Monthly Archives: March 2015

Settlement Data Once Again Shows Bibi’s “Hardline” Image Doesn’t Match Reality

According to official data from Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics, housing construction in West Bank settlements fell by a whopping 52 percent last year–far greater than the 8 percent decline in construction nationwide. Moreover,...

Palestinians: We Want Democratic Elections, Too

We really envy the Israelis. Our leaders don't want elections. They want to remain in office forever." — Veteran Palestinian journalist from Ramallah. The truth is that neither Fatah nor Hamas is interested in holding...

Hamas rejects Palestinian state in Gaza Strip

Abu Marzouk: Gaza pays the price for refusing Israeli proposals 12-03-2015,09:41 http://www.qassam.ps/news-9211-Abu_Marzouk_Gaza_pays_the_price_for_refusing_Israeli_proposals.html Al Qassam website - Member of Hamas political bureau Mousa Abu Marzouk said Wednesday evening that Gaza is paying the price over refusing Israeli proposals...

What’s a Palestinian?

Last week, on his return from a tour of the Holy Land, former Governor of Arkansas and Republican presidential nomination candidate Mike Huckabee said to The Washington Post that “there’s really no such thing...

The Palestinian Authority’s New Economic Strategy

The Palestinian Authority is not content with breaching diplomatic clauses of the Oslo agreements and taking unilateral steps such as turning to the United Nations Security Council and the International Criminal Court at The...

Resisting the Iranian occupation

The Iranians know about resistance, or so they say. They know that any occupying force will be faced with resistance. They’ve supported “resistance forces” in the region for decades. Today, they’re on the other...

ISIL brainwashes, trains new generation of militants

BAGHDAD — A second Islamic State video purporting to show a child executing a prisoner reflects a concerted effort by the brutal group to brainwash and train a new generation of militant Muslims. The Islamic...

Iran’s project will reshape Lebanon

Recently, the former minister Wiam Wahab, in an interview on television, said something to the effect that he was saddened by the vacuum in the Lebanese presidency. He was saddened becauseLebanon might never have...
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The Quiet Growth in Indonesia-Israel Relations

As a nation with the largest Muslim population in the world, Indonesia is not known for its close ties with Israel. Yet while publicly associated with a pro-Palestinian stance, Indonesia quietly enjoys a cordial...
AGAINST THE GRAIN: Bassem Eid, a human rights activist, political analyst and commentator on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is in Johannesburg to counter the 'propaganda' of Israel Apartheid Week

A fresh look at an old problem

In fact, he says he would rather be a Palestinian refugee in Israel than in Syria, Lebanon or Jordan. He blames Jordan for removing 500 people from the old city in Jerusalem in 1966 and...