Aljazeera.com | Israel set to approve 2500 settlement housing units Aljazeera.com Israel is expected to approve nearly 2,500 new settlement housing units across the occupied West Bank next week after the projects were tabled at a planning council meeting on Friday. Israeli NGO Peace Now said on Friday that Israel's Civil ... Israel returns body of teen terrorist Israel to Defy Donald Trump's Request to 'Hold Back' on Settlements with 2100 New Units Israel Set to Approve Plans for 2100 New Settlement Housing Units in West Bank |
Pitchfork | Thom Yorke Blasts “Offensive” Radiohead Israel Controversy ... Pitchfork Thom Yorke has dismissed calls for Radiohead to cancel an upcoming concert in Tel Aviv, Israel, calling the backlash “patronizing” and “offensive.” Speaking to ... Thom Yorke Breaks Silence on Israel Controversy Thom Yorke on Israel boycott pressure: 'I don't agree with the cultural ban at all' (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images) (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images) |
New York Times | The Past 50 Years of Israeli Occupation. And the Next. New York Times JERUSALEM — Three months after the 1967 war, Israel's ruling Mapai Party held a discussion on the future of the newly conquered territories. Golda Meir, who would become Israel's leader a year and a half later, asked Prime Minister Levi Eshkol what he ... Trump: Israel, Palestinians 'ready to reach for peace' 50 years later, a reporter recalls the 6-Day War – and the Israeli-Palestinian tensions that remain 50 years after the Six-Day War, Israeli Jews reflect on the victory |
The Drive | Israel Is Testing An Air-To-Air Variant Of Its Dolphin-Nosed Stunner Missile The Drive Israel is known to go its own way when it comes to its air combat capabilities, this has included making dramatic modifications to imported air warfare assets, and also developing its own weapons and sub-systems. The country's guided munitions and ... |
Jewish Telegraphic Agency | Israel's government is right-wing. But it's taking climate change seriously. Jewish Telegraphic Agency Like the U.S., Israel has a right-leaning government, with left-wing parties largely limited to protest votes. The American and Israeli governments appear to agree on the dangers of extremist Islamism, and their leaders have heaped praise on each other ... |
Los Angeles Times | Thom Yorke responds to criticism of Israel show: 'It's really upsetting' Los Angeles Times Yorke also plans to give a lecture at an Israeli university and said that, to him, the protests implied that "you can't go talk to other people who want to learn stuff in another country? Really? The one place where you need to be free to express ... |
The Jerusalem Post | Why are Israel, allies keeping mum on $110 billion US-Saudi arms deal? The Jerusalem Post The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, then helmed by Tom Dine, famously lost the battle but won the war: President Ronald Reagan got the necessary congressional backing to secure the sales to Saudi Arabia, but AIPAC had drawn enough blood ... Palestinian statehood is a grave threat to Saudi Arabia |
The Guardian | Late-night hosts on climate deal: 'Even Israel and Palestine are on the same side' The Guardian Late-night hosts discussed Donald Trump's controversial decision Thursday to withdraw the US from the Paris climate accord, an agreement signed in April 2016 between 195 countries to address the issue of global climate change. 'Even Israel and Palestine agree on climate change' |
The Jerusalem Post | UN secretary-general: 'Denial of Israel's right to exist is antisemitism' The Jerusalem Post Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told Guterres that Hamas and their continuing terrorist activities are the major roadblocks to peace rather than settlements. Guterres is against Israeli settlement-building in the ... |
Washington Free Beacon | Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan Identified as Lawmaker Behind Anti-Israel Capitol Hill Forum Washington Free Beacon Rep. Mark Pocan (D., Wis.) has been identified as the anonymous member of Congress who reserved official Capitol Hill space for an anti-Israel forum that is being organized by several organizations that support boycotts of the Jewish state, according ... |