Top 10 Reasons Americans should Dismiss Israel’s Netanyahu on Attacking Iran
by Juan Cole
The Iranian electorate did about the most cruel thing possible to uber-hawk Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. It replaced former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with an eminently reasonable and personable successor, Hasan Rouhani.
Israeli soldiers arrest 5-year-old Palestinian for throwing stone
Photo by WAFA News Agency
Israeli soldiers detained a 5-year-old Palestinian boy in the West Bank for two hours for throwing a stone, threatened his family with arrest, before handcuffing and blindfolding his father, an Israeli human rights NGO reported Thursday.
Treatment of Palestinians is apartheid by any other name
by Jonathan Cook - The National
Quo vadis, Palestine? … as PLO prepares to get bogged down (again) in bogus US-Israel negotiations
by Stuart Littlewood – Intifada Palestine
The Palestinian embassy in London has just issued a rare media briefing. It asks “WHAT IS NEEDED FOR THE RESUMPTION OF CREDIBLE NEGOTIATIONS?” and tries to explain the Palestinian position.
Submitted by Adri Nieuwhof for Electronic Intifada
Unattainable peace…
US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Amman, Jordan, on Friday, June 28, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)
By JAMAL KANJ
BUT for the chap from Khan Younis refugee camp in Gaza who emerged earlier this week as the winner of the “Arab Idol,” the news from Palestine is grim.
