News & Analysis

Did Russia’s Intervention Derail Turkey’s Plan to Invade Syria?

Obama might have struck a deal with Erdogan to launch a Turkish invasion of Syria as long as the US provided air cover for Turkish ground forces. Putin’s military intervention sabotaged any prospect of implementing the Plan

 
by MIKE WHITNEY                                                     Counterpunch
 

David Amos: Gun-wielding gang of Israeli settlers attack British volunteer in West Bank

‘A man stood no more than four feet from me and threw this rock which hit me on the back of the head’, Mr Amos told The Independent

 
 
A 66-year-old British man volunteering in the West Bank has been hospitalised after being attacked by a gang of gun-wielding Israeli settlers hurling rocks at him.
David Amos, a retired publishing company worker, was struck in the head by a rock as he tried to protect Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest.

“We are the masters” says Israeli mayor as 3 more Palestinians are killed

Palestinians attempt to break through a section of the separation wall Israel built in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Abu Dis, 11 October. Yotam Ronen ActiveStills -    Courtesty The Electronic Intifada
 
 
by Charlotte Silver                                      The Electronic Intifada
 

‘Israel is a terrorist state’

Unrest grows among Palestinian citizens of Israel, outraged by restrictions on access to al-Aqsa and causalities in the occupied territories

 
by Jonathan Cook 
(Al-Jazeera ) – The violence rocking the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and now Gaza is on the verge of spilling into Israel, Palestinian leaders in Israel warned.