Image: (L) Foreign Minister Javad Zarif (R) ( Secretary of State John Kerry. (FLICKR}
By Kourosh Ziabari • January 24, 2016
The “diplomatic coup” triggered by Iran and the US has given rise to a new era in Tehran’s relations with the international community.
A demonstration commemorating the 38th Land Day, Jaffa, March 30, 2014. Land Day is held every year to mark the deaths of six Palestinians protesters at the hands of Israeli police and troops during mass demonstrations on March 30, 1976, against plans to confiscate Arab land in Galilee. (Keren Manor/ Activestills.org)
Israel can’t continue to use the Jewish victims of the Holocaust to justify its racist and malevolent policies against non-Jewish citizens of Israel
The Wall was not built on, or in most cases near the 1967 Green Line, but rather cuts deep into the West Bank, expanding Israel’s theft of Palestinian land and resources. In total, 85% of the Wall is located in the West Bank Image credit: Deliberation.info
by Stuart Littlewood
At its Annual General Meeting last weekend the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) threw out a proposal to seek Israel’s expulsion from the United Nations.
Whatever else the Palestinian intifada may be accomplishing, it does seem to be driving average Israelis into a frenzy, apparently even triggering hallucinations in their heads in some cases. In the above video we see a young Palestinian woman being held to the ground while a mob debates whether or not to kill her. “Why are you playing around? They are coming to murder our children!” one of them screams at one point–while at another the young girl is kicked in the head. The incident apparently took place on October 12.
Talks in Geneva may produce little of substance, but winners and losers are starting to emerge
by Patrick Cockburn
Originally appeared at The Independent
The Russian 5th column: Chubais, Iudaeva, Dvorkovich, Shuvalov, Nabiullina, Kudrin, Uliukaev, Siluanov, Medvedev
by The Saker
The Unz Review
Image Credit: Vice News
Orginally appeared at Sputnik
The Islamic State(also known as Daesh) is the bastard child of the US’s drive to achieve regime change in Syria.
Dr. Zvi Zameret, former director of instruction of Israel’s education ministry – Image Credit: Tikun Olam
by Richard Silverstein
Tikun Olam
by Richard Silverstein
Originally appeared at Mint Press News
SEATTLE — While addressing Israel’s leading national security think tank on Monday, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro offered a harsh, relatively unprecedented assessment of the country’s apartheid legal system.
