Palestinians

Image: Palestinian men look on as a bomb from an Israeli air strike hits a house in Gaza City on August 23, 2014. Photo by AFP
 
 

 Palestinian security forces fire tear gas towards Palestinian stone throwing demonstrators as they block them from heading towards an Israeli check point in the center of the West Bank town of Hebron on August 22, 2014, durung clashes following a protest to show support for Palestinian militants fighting against the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip.
 

Suhail Khalilieh a researcher at the Applied Research Institute in Jerusalem noted that the Israeli government is adopting the policy of “silent settlement expansion” likely because it fears an increase in popular anger in the West Bank and a rise in international pressures on Israel

Image: Fatou Bensouda, the international criminal court prosecutor. Photograph: Michael Kooren/AFP/Getty Images 
 

 First we must free ourselves from the clutches of the Enemy Within. Only then will Israel be brought to account and the Palestinian know peace and prosperity.

 
Western leaders ‘nobble’ the International Criminal Court
 

Image: Thousands of Palestinian Hamas supporters follow the body three of Hamas senior commanders during their funeral in Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip, on August 21, 2014.(photo credit: AFP Photo/Thomas Coex)
 

But as of now, the man who has the final decision is the Son of Death, Mohammed Deif, if he is alive and kicking. If not, his successor. If he is alive, the assassination of his wife and baby son may not have made him gentler and more peaceable.

Image credit: The Unz Review
 
 

Image: Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and California Gov. Jerry Brown (2nd L) sign a pact to strengthen economic and research ties between California and Israel at the Computer History Museum on March 5, 2014 in Mountain View. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
 
 

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, in an exclusive article for Haaretz, calls for a global boycott of Israel and urges Israelis and Palestinians to look beyond their leaders for a sustainable solution to the crisis in the Holy Land.

Image: Demonstration against Zionist Colonization British rule 1920

CNN continues to foster the fantasy that the very existence of a poor, vulnerable little Israel is in grave danger from big, bad Palestine. It makes no mention of the fact that Israel has the most modern weaponry on the planet, provided by the United States, or that Israel receives $3 billion a year in aid from the U.S., while Palestine receives nothing. It also doesn’t mention that many of the weapons used against Palestinians citizens are in violation of international law.

Half-truths, Omissions and Distortions