UK: Israel planning regime leaves Palestinians ‘little option but to build without permission’
Middle East Monitor / January 28, 2020
The UK government has acknowledged that Israel’s planning regime in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem leaves “Palestinians with little option but to build without permission”.
Lord Ahmad, writing on behalf of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), was responding yesterday to a question concerning...
Graduates scramble for better pay
Jaclynn Ashly & Alaa Daraghmeh
The Electronic Intifada / January 9, 2020
Even a college degree couldn’t help Fathi Taradi.
Taradi, 34, tried for a decade to find work as a journalist in the occupied West Bank. He eventually had to settle on construction work in Jerusalem.
“The first few days working in...
Trump’s “win-win” plan hands everything to Israel
Omar Karmi
The Electronic Intifada / January 29, 2020
After much anticipation and with great ceremony, on Tuesday US President Donald Trump presented his plan for Middle East peace.
It’s “a great plan,” Trump had already said a few days ago, though he may just have been humouring his son-in-law Jared Kushner, its chief architect.
On Tuesday, he called the plan “win-win,”...
Trump’s Middle East peace plan: the key points
The National / January 28, 2020
The plan calls for the creation of a state of Palestine with its capital in portions of occupied East Jerusalem
President Donald Trump unveiled his long-awaited Middle East peace plan on Tuesday, calling for the creation of a state of Palestine with its capital in portions...
How Israel exploits Holocaust Remembrance Day
Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada / January 27, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=731&v=C0FVOcGiZbI&feature=emb_logo
Monday is the 75th anniversary of the Soviet army’s liberation of Auschwitz, the death camp in Poland built by the German government during World War II.
The Nazis murdered more than one million people in Auschwitz, the vast majority European Jews.
The anniversary of the camp’s liberation...
Deal of the century offers non-sovereign Palestinian state
Middle East Monitor / January 27, 2020
US President Donald Trump’s deal of the century offers a non-sovereign Palestinian state which would not have an army or call East Jerusalem its capital, Rassd reported yesterday.
Quoting Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, Rassd said Trump expects Palestinian Authority (PA), PLO and Fatah President Mahmoud Abbas to reject...
