‘Using the Lord’s name in vain’: Evangelicals chafe at Trump’s blasphemy
Gabby Orr
POLITICO / August 12, 2019
A Trump-supporting West Virginia state senator who represents many evangelicals got three phone calls from constituents complaining about Trump’s profanity after a recent rally.
Paul Hardesty didn’t pay much attention to President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Greenville, N.C., last month until a third concerned...
Al-Aqsa, the site that cuts to the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
Why are clashes so common around the Haram Al Sharif?
The National / August 11, 2019
Clashes have again flared up around Al-Aqsa mosque compound with police using sound grenades to disperse Palestinian protesters on Sunday.
But the site has a long and complex history that gets to the heart of the...
VIDEO – Patient Gaza: water under siege
Oxfam International / August 9, 2019
In Gaza, 97% of all water is undrinkable, leaving almost 2 million Palestinians without any safe water to drink. Even the sea surrounding Gaza is contaminated, as millions of liters of raw sewage spill into it each day.
More than a quarter of all reported...
VIDEO – New Israeli military strategies for annexation and undermining Palestinian identity
The Real News Network / August 8, 2019
Shir Hever discusses two new Israeli military strategies, presented by Israeli chief of staff Aviv Kochavi, who calls for a more deadly invasion of Gaza, and former general Yossi Kuperwasser's plan of “changing the Palestinian narrative” in order to annex Palestinian land
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEbZTfEVNYY
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VIDEO – 2020 presidential candidates’ views on Israel
July 16, 2019
The New York Times videotaped 21 presidential candidates’ responses to the question: “Do you think Israel meets international standards of human rights?”
https://youtu.be/UnlXLvFB12s
In East Jerusalem, nightly raids leave Palestinian neighbourhood reeling
Aviv Tatarsky
+972 magazine / August 4, 2019
For the past six weeks, Israel has been sending paramilitary police forces to raid the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Issawiya every evening. The raids, a severe form of collective punishment, have left one young Palestinian dead and hundreds wounded.
It’s 5:30 p.m. and some 10 large...
Netanyahu’s party steps up tactics to suppress Palestinian voters before election
Likud is doubling its budget for surveillance of polling stations
Miriam Berger
The National / August 6, 2019
Israel’s ruling party is ramping up its rhetoric and tactics intended to suppress Palestinian voters before the September election, Israeli civil rights groups have said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party is doubling its budget for...
The meaning of Israel’s massive housing demolitions in East Jerusalem
Destruction at this scale and visibility cannot be understood without grasping its political message; in fact, the scale and visibility are the message.
Jeff Halper
The Nation / August 5, 2019
The act itself wasn’t unusual. Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes is a routine, almost daily occurrence. What set it apart was the scale,...
