Israel ‘using tourist sites to assert control over East Jerusalem’

Peace groups say government’s secret plans with settler groups could prevent two-state solution
Israel is quietly extending its control over East Jerusalem in alliance with rightwing Jewish settler groups, by developing parks and tourist sites that would bring a “drastic change of the status quo in the city”, according to two Israeli groups.
Ir Amin, a group [...]

Israeli military condemns bloodthirsty T-shirts

(03-24) 04:00 PDT Jerusalem
Israel’s military condemned soldiers for wearing T-shirts of a pregnant woman in a rifle’s cross-hairs with the slogan “1 Shot 2 Kills,” and another of a gun-toting child with the words, “The smaller they are, the harder it is.”
The T-shirts were worn by some Israeli Defense Force soldiers to mark the end [...]

Court rules Jewish immigrant who confessed to killing Arab taxi driver unfit to face charges

The alleged killer of an Arab taxi driver who was stabbed to death in Tel Aviv in 2007 is unfit to stand trial, the Tel Aviv District Court ruled after reviewing the results of the suspect’s psychiatric evaluation Thursday.
Julian Soufir, a 26-year-old Jewish immigrant from France, confessed to killing Taysir Karaki, 35, from Beit Hanina, [...]

Dividing Jerusalem, one wall at a time

JERUSALEM – There is a new wall in the downtown heart of the Holy City. It is, in fact, a new security fence. It is not tall, nor built to last. But the wall, and what it protects, may do more to undermine Israel’s moral claims to Jerusalem than the huge concrete structure that has [...]

Despite everything, Hebron is still Palestinian

The Pachao family was out Saturday for a Sabbath walk. Sarah and Yosef pushed the baby carriage, and the little ones, Ahuva, Gershon, Hananel and Noah, crowded into the carriage or walked behind it. Why did you come to live here, I asked? “Because of the good air.” The Pachaos, who are members of the [...]

In the only “democracy” in the middle east…

…the children sign bombs to be dropped on the people of Lebanon in 2006!

Jeff Halper’s An Israeli In Palestine

According to Israeli-based author and journalist Jonathan Cook, Halper’s book is “one of the most insightful analyses of the Occupation I’ve read. His voice cries out to be heard” on the region’s longest and most intractable conflict. Part II continues the story.
Part III: The Structure of Oppression – Expanding Dispossession, The Occupation and the Matrix [...]

The Zionist plan for Middle East / “A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties”

In his Complete Diaries, Vol. II. p. 711, Theodore Herzl, the founder of Zionism, says that the area of the Jewish State stretches: “From the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates.”
Rabbi Fischmann, member of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared in his testimony to the U.N. Special Committee of Enquiry on [...]

Arab lawyer detained after refusing to remove pants during airport check

An Israeli Arab lawyer for the workers rights group Kav La’Oved was handcuffed and briefly detained by police this week when he refused to take his pants off during an airport security check. It was the second time in two months that local airport officials had asked Khalid Dukhi to remove his pants as part [...]

Palestinian father refused entry into Israel as son enlists in IDF

A., a resident of central Israel, was married for 25 years to M., a Palestinian man. All those years the couple lived in Israel, where they raised their five children. In 2000, as the Al-Aqsa Intifada broke out, M. was granted temporary residency under family reunification regulations.
But the couple’s relationship deteriorated, and A. asked the [...]