PA: Security cooperation with Israel continuous
Middle East Monitor / February 17, 2020
Palestinian Authority’s (PA) security cooperation with Israel is continuous, senior PA official Nabil Abu Rudeineh announced on Sunday, adding that the PA is ready to start peace talks within two weeks.
Speaking to a group of Israeli journalists, Abu Rudeineh, who is a senior aide to...
Profiting from loss: how business in illegal Israeli settlements continues unchecked
Jonathan Cook
The National / February 17, 2020
UN efforts to protect Palestinian land from economic exploitation are failing.
After lengthy delays, the United Nations finally published a database last week of businesses that have been profiting from Israel’s illegal annexation and settlement activity in the West Bank.
The UN High Commissioner for...
Israel’s Netanyahu boasts of having destroyed US 1st Amendment and free speech
Juan Cole
Informed Comment / February 14, 2020
Israeli caretaker prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who has been indicted for corruption and is facing an election soon, just boasted that his ministry of strategic affairs has managed to undermine first amendment protections for free speech in the United States by lobbying state...
Israel: ‘Peace is only made with vanquished enemies’
Middle East Monitor / February 16, 2020
The mayor of Tel Aviv Ron Huldai ordered the removal on Friday of highway billboards that appeared to call for the surrender at gunpoint of Palestinian leaders for the sake of peace.
“Peace is made ONLY with vanquished enemies,” said the billboards, which showed photo-shopped images...
Israel mobilises support in The Hague: Germany after Czech Republic
Middle East Monitor / February 15, 2020
On Friday Germany submitted a demand to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, that it be a “friend of the court” in the procedures relating to examining the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice in the investigation of cases connected with the...
AIPAC is a “hate group,” says congresswoman
Michael F. Brown
The Electronic Intifada / February 13, 2020
Betty McCollum this week issued one of the hardest hitting criticisms of AIPAC from a sitting member of Congress in recent memory, perhaps ever.
Her statement provided the extraordinary sight of a US elected representative telling the anti-Palestinian organization enough is enough. She pushed...
US Jewish umbrella group visits Saudi Arabia
Middle East Monitor / February 14, 2020
Saudi Arabia welcomed a delegation of members of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organisations this week, according to Haaretz.
The trip, a first for the umbrella body for US Jews, is believed to be the first official visit to the kingdom by...
Amazon forcing Palestinians to list themselves as Israelis for free shipping
Middle East Monitor / February 14, 2020
Global ecommerce company Amazon has been accused of discriminating against Palestinians by offering free shipping to illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank but not to Palestinians living in the same area.
In findings released in an investigation by the Financial Times, the newspaper discovered that...
Israel bans Palestinians from working their land, citing British Mandate ruling
Middle East Monitor / February 14, 2020
Israeli occupation authorities banned Palestinian farmers from working their own land last month, on the basis that the area “had been declared an antiquities site during the British Mandate period”.
According to the report by Haaretz, the Palestinian landowners in question – residents of Al-Mughayyir...
