of Israel's Illegal Urban Renewal Program.
Bring a paper bag lunch to work tomorrow. Donate your lunch money (5 Euros or a little over $7US or CAN).
Israel has threatened the 'peace process' by again rejecting to enforce a freeze in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) settlement construction on the first day of the so-called proximity talks.
“Israel will never cede the Jordan Valley” - Benjamin Netanyahu, March 2010
Jerusalem – Ma'an – 07 May 2010 – A Jewish settler assaulted a 30-year-old Jerusalemite woman and her daughter in front of their Old City home in the Aqbat Al-Khaledia neighborhood on Thursday night, the family reported.
RAMALLAH, 30 April 2010 - Today, DCI-Palestine is launching a short film which tells the story of Jameel, a 16-year-old boy from Tel Rumeida, Hebron. On 13 July 2009, Jameel was detained and beaten by soldiers near his home for no apparent reason, tied and blindfolded at a checkpoint nearby and allowed to be beaten by settlers and soldiers as well as have stones thrown at him, while his parents watched on nearby but were prevented from helping him.
Jerusalem – Ma'an News Agency – 3 May 2010 – East Jerusalem residents of the Beit Safafa neighborhood said Israeli police accompanied a group of settlers into the area Sunday night, where they took over a family home and set up dozens of flags overnight.
A senior Israeli official has ruled out any freeze in construction work on the occupied Palestinian land ahead of indirect peace talks with the Palestinians.
On Friday, 26.2.2010, residents of the village of Asira al-Qibliya in Nablus District held a joint demonstration with Israeli activists from Combatants for Peace and Rabbis for Human Rights, protesting takeover of their lands by settlers. During the demonstration, youths from the village went over to a guard tent that settlers had erected near the outpost and took it down.
Israeli settlers from the illegally constructed area known as Yitzhar south of Nablus rioted Thursday morning, destroying Palestinian property in the town of Huwwara, following the Israeli occupation military arrest of seven settlers.
The Palestinian Authority has prohibited buying and selling commodities produced by Israelis living in the occupied territories.
Press TV, 27 April 2010
Jerusalem – Ma'an – 25 April 2010: On-site medics said at least 30 protesters and two doctors were injured during clashes in the Al-Bustain neighborhood of Silwan, East Jerusalem on Sunday.