All Blog Posts Tagged 'israel’s' (10)

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Nicolas Pelham October 12, 2009 (Nicolas Pelham has worked in Jerusalem for the past four years for International Crisis Group, which published the report Israel’s Religious Right and the Question of Settlements in July 2009.) For background on the 2008 Acre incidents, see Peter Lagerquist, “Recipe for a Riot: Parsing Israel’s Yom Kippur Upheavals,” Middle East Report Online (October 2008). For background on the settlers and disengagement, see Peretz Kidron, “Orange Rampant,” Middle… Continue

by Jonathan Cook / September 28th, 2009 Demands from Israel’s chief commander this month that all Israeli citizens should be required to perform national service has turned the spotlight on a rarely discussed group of soldiers: members of Israel’s Palestinian minority. Though no official statistics are available, an estimated 3,000 of Israel’s 1.3 million Palestinian citizens have broken one of their society’s biggest taboos and are currently serving, often as combat troops on the front line… Continue

By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth 10 September 2009 Jonathan Cook considers the background of a general strike planned by Israel’s Arab citizens in response to racist government measures that cast them as enemies of the state. The increasingly harsh political climate in Israel under Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government has prompted the leadership of the country’s 1.3 million… Continue

Israel’s school apartheid highlighted by court case Arab family sue Jewish mum over “racist incitement” By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth 11 August 2009 Jonathan Cook considers the case of a one-year-old Arab baby girl who was expelled from an Israeli day-care centre on her first day because the racist Jewish parents of the other children objected to having an Arab girl at the centre. An Arab couple whose one-year-old daughter was expelled from an Israeli day-care centre on her first day are suin… Continue

Israel’s Unlawful Use of White Phosphorus in Gaza

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Dubai, jewel in Israel’s sales crown 27 May, by Alain Gresh

With the exception of Egypt, all Arab states officially boycott Israel, blacklist Israeli companies and ban imports of Israeli products. The same countries frequently lead the voices calling for sanctions against Israe… Continue

Israel’s stooges in Britain flex their muscles in government and the BBC Urgent call to expose “Friends of Israel” in Britain By Redress Information & Analysis 24 January 2009 Redress Information & Analysis highlights the influence of Israel’s stooges over the British gove… Continue

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jan2009/mide-j14.shtml Israel’s war on Gaza and the role of the Middle East bourgeoisie By Jean Shaoul 14 January 2009 As people all over the world react with shock and anger to Israel's genocidal offensive against defenceless Palestinians in Gaza, it is important to review the factors that have enabled this blitzkrieg to occur. Firstly, the Israeli government has the unconditional support of the United States, which has for decades provided Israel with th… Continue

75 children and 23 women killed, the harvest of Israel’s terrorism in the first 6 months of 2008 Iqbal Tamimi 2/7/2008 The Israeli occupying forces have killed 75 children and 23 Palestinian women during the first half of this year says a report published yesterday by the National… Continue