By Ramzy Baroud | MEMO | December 28, 2021
At the outset, the Israeli military decision to revise its open-fire policies in the occupied West Bank seems puzzling. What would be the logic of giving Israeli soldiers the space to shoot more Palestinians when existing army manuals had already granted them near-total immunity and little legal accountability?
Why is Israel Amending Its Open-Fire Policy: Three Possible Answers
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Tech giants help Israel muzzle Palestinians
Israel’s caretaker prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, sought to shut down all use of the popular video-sharing app TikTok in Israel last month.
The attempt to censor TikTok, details of which emerged last weekend, is one of a number of reported attempts by Israel to control social media content during last month’s military assault on the Gaza Strip.
Tech giants help Israel muzzle Palestinians
Naphtali Bennett to head Israeli “government of change” to oust Netanyahu
Naphtali Bennett to head Israeli “government of change” to oust Netanyahu
There have been questions raised in the media as to whether Netanyahu would mount new provocations against the Palestinians in East Jerusalem, promote acts of terrorism by Jewish fanatics against Israeli Palestinians, seek to mount a coup similar to that former US President Donald Trump, or launch a provocative move against Iran to maintain his grip on power.
An Opportunity That Can’t Be Passed: On Blinken’s Historic Meeting With Palestinian Activists
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — In an unprecedented and welcome move, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with four grassroots Palestinian activists in Ramallah yesterday. The four activists were Hadeel Qazzaz from Gaza, Aref Husseini from Jerusalem, Dalal Irikat, the daughter of the late Saeb Iriqat, and Issa Amro from Hebron. I met Issa in Hebron immediately after his meeting with Blinken, and there was a great deal of coverage about the groundbreaking detente.
An Opportunity That Can’t Be Passed: On Blinken’s Historic Meeting With Palestinian Activists
Has Palestine resistance won?
By Robert Inlakesh | Quds News Network | May 21, 2021
When this Friday’s ceasefire was announced between Palestinian resistance groups and ‘Israel’, there was only one side celebrating, the Palestinians, who had taken to the streets to celebrate a historic defeat of Israel’s military machine.
Has Palestine resistance won?
Colonial Realities: From Sheikh Jarrah to Lydda
The Ethnic Cleansing of Sheikh Jarrah
In 1983, Rafael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), said, “When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle.” Today, we are seeing such attempts of dehumanization in Sheikh Jarrah – an area of occupied and illegally annexed East Jerusalem.
The Ethnic Cleansing of Sheikh Jarrah
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