Despite what appears to be mounting obstacles, it is the ordinary people who choose to take part in the face of all the odds that give this movement its power.
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“Spitting and humiliation are daily. People are afraid to walk in Jerusalem with Christian symbols.”
Rabbi Michael Henkin, one of the leaders of “the religious left,” whose members are in contact with Christian clergy in Jerusalem and the West Bank, says that a new ethos has developed in Israeli society, according to which anything perceived as different is a threat. Hence, while street signs say “Armenian Patriarchate Street,” some call it “Spitting Street.”
How the US-Israel Relationship Weakens America and Harms the World
This is a relationship without parallel in which the largest economic & military power the world has known, subordinates itself to a tiny country that would otherwise be almost entirely inconsequential. Not only systematically redistributing its own wealth to that tiny, well-off country, but unconditionally embracing that country’s geopolitical agenda, and taking extreme actions on behalf of that country in a way that causes immense harm to its own interests, while also inflicting death, displacement and despair on millions of innocents.
Israel Said It’s Applying the Gaza Model in Lebanon. This Is What the Devastation Looks Like.
An entire street is leveled. Houses and shops are flattened, including a popular cafe. This is what is left of the town of Bint Jbeil, just a couple of miles from the Israeli border, nearly two months after Israel relaunched its ground offensive in southern Lebanon.
US set to sell $1B “Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System” to Israel – Daily Update
Flotilla update ■ Another Israeli land grab in Gaza ■ Latest on Iran, Lebanon ■ Will Netanyahu refuse to recognize election results if he loses? ■ More.
In Gaza, Israel commits 10+ ceasefire violations a day – Daily Update
US sides with Israel on flotilla stoppage ■ Israel continues to block sheltering mat’ls from Gaza ■ Gaza unemployment at 68% ■ Israel may return to Iran attacks soon ■ Rubio floats a plan to disarm Hezbollah so Israel won’t have to ■ Israel earmarks $730 million to refurbish its reputation ■ More
A New Library in Gaza Rises From the Ashes of Destruction
What began as one writer’s quest to save his cherished book collection through six displacements became a grassroots effort to salvage the remains of Gaza’s libraries. The newly opened Phoenix Library is also a testament of resilience: ‘We refuse to be a people who just live in tents and wait’
‘People Have the Right to Be Buried’: In Gaza, Thousands of Palestinians Remain Trapped Under Rubble
Less than one percent of debris has been removed from Gaza, and thousands of people still wait to bury loved ones who were killed in airstrikes and remain under the rubble. ‘I would dig with my own hands to bring out my son,’ says one father, who can’t reach his son’s body
In Gaza, 17,000 infections linked to rodents and external parasites – Daily Update
ICC receives evidence of Israeli-US war crimes in Iran ■ Israel disrupts elections in Gaza, West Bank ■ U.S. reportedly to allow Green Card denial based on pro-Palestine views
Lobby group taking journalists on propaganda tours of Israel
Amid the systematic killing of Palestinian and Lebanese journalists, one organization has been quietly bringing British media workers to Israel.