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Opinion// What It’s Like to Be an Arab in Israel

SOURCE: HAARETZ BY: IRIS LEAL Sometimes I wonder what it’s like to be an Arab in Israel. What’s the day-to-day most banal sense of such an existence? And when I think about this, shamefully not often enough, I imagine that the feeling resembles a ponderous self-awareness that a person has to carry around almost all the … Continued

Israel and Evangelicals: New U.S. Embassy Signals a Growing Alliance

SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES BY: DAVID B. KIRKPATRICK, ELIZABETH DIAS AND DAVID M. HALBFINGER A night after the dedication of the new United States Embassy in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel convened American evangelicals to plan their next steps. In a conference room off his office, Mr. Netanyahu thanked the small circle of prominent … Continued

UN Human Rights Chief Rebukes Israel as Egypt Opens Gaza Crossing

SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN BY: PETER BEAUMONT The UN’s senior human rights official has castigated Israel, saying there is little evidence that its armed forces attempted to minimise casualties during protests by Palestinians this week during which dozens of demonstrators were killed. As a special session of the UN human rights council voted to set up a commission … Continued

Turkey Expels Israeli Ambassador Amid International Outrage over Gaza Killings

SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON POST BY: KAREEM FAHIM  AND RUTH EGLASH ISTANBUL — Turkey’s government on Tuesday ordered the Israeli ambassador to leave the country, retaliating for Israel’s killing of dozens of Palestinian protesters in the Gaza Strip and underscoring the growing international fallout from the bloodshed. The ambassador, Eitan Naeh, was told by Turkey’s foreign minister … Continued

Detained and Then Deported: U.S. Human Rights Lawyers Barred from Entry into Israel

Watch the Video Here SOURCE: DEMOCRACY NOW Two U.S. human rights lawyers were detained Sunday for 14 hours at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport before being deported back to the United States. Columbia University’s Katherine Franke and Center for Constitutional Rights executive director Vincent Warren were repeatedly questioned about their associations with groups critical … Continued

Trump Reportedly Asked Netanyahu if He Actually Cares about Peace

SOURCE: THE TIMES OF ISRAEL BY: ERIC CORTELLESSA  WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump reportedly asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last year whether he seriously cared about making peace with the Palestinians. According to Axios, the mercurial American president went off script in a phone call between the two leaders. The report said the call came … Continued

The Grotesque Case of U.S. Aid to Israel

SOURCE: PALESTINE SQUARE BY: KHELIL BOUARROUJ As part of Donald Trump’s “America First” campaign, he pledged to substantially cut foreign aid. As a result of this campaign promise, during the first year of his presidency, foreign aid declined to $23 billion from $49b in 2016, and 2018 is on trend to be roughly $10b less than 2017. This has meant … Continued

As most Democrats Stay Silent, Elizabeth Warren Calls on Israel to Exercise Restraint Against Palestinian Protesters

SOURCE: THE INTERCEPT BY: ZAID JILANI SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN, D-Mass., broke with the political establishment and called on the Israeli government to respect the rights of Palestinian protesters in Gaza in a statement to The Intercept on Wednesday. “I am deeply concerned about the deaths and injuries in Gaza,” Warren said. “As additional protests are … Continued

This Land is Your Land–This Land is My Land: Israelis Clash with Palestinians in Gaza

By J. Michael Springmann/Arab America Contributing Writer Apologies to Woody Guthrie. However, the American Main Stream (Lame Stream?) Media (MSM) has started reporting on Israeli attacks on peaceful Palestinian protests over “Land Day”, commemorating the theft of Palestine by the Israelis.  And the MSM (e.g. the Washington Post) has only started reporting the seven murders … Continued

Hundreds March in Israeli Arab Town in Support of Gaza Protests

Demonstrators wave Palestinian flags, photos of dead journalist. One says: ‘What do they expect of a people who have been under blockade for more than 9 years?’ SOURCE: THE TIMES OF ISRAEL  Some 1,500 people took part in a demonstration in the Israeli-Arab town of Sakhnin Saturday in solidarity with the people of the Gaza … Continued

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