A YouTube video showing a dancing Israeli soldier shimmying near a bound and blindfolded Palestinian woman went viral on the Internet embarrassing the Israeli military and fueling fresh debate about morals and accountability in the armed forces.
Israel's foreign minister wants to redraw the country's borders, excluding some Arab citizens. The announcement comes amongst heightened tensions in the region due to Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. (what a surprise) Foreign Minister Avigdor Liebe
Over the last ten years, the Israel Defense Forces have increasingly restricted Palestinian access to farmland on the Gazan side of the Israeli-Gaza border as well as to fishing zones along the Gaza beach, a United Nations report revealed Thursday.
One week after banning women smoking pipes in public Hamas Islamic movement that controls the Gaza Strip has banned shops from displaying women’s underwear in their windows, saying it offends public morality.
On July 18, a bombshell report appeared in the Israeli daily Yediot Aharanot. The was buried on page 8 as a small news item, stated that 550 officers and soldiers who participated in Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip in late 2008 and early 2009 have
Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that there were never any humanitarian supplies or equipment aboard the Mavi Marmara, where Israeli commandos were ambushed by armed mercenaries posing as peace activists.
When they finished they took a knife and expanded the wound he already had in his stomach. They cut his ab muscles horizontally and by hand spilled his guts out.
As Israel ordered a slight easing of its blockade of Gaza, McClatchy obtained an Israeli government document that describes the blockade not as a security measure but as "economic warfare" against the [elected] Islamist group Hamas, which rules the P
Contrary to popular opinion, many Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza live a middle class (and in some cases an upper class) lifestyle that western journalists refuse to report because it doesn’t fit with their simplistic story.
Israel allowed some earlier ships to reach Gaza and stopped others, boarding a boat in at least one case. The largest flotilla by far, was dominated not by Free Gaza but by three ships sent by an Islamic group that is alleged to have ties to Hamas.
Unedited version of video that has been released previously, though heavily edited, by Israel in an attempt to back its version of the raid on the unarmed Gaza aid flotilla.
Actual footage of "Mavi Mamara" activist weapons uncovered before and after the IDF ship raid, television interviews with vessel passengers prior to the raid along with actual footage of Mavi passengers readying to attack Israeli commandos.
Bulent Yildirim, who was deported from Israel along with hundreds of other foreigners who tried breaching an Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip, said activists grabbed weapons from IDF commandos, but then threw them into the sea.
"We have got to understand that people in third world countries think and care and smile and cry just like us. We have got to understand that they dream our dreams and we dream theirs." -R Corrie, age 10
The MV Rachel Corrie, a cargo ship in the Freedom Flotilla whose passage from Ireland was delayed by mechanical difficulties, is now hours away from its destination.
"I commend this courageous action of brave international civilians who are carryi
"One of the nine people killed in the Israeli raid on an aid flotilla Monday was a 19-year-old man with dual U.S.-Turkish citizenship, a U.S. State Department official said," CBS News reports.
Israel on Thursday resisted calls for an international inquiry to investigate its lethal seizure of a Turkish ship bound for blockaded Gaza. The United States, less outspoken than most of Israel's enemies and friends backed calls for an international
Wrong intelligence, wrong guns, wrong tactics. Israel's military acknowledged big mistakes on Tuesday during the bungled boarding of a Gaza-bound aid ship in which elite troops killed nine international activists.
Israel raids humanitarian flotilla (a lot of wounded--at least one guy convulsing in death and the raid itself--you have been warned) in Arabic. al-Jazeera video At least nine switching cameras--fairly raw footage from the raided vessel.
The White House speaking on the eve of a meeting of President Obama with the Israeli Prime Minister, said the US "deeply regrets the loss of life and injuries sustained" in the incident and are "currently working to understand the circumstances surro
Irish Senator Mark Daly (Kerry), one of 35 parliamentarians joining our flotilla, agreed to carry any letter and to attempt to deliver it to Shalit or, if that request was denied, deliver it to officials in the Hamas government. As of this writing, t
Norman Finkelstein clarifies Israel's invasion of Gaza December '08 was a one-sided war, disproportionate use of force, crime against humanity, a disgrace. He relies on Goldstone Report, among others, and testimony of Israeli soldiers. At the Brech
Let there be no mistake: President Obama’s attack on Israel’s right to govern in eastern Jerusalem has nothing to do with American national interests, and nothing to do with a “peace process.” Other American leaders may have disagreed with Israeli po
Claims by the son of a Hamas founder in his new book that he was a long-term spy for Israel exposed a new side of the Islamic militant group's vulnerability and punched a hole in its meticulously groomed image of secrecy and discipline.
Israel has disciplined two army officers for ordering artillery fire into a populated area during last year's Gaza Strip war, the most serious penalties disclosed in the country's follow-up investigation into the brief but intense conflict.
The question we have to ask is this: If anybody treated us like we're treating the people in Gaza, what would we do? We don't want to go there, do we? And because we don't, we make it our business not to see, hear or think about how we are treating t
Written By: Candy Marshall
I was very disappointed to read that your organization thinks that HB 1388 has anything at all to do with Hamas. It doesn't. What the bill actually is "Mandatory Volunteerism" of this great nation's children between the ages of 18-25. Of co
ISRAEL admitted that in the 1990s, its forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead bodies, including Palestinians, without their families' permission. Huge controversy over an allegation that Israel was killing Palestinians to harvest their orga
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