In rebuff to Trump, Palestinian businesses call for freedom, not cash
Rami Ayyub
Reuters / June 20, 2019
RAMALLAH (Reuters) - Palestinian businessmen boycotting the Trump administration’s Bahrain workshop designed to encourage investment in the territories say only a diplomatic path to statehood can end decades of conflict with Israel.
The United States has billed the June 25-26 gathering in the Gulf kingdom...
This is what Kushner’s plan for the Palestinian economy looks like
Ahead of Bahrain conference, Kushner shares key points of Middle East plan which envisions major financial support from Gulf states to go to West Bank, Gaza and neighbouring countries
Reuters / June 22, 2019
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner is to formally unveil the first part of his Middle East...
Breakfast with Tony Blair? Program leaks for Kushner’s Bahrain ‘workshop’
Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada / June 21, 2019
Expectations were already at rock bottom for US presidential adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner’s Bahrain “workshop” intended to kick-start the economic aspects of the Trump administration’s “Deal of the Century.”
But they managed to sink even lower after the draft program of the meeting, set...
Israel minister: ‘I intend to Judaise the Galilee’
Middle East Monitor / June 21, 2019
Newly-appointed Israeli transportation minister Bezalel Smotrich has declared that one of his main objectives is to ‘Judaise the Galilee’, in light of the region’s number of Palestinian citizens.
In an interview with Israel Hayom, the notorious right-wing nationalist also vowed to boost settlement infrastructure in the occupied West Bank.
Smotrich,...
Israel minister urges annexation of settlements, calls for Abbas’ ouster
Middle East Monitor / June 17, 2019
Israel’s Public Security, Strategic Affairs and Information Minister Gilad Erdan yesterday called for the ouster of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, alongside the annexation of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, according to reports in Arutz Sheva and the Jerusalem Post.
Speaking at a conference organised by the...
Post Scriptum – Israeli general: Israel was behind coup against Egypt’s Morsi
Middle East Monitor / April 3, 2019
Israel worked to overthrow Egypt’s first democratically elected President, Mohamed Morsi, and to orchestrate a coup against him in 2013, Israeli army Brigadier General, Aryeh Eldad, wrote in a local paper.
The writer said in an article in Maariv newspaper that “the outbreak of the January revolution...
Berlin Jewish museum director forced out by Israel lobby
Riri Hylton
The Electronic Intifada / June 20, 2019
The director of the Jewish Museum Berlin was forced to resign last week following pressure from Israel and its lobby.
The Central Council of Jews in Germany criticized the museum for tweeting an article on the 240 Jewish and Israeli scholars who signed a petition opposing the...
America’s confrontation with Iran goes deeper than Trump
The real goal is domination of the Middle East—and that’s been a bipartisan US strategy for decades.
Trita Parsi
The Nation / June 20, 2019
When President Barack Obama accused opponents of his 2015 Iran nuclear deal of being “armchair” warmongers luring Congress toward war, his critics feigned anger. The alternative to Obama’s deal...
Annexation: how Israel already controls more than half of the West Bank
Annexation would only formalise a situation in which almost two-thirds of Palestinian territory is controlled by Israel and settlers live as Israeli citizens
Jonathan Cook
Middle East Eye / 18 June 2019
A state of de facto annexation already exists on the ground in most of the occupied West Bank.
Almost two-thirds of...
Israeli channel airs call to expel all Palestinians
Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada / June 18, 2019
The Israeli international TV channel i24 News last week aired a call for the total ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.
“There will never, ever be a two-state solution,” British far-right demagogue Katie Hopkins stated. “Israel will become the super force here. You will have...
