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Hamas, Fatah Announce Deal to Form Palestinian Unity Government
By Jack Khoury
Hamas and Fatah have agreed to establish a Palestinian unity government, the two factions said in a statement from Moscow, where they...
EU imports 15 times more from illegal Israeli settlements than from...
“The gap between Europe’s rhetoric on illegal settlement growth and our actions is widening. We have reached a nonsensical situation where we are economically...
Palestine calls to save prisoners on hunger strike
The Palestinian Committee for Prisoners Affairs called to immediate action to save the lives of two Palestinians on hunger strike in the prisons of the Israeli...
The last, historic act by President Barack Obama: US lifting veto,...
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump tweeted Friday shortly after the UN Security Council voted in favor of an anti-settlement resolution allowed by an unprecedented U.S. abstention, saying, "As to the UN, things will be different after Jan. 20th."
Netanyahu for Trump, Trump for Netanyahu
President-elect Donald Trump has said that he will nominate bankruptcy attorney David Friedman as US ambassador to Israel, and Friedman said he looked forward to taking up his post in Jerusalem, implying a move from Tel Aviv that would mark a break in longstanding US foreign policy and anger the Muslim world.
With Obama out, Netanyahu wants Iran
Speaking in a wide-ranging interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes set to be broadcast later Sunday, Netanyahu said it was not too late to undo the deal that was the landmark foreign policy achievement of President Barack Obama, noting that he would present Trump with five alternatives to the accord.
More than half of US aid ‘to entire world’ goes to...
John Kerry offered yet another tough-love talk to Israel at the pro-Israel Saban Forum yesterday. The United States gives Israel more than half of the aid that we give “to the entire world,” and Israel simply ignores us when we warn it about new settlements.
Russia: Israel, Palestinian Leaders Agree to Meet for Talks
Russia's Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday that the Israeli and the Palestinian leaders have agreed "in principle" to meet in Moscow for talks in what the Russians hope will relaunch the Mideast peace process after a more than two-year break.
Leila Khaled on ISIS and Islamism, Syria and the Palestinians
A terrorist for the Israelis, Khaled was a symbol throughout the world for the Palestinian armed struggle, following her participation in one of the four simultaneous hijackings of September 1970, inspiring songs, films and works of art internationally. These hijackings were part of the Palestinian “response” to the ignominious defeat they suffered with the
Diaspora Jews Are Joining Palestinians in Nonviolent Resistance to the Occupation
I’ve always wondered if a day would come when there would be a cause so important that I would be willing to get arrested for standing up for what I believe in. That day came on Friday, July 15, when I was in the West Bank city of Hebron protesting the Israeli occupation, alongside dozens of other North American and European Jews. But it didn’t turn out the way I’d expected.