Tag: West Bank
The Gaza blitz: winners and losers
Uri Avnery assesses the winners and losers from the latest Israeli blitz on Gaza and argues that the obvious, unequivocal conclusion to draw is that Israel must talk directly with Hamas.
Israel’s sewage war
The illegal Jewish settlement of Beitar Illit regularly opens its sewage tanks on to the farmlands of the Palestinian village of Wadi Fuqeen, ruining crops, contaminating the water and endangering health.
Gaza and after the ceasefire
Stuart Littlewood says that, now that the Gaza slaughter is in abeyance, Western politicians will revert to form, fawning at Israeli leaders and rewarding them for their crimes.
Tear gas in Bethlehem and bombings in Gaza
Not content with trashing Gaza, the Israeli occupation army – “the most moral army in the world" – is taking it out on Bethlehem, invading the town and firing tear gas at
Still weeping for Gaza
Stuart Littlewood assesses the deteriorating situation in the occupied Palestinian territories – the living conditions in Gaza and a president , Mahmoud Abbas, seen as illegitimate and an Israeli stooge.
Ramallah protests ominous for Israeli occupation
Uri Avnery argues that Israel’s strangulation of the Palestinian economy means that a “Palestinian Spring” targeted at the Israeli occupation may come sooner rather than later.
Checkpoints and house demolitions
Our special correspondent shares her experience of the Israeli-occupied West Bank where she saw the Apartheid Wall, new Jews-only roads and an ambulance being turned back at a checkpoint.
Arabs reward Zionist aggression
The so-called “Middle East peace process” may be about to start moving, but in the wrong direction. On 29 April, Sheikh Hamad bin Jasim al-Thani, the Qatari prime minister and foreign minister,