I came a bit late to the Arab-Israeli session but I managed to capture this moment of an exchange that took place on stage between Shimon Peres and Saeb Erekat. There’s a moment right at the beginning of this video that I felt was interesting.

You can read more about the session […]

“I decided to murder an Arab.” - 26-year-old Tel Aviv resident Julian Soufir, confessing to police after slitting the throat of an Arab taxi driver.
Two Israeli brothers have been detained in connection with the stabbing to death of a Palestinian taxi driver in an apparent hate crime, police said. Julian Soufir, 25, has been ordered […]

Human rights groups say Israeli curbs on Palestinians in the West Bank town of Hebron have forced thousands of them to leave homes and close businesses. B’Tselem and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel said Israel had in effect expropriated central Hebron to protect some 650 Jewish settlers there. Israel had breached the Geneva […]

Four days ago, Israeli military went into a refugee camp and a violent exchange took place between soldiers and Palestinian fighters. During the gunfight a pregnant Palestinian woman was shot and lost her child. This is how various international media reported it:
A pregnant Palestinian woman lost her baby after being shot by Israeli troops during […]

The Soviets built the Berlin wall to try and keep East Berliners from leaving.
Then the Israeli’s built the Seperation wall, to keep suicide bombers out while making a land grab.
Then the American’s started building walls to surround Sunni communities in Baghdad.
What’s with the world and walls? I thought the metaphor was “building bridges” not walls? […]

“You can’t use them as human shields, it is against the law.” - A foreign peace activist telling Israeli soldiers who forced two Palestinian youths to stand in front of their jeep in Ramallah to avoid stones being thrown at them. The activist recorded the incident on tape prompting the Israeli army to suspend the […]

I have no idea what it is, but there’s something about the word “Jew”, that once spoken out loud by me or overheard during a conversation or a TV show or even read in its written form, by me; there’s just something about that utterance that makes me feel like I’m saying, hearing or reading […]

It would be a little ironic that the more Israel digs in that area in search of its ancient history, the more Islamic history it will unearth. This is, by the way, the same Mugrabi Bridge that has recently been controversial.
JERUSALEM, Israel, Feb. 19 (UPI) — Remains of a Muslim prayer room were unearthed […]

According to international law all Israeli settlements in the West Bank are illegal, but (prepare to be shocked) the Israeli group Peace Now has said that according to a leaked 2004 survey by the Civil Administration, as much as 40% of those settlements are built on Arab land and are thus “effectively stolen” from Palestinian […]

As Israel’s massacre of 19 civilians last week disappears off the media’s radar, Israel has started taking a more PR-friendly approach to illegal assassinations. Something that would allow them to launch a missile into a refugee camp in the middle of the night without the world getting pissed off. Calling 10 minutes in advance to […]

Sine 2004 about 9 Israelis have been killed by the very crude Qassam rockets that militants have fired into Israel. This past Wednesday a 57 year old Israeli woman died, the first Israeli casualty in the past 16 months. A total of 13 Qassam rockets had landed that day and during her funeral 4 of […]

Hours after the latest US veto in the UNSC on Israel’s Beit Hanoun massacre, Arab ministers met and the Arab league’s Chief Amr Moussa called the veto “incomprehensible”. After the usual lengthy meeting the ministers decided it was time to end the freeze on Palestinian aide in protest of the incomprehensible veto. Arab banks have […]

Gaza: While the world looked elsewhere, another week of death and misery
By Donald Macintyre In Beit Hanoun
Published: 11 November 2006
Majdi Saad Athamneh couldn’t easily explain why he had come back after Friday prayers yesterday to the now empty, four-storey breeze-block building where it had all happened two days earlier. “I don’t know,” he said […]

Four Months. 247 Palestinians dead. 155 of them, “official” civilians. 57 children. 996 wounded. 337 of them are children.
You know that the slaughter of Palestinians has reached new heights when Israel actually apologises. It’s a rare event and it usually comes at a very high cost. This was the price tag:

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