Month: March 2008

Israeli military tries to kidnap 10-year-old in Burka village near Nablus  Witnesses told the media that at least 5 Israeli military jeeps invaded the village of Burka on Friday evening. They also stated that the […]

Dozens of residents of Bil’in, a village near Ramallah, took to the streets on Friday in their weekly demonstration protesting against the illegal confiscation of village land through Israel’s continued expansion of the wall. The […]

Occupation forces carried out a widespread demolition operation across the West Bank. Communities in the Jordan Valley were the hardest hit, although people in the Qalqilya district were also affected. Full report from Stop the […]

Robert Fisk: The only lesson we ever learn is that we never learn  19 March 2008 Extracts: How did the people – the senatus populusque Romanus of our modern world – not rise up in […]

For the past several decades, and especially since the Six-Day War in 1967, the centrepiece of US Middle Eastern policy has been its relationship with Israel. The combination of unwavering support for Israel and the […]

   Israeli strategy of collective punishment: No incomes, no jobs fishermen not allowed to fish – 80% under poverty line – unemployment soaring – Egyptian regime fencing in their aprt of the border – prices […]

Hamas popularity on the rise: poll RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) — The popularity of Hamas has risen in recent months since the Gaza Strip’s border breach with Egypt, deadly Israeli strikes and the lack of […]

It’s Not Either / Or – The Israel Lobby  05.01.2006 by Norman G. Finkelstein In the current fractious debate over the role of the Israel Lobby in the formulation and execution of US policies in […]

Survivors’ protest makes foreign journalists gasp, by Daniel Ben Simon Haaretz 07.08.2007 a Jewish state apparently at war with Jewish Holocaust survivors, who were angrily protesting what they considered a miserable stipend offer from the […]

  Norman G. Finkelstein’s original article  A central thesis of my book Beyond Chutzpah is that whenever Israel faces a public relations debacle its apologists sound the alarm that a "new anti-Semitism" is upon us. […]