Israel Top Stories
- EU Recognition of Palestinian Statehood is Remote but Possible - Former Israeli AmbassadorLuxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn is advancing an initiative calling for the European Union to recognise a Palestinian state, Israel's Channel 13 reported. Topics: Luxembourg
- Bolsonaro’s Son Says Brazil Will Move Embassy to Jerusalem in 2020 – NetanyahuMOSCOW(Sputnik) - Eduardo Bolsonaro, the son of the Brazilian president and chair of the parliamentary committee for international affairs, confirmed Sunday his country would move the embassy to Jerusalem next year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin... Topics: Brazil, Jerusalem, Benjamin Netanyahu, Russia, Moscow
- VIDEO: Dem. House candidate: 'Bulldozer is my plan for Jerusalem. Bulldoze the whole d**n thing.'A highly disturbing video of House Democratic candidate Cenk Uygur emerged Sunday where he says "bulldozer is my plan for Jerusalem." The video appears to be from a 2006 interview Uygur participated in on Air America Radio, a now defunct... Topics: World Videos, Jerusalem
- Israel's 'Iron Dome' Is Headed to EuropeSeth J. Frantzman Security, Europe Prague needed to modernize its air defense. Czech Republic is acquiring Israel’s famed ‘Iron Dome” Multi-Mission Radar in an agreement signed earlier this month. The agreement between the Israel Ministry of... Topics: Czech Republic, Prague
- If only we could make peace This isn’t science fiction, this is fact: Israel is one of the few nations on earth that either has or can develop solutions to end world hunger, something that affects no fewer than 78 million people. All across our region in particular (speaking...
Palestine Top Stories
- Christians in Gaza won’t be allowed to visit Bethlehem and Jerusalem this ChristmasGaza Israel bars Gaza’s Christians from visiting Bethlehem and Jerusalem at Christmas JERUSALEM/GAZA (Reuters) 12 Dec — Christians in the Gaza Strip will not be allowed to visit holy cities such as Bethlehem and Jerusalem to celebrate... Topics: Gaza Strip, Israel, Jerusalem, Christmas, Reuters
- The ‘Zionist Betrayal of Jews’ from Herzl to Netanyahu, by Stanley HellerZionist Betrayal of Jews: From Herzl to Netanyahu” By Stanley Heller Available through the Middle East Crisis Committee, $10. Jewish Palestine solidarity activist Stanley Heller’s dynamite short book documents Zionism’s betrayal of Jewish... Topics: Benjamin Netanyahu, Activism
- Egypt hosts Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad to broker truce with Israel; Hamas chairs meeting“Seeking to unify Gaza Strip factions on their truce with Israel, Egypt hosted leaders of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad earlier this month in Cairo.” One wonders what Egypt is really up to. The goal of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic... Topics: Egypt, Hamas, Israel, Gaza Strip, Cairo
- NYT editorial on Trump executive order illustrates equivocations of liberal ZionismThe New York Times coverage of Israel and Palestine has long illustrated the equivocations of liberal Zionism. On the one hand, a mild wipe of the eye about some particularly shameful acts of Israeli brutality towards Palestinians; on the other,... Topics: Israel
- UN calls for $348 million in 2020 to address humanitarian crisis in the occupied Palestinian...In 2012, the United Nations announced its predictions that by the year 2020, the Gaza Strip would become “uninhabitable.” While many of Gaza’s over 2 million residents argue that the territory is already unliveable, with sky-high unemployment... Topics: Gaza Strip