Cave-dwelling Palestinian farmers facing eviction from homes

By Adrian Blomfield, Jenba, the West Bank 10:22PM BST 13 May 2012 Israel’s defence ministry is expected to seek court approval this week to destroy up to 12 traditional “fellaheen” communities situated in an area designated as a training zone for the occupying Israeli army. The issue has threatened to heighten tensions with the Palestinian [...]

Should the US Be Even Closer to Israel?

by Ron Paul Mr. Speaker: I rise in opposition to HR 4133, the United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act, which unfortunately is another piece of one-sided and counter-productive foreign policy legislation. This bill’s real intent seems to be more saber-rattling against Iran and Syria, and it undermines US diplomatic efforts by making clear that the [...]

‘Israel threatened to take down world in nuclear Armageddon’

In a Friday interview, Mark Glenn, from The Crescent and Cross Solidarity movement, lashed out at Israel for its nuclear stockpile, sayingTel Aviv is the only regime that “has threatened to take the entire world down in a nuclear Armageddon in the instance that her precious experiments in Jewish self-rule in the Middle East ceases [...]

CIA KILLS US TROOPS

By aangirfan Why would the CIA want to kill American soldiers and blame the killings on Moslems? “To enrage American troops so that the slaughter continues”. ACCORDING TO FEDERAL JACK (http://www.federaljack.com/?p=19311): Special forces have been caught pretending to be Arab insurgents running around shooting people in Iraq. On July 23, 2005, a detachment of 19 [...]

Israel’s top general contradicts Netanyahu

Israel’s military chief of staff publicly challenged Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s strident urging for pre-emptive strikes against Iran, a move likely to sharpen the confrontation between Israel’s hawks and cooler heads in the military. Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz asserted in an interview published in the liberal Haaretz daily Wednesday that he doesn’t believe Iran will [...]

Two Israelis admit thousands of drug shipments to U.S.

By Robert Patrick Two Israeli citizens pleaded guilty Monday and were sentenced for sending more than 9,000 shipments of unapproved prescription drugs worth more than $1.4 million to the U.S., the U.S. Attorney’s office said Tuesday morning. Benny Carmi, 58, was sentenced Monday afternoon to 10 months in prison, fined $30,000 and agreed to forfeit [...]

SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF ISRAEL

I was born in the United States, I left there 45 years ago. I never lost my American citizenship. I immigrated to Canada, became a citizen there but left 28 years ago. I never lost my Canadian citizenship. I have lived in Israel since leaving Canada giving me 3 citizenships… * BUT * A man [...]

Egypt terminates gas deal with Israel

The head of the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company has said it has terminated its contract to ship gas to Israel because of violations of contractual obligations, a decision Israel said overshadowed the peace agreement between the two countries. Mohamed Shoeb, the gas company’s top official, said Sunday’s decision was not political. “This has nothing [...]

Stockholm airport bars Israeli airline over security inspection method

By Zohar Blumenkrantz Arkia has to stop flying to Stockholm because the Swedish capital’s international airport now refuses to allow Israeli methods of security inspections dictated by the Shin Bet security service, TheMarker learned on Wednesday. Thus, Stockholm’s airport joined those in Malmo, Sweden and in Copenhagen in refusing to allow Israeli security inspections, which [...]

Woman removed from Air France flight for not being Jewish

by Philip Weiss on April 18, 2012 Ali Abunimah reports on a disgusting incident surrounding the recent flytilla, an action in France at the behest of Israeli authorities: Air France demanded to know the religion of a passenger on a flight from Nice to Tel Aviv and removed her because she is not a Jew. [...]