Palestina pide ayuda al Banco Mundial para cubrir sus gastos

El primer ministro palestino, Salam Fayyad, ha solicitado ayuda económica al Banco Mundial (BM) para paliar las carencias de su gobierno, según han anunciado fuentes palestinas y europeas. La economía palestina es cada vez más pobre y afecta directamente a los gastos de la Administración y los sueldos de los funcionarios. * Israel descarta un [...]

A story of neglect – A MUST READ!!!

Over 41 years have passed since, in the wake of the Six-Day War, the Israeli government extended the municipal borders of Jerusalem to the east, north and south. This expansion led to the inclusion of a large Arab population within the city’s boundaries. Jerusalem was officially enlarged and united, but has in large measure remained [...]

Maariv’s publication of Barack Obama’s Western Wall note spurs outrage, boycott

The rabbi who supervises Jerusalem’s Western Wall condemned the removal of a prayer note purportedly written by Sen. Barack Obama, saying the action was “sacrilegious.” The U.S. presidential candidate visited the site early Thursday and placed a note in the cracks of the wall, as is customary. The note was subsequently removed from the wall, [...]

Majadele: Hospital ‘footdragging’ over construction of Muslim prayer space

Dozens of Israeli Arab gathered at the Sheba Hospital in central Israel on Monday to protest what they cited as repeated delays in the construction of a Muslim prayer space on the hospital grounds. According to protesters, the hospital has breached past agreements and has avoided allocating a space for Muslims to pray. The protesters [...]

Israel agrees to raze part of West Bank separation fence

After a five-year battle, the defense establishment has finally given in: It agreed to dismantle a 2.4-kilometer stretch of the separation fence north of Qalqilyah. The move will return 2,600 dunams of agricultural land to its Palestinian owners. The dismantled stretch will be replaced by 4.9 kilometers of fencing closer to the Green Line, at [...]

Support FREE GAZA MOVEMENT & THE BOAT FOR GAZA!!!

We want to break the siege of Gaza. We want to raise international awareness about the prison-like closure of the Gaza Strip and pressure the international community to review its sanctions policy and end its support for continued Israeli occupation. We want to uphold Palestine’s right to welcome internationals as visitors, human rights observers, humanitarian [...]

Israel fears European ship may sail to Gaza to ‘break siege’ – Support Free Gaza!!!

Israel is worried by reports that a group of left-wing activists from Europe plans to set sail for Gaza from Cyprus on August 5 under the slogan “breaking the siege.” The activists will reportedly include three members of the European Parliament. It is still not certain how serious the plans are. However, Israel fears that [...]

The Prisoner Swap: Media Manipulations

One of today’s main articles on the Guardian reads ‘Israel exchanges Lebanese murderer for bodies of two captured soldiers’. When anyone in the English reading world sees this title and what follows in the article, he or she would immediately think that one of the persons mentioned is a vicious murderer while the others are [...]

The Speech Brown Should Have Made to the Knesset

I and my dog Mortimer apologise most sincerely to the world, and especially to Arab friends, for our prime minister’s crass speech to the Knesset. Britain, like the US, has an uncanny knack of producing one silly leader after another from a limitless supply that thrust themselves on an unsuspecting public in order to perpetuate [...]

I saw into digger driver’s eyes’

Ronit Tamari stands trembling by a damaged bus shelter, a battered maroon pick-up truck and a badly dented litter bin. She rushed to Jerusalem’s King David Street as soon as she heard the driver of a construction vehicle had begun ramming into cars just metres from where her 14-year-old son Liram was at a YMCA [...]