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...
‘World Refugee Day’: Palestinians keep their right of return alive through hope, resistance
Ramzy Baroud
Palestine Chronicle / June 19, 2019
The United Nations’ World Refugee Day, observed annually on June 20, should not merely represent a reminder of “the courage, strength and determination of women, men and children who are forced to flee their homeland under threat of persecution, conflict and violence.”
It should also be...
VIDEO’S – Palestina: vlucht boven een wirwar van controleposten
Mehdi Belmecheri-Rozental
ORIENT XXI / 29 mei 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=BAYRzxmtzIo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq-knWWK1_g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=qE2eWlHEPwI
Gaza unemployment soars as medicine stocks hit zero
Maureen Clare Murphy
The Electronic Intifada / June 17, 2019
As Qatar delivered $20 million in cash to aid impoverished families in Gaza on Sunday, a shortage of essential medicines threatens the lives of patients in the occupied territory.
Gaza’s health ministry has less than a month’s supply of more than half of the...
Why I’m optimistic about the ‘deal of the century’
David Hearst
Middle East Eye / June 12, 2019
The deal presents the biggest opportunity to those who have the most to lose from it
In selling the yet-to-be-published "deal of the century" (DoC), its principle authors have said the following:
That the Palestinians are not yet capable of governing themselves (US president's son-in-law Jared Kushner);...
Israel and the West: ‘Shared values’ of racism and settler-colonialism
Joseph Massad
Middle East Eye / June 13, 2019
While propping up an apartheid regime, Western governments refuse to share the Palestinian people’s democratic goals
Over the last two decades, the boycott of Israel has become a significant part of the resistance of the Palestinian people and their international supporters to Israeli...
Media blackout as Israel’s largest banks pay over $1 billion in fines for US...
Similar revelations about other banks and offshore tax-evasion schemes — such as those contained in the Panama Papers — led to global protests and even the resignations of some world leaders
Whitney Webb
MintPress News / March 21, 2019
WASHINGTON — Israel’s three largest banks — Hapoalim Bank, Leumi Bank and Mizrahi Tefahot...
Amid talk of annexing the West Bank, the idea of population transfer rears its...
The view that it is in the interest of Israel to obtain the greatest amount of land with the least number of Palestinians stretches back decades
Michael Young
The National / June 12, 2019
As the United States works with Israel’s right-wing government in undermining a two-state solution with the Palestinians,...
Mossad role in Israel’s war against BDS confirmed
Asa Winstanley
The Electronic Intifada / June 14, 2019
This week the Israeli newspaper Haaretz confirmed something that The Electronic Intifada has been reporting for years.
The Mossad, reputedly Israel’s most ruthless and violent spy agency, is involved in the war against BDS, the nonviolent boycott, divestment and sanctions movement for Palestinian rights.
Israel’s strategic affairs...
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...