Israeli Court Convicts Palestinian Child Who Was Nearly Beaten To Death By Mob
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The present Israeli government coalition consists of 67 (out of 120) members of the Knesset [parliament]. Each member wants to be elected again (and again and again). In order to be re-elected, he or she must attract the attention of the public. How? The simplest way is to propose a new law. A bill so…
The Trump regime’s one-sided support for Israel is deplorably hard-edged. Earlier this year, it cut off most US funding for Palestinians. All funding through UNRWA for its refugee population ended, a flagrant assault on their rights and welfare. In September, the State Department closed the PLO office in Washington after operating for 24 years. At…
When is a war crime not a war crime? When, according to British officials, that war crime has been given a makeover as a “charitable act”. The British state is being asked to account for its financial and moral support for a UK organisation accused of complicity in the ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands…
President Donald Trump’s recent statement on the Jamal Khashoggi killing by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince might well be considered a metaphor for his foreign policy. Several commentators have suggested that the text appears to be something that Trump wrote himself without any adult supervision, similar to the poorly expressed random arguments presented in his tweeting…
The decades-long struggle by tens of thousands of Israelis against being uprooted from their homes – some for the second or third time – should be proof enough that Israel is not the western-style liberal democracy it claims to be. Last week 36,000 Bedouin – all of them Israeli citizens – discovered that their state…
China has voiced its support for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, based on pre-1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital. A spokesperson for the foreign ministry made the statement during a regular press briefing, Thursday, while addressing questions on a declaration by Muslim nations asserting East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine….