Israeli Occupation

by Stuart Littlewood
….Which, in case you’ve forgotten, is to remove your gunslingers and squatters from the West Bank and East Jerusalem (including the Old City), lift the illegal blockade of Gaza, ensure free movement of goods and people between the Palestinian territories, end interference with the Palestinians’ right to trade with and travel to the outside world, return to them the resources Israel has stolen and allow those refugees who wish to return to do so.

Palestinian protesters were neither terrorists nor heroes. “We are just normal people, living under every kind of oppression you can imagine.” “It is about being oppressed some 60, 70 years,” he said. “(The protests) are just the anger that has exploded.”

 
 

By  Killian Redden      

Image: ‘When I am far from Israel, I see my street corner in Tel Aviv and look forward to the moment I can return to it’ … Shlomo Sand. Photograph: Gali Tibbon/Graphic
 
 

Only one possible option for a peaceful resolution of the Israel/Palestine conflict – ONE TRULY DEMOCRATIC STATE WITH EQUAL RIGHTS OF EVERY KIND FOR ALL.

 
 
By Alan Hart
There is one thing above all others that must happen if there is ever to be a peaceful resolution of the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel on the basis of justice for the Palestinians and security for all.
What is the one thing?

Image: Jewish settlers burn, destroy Catholic Church on the banks of the Galilee sea

Smashing the Abbas icon of Palestinian non – violence would herald an end to his era, dooming for a long time to come any prospect for a negotiated peaceful solution.

 
 
By Nicola Nasser*

A schoolgirl was arrested by Israeli soldiers this week as the US media ignored abuses of Palestinian rights. Muhesen Amren APA images

by Rania Khalek                              The Electronic Intifada

By Gideon Levy

Undercover members of the Israeli military detain a Palestinian and fire towards other protesters during clashes in Beit El, on the outskirts of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, on October 7, 2015. (AFP)
 

Israeli soldiers from the Golani Brigade take part in a military exercise in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights near the border with Syria on June 26, 2013. The Golan Heights was seized by Israel from Syria in the 1967 Six Day War. (Photo credit JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)