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Obama’s Israel policy: speak softly and carry a very big carrot

Maidhc ? Cathail views US President Barack Obama’s policy of solid support for Israel and the lynchpins of that policy, from Israel’s fifth columnists in Congress to key Obama advisers

Death toll of Haifa fire rises to 43 Israelis

The death toll from the massive bushfire in the heavily-forested Carmel hill, southeast of Haifa, rose to 43 on Saturday morning, while Israeli official sources said that the fire reached

Israel mulls rail link to West Bank settlement

- Israel is considering building a rail link to the sprawling Jewish settlement of Ariel, which lies deep inside the occupied West Bank, a transport ministry spokesman told AFP on

Hamas: Policy of razing Palestinian villages won’t change facts of history

Hamas strongly condemned the Israeli occupation forces' new racist crime of razing an entire Palestinian village in the northern Jordan Valley, asserting that the policy of razing Palestinian villages won't

Israel erases Palestinian village of Abul Ajaj from map

Israeli bulldozers under heavy military protection demolished Wednesday morning the village of Abul Ajaj in the northern Jordan valley region as a prelude to expanding the settlement of Metsuwah that

IOA resumes work on Jerusalem light rail project

The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has declared resumption of work into the light rail project linking western and eastern sectors of the holy city of Jerusalem.

Jewish settlers burn olive trees in Nablus

Jewish settlers burnt dozens of Palestinian olive trees east of Salem village, Nablus district, on Sunday, local sources reported.

Massive protest in Sheikh Jarrah against displacement of Palestinians

Dozens of Jerusalemite citizens and foreign activists participated in a protest in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood against Israel's plan to displace Palestinians from their homes and Judaize the neighborhood.

New History or a New Mirage

Echoing Edward Said, the legendary Palestinian scholar, Antoine Raffoul addresses the ambiguities of Israel’s "new historians" who, with the clear exception of Ilan Pappe, condemn the occupation but fail to

J’lem rights group: Israeli planners have begun isolating Issawiya from city

A rights group in occupied Jerusalem warned Saturday that Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) have kicked off a new scheme aimed at isolating the city’s Arab district of Al-Issawiya from the