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UN panel: Arms ship seized by Israel came from Iran, but not bound for Gaza - Middle East Israel News | Haaretz REUTERS - A UN expert panel has concluded that a shipment of rockets and other weapons that was seized by Israel came from Iran and represents a violation of the UN arms embargo on...

The return of punitive home demolitions | +972 Magazine Israel orders the demolition of the family home of a man who has only been charged, and not convicted, of murder. A government official says the policy is being reinstated to ‘level the playing field’ with Palestinians, while human rights...

Israeli settlers open fire at mourners in Ramallah, 1 hurt | Maan News Agency RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Israeli settlers on Sunday opened fire at Palestinians in al-Bireh near Ramallah as they gathered for the funeral of a man killed by Israeli forces earlier that day, a Ma'an reporter said...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/20/world/middleeast/witness-to-fatal-shooting-of-palestinians-reports-threats-from-israeli-soldiers.html A Palestinian carpenter whose security cameras recorded the fatal shooting of two Palestinian teenagers at a protest in the West Bank last month told Human...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/13/world/middleeast/iraqis-fled-mosul-for-home-after-militant-group-swarmed-the-city.html ERBIL, Iraq — After Islamic extremists swarmed his city this week, Saad Hussein fled here with his wife and six children. But after one night, he was on his way back home...

Press freedom watchdog accuses Israeli police of harassing broadcaster | Media | theguardian.com The International Press Institute (IPI) has criticised the Israeli authorities for raiding the studios of a Palestinian broadcaster. Israeli security forces entered the east Jerusalem studios of...

Israeli Government Continuously Targeting Palestinian Christian Village “[Israel] does not want to allow a precedent of people returning to their villages and staying there permanently, so they are increasingly aggressively pushing them out.” RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank — Three Palestinian...

Why is Obama's DOJ prosecuting a torture victim? | TheHill Rasmea Odeh was brutally tortured into confessing a crime she did not commit. After 10 years of imprisonment, Odeh was exiled from her homeland, eventually immigrating to the United States from Jordan in 1994 as a legal resident and...

As usual, angry and mentally slow user @500 responds nastily to threads exposing uncomfortable facts in vain, that is, just for the sake of it--because reasons, arguments to contribute to debate, he never has any. Crafting an argument demands too much mental energy; and that @500 doesn't have...

How Israel and Mubarak stole billions of gas dollars from the Egyptian people | The Electronic Intifada When Israel invaded and bombed Gaza without mercy for three weeks in December 2008 and January 2009, the energy its army needed to fuel its assault was provided by Egypt. This stark...

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Israel killing of Palestinian teens an 'apparent war crime' - Human Rights Watch — RT News The killing of two Palestinian teenagers by Israeli military forces on May 15 during a demonstration in the occupied West Bank might be a war crime, according to Human Rights Watch. Muhammad Abu...

Palestine FA says official's Brazil trip blocked by Israel| Reuters (Reuters) - Israel has prevented a senior Palestinian soccer delegate from traveling to this month's World Cup in Brazil, his federation said on Sunday. The Palestine FA (PFA) has been lobbying world governing body FIFA to...

Israel has made worse threats in the past--it has even threatened to wipe Lebanon off the map. What to do, Israel can't beat Hezbollah on a fair fight, so of course it would have to resort to the one advantage it has, its capability to impinge mass destruction. Anyway, I don't think that a war...

Hezbollah is facing off Al Qaeda in Syria, and that fact alone proves that claims of a Global Jihad, of a unified movement of Islamist militias, is bullshit. Islamist militias are different from one another; each has its particular (often local) goals and methods; Global Jihad therefore doesn't...

PHOTOS: Israeli authorities destroy Palestinian family’s valley of fruit trees | +972 Magazine Israeli authorities destroyed some 1,500 fruit trees on a Palestinian farm near Bethlehem. The family has ownership documentation dating back to the Ottoman period. Text and photos by: Ryan Rodrick...

Israeli forces crack down on Palestinian press | Mondoweiss Disturbing reports from Palestine: Israeli forces raid a Palestinian television studio in East Jerusalem and break up the airing of the “Good Morning Jerusalem” program because it is “inciting against” the Israeli occupation. They...

Israeli Murdered in Brussels Worked for Mossad Tikun-Olam Tikun Olam-תיקון עולם An Israeli source confirms a rumor that has circulated in Israeli media circles, that one of the Israelis murdered at the Jewish museum in Brussels worked for the Mossad. Emanuel and Miriam Riva were both...

10 families, 38 children, 15 calves, thousands of sheep are left homeless by latest West Bank demolitions | Mondoweiss Land, property theft & destruction / Ethnic cleansing / Restrictions on movement / Lack of respect for non-Jewish religions OCHA documents 40 demolition processes, 100 arrests...

Why all Israelis are cowards Palestinian kneels by body of Mohammed Abu Daher, killed in clash with IDF in Bitunia, May 20, 2014.Photo by AP  Advertisement What do you call a soldier who, from a range of 80 meters, shoots at two youngsters – not yet 18 – who are passing by? What do you call...