Over the years of Israel’s blockade of the enclave, Hamas fighters created a cobweb of tunnels dug under the Gaza Strip. For obvious military reasons, their very existence was a closely guarded Palestinian military secret and even when their presence could no longer be denied, only the vaguest information was...

Shortly after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau named Chrystia Freeland to the portfolio of Minister for Foreign Affairs, the U.S. State Department triumphantly crowed, by way of a now declassified memorandum, that Canada had adopted an ‘America first foreign policy’. The memo can be viewed on the U.S. State department web...

Citibank on Thursday lowered its forecast for Israel’s economy in 2023 and 2024, citing a drop in investments due to fears over the government’s judicial overhaul and other policy decisions. In a new report, the US bank reduced its 2023 growth projection for Israel from 3.3% to 3.1%, while the...

A Moroccan citizen was sentenced to five years in prison over Facebook posts criticizing the Moroccan monarchy for its normalization of ties with Israel on Monday, 31 July, reported The Guardian. “48-year-old Said Boukioud was found guilty of posting on Facebook, denouncing the normalization of the occupation in a manner that could be...

An Israeli court has ordered the evacuation of some 550 residents of an unrecognized Bedouin village in southern Israel, to build a new neighborhood for the city of Dimona.  The Be’er Sheva Magistrate’s Court accepted the Israel Land Authority’s claims earlier this week, requiring the residents of the unrecognized Bedouin village of Ras Jrabah to...

L’ambassadeur d’Israël en Allemagne, Ron Prosor, s’est fait proprement éjecter d’un café de Berlin tenu par un de ses compatriotes opposé au régime de l’apartheid. « J’ai eu l’honneur de demander à l’ambassadeur d’Israël en Allemagne, qui avait pris place dans mon établissement, de quitter les lieux, lui et ses...

American Jews are growing sceptical of Israeli policies towards Palestinians and want limits on aid to prevent settlement growth

Aid to Israel is now almost exclusively military assistance that can be
used only to buy American weaponry. In reality, it’s not so much aid to
Israel as it is a backdoor subsidy to American military contractors, which
is one reason some Israelis are cool t

Abbas’ brief visit to the devastated Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank on July 12 demonstrated the absurdity and danger of the PA and its 87-year-old leader