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...
Hebrew University to give students credit for volunteering with notorious right-wing activists
Middle East Monitor / February 14, 2020
Hebrew University is set to award academic credits to students “who volunteer for the right-wing group Im Tirtzu”, reported Haaretz, “although the university regulations state that such credits are not to be given for work with political groups”.
Since its founding in 2006, Im Tirtzu...
Israel builds settler-only road from Nablus to Jordan Valley
Middle East Monitor / February 14, 2020
Israeli occupation authorities have started construction work on a new road that would link the illegal Jewish settlements of Eli and Shilo in the north of the occupied West Bank with the Jordan Valley.
Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official in charge of the settlements...
Gazans create new energy sources to power life in ‘unliveable’ enclave
Rosie Scammell
The National / February 16, 2020
The UN said the strip would be uninhabitable by 2020, but residents are using innovative means to cope with their crisis.
A bleak United Nations forecast painted Gaza as a place that would become unliveable by 2020, but Palestinians are getting to grips with...
