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Obama pauses while speaking to the City Club of Cleveland about middle class economics in Ohio, March 18, 2015.Photo by Reuters The Obama administration might be open to lending its support to the UN Security Council's resolution that would define the principle for a two-state solution as based...

NABLUS (Ma'an) -- A Palestinian family has accused Israeli forces of stealing money and jewelry from their family home near Nablus during a military raid Sunday. Family members of Wisdam Nassar from the village of Madama south of Nablus told Ma'an they realized Tuesday that 5,000 shekels...

Even the White House - bought by AIPAC - has complained of Netanyahu's racism. In strikingly strong criticism, the White House called Mr. Netanyahu’s campaign rhetoric, in which he railed against Israeli Arabs because they went out to vote, an attempt to “marginalize Arab-Israeli citizens” and...

All countries have laws determining what it means to be a citizen, and not even in war-loving Israel, do they include "contributing the defense" as a criterium. Most people in the West (especially women and the disabled) do not serve in the army but they're still counted as citizens. I know...

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Benjamin Netanyahu's apparent reelection puts Israel on a course toward ever deeper confrontation with the world. To govern, his Likud Party would need to depend on ultranationalists - a recipe for neither stability nor bold moves toward Mideast peace. A period of some...

At least on one Israeli Arab, Netanyahu's racism had the opposite effect: RAMLE, Israel — Nour Aslan was on the fence about voting, but then she got an automated text message warning her that if she didn’t vote “the Arabs were coming.” So Aslan, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, not only got...

Bad. Mizrahi Jews are the greatest supporters of Likud, mostly because of Labor's discrimination against them in the first few decades of Israel's existance. Mizrahi Jews also feel the need to display more vocal hatred towards Arabs in order to deny their own Arabness. As to Mizrahi Jews being...

Benjamin Netanyahu (Credit: AP/Gali Tibbon) As voters headed to the polls for an election that could end the reign of Benjamin Netanyahu’s rightist Likud party, the Israeli prime minister warned supporters that the country’s Arab citizens were voting “in droves,” imploring right-wing Israelis to...

Displaced Palestinian children peak from under a shop door, where their family is taking shelter in Gaza City in July 2014. Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images Senior UN officials in Jerusalem have been accused of caving in to Israeli pressure to abandon moves to include the state’s...

Daily Lebanon is not remotely pro-Hezbollah - it has no motivation whatsoever to embellish the situation for the group's sake. And the title is from Newsweek. I included in this thread by mistake because I started making the thread based on their article, then changed midway to that of Daily...

What Iran and Hezbollah do against Israel is not terror; it's fighting back.

BEIRUT: The U.S. has omitted Iran and Hezbollah from its list of terror threats, according to an annual security assessment published by the Times of Israel Monday. The unclassified report, titled ‘Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community’ was presented to the U.S. Senate by...

Israel's Foreign Minister and head of Yisrael Beitenu party Avigdor Lieberman stands on a hill overlooking the Gaza Strip, as he campaigns in the southern town of Sderot February 23, 2015. AMIR COHEN/REUTERS Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman has said that Arab citizens who are not...

WTF does that have to do with the status of atheists in Egypt, dumb freak? But if you want to go there, well... 'Treated Like Slaves': Israel Faces Criticism Over Violations of Asian Workers' Rights One worker described to the reports authors' how he felt like "dead meat" at the end of a...

Israeli naval forces shot and killed a Palestinian fisherman who was fishing west of Gaza city, in unclear circumstances. On another 30 occasions, Israeli forces opened fire at Palestinian boats sailing near the Israeli-imposed 6 nautical mile fishing limit, including one incident resulting in...

«Are you an atheist?» asks a cop during the interrogation. Karim Ashraf al-Banna, a 23-years-old engineering student from the Baheira province, admits: «Yes, I'm an atheist.» In November, Karim was arrested, placed under custody for 55 days, then released on bail, prior to being condemned in...

Muslims in Canada have strongly condemned their country’s defense minister for tweeting hoax photographs purporting to depict enslavement and oppression of women and girls by Muslim men. This comes amid accusations that the government is deliberately stoking anti-Muslim sentiment in the country...

A relative of Palestinian fisherman Tawfiq Abu Reyala, 34, whom medics said was killed by Israeli navy, mourns during his funeral at Shatti refugee camp in Gaza City March 7, 2015. (Reuters) - The Israeli navy opened fire on boats off the coast of the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing one...

RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- The PLO's Central Council has adopted several major resolutions during its 27th meeting over the past two days, including a decision to suspend security coordination with Israel. The resolutions were based on the current political situation and include calling for Israel to...

BEERSHEBA (Ma'an) -- Israeli police on Tuesday destroyed thousands of acres of wheat, barley and other cereal crops in the Palestinian Bedouin village of Rakhama, locals told Ma'an. Ali Freijat, a local resident, said that 14 tractors escorted by over 50 Israeli police vehicles arrived early...