The apartheid system in Hebron persecutes and subjugates Palestinians
Settlers openly brandish assault rifles while Palestinians can receive decades-long prison sentences for even carrying a knife.
Jake Batinga
Truthout / September 8, 2019
There are two roads leading to the Abraham Mosque in Hebron, Palestine. The roads are side by side, separated only by a fence and barbed wire. One of...
How Israel is sowing the seeds of war in South Sudan
Suraya Dadoo
Middle East Monitor / September 6, 2019
In 2015 – two years after a devastating civil war broke out in South Sudan that pushed millions to the brink of starvation – the South Sudan government launched a multi-million dollar agricultural project called Green Horizon. The aim of the project...
The legacy of Israel’s first refuser
Alasdair Soussi
The Electronic Intifada / September 4, 2019
Joseph Abileah is considered as the first person in Israel to go on trial for refusing to join its military.
Appearing in a Haifa court a few months after Israel was founded in 1948, the violinist made clear that he would play no...
Netanyahu repeats pledge to annex Israeli settlements in occupied West Bank
Middle East Monitor / September 1, 2019
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to annex Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, Reuters reported him as saying on Sunday, reiterating an election promise made five months ago but again giving no timeframe.
Settlements are one of the most heated issues in the...
Gantz vows Israel will keep West Bank settlement ‘blocs’ and Jordan Valley
Middle East Monitor / September 3, 2019
Benny Gantz, chair of the main Israeli opposition alliance Blue and White (Kahol Lavan), declared yesterday that he would not pursue a unilateral withdrawal from occupied West Bank territory.
According to the Times of Israel, Gantz made the remarks at a conference held by the...
Speaker of Knesset pledges to extend Israeli sovereignty over Hebron
Middle East Monitor / September 6, 2019
Speaker of the Knesset, Yuli Adelstein, pledged to impose Israel’s sovereignty over the city of Hebron (south of the West Bank).
He said in comments to the news website 0404: “Hebron’s time has come, and it is time to impose Israeli sovereignty over the city....
Maariv: Israel involved in Yemeni conflict to serve ‘Saudi lover’
Middle East Monitor / August 27, 2019
A prominent Israeli commentator revealed that Israel has been intervening in the Yemeni war between the Houthis and other Yemeni forces to serve Saudi interests.
Maariv’s security affairs commentator, Ran Edelist, said in an analysis he published on the newspaper’s website on Sunday: “Tel...
Palestinians jailed by Israel refuse food for weeks
Tamara Nassar
The Electronic Intifada / September 2, 2019
Huthaifa Halabiya hasn’t eaten in more than 60 days.
Halabiya, 28, from the Palestinian village of Abu Dis near Jerusalem, has been in Israeli prisons without charge or trial since 10 June 2018.
This is his fourth detention since 2013, but the first administrative one.
He is one of...
Trump will greenlight West Bank annexation to force Israeli pols to keep Netanyahu as...
Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss / August 29, 2019
There has been a lot of speculation lately about a grand bargain between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu as the Israeli elections approach. The theory goes that Trump will wade into Israeli politics to try and give the embattled Netanyahu another term as P.M....
BBC defends claim that Israel is ‘ancestral homeland’ of Palestinians
Middle East Monitor / September 4, 2019
The BBC has had to defend its description of Israel as the “ancestral homeland” of the Palestinian people in response to a complaint by a viewer who criticised a presenter’s version of history as inaccurate.
The dispute started after BBC Middle East Correspondent Tom...
