Intifada Palestine

ShareThe deputy prime minister of Greece has sent back to the Israeli Embassy in Athens three bottles of wine given to him as a gift, because they were produced in the Golan, which “belongs to Syria” and is “illegally occupied.” The embassy had given the wine to Theodoros Pangalos – MP for the socialist party [...]

ShareJonathan Cook, Foreign Correspondent The National April 05. 2009 Nazareth, Israel // The new administrations in the United States and Israel could collide over how to deal with Iran’s nuclear ambitions, threatening to strain their close, long-standing relationship. The White House under Barack Obama has made conciliatory gestures towards Tehran, culminating in a video statement [...]

Share Analysis by Khalid Amayreh in Occupied East Jerusalem The main challenge facing the new right-wing government in Israel is not going to be the moribund peace process with the Palestinians, but rather the depressive crisis now haunting the Israeli economy. Some economists label the current crisis as the “harshest in Israel’s history.” Manifestations of [...]

ShareHazem Jamjoum, The Electronic Intifada, In recent years, increasing numbers of individuals around the world have begun adopting and developing an analysis of Israel as an apartheid regime. This can be seen in the ways that the global movement in support of the Palestinian anti-colonial struggle is taking on a pointedly anti-apartheid character, as evidenced [...]

ShareChanging the Rules of War  By GEORGE BISHARAT The extent of Israel’s brutality against Palestinian civilians in its 22-day pounding of the Gaza Strip is gradually surfacing. Israeli soldiers are testifying to lax rules of engagement tantamount to a license to kill. One soldier commented: “That’s what is so nice, supposedly, about Gaza: You see [...]