Over 1 million Palestinians have been held in Israeli prisons over the years. Thousands have been held in “administrative detention,” which means imprisonment without a trial or even charges. More & more, Palestinian prisoners are protesting this barely-legal practice through hunger strikes. Frail, emaciated Palestinians make Israel very nervous.
Osama Mahmoud Adawi, 18, is the tenth Palestinian to be killed by Israeli forces this month, and the sixth teenager (three of the dead were in their 20s, one was twelve years old). Palestinians have also killed one Israeli soldier.
Mahmoud Sammoudi, 12, from Al-Yamoun town, west of Jenin, succumbed to wounds inflicted by Israeli soldiers who had invaded the West Bank, killing four others outright and injuring 40. Israeli forces have killed 120 Palestinians in the past six months, while 9 Israelis have also died.
Queen Elizabeth was horrified by Israel’s occupation of Palestine, & refused invitations to visit Israel. In 2020 Prince Charles, on a trip to the West Bank, expressed his heartbreak over witnessing the ‘suffering’ and ‘hardship’ endured by the Palestinian population under Israeli occupation… He said his “dearest wish” was that the future would bring “freedom, justice and equality to all Palestinians…”
Weakening Iran & possibly even replacing its government is the most compelling issue for Israel & its powerful US domestic lobby, but the Israeli plan is much broader: to make the US the junior partner providing the money & weapons in an effort to militarily dominate the Middle East… Biden/Blinken administration caves on IDF killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, Syria, etc
Yair Lapid’s brazen demand for impunity for the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh is a disturbing reflection of the US-Israeli relationship.
In her 70-year reign, Queen Elizabeth crisscrossed the globe, but purposely skipped Israel. In 1984, during a visit to Jordan, she found the settlements ‘depressing’ and IDF planes over the West Bank frightening… For decades, the British royal family had boycotted Israel. It wasn’t an official boycott, but it was often unofficially acknowledged by officials…
2002 Salon report: For almost 2 years, 100s of Israelis falsely claiming to be art students haunted federal offices – in particular, the DEA. No one knows why – and no one seems to want to find out. Fox News’ broadcast a 4-part report on it, then removed all traces of the broadcast from its channel…
Israel has scored what it considers a string of political and policy victories since Biden took office… Biden has largely continued the heavily pro-Israel policies of his predecessor in the Oval Office, Donald Trump…
A detailed report on how Israel advocates have worked to oppose a distinguished nominee from becoming Ambassador to Brazil because of comments she had made over two decades ago about the Israel lobby…