Many Gaza attacks in May were unlawful, says Human Rights Watch
The organisation spoke to witnesses and surviving residents in areas hit by Israel
Jack Dutton
The National / June 12, 2019
In early May, Israeli air strikes in Gaza and Palestinian rocket fire killed 19 civilians in unlawful attacks, Human Rights Watch said.
Four Israeli air strikes last month struck targets with no...
VIDEO – Academics demand EU hold Israel to account
Press TV / June 12, 2019
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155 leading academics write to the EU Commission demanding it hold Israel to account for its war crimes perpetrated against Palestinians. They want the 28-nation bloc to suspend trade with Tel Aviv in an effort to apply pressure on the Israeli...
Trump and Netanyahu are evil twinsies
As aspiring autocrats, Trump and Netanyahu are strikingly alike.
Eric Alterman
The Nation / June 13, 2019
The similarities between the personal and political styles of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu are so powerful as to feel supernatural. Yet the likenesses are structural as much as they’re stylistic. Both men rule as...
Jordan stops cooperation with US deportations of Palestinians
Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada / June 13, 2019
Jordan has unilaterally stopped cooperating with the Trump administration’s deportations of Palestinians to Israel and the occupied West Bank.
This was revealed in an affidavit from Michael Bernacke, unit chief for “removal and international operations” at ICE, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
Time to stop the external manipulation of ‘What Palestinians want’
Ramona Wadi
Middle East Monitor / June 6, 2019
US President Donald Trump’s “deal of the century” and the forthcoming economic summit in Bahrain have reaped a multitude of analysis, not least from US officials themselves. Jared Kushner, senior advisor to US President Donald Trump, has now undertaken to impose his definitions regarding the difference...
Who is and isn’t going to the Bahrain conference on ‘Israeli-Palestinian peace’
The National / June 12, 2019
The economic workshop has divided the region and sparked a lobbying campaign by the Palestinians to prevent Arab attendance.
The American-sponsored economic workshop on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to be held in Bahrain on June 25-26, looked dead in the water until Tuesday.
With just two weeks...
Doublespeak in Israel and the United States targets “the Left” as traitorous
Yoav Litvin
CounterPunch / June 12, 2019
No syncretistic faith can withstand analytical criticism. The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge. For Ur-Fascism, disagreement is treason.
~ Umberto Eco
In spite of a seemingly...
Inside Israel’s million dollar troll army
Asa Winstanley
The Electronic Intifada / June 12, 2019
A global influence campaign funded by the Israeli government had a $1.1 million budget last year, a document obtained by The Electronic Intifada shows.
Act.IL says it has offices in three countries and an online army of more than 15,000.
In its annual report,...
Gaza: isolation and control
Restrictions on the Gaza Strip are part of a sequence going back decades predating Hamas control, analysts say.
Ben White
Al-Jazeera / June 10, 2019
This summer marks an important but often overlooked anniversary in the history of the Gaza Strip. Thirty years ago, in June 1989, Israel imposed for the first time...
The Gaza gas deal
The untold story of how behind-the-scenes deals prevented Palestinians from exploiting valuable natural resources.
Al-Jazeera / June 5, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-QLL6fHIGg&t=269s
(48 minutes)
Natural gas in the eastern Mediterranean is a highly-prized commodity.
In 1999, geological surveys revealed that there were natural gas fields off the coast of Gaza. But through a series of poor decisions,...
