The apartheid deal of the century
Jeff Halper
Middle East Monitor / January 31, 2020
The Trump “deal of the century” is nothing if not predictable. The product of a small group of Orthodox Jewish Americans willingly adopting the long-standing plans of the Israeli right, it merely reaffirms what Israeli policy has in fact done “on the...
Legal rights centre slams Trump plan’s proposed ‘forced transfer’ of Israel’s Palestinian citizens
Middle East Monitor / January 31, 2020
Legal rights centre Adalah has slammed the Trump administration’s “peace plan” for its endorsement of the “forced transfer” of 260,000 Palestinian citizens of Israel.
“Trump’s deal…is no more than an attempt to bypass international legal barriers and to ignore Palestinians’ right to self-determination, as well...
Israel official: Only disagreement with US over annexation regards timing
Middle East Monitor / January 31, 2020
A senior Israeli official close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed reports of disagreements between the US and Israeli governments over the application of the Trump plan, claiming that the only diversion relates to the timetable for annexation of West Bank territory.
According...
Israel NGO urges international community to protect Palestinians from settler attacks
Middle East Monitor / January 31, 2020
An Israeli human rights organisation has called on the international community to “intervene” to protect Palestinians from attacks by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.
In a statement published yesterday, Yesh Din slammed “the systematic failure of Israeli law enforcement to protect Palestinians” from “criminal...
Israeli forces storm Al-Aqsa Mosque, 10 Palestinians injured, 3 detained
Middle East Monitor / January 31, 2020
Israeli police injured 10 worshippers and detained three others after storming Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque Friday morning, an official said, Anadolu reports.
The Israeli police forced their way into the mosque and shot rubber-coated metal bullets at the worshipers, the official with Jerusalem Islamic Waqf, an...
Dutch court grants immunity for Israeli war crimes
Adri Nieuwhof
The Electronic Intifada / January 29, 2020
A court in the Netherlands has denied Ismail Ziada the chance to pursue justice for Israel’s killing of his mother and other members of his family.
The Palestinian-Dutch citizen has been suing Benny Gantz, Israeli army chief at the time, and Amir Eshel, then air force chief,...
Right-wing Israeli lawmakers attempt to remove Palestinians from Knesset
Megan Giovannetti
Middle East Monitor / January 30, 2020
On 29 January, the Central Election Committee (CEC) within the Israeli Knesset moved to disqualify Palestinian member of the Knesset (MK), Heba Yazbak of the Balad party, from running in the upcoming March election. The motion will now be moved to the Supreme Court, who...
Palestine cancels 1995 Oslo Accords signed with Israel
Middle East Monitor / January 31, 2020
Palestine on Thursday cancelled the 1995 Oslo Accords signed with Israel, Anadolu reports.
“Israel has been informed that the Palestinian administration will not adhere to the agreements between them,” the Palestinian Authority’s Minister of Civil Affairs Hussein al-Sheikh said in a televised interview with Al-Jazeera.
Sheikh also...
‘There is no occupation’: US compares its military in Germany to Israel in Palestine
Middle East Monitor / January 30, 2020
Israeli soldiers patrolling a future Palestinian state should not be considered occupying powers, according to David Friedman.
The US ambassador to Israel, who is closely aligned to the Israeli settlement enterprise, suggested that US troops patrolling cities is various parts of the world were...
