Israeli settlements

 
James Petras       Intifada Palestine
 
Introduction

The peace efforts of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, have been dismissed by Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, right, as not being worth the paper they are printed on.. AP Photo // EPA/ABIR SULTAN
 
By JAMAL KANJ
Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon articulated publicly what Israeli leaders say privately: Give us your tax money, weapons and your veto power but “leave us alone.”

Nora Barrows-Friedman         Electronic Intifada
 

 
 
 
 Let’s shine a light into the ICC’s dusty corners…
 by Stuart Littlewood

by Finian Cunningham
For more than six decades since its creation in 1948, the Israeli regime has hidden its crimes against native Arab people with the façade of “national security”.
The Israeli usurpers have systematically stolen land from the native Palestinians, killed them, brutalized them, and pushed millions into exile or into squalid ghettos.

 
 
 The Palestinian leadership won’t do it – will you?
by Stuart Littlewood

 
By Ali Abunimah     
 Electronic Intifada
This video shows Israeli occupation forces shooting Palestinian woman Manal Tamimi with a rubber-coated steel bullet at close range.

 
 
JAMAL KANJ*
 
Palestinians and Israelis have met more than twenty times since July 2013 with little progress. Israel security issues dwarfed the final status negotiators while it continued to build, at an accelerated rate, “Jewish only” colonies undermining the very peace talks.