Israel-Palestine conflict (Gaza)

Just a week after his reelection, President Barack Obama is facing a big foreign policy crisis – the escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip following the killing of Hamas’ military wing leader Ahmed Said Khalil al-Jabari on Wednesday by Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic secret service.    Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip and Hamas’ angry reaction to them are …

We Jews are a funny breed. We love to brag about every Jewish actor. Sometimes we even pretend an actor is Jewish just because we like him enough that we think he deserves to be on our team. We brag about Jewish authors, Jewish politicians, Jewish directors. Every time someone mentions any movie or book or piece of art, we …

Despised by Jewish lobbies in United States and Europe well known French philosopher, left wing intellectual and prominent communist author Roger Garaudy died last week   near Paris at the age of 98.  Born into a Catholic and atheist family Garaudy, a holocaust denier, converted  Protestant at the age of 14   before embracing Islam in 1982. As a Muslim he adopted …

  Soldiers on Monday violated the status quo on the esplanade of the mosques in east Jerusalem by raising Israel's flag, the head of theIslamic Waqf organisation that oversees the compound charged. "More than 180 soldiers from a special Israeli army unit today raised a large Israeli flag opposite the mosque of the Rock, which is a grave provocation," Sheikh Azzam al-Khatib told AFP. The sprawling esplanade containing …

JERUSALEM, Apr 15, 2012 (IPS) – As 60 percent of the international activists set to land at Ben Gurion airport Sunday had their plane tickets cancelled, organisers of the ‘Welcome to Palestine’ fly-in campaign condemned what they say is European complicity in Israel’s illegal restrictions on their right to travel freely. "It’s a sign of capitulation and obedience to illegal …

Why does the United Nations remains silent on its own report on Israeli war crimes   on dehumanized and starving Palestinians in Gaza? Where are United States and its UNHCR resolution on Israeli war crimes? These are questions no one dare ask. Raising such questions means paying heavy price- be it UNHRC Commissioner Navi Pillay, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon …