Palestine

Top designer of Trump’s Middle East peace plan Jason Greenblatt resigning

RT | September 5, 2019 A chief author of US President Donald Trump’s still under-wraps Middle East peace plan, Jason Greenblatt, will leave his post in government after the contentious deal is unveiled – though it’s unclear why. The president announced Greenblatt’s resignation by tweet on Thursday afternoon, stating his top negotiator and longtime legal […]

UNRWA’s existence might be contested, but it is essential for Palestine refugees

By Francesca Albanes and Terry Rempel | MEMO | September 4, 2019 These are dire times for UNRWA, the UN agency established to care for refugees displaced from Palestine at the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. As the Agency approaches its seventieth anniversary, with its mandate up for renewal by the UN […]

How to confront Israel’s annexation of the occupied West Bank

By Dr Youssef Rizqa | MEMO | September 4, 2019 While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is doing everything possible to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Authority is still doing everything possible to coordinate with Israel’s security agencies, suppressing every new resistance cell, most recently the one in Nablus. If the […]

Hundreds Take Part in Direct Action against UK Arms Trade with Israel

IMEMC News & Agencies – September 3, 2019 The UK Department for International Trade has officially invited the government of Israel to DSEI, despite a UN report earlier in the year stating that Israel’s repression of unarmed Palestinian protestors may have constituted “war crimes or crimes against humanity”. Organizers Palestine Solidarity Campaign and War On […]

Facebook threatens to block Palestine news site for using the term ‘Hezbollah’

MEMO | September 3, 2019 Facebook has threatened to block the page of Quds News Network and stop its work on the social media site after it publishing news about the Lebanon’s Hezbollah, QNN told MEMO. The threat came through a notice sent to QNN’s Facebook page as a result of the network’s coverage of […]

Israel’s Many Wars

Escalating could be intended to involve the United States By Philip Giraldi • Unz Review • September 3, 2019 Two years ago I wrote an article entitled “America’s Jews Are Driving America’s Wars.” Though I made clear in the piece that I was writing about specific, identifiable Jews who fund and staff the think-tanks and […]

What if the Palestinians Won a Battle and No One Knew?

By Eve Mykytyn | September 2, 2019 There is a lawsuit, Al-Tammimi v. Adelson, that is making its way through the federal courts. The lawsuit was brought by a group of  Palestinians and Palestinian/Americans asking for damages of 34.5 billion dollars resulting from Israeli settlements in the West Bank including East Jerusalem and the Gaza […]

24 Palestinian journalists held in Israeli jails

Israeli soldier attacks AFP journalist during protest against building illegal settlements and the separation wall at Kafr Qaddum village, Nablus, West Bank on March 22, 2019 Nedal Eshtayah / Anadolu Agency MEMO – September 2, 2019 Israel’s military occupation authorities continue to target Palestinian journalists, the Journalist Support Committee (JSC) said on Sunday, Quds Press […]