“For every settler home built, Palestinians lose territory needed not only for a state but also to keep individual families living where they are now. The innocuous term “settlements” conceals their true role: as Israel’s primary vehicle for ethnic cleansing Palestinians through dispossession and harassment”
by Jonathan Cook
by Dr. Lawrence Davidson
M. J. Rosenberg
Part I – Down with BDS, Up with the Two-State Solution
With no hopes in sight for ending the Israeli Occupation, let alone ending the ever-expanding settlements, certainly for a “two states solution” time for Mahmoud Abbas to keep his often-stated promise (last one on December 28, 2012) to disband the PA/PLO and hand over the Keys to Bibi Netanyahu, Barack Obama and John Kerry.
EU to bar all member states from funding Israeli settlements
A 27 February 2013 files photo shows laborers working on the construction of home in the Israeli settlement of Har Homa in Israeli annexed Arab East Jerusalem. (Photo: AFP – Menahem Kahana)
An EU directive will bar all 28 member states from dealings with Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, including annexed Arab east Jerusalem, sparking attacks from Israeli officials Tuesday.
Quo vadis, Palestine? … as PLO prepares to get bogged down (again) in bogus US-Israel negotiations
by Stuart Littlewood – Intifada Palestine
The Palestinian embassy in London has just issued a rare media briefing. It asks “WHAT IS NEEDED FOR THE RESUMPTION OF CREDIBLE NEGOTIATIONS?” and tries to explain the Palestinian position.
