An Israeli Defense Forces soldier has been sentenced to 18 months in jail on a manslaughter conviction for shooting a Palestinian man in the head after he had already been disarmed and injured by other soldiers. The Independent lists Palestinian children who have received longer prison sentences for throwing stones than Elor Azaria did for killing the unarmed man.
Palestinians’ formative years are scarred by what they witness and experience living under the Israeli military occupation of their lands that has been in place 50 years: Israeli settler violence against them in their homes, destroying their property, theft of their land and burning of their crops… even some instances in which Israeli extremists have burned Palestinians in their homes while they were sleeping.
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Rothschild said the way the declaration was procured was extraordinary: “It was the most incredible piece of opportunism.” HIs cousin Dorothy de Rothschild connected Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann to the British establishment. Dorothy “told Weizmann how to integrate, how to insert himself into British establishment life, which he learned very quickly…”
2016 was the deadliest year in the past decade for Palestinian children in the West Bank. Some were killed on their way to class, or coming home from. Several were shot dead while protesting the occupation. A brother and sister were killed in their home when their neighborhood was hit in an Israeli airstrike. See their photos and learn the details.
Great joy, great devastation, massive need in northern Gaza; West Bank resembles Gaza more every day; a conversation with Peter Beinart; Trump.
The humiliation of 1m people being unable to return home because of 1 Israeli soldier; 2 killed, many homes demolished in West Bank; instead of evacuating Lebanon, Israel kills 22 Lebanese trying to return home
Israel lobby groups have given Trump over $230 million, part of the lobby’s pervasive influence in shaping American policy in favor of Israel
A Christian American reports in American Conservative magazine that Netanyahu is testing the 47th president with a fresh round of illegal actions in the West Bank, including vicious assaults on Christians. Many Palestinian Americans voted for Trump as a hoped-for peacemaker…
Israel kills 1 in Gaza with a “warning shot”; 2nd prisoner release is complete; 2 killed in West Bank, including toddler; Ali Abunimah arrested; pro-Israel groups target pro-Palestine int’l students for deportation
The Israeli government is also preventing another group of health workers from entering the enclave, as thousands of Palestinians seek treatment.