Palestine

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed victory in Israel's election over his main challenger, former military chief of staff Benny Gantz, although it appears he may just be short of securing a parliamentary majority to form the next government. Exit polls after Monday's vote, the third in less than a year,…

(Bloomberg) --Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared within striking distance of forming Israel’s next government, after plunging his country into a yearlong political crisis while he maneuvered to stay in power and postpone his corruption trial.Recently indicted in three graft cases, Netanyahu had gambled on repeat elections to win a majority…

Racism, religious fanaticism and inequality are the three underlying themes defining the US and Israeli elections and shaping the long-term futures of the two countries. The incumbents, US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, are at the same time byproducts and drivers of deepening ideological, religious and…

(Middle East Monitor) – The UN finally published its database this month listing companies which profit from Israel’s brutal military occupation of the West Bank. This move was only made after years of unexplained delays. Rather helpfully, though, the Zionist Federation – an anti-Palestine, pro-Israel lobby group in Britain —…

LONDON (Reuters) - Fifty former European prime ministers and foreign ministers have condemned U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan in an open letter, saying it would create an apartheid-like situation in occupied Palestinian territory. FILE PHOTO: A demonstrator holds a Palestinian flag and a placard during a protest…

Trump and Netanyahu’s Palestine sell-out Cécile Marin, February 2020   Sources: www.peacenow.org; ‘Peace to prosperity’, January 2020Read More

By Rachad Antonius | – Nothing is further from a peace effort than the plan that Israel and the Donald Trump administration have concocted for Palestine. Previous American administrations have all been pro-Israel, and they’ve made every effort to circumvent international law. But previous U.S. administrations have never formally challenged…

In the 1920s and 1930s, a hydrogen balloon photographed the Megiddo site from the air.Credit: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Digging up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon Eric H. Cline Princeton Univ. Press (2020)“Welcome to Armageddon,” say Israeli tour guides, as groups from many…

In the 1920s and 1930s, a hydrogen balloon photographed the Megiddo site from the air.Credit: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Digging up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon Eric H. Cline Princeton Univ. Press (2020)“Welcome to Armageddon,” say Israeli tour guides, as groups from many…

By Omar Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor) – There are early signs that another uprising, or Intifada, will erupt in occupied Palestine. A couple of weeks ago, a spokesperson of the Gaza-based Al-Quds Brigades, an armed wing of the resistance faction Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), called on Palestinians…