Palestinians

Israeli Bill Seeks to Criminalize Documentation of Soldiers’ Human Rights Violations

(MEMO) — The Israeli Ministerial Committee for Legislation will discuss, Sunday, a bill that would prohibit the documentation of Israeli soldiers’ human rights violations against Palestinian citizens. On Thursday, Israel Hayom explained that the chairman of Yisrael Beiteinu bloc in the Knesset, Robert Ilatov, proposed the bill with the support of his party’s leader, Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor […]

‘War Crimes’: Palestine Demands International Criminal Court Investigate Israel

(MEE) — Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki asked prosecutors at the International Criminal Court on Tuesday to launch a full investigation into accusations of Israeli human rights abuses on Palestinian territory, saying the evidence was “insurmountable”. Maliki submitted a “referral” giving the prosecutor at the Hague-based court the legal basis to move beyond a preliminary inquiry started […]

Trump jeopardizes global diplomacy

Much has been said about US President Donald Trump leaving the Iran deal: that this is in blatant disregard of basic rules of the international law on treaties and that this is the behavior of the bully, profoundly disrespectful towards the other partners in the treaty – France, Great-Britain, Russia, China and Germany.
And last, but not least, that this comes down to a declaration of war against Iran.
In many ways this is indeed a historical setback.
The consequences of Trump’s decision will be felt for decades to come.

How American Media Blames the Victims of Israel’s Gaza Massacre

(FAIR) — Israel massacred 60 Palestinians on Monday, including seven children, bringing to 101 the total number of Palestinians Israel has killed since Palestinians began the Great March on March 30. In that period, Israel has killed 11 Palestinian children, two journalists, one person on crutches and three persons with disabilities. Monday’s casualties included 1,861 wounded, bringing total injuries inflicted […]

Muslim Countries Call for ‘International Force’ to Protect Palestinians

Turkey’s Erdogan compares Israel’s actions against Palestinians to Nazi persecution of Jews. (MEE) — A summit of Muslim leaders in Istanbul on Friday, chaired by Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, called for an international force to protect the Palestinians after Israel killed dozens on the Gaza border. The final communique issued by leaders of the Organisation of […]

Jerusalem, Trump, the Christian Zionist Crusade & the Biblical Apocalypse…

Well, that was bloody insane – all of it. But then we appear to be living in an insane asylum in which the inmates have taken control. If you ever needed a more perverse and overt expression of the incestousness nature of the Trump/Netanyahu relationship – and indeed of the Zionist/End-Timers fanaticism that I keep […]

Turkey Expelled Israeli Diplomats after Israeli Soldiers Killed 60 Palestinian Protesters

President Tayyip Erdogan described Monday’s bloodshed as genocide and called Israel a terrorist state. This is the most severe diplomatic conflict between the two regional powers since Israeli marines stormed an aid ship to enforce a naval blockade of Gaza in 2010, killing ten Turkish activists and prompting a downgrade in diplomatic ties that lasted until 2016. [...]

US Praises Israeli ‘Restraint’ After It Uses Chemical Weapons on Civilians in Gaza

(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) — A powerful government’s military unleashed chemical weapons on a crowd of protesters in Gaza this week, but Team America-World Police is nowhere to be found. That’s because the government that launched the attack is Israel’s, and the United States has a habit of ignoring its allies’ crimes and suppressions of dissent. A tear gas […]

Names and Faces of Those Killed by Israeli Forces This Week in Gaza

Eight-month-old Laila is youngest Palestinian killed in Gaza on Monday, the deadliest day since 2014 war. (MEE) — Sixty-one people were either killed or died of wounds inflicted by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip on Monday and Tuesday as thousands of Palestinians demonstrated across the occupied territory to mark the 70th anniversary of the Nakba. Middle […]