Intifada Palestine

Alan Hart
“If he [Obama] went over the heads of Congress and used his rhetorical skill to explain to his people why it is not in America’s own best interests to go on supporting Israel right or wrong, there’s a chance that he could win the argument..”

Middle East Monitor
At the time of year when huge swathes of the world’s population remember the birth of Jesus in the little town of Bethlehem, let us remember that Palestinian Christians in that special place are suffering along with their Muslim neighbours. Ethnic cleansing is a crime against humanity. Failure to act makes our governments complicit in that crime

Maidhc Ó Cathail
Even those familiar with the long and shameful history of America’s appeasement of Israel were taken aback by the Obama administration’s extraordinary offer to Netanyahu.

Middle East Monitor
Linan’s health “has deteriorated as a result of the hunger strike and there is a threat to her life because the prison administration has placed her in solitary confinement as a punishment”.

Maidhc Ó Cathail
In exchange for a paltry one-off 90 day freeze on illegal settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank (excluding East Jerusalem), Israel will get 20 F-35 stealth fighter jets worth $3 billion and a slew of other goodies. Yet Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reportedly gave up to eight hours with Netanyahu trying to persuade him to accept “one of the most generous bribes ever bestowed by the United States on any foreign power.