Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

 
Image above: Khaled Kana’n 13 years old arrested by IOF.
 

Palestinian Authority security forces block the path of a rally in solidarity with hunger-striking prisoners, in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, 20 June.(Mamoun Wazwaz / APA images)
 
 

The American invasion seeded the division by leaving behind a sectarian “democracy”, but it is the Iraqi leaders from all political and religious spectrums who perpetuated the religious and ethnic divide long after the Americans have left. 

 

 
 Image above: US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Erbil, the capital of northern Iraq’s Kurdistan autonomous region, on June 24.

Image above: Joshua Lott for The New York Times
 

 The American Studies Association said the reason behind its decision was that the Israeli institutions were “a party” to policies “that violate human rights” as Israel’s “violation of international law and UN resolutions” continues and the “impact of the Israeli occupation on Palestinian scholars and students” is well-documented.

Samah Sabawi, a political analyst, observed of the Hamas-Fatah  unity government:

“What we need more than ministries and authorities is resistance and liberation.” The unity government – whether of technocrats or elected officials – will still operate within the limitations imposed by Israel’s occupation.

 

 
 
Image above: Jewish men call on Pope Francis to stay in Rome, at a protest against his upcoming visit to Israel, Jordan, and Palestinian refugee camp.Photograph by: Ahmad Gharabli, Getty Images , The Associated Press

The arrest of a journalist and several political activists in Israel over the past few weeks has provoked a troubling debate: are laws applied differently depending on whether a citizen is Jewish or not? Particularly controversial was the arrest last month of Majd Kayyal, a journalist from Israel’s Palestinian minority who was seized on his return from Lebanon and interrogated for five days without access to lawyers.

 The new policy to block visas for U.N. Ambassadors who engaged in espionage

 
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