Ali Abunimah Power Suits 7 March 2018 From left to right, Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after signing energy deals at a summit in Thessaloniki, Greece, in June 2017, that Palestinians say will fuel Israeli impunity. Vasili Ververidi Xinhua The European Union will […]
Posts Tagged ‘settlements’
Upcoming Likud bill is Israel’s latest attempt to annex the settlements
Israel’s ruling Likud party announced last Sunday a new bill that seeks to apply Israeli domestic law directly to settlements. The bill, expected to be introduced in two weeks, is an exact copy of a decision unanimously approved by the Likud Central Committee on December 31, 2017, which would de facto annex all Israeli settlements. […]
UN Releases Report: 206 Corporations Profit From Israeli Settlements
BETHLEHEM – The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a report on Wednesday identifying 206 companies from around the world that are doing business linked to Israeli settlements, which are built in the occupied West Bank in violation of international law. The long-delayed report was initially intended to include the names […]
’Israel’ Fears Hezbollah Infiltration into Northern Settlements
Local Editor 01-02-2018 | 11:45 Roni Daniel, the military commentator for “Israel’s” Channel 12, said that in recent years the “Israeli” army has been carrying out large-scale engineering work to reshape the terrain on the border with Lebanon in a bid to prevent a [Hezbollah] infiltration into the northern settlements. “In exchange for every settlement […]
Israel plans 3 new Jewish settlements in occupied Jordan Valley
Israeli occupation government to build three new Jewish settlements in occupied Jordan Valley, housing about 10,000 Jewish settlers, and to expand existing settlements with 14 new neighbourhoods. On Tuesday, Israeli housing ministry and Jewish National Fund (JNF) released the plan for the illegal building in the occupied Jordan Valley. The plan includes the establishment of […]
Massachusetts lawmakers to vote on anti-BDS bill after going on free trip to Israel and West Bank settlements
On December 7, a day after President Trump announced that the U.S. was recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, 13 Massachusetts legislators made their way to Israel as fully-subsidized guests of a lobby group, the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of Greater Boston. They were due back on December 17. They were accompanied by JCRC head […]
Israel And US Hide Corps Supporting Israeli Settlements
Israel And US Hide Corps Supporting Israeli Settlements Above Photo: A bulldozer belonging to Israeli authority demolishes three building of Palestinians in the Masafer Yatta neighbourhood of southern Hebron, West Bank, on August 14, 2017, under the observation of Israeli forces. (Photo by Mamoun Wazwaz / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images) In December 2016 the United […]
Top Israeli official admits that boycotting just the settlements is meaningless
Ladies and gentlemen, this is huge. A professional Israeli propagandist – Ron Brummer, chief of operations in Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Hasbara, has said recently: “Israel does not have two different economic ecosystems, like, Israel within the green line and Israel over the green line. If you want to divest from the West […]
Good advice from Israeli official. “Boycotting our illegal settlements is meaningless, you may as well boycott israel” #BDS
Ladies and gentlemen, this is huge. A professional Israeli propagandist – Ron Brummer, chief of operations in Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Hasbara, has said recently: Israel does not have two different economic ecosystems, like, Israel within the green line and Israel over the green line. If you want to divest from the West […]
‘One step further into the annexation of the West Bank’: Israeli cabinet to vote on annexing West Bank settlements into Jerusalem
Israeli cabinet members on Sunday will vote on a bill seeking to annex large swaths of land into the Jerusalem municipality. The bill, coined the “Greater Jerusalem Bill,” will go to Knesset vote after what is expected to be an approval by the cabinet, however moving through the Knesset could prove difficult, as religious hardliners […]
Danish pension fund blacklists four Israeli companies linked to settlements
Following a report released by Danwatch in January, Denmark’s third largest pension fund, Sampension, moved to exclude four publicly traded companies from their portfolio due to their investments in illegal Israeli settlement activities. The move is a major win for the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which has increasingly come under fire in recent […]
American pressure over settlements ‘temporary,’ says Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told leaders of Israeli Jewish settlers that US pressure on Israel over settlement is “temporary,” officials at Netanyahu’s office told Haaretz on Wednesday. The officials also said that Netanyahu had convinced US to take the distinction between settlement blocs and isolated settlements off the table. During a meeting with Israeli settlement […]
Israel Moves To Thwart UN List Of Companies Complicit In Illegal Settlements
The Israeli government and its allies are mobilizing to try and thwart a United Nations list of companies complicit in illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). These efforts are taking place in parallel to significant initiatives by figures within and outside of the Israeli government to normalize the presence of the settlements, moves […]
Settlements Are Israel’s ‘Defensive Wall’ Says Defence Minister
According to Israel’s Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman, ilegal settlements in the occupied West Bank act as a defensive shield to ensure Israel’s security. Speaking at an event celebrating the Jewish New Year, Lieberman stressed that settlements were increasingly necessary as Israel faces threats from missiles and cyber-attacks. From my perspective, it’s clear that the settlements […]
PLO slams Israel’s approval of 4,000 new settlements in East Jerusalem al-Quds
Press TV – The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) says the Tel Aviv regime’s approval of plans to construct over 4,000 new settler units in the occupied Palestinian territories shows it does not believe in a so-called two-state solution. On Wednesday, a senior PLO executive committee member, Ahmad Majdalani, said Tel Aviv’s approval of the plans are another attempt […]
A burning Zionist and non-Zionist debate the settlements
What follows is a translation of a debate I had with Jonatan Møller Sousa in Copenhagen, aired as a podcast (in Danish) by Action Aid Denmark on the 50th anniversary of Israel’s 1967 war and ensuing occupation earlier this month. Sousa calls himself a ‘burning Zionist’, whilst I regard myself a non-Zionist. Sousa has been the […]
BIS – Secret NAZI JEW Bank of International Settlements Switzerland
BIS – Secret NAZI JEW Bank of International Settlements Switzerland
Israel pushes to legalize West Bank settlements as Trump arrives in Tel Aviv
Israel plans construction of 15,000 new settlements in E. Jerusalem Israel’s security cabinet created a committee on Sunday night tasked with legalizing West Bank outposts and illegal settlements, the Jerusalem Post reports. The new body will include members of the prime minister’s office, the Defense Ministry and civil administration. Last December, the Israeli parliament, the […]
Massachusetts Dems Battle Over Proposal To Condemn Illegal Israeli Settlements
A Jewish settler carries an rifle as he participates in a protest against the Palestinian bid for statehood, outside the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, near the West Bank town of Hebron (A.P/Bernat Armangue) Advertisment The Massachusetts Democratic Party has been plunged into turmoil by a proposed resolution stating that […]
Anti-settlements resolution could be ‘last straw’ for many Massachusetts Dems, warns party boss in AIPAC’s pocket
State Democratic Party heavyweights are sounding a red alert against a provocative proposal for their state committee to declare opposition to Israeli settlements in the West Bank without specifically mentioning Palestinian violence, a step some top leaders fear would lead to an exodus of Democratic voters… Grossman… said it feeds a “one-sided blame game,” which […]
Israeli rabbi who advocated rape of ‘comely gentile women’ during war becomes chief army rabbi
Just on my way to my flight from Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport, I noticed this cover headline in the Yediot Aharonot newspaper front page: “New IDF Chief Rabbi: It is permissible to rape during war”. Under that: “Major Col. Eyal Qarim has declared in the past “draft of girls is totally forbidden” – and claimed […]
David Cameron Authorizes Deployment Of More Forces On Russian Borders
David Cameron has authorized more troop deployment to other European countries in a show of force against Russia in the aftermath of leaving the European Union (EU). The British prime minister, who was attending a NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland, is expected to make a case against those who doubt London’s commitment’s to the security […]
Meet Israeli war minister
By Mahmoud el-Yousseph Meet the new Israeli War Minister Avigdor Lieberman. He is a former night club bouncer from the Republic of Moldova who moved into an illegal Jewish settlement in the Israeli occupied Palestinian West Bank. Lieberman has the following on his resume: He declared on Israeli TV that if appointed as defence minister, […]
US House of Representatives blocks Boeing sales to Iran
The Republican-weighted US House of Representatives has approved measures to block sale of Boeing aircraft to Iran. The lawmakers voted by voice Thursday to pass two amendments barring Boeing from a deal with Tehran. Peter Roskam, a Republican lawmaker from Illinois, sponsored the amendment, arguing the three commercial plane models Tehran is supposed to buy […]
Opioid crisis: How did we get here?
President Obama spoke in Atlanta at a summit on how to curb the opioid epidemic. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque How can it be that nearly half a million people in the U.S. are addicted to heroin and another two million have substance use disorders related to prescription drug abuse? In 2014, opioid overdose killed more than 28,000 […]
‘It’s a real problem if the thing we get upset about is stones’ –Ehrenreich deflects talking points on public radio
We’re closely following the reception of Ben Ehrenreich’s big new book, The Way to the Spring, because he is offering American media a fresh opportunity to discover the simple truths of occupation: that overwhelming military enforcement of apartheid and dispossession in occupied territories will spark resistance, including (horrors!) the throwing of stones by young men. […]