Half a Democracy - as a slideshow

Half a Democracy (created by “>Lawrence of Cyberia) is a 72-slide presentation on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and the prospects for peace and reconciliation based on a Two-State solution.
This slide show is not a history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, but a collection of evocative quotes and images that illustrate the reality of the Occupation and show [...]

Two Aspects of the Palestine Question

I can understand the Jews demanding, after their experience at Nazi hands, that they should be given some piece of territory somewhere in the world, where they would be masters in their own house and where there would be an asylum for any Jews who, in future might be threatened with a repetition of what [...]

Missing in action - (ProIsraeli racist massmedia in UK!!!)

Missing in action
New research suggests that television news fails to inform young people about what’s going on in the Occupied Territories, or why. Greg Philo explains

If you don’t understand the Middle East crisis it might be because you are watching it on TV news. This scores high on images of fighting, violence and drama, but [...]

Jerusalem Dispossessed - everyday jewish colonialism & ethnic cleansing

Nof Zion - “a view of Zion - a private neighbourhood in Jerusalem.” American Jews buy holiday homes in a Palestinian neighbourhood. On privately owned Palestinian land. Creating a wedge of Israeli settlements deep inside Palestinian Occupied Territory that will prevent the Clinton Parameters from ever being realised. Another thorn in the side of peace.
Ref: [...]

The War’s Seventh Day

The Zionist dream’s realization and the Jewish people’s national rebirth through the creation of Israel were achieved not because of the Jewish side’s superior number of tanks, planes or other aggressive means. The State of Israel was born because the Zionist movement realized it must find a solution to the Jews’ persecution and because the [...]

Israel’s split psyche

Israel is falling apart, MK Avishay Braverman lamented at the Institute for National Security Studies’ annual State of the Nation conference. Our education system, once Israel’s pride, is in the dumps; public corruption is rampant; our universities are starving to death; and the income gap is almost as bad as Brazil’s.
Braverman’s lamentations reflect a [...]

Settlers tie Palestinian man to phone pole and beat him

A group of West Bank settlers on Saturday beat a 31-year-old Palestinian man in the southern Hebron Hills, after having tied him to a telephone pole.
Left-wing activists later videoed a settler kicking Madahat Abu-Kirash, the victim, as he remained tied up and was surrounded by Israeli security forces. The soldiers subsequently removed the [...]

Citizenship law makes Israel an apartheid state

The government’s decision last week to extend the validity of the Citizenship Law (Temporary Order), for another year, is evidence that the legal barriers preventing severe discrimination against Israel’s Arab citizens and harm to their civil rights have been removed.
This extension is the eighth since the law was first passed in 2003, and it [...]

Palestinians say 17-year-old shot dead by IDF troops in West Bank

Israel Defense Forces soldiers killed a Palestinian teenager during a raid into the West Bank on Friday, local residents and medical workers said.
The residents said the 17-year-old was killed while confronting IDF troops who raided the village of Beit Umar, near the West Bank city of Hebron.
The military said that soldiers entered Beit [...]

Paramilitary police attack Al-Nakba march

It has been a week of adulation from world leaders, ostentatious displays of military prowess, and street parties. Heads of state have rubbed shoulders with celebrities to pay homage to the Jewish state on its 60th birthday, while a million Israelis reportedly headed off to the country’s forests to enjoy the national pastime: a barbecue.
But [...]