Haaretz | Palestinian official: PA to halt security coordination with Israel Jerusalem Post The Palestinian Authority leadership said it was considering halting security coordination with Israel in response to the killing of two Palestinians near Ramallah on Thursday, a Palestinian security source told the Ma'an news agency. The source ... Israel can't erase the Nakba from history Israel and Palestine: Two states and the extra step Kerry wasn't wrong: Israel's future is beginning to look a lot like apartheid |
The Guardian | The Idea of Israel and My Promised Land – review The Guardian Zionism achieved its greatest triumph with the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. The Zionist idea and its principal political progeny are the subject of deeply divergent interpretations, not least inside the Jewish state itself. No other ... Zionism out of fashion with New Zealand's Jews |
TheBlaze.com | After first visit to Israel, 'Foreign Policy' editor says religious, garrison ... Mondoweiss We often say that once Jews open their eyes, there's only one way to go, left. Foreign Policy ceo David Rothkopf– who came from a family of Zionists, who has often stood up for Israel, who attacked Walt and Mearsheimer– finally visited the place late ... UCLA Responds to Shocking Anti-Israel Pledge for Student Gov't Candidates Get Your Kicks at Israel 66 Celebration Does Intermarriage Drive Young Jews Away From Israel? |
New Yorker (blog) | So Long, Israel; Hello, Berlin New Yorker (blog) Many people point to 2011—and to Israel's social-justice protests—as the year that the trend of young Israelis moving to Berlin (where, as expats from all over the world will tell you, the quality of life is high and the rents are low) really gained ... |
Washington Post | Israel, Egypt getting along great these days USA TODAY CAIRO – Since army strongman Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ousted an Islamist leader from power last year and efforts to battle militant violence were boosted under his command, relations between Egypt and Israel have improved and are expected to strengthen ... Egypt's Al-Sissi wants to help revive Israeli-Palestinian talks |
Navigating Lost Villages in Israel New York Times HUKOK, Israel — Heading up to the Sea of Galilee last weekend, I traveled a lost land. While my husband drove through 2014 Israel, past vast greenhouses and sleek malls, I navigated 1948 Palestine on my iPhone. Using the new iNakba app, I saw scores ... Terra incognita: Historic blindness: Why let 'iNakba' tell Israel's story? |
Haaretz | Israel, US import disputed crude oil from Iraqi Kurdistan Haaretz The United States imported its first crude cargo from the region two weeks ago while at least four have gone to Israel since January, ship tracking and industry sources said, after two were shipped there last summer. The Iraqi government has repeatedly ... Encountering peace: From Kurdistan to Israel Israel, US import disputed oil from Kurdistan |
RT | 'Blindfolded & bound': Israel puts more Palestinian kids in solitary confinement RT Israel is placing more and more Palestinian children in solitary confinement as part of the interrogation process, a new study reveals. The children are often blindfolded, bound and sleep deprived. Neither they nor parents know the reasons for arrest ... |
Israeli Troops Kill 2 Palestinians in Nakba Clash ABC News Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinian teens in a West Bank clash that erupted Thursday after Palestinians marked their uprooting during the Mideast war over Israel's 1948 creation, a doctor said. Three Palestinians were wounded, one seriously, when ... |
Haaretz | Hagel Meets With Israel's Minister of Defense Department of Defense TEL AVIV, Israel, May 15, 2014 – Israel has had no closer ally or better friend than the United States, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said today after meeting with Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon at the Israeli defense ministry here. Hagel says unaware of Israel spying on US Israel, US to carry out joint anti-missile defense test next week Hagel says is not aware of Israel spying on US |