Biden spokesperson Jen Psaki worked for Israeli spy firm
Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada / March 25, 2021
President Joe Biden’s press secretary Jen Psaki worked for an Israeli firm accused of involvement in surveillance of Palestinians under Israeli military occupation.
Psaki’s public financial disclosures show that she earned at least $5,000 as a “crisis communications consultant” for AnyVision.
The disclosure...
Quartet rhetoric normalises Israel’s unilateral decisions
Ramona Wadi
Middle East Monitor / March 25, 2021
The Trump era is over, or so the Middle East Quartet would have us believe. Now that the Zionist colonisation project is back to contending diplomatically with the two-state compromise, the main international actors are keen to publicise Washington's return...
PA and Hamas to establish ‘national unity government’
Middle East Monitor / March 26, 2021
The Palestinian Authority and Hamas have agreed to establish a "national unity government", a senior official announced yesterday.
According to Jibril Rajoub, the accord is based on an "internationally-recognised political document between Fatah and Hamas." He pointed out that it "paves the...
Jewish settlers vandalise Palestinians cars, spray racist slogans
Middle East Monitor / March 26, 2021
Jewish settlers yesterday punctured the tyres of several Palestinian-owned vehicles and sprayed anti-Arab graffiti on walls and vehicles in the town of Kafr Qasim, in northern Israel.
The attackers sprayed slogans calling to expel or murder Palestinians.
Jewish settlers have, in recent years,...
UK pledges $17.3m to UNRWA
Middle East Monitor / March 25, 2021
The UK is to contribute a further £12.6 million ($17.3 million) to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), bringing the UK's contribution for Financial Year April 2020-March 2021 to £63.6 million ($87.2 million), a British consulate press release issued...
Israel demolishes Bedouin village for 185th time
Middle East Monitor / March 25, 2021
Israeli occupation authorities this morning demolished all the tents and structures in the Palestinian Bedouin village of Araqeeb in the Naqab/Negev desert for the 185th time, displacing its residents.
According to local sources, Israeli police forces and employees from the Authority for...
Israel elections: voters ignored the Middle East – results may force them to engage
Yossi Melman
Middle East Eye / March 26, 2021
No one seemed moved by Arab normalisation or the Iranian shadow war. But Netanyahu's self-serving courtship of the Arab vote could open the door for Palestinian negotiation.
Israel is stuck. For the fourth time in two years national elections have produced...
Mansour Abbas, the Islamist leader who could be Israel’s kingmaker
Mustafa Abu Sneineh
Middle East Eye / March 24, 2021
Abbas has called on Palestinians inside Israel to rethink their political alliances and be open to Jewish parties.
Mansour Abbas, the Islamist, conservative leader of the United Arab List (UAL) party in Israel, known as Ra’am in its Hebrew acronym, could end...
Covid-19: US announces $15m aid package for Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza
MEE Staff
Middle East Eye / March 25, 2021
The funds will address 'most urgent, life-saving humanitarian needs', including emergency food assistance for communities struggling under pandemic.
The Biden administration has announced plans to provide $15m in humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The State...
Does Israel flood Gaza’s farms ?
Amjad Ayman Yaghi
The Electronic Intifada / March 25, 2021
Does Israel deliberately flood Palestinian land?
For many years, farmers in Gaza have complained about how sudden flows of rainwater have destroyed their crops.
A recent report by the human rights group Al-Mezan suggests the cause of many flooding incidents it has documented...
