Israel

The leftwing movement of criticism of Israel is getting more and more mainstream by the second. Everyone is walking the path; they’re just getting there a little later. The Washington Post, a hotbed of neoconservative ideas for the last 15 years, has another article harshly critical of Israel today, written by an Israeli. And guess what: that article along with yesterday’s article by the two prestige Jewish academics calling for boycott of Israel are the two “most-read” articles on the Post list this morning!

Russian use of the base, with Iran’s obvious support, appeared to set back or at least further complicate Russia’s troubled relations with the United States, which has been working with Russia over how to end the Syria conflict.

Over 150,000 signatories have backed a Change.org petition entitled “Google: Put Palestine on your maps” as of Monday, accusing Google Maps of “making itself complicit in the Israeli government’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine” either on purpose or inadvertently. The petition, drafted by Zak Martin, slams the omission of the UN non-member observer state’s name on the map as a “grievous insult” to Palestinians.

Israel is currently holding 7,500 Palestinians as political prisoners; around 750 of them are in administrative detention, including several children. The UK government has noted these high numbers and has stated that it will continue to “lobby” the Israeli government on the topic. The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office has also admitted recently that its attempts to press Israel on the issue, or even to investigate it, have been blocked by the Israeli government.

German parliamentarians prepare to ask also for sanctions against USA, Britain and France. According to those parliamentarians, by implementing the Chaos Strategy in the Middle East, in order to “promote democracy”, as they kept saying, Washington, London and Paris are directly responsible for the refugee crisis, the terror attacks and the whole instability which landed now in Turkey.

Along with foreign and Arab activists, numerous Palestinians -- both inside and outside the Palestinian territories -- are taking part in the campaign, which calls for an end to the suffering of nearly two million Gazans who continue to face dire humanitarian and economic conditions

Palestinian prisoners join hunger-strike in solidarity with Bilal Kayed, who remains imprisoned by Israel without charge Bilal Kayed, a Palestinian prisoner detained by the Israeli authorities without charge, has vowed to continue his hunger-strike -- now in its 48th day -- and refused to undergo medical examinations unless released.

Aged but untamed, Zbigniew Brzezinski tackles the "catastrophic" situation of the US in an article that - like others in his career - is meant to create a lasting impression and perhaps go down in history. It is published in " The American Interest"

Devoting to it much of the “what to do now” segment of his powerful keynote address to the 16th Herzliya Conference, Barak praised our...

By Barbara Opall-Rome TEL AVIV, Israel – Fed up with security-sapping paralysis at home and fearful of diplomatic fallout abroad, a group of ex-generals here is...