Tag Archives: West Bank
Creeping annexation of the West Bank and wanton cruelty in Gaza: Israel’s March of Folly
Uri Avnery explains Israel’s “cruel… detestable policy” which aims to achieve the “abominable aim” of driving the Palestinians out of the occupied West Bank and replacing them with Jewish settlers, and its mindless cruelty towards Gaza. Read more [...]
By razing Khan al-Ahmar, Israel will bulldoze illusions of peace process
Jonathan Cook says ineffectual European whinging at Israel’s imminent destruction of Khan al-Ahmar shows “there will be no end to the slow-motion erasure of Palestinian communities until Western governments find the nerve to impose biting sanctions on Israel”. Read more [...]
US smooths Israel’s path to annexing West Bank
Jonathan Cook argues that thanks to Trump’s unconditional support, Israel has accelerated its annexation of the occupied West Bank, with the settler-minister Naftali Bennet bragging that after a couple of months world opposition would fade away. Read more [...]
Palestinian students racing against the best with a car made from recycled bits
Stuart Littlewood highlights the impossible challenge facing Palestinian students from the Israeli occupied West Bank as they take on top Western universities at the Silverstone race circuit using recycled bits to manufacture a racing car. Read more [...]
Creating a legal precedent: Palestine considers suing Israel in international sports court
James Dorsey examines the wider implications of plans by the Palestinians to take Israel to the world’s top sports court to force it to ban clubs based in Jewish colonies in the West Bank from playing in Israeli divisions. Read more [...]
Could Hamas’s Haniyeh steer a course to Palestinian freedom?
Stuart Littlewood welcomes the prospect of Ismail Haniyeh replacing Khaled Meshaal as Hamas leader, and hopes that if he does he would amend Hamas’s charter – presently a gift to Israel – and attend to the Palestinians’ communications deficit. Read more [...]
Israel to colour-code “good” and “bad” Palestinians
Jonathan Cook says Israel has resurrected a failed policy to sustain its occupation, comprising sticks and carrots, side-stepping Palestinian leaders by relying on collaborators, and an online propaganda campaign. Read more [...]
Rumblings of mounting discontent among Israelis and Palestinians
James Dorsey says the fabric of Israeli and Palestinian societies is being eroded by a conflict to which a solution seems distant and by societies and leaderships incapable and unwilling to listen to a Palestinian youth whose prospects are dim. Read more [...]
Islamic State terror causes Church leader to question God’s existence
Stuart Littlewood comments on the contradiction of Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby claiming despair at God’s failure to help the distressed, while he himself has shown a marked lack of concern for the persecution of the Christians of Gaza and Bethlehem by Israel. Read more [...]
Hamas and Fatah complicit in the Israeli occupation
Uri Avnery argues that through their divisions and mutual hatreds, Hamas in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank are complicit in the Israeli occupation's strategy of divide and rule. Read more [...]
