Israeli settlements

 Letter to another dishonest “peace” broker…bent on bypassing the justice process
 
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the Mukataa compound, in the West Bank city of Ramallah July 19, 2013. 

 UK MP and Israel critic David Ward is suspended from party
 
David Ward has been suspended from the Lib Dems
by Stuart Littlewood  -  Intifada Palestine

Israel lobby draws the ‘red lines’ and dictates ‘precise terms’ for future Liberal Democrat debate, apparently

EU to bar all member states from funding Israeli settlements
A 27 February 2013 files photo shows laborers working on the construction of home in the Israeli settlement of Har Homa in Israeli annexed Arab East Jerusalem. (Photo: AFP – Menahem Kahana)
 
An EU directive will bar all 28 member states from dealings with Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, including annexed Arab east Jerusalem, sparking attacks from Israeli officials Tuesday.

Treatment of Palestinians is apartheid by any other name

by Jonathan Cook  -  The National

Palestinians sue US groups over support for settler attacks
Children walk past Hebrew-language graffiti reading “price tag,” referring to settler attacks on Palestinian property.(Wagdi Eshtayah / APA images)
 
 
Charlotte Silver -The Electronic Intifada 
 

Report details ill-treatment of Palestinian children by Israeli forces

 
Physical violence during arrest, transfer or interrogation occured in 74 percent of the 108 affidavits collected by DCI-Palestine during 2012 from Palestinian children.

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.

Americans give $274 million to aid Israeli settlements

 
Submitted by Adri Nieuwhof for Electronic Intifada

The Crime of Indifference – An Analysis by Lawrence Davidson
 
Elie Wiesel
 by Lawrence Davidson
Part I – Indifference
 

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.