Palestine

Neither Fatah nor Hamas: Arab News/YouGov poll shows Palestinians want nothing to do with their leadership LONDON: A new Arab News/YouGov survey has identified a broad sense of despair among many Palestinians who feel trapped between an Israeli government they believe has no interest in forging peace and a Palestinian leadership…

A Senate committee on Wednesday approved a rail-safety bill introduced after the derailment of a freight train in East Palestine, Ohio, but its fate remains uncertain due to significant Republican opposition. The bill would increase inspections of trains carrying hazardous materials, require the use of technology to detect track defects,…

US Rep. Betty McCollum touted the support of two organizations designated by Israel as terrorist groups for a new bill seeking to condition US aid to Israel. Israel's Defense Ministry banned Addameer and Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCI-P) last year, due to their demonstrated extensive ties to the…

(May 3, 2023 / JNS) The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs conceded last November to the pro-Israel NGO With Israel for Peace (Med Israel for fred, or MIFF) that capital cities are not subject to recognition by other countries. At some point following a March 7 letter from MIFF, Norway…

The mayor of East Palestine, Ohio, endorsed former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election and slammed President Joe Biden for never having visited the town in the wake of the February 3 train derailment disaster. “I would first like to thank Joe Biden and Hunter Biden for visiting…

The spokesperson of the Palestinian presidency Nabil Abu Rudeineh said that Israeli authorities are dragging the region into a square of violence, escalation, tension and instability through its insistence on continuing the policy of collective punishment, killing, assaults on Al-Aqsa Mosque and settler terrorism. Abu Rudeineh added that the storming…

The environmental disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, has resulted in a rare display of bipartisanship from the state’s two senators, a hardline, Trump-endorsed, vocal critic of President Biden and a progressive populist facing the reelection fight of his life.   In the wake of the February train derailment that released toxic chemicals into…

It’s been a bit more than two months since a train derailment in rural Ohio spilled 38 cars’ worth of hazardous materials, including a highly toxic petrochemical called vinyl chloride, in East Palestine. In the weeks following the disaster, it seems to many residents the problems just keep piling up. …

Holy days in the Holy Land should be sacred refuges from escalating tensions and violence, but ironically, they are often just the opposite, producing some of the brutal hell that especially torments Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East. The rare, peaceful confluence of Ramadan, Passover and Easter this past…

40,000 pounds of contaminated soil being transported away from East Palestine, Ohio was spilled in the eastern Ohio county of Columbiana at 1 PM on Monday, according to several local news sources. The spill occurred as a truck driver, 74-year-old Phillip Falck of McDonald, Penn., was driving a vehicle full of…