Israeli Occupation

 
by Rachel Menitoff
Voicing “outrage and anger” over the publication of a controversial pamphlet by a Presbyterian organization, the Anti-Defamation League this week denounced the booklet calling it “full of historical inaccuracies.”

 
by ALISON WEIR
 Counterpunch

 
by JONATHAN COOK                 Counterpunch
 
(Nazareth) – Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rarely been so politically embattled. His travails indicate the Israeli right’s inability to respond to a shifting political landscape, both in the region and globally.

Press Release
Friday 7, February 2014
 Hundreds of Israeli forces have raided Ein Hijleh village in the Jordan Valley and evicted all its residents violently around 1:30 am and declared the village a closed military zone.  And it is estimated that between 200-250 Palestinians were in the village at the time of eviction.

 
by URI AVNERY
Netanyahu demand that the Palestinian leadership recognize Israel as the “Nation State of the Jewish People just another trick to sabotage the “peace process”
WHAT’S WRONG about the demand that the Palestinian leadership recognize Israel as the “Nation State of the Jewish People”?
Well, practically everything.
States recognize each other. They don’t have to recognize each other’s ideological character.

“If the spineless Obama will not do it, we must do it—even unilaterally.”
 by Stuart Littlewood              Intifada-Palestine.com

 

 
by Ali Abunimah               Electronic Intifada
 

Image credit: filamagnus.wordpress.com
 
By Ira Chernus
 
As the media spotlight shines on U.S. negotiators talking with Iranians and Syrians, the Israeli-Palestinian talks have faded into the background. They’re still grinding on, slowly, with several contentious issues unresolved.