Britain is responsible for all Israeli war crimes since 1948 because it created the 1917 mandate which saw Arabs removed from their land to make way for the state of Israel, a top Palestinian diplomat has said. Originally signed by UK Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, the agreement officially sanctioned the Zionist movement’s aims, leading to…
Demolitions of homes near illegal apartheid wall designed to break contiguity of Jerusalem and West Bank and to prevent a Palestinian state. JERUSALEM – Israeli authorities early Tuesday destroyed 11 Palestinian homes in an area on the outskirts of Jerusalem divided from the city by Israel’s separation wall, residents and an NGO said. A convoy…
Ben Ehrenreich’s new book, The Way to the Spring, Life and Death in Palestine (Penguin Press 2016), is a tough read. Tough because of what it evokes in any civilized reader: anger and despair — in equal doses. And particularly tough for an American Jewish reader because it does not let you stop thinking or…
Dore Gold and Anwar Eshki shake hands at a CFR event, as Elliott Abrams looks on. July 25, 2016 While the Saudis and Israelis appear to be enemies, the two in fact agree on many regional issues and are the two biggest U.S. allies in the Middle East. A former senior Saudi military general traveled…
July 25, 12:37 UTC+3 Russia calls for the speedy relaunch of the negotiations MOSCOW, July 25. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Moscow considers the existing status quo on Palestine inadmissible and calls for relaunching the negotiation process. “We also intend to continue to provide all possible assistance in resolving the Palestinian problem…
Russian Forpost. July 24, 2016 Moscow is making use of the sophisticated Forpost UAV for surveillance and intelligence-gathering in Syria, Ukraine and terrorist targets in the Caucasian mountains. If IDF chiefs are correct, then a Russian drone developed by Israel was used by to spy on Israel after it was launched from an…
