Palestine Information Center | May 17, 2018 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM – Over 1,000 children have been injured by Israeli forces in the besieged Gaza Strip during demonstrations since March 30, according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The UN body pointed out that some injuries had been severe and potentially life-altering, including amputations. “Recent violence has […]
Internationally-acclaimed and award-winning photographer, Tanya Habjouqa [Happeningarts/Twitter] MEMO | May 17, 2018 An internationally-acclaimed, award-winning photographer was shot by an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, reports the Art Newspaper. Tanya Habjouqa, who won the 2014 World Press photo award, was struck in the leg by a rubber-coated metal bullet fired by […]
(MEE) — “Fuck Turkey.” That was the message the Israeli prime minister’s son gave to the world, as a state-level row with Ankara over Israel’s killing of 62 Palestinians on Monday descended into the bawdiest of insults. Yair Netanyahu posted the message on Instagram on Wednesday, as Israel and Turkey expelled each other’s top diplomats after […]
Press TV – May 17, 2018 The Israeli minister of military affairs has lashed out at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for its condemnation of the recent Gaza carnage, saying Tel Aviv and the US should immediately withdraw from the Geneva-based body. In a post on his Twitter account, Avigdor Lieberman claimed that […]
Bypass Mainstream Media | May 15, 2018
On 14 of May 1948 – Israel declared unilaterally her independence in a foreign land, called Palestine, supported by a UN Resolution sponsored by the UK (the United Nations “Partition Plan of Palestine” at the end of the British Mandate (euphemism for British ‘colony’), was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 29 November 1947 as Resolution 181 II).
(ANTIWAR.COM) — Speaking to the Jewish Federations of North America, Israeli Army spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus conceded that the military had failed in efforts to minimize Gaza casualties earlier this week, and had effectively handed Hamas a PR ‘knockout’ victory. Opening fire on protesters during Nakba Day on the Gaza border, Israeli forces killed 61 Palestinians and wounded […]
The recent, deadly violence in Gaza between Palestinian protestors and Israeli soldiers leaves over 60 dead and 2,300 people injured.
The ceremony for the US Embassy opening in Jerusalem added gasoline to an already explosive situation. Is a Palestinian/Israeli solution officially unattainable?
The Duran breaks it down in the video below…
The gaping chasm between reality and unreality is exemplified by recent contrasting statements about journalism from two veteran reporters. On the one side we have Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s Middle East editor, who enjoys a public image of principled honesty and a supposedly fierce commitment to news balance and impartiality.
May 14th was quite a day for the empire, the shit show on full display exhibiting lots of swagger in its death throes. The people on the inside are the last to know. They don’t see it but everyone else does. The rest of the world can see the toxic death culture, they see the rationalizations for idiocy and how silly they seem. The US empire has no clothes but wears only a paper thin emotional veneer resembling a child who attempts to lie for the first time after murdering the family dog. This is the modern American mind of empire.
