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Israel threatens to confiscate Palestinian land in Bethlehem Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) has a long history with Tent of Nations, a family owned farm located in the southwest hills of Bethlehem. Owned and operated by the Nassar family, the land is not only an active farm but a dedicated space for peace and…
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The fate of Lifta portends the future of Ramallah and Bethlehem and more The tragic fate of the village of #Lifta, #Palestine. @ArabNews Every Palestinian knows the story of Lifta, a small village on a hillside near the city of Jerusalem. During its war to conquer Palestinian-majority areas of Palestine in 1947 and 1948, Israel…
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Israeli Supreme Court upholds the racist and discriminatory Jewish Nation-State Law Adalah: The Law is illegitimate and violates the absolute prohibitions of international law Today, 8 July 2021, the Israeli Supreme Court in a 10 to 1 decision, upheld the 2018 Jewish Nation-State Basic Law, which enshrines Jewish supremacy and racial segregation as foundational principles…
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Video Podcast Arab Radio: Dearborn flooding, UAE peace deal July 7 The Ray Hanania Radio Show on #Arabradio Wed 8 am EST, July 7, featured two segments, one on Dearborn’s flooding problems, and the other on the UAE-Israel peace accord Segment 1: 8:AM EST We have Imad Hamad, the executive director of the American Human…
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APN to Biden: Tell Israel to Remove West Bank Illegal Outpost Evyatar Americans for Peace Now (APN) joins its Israeli sister organization Shalom Achshav (Peace Now) in urging the Israeli government to reverse the so-called “compromise agreement” reportedly achieved with militant West Bank settlers, and immediately remove a settlement outpost built illegally on land that…
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Salvaging Israeli-Palestinian Peace By Ghassan Michel Rubeiz For how long will peace between Palestinians and Israelis remain viable? For one thing, with the passage of time their leaders are not getting smarter. The world is glad to see less of Netanyahu’s diplomacy, but ending his leadership is far from terminating Israel’s hegemony over the Palestinians….
Israeli police kill Palestinian civilian in cold blood B’Tselem released a video and details of the apparent murder by Israeli police of Palestinian Ahmad ‘Abdu. ‘Abdu was in his car when he was surrounded and seriously injured during a hail of bullets by Israeli police and soldiers. He was wounded but not dead, but the…
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With Gratitude for the generosity of TheArabDailyNews for their nine years of hosting the saga of Israel’s nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu By Eileen Fleming Follow THIS LINK to read the Vanunu Saga at TheArabDailyNews.com. This post will be this writer’s final post at TheArabDailyNews. I leave because of lessons I learned during the Trump administration,…
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Zim San Diego Delays Docking For Seven Days In Attempt To Wait Out Palestinian Activists Calling For BDS With spreading news of planned protests against the Israeli shipping company, Zim San Diego remains in Elliott Bay, afraid of the protesters that will greet it upon arrival. (See update and correction below) Falastiniyat and endorsing organizations…
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Is the Neither-Peace-nor-Security Assumption Dominating Again? By Abdennour Toumi The reputed Israeli-Palestinian peace process is an effort that has yielded anything but progress. There have been no successes for recent U.S. presidents who have tried to bring Israeli and Palestinian leaders together to find a way to break through to peace. In…
Israel: Violence, hate speech, discrimination against Palestinian minority must stop – UN expert A UN human rights expert condemned attacks on Israel’s Palestinian minority by extreme right-wing and vigilante groups, including settlers – at times with the reported backing of security forces – and urged Israel to fully and equally protect all of its citizens…
American politicians will not address Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty or the USA Governments failure to support those troops, until they grow a spine attached to a moral conscience that results in ethical behavior: such as would be demonstrated by investigating the January 6thattack on the US Capitol. By Eileen Fleming In response to…
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Five issues threaten Israel’s future security April 18, 2021 By Ghassan Michel Rubeiz Israel’s act of sabotage on Iran’s central nuclear facility on April 11 raises several questions. Tel-Aviv seems to live in a climate of unusual impunity. It has so far managed to escape punitive consequences for its territorial occupation, displacement of indigenous people…
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American Muslims for Palestine organizes boycott of Israeli Dates As the holy month of Ramadan nears, American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) relaunched a national boycott of Israeli dates sold in US markets. AMP calls on all Americans and American Muslims to boycott date brands known explicitly to operate in illegal Israeli settlements and to exploit…
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Chicagoland Arab Americans commemorate Land Day April 2 Leaders of Chicagoland’s Arab American community will gather on Friday April 2, 2021 beginning at 6 PM to celebrate Land Day, the day in 1976 in which Israel’s police and soldiers shot and killed Israeli citizens who were protesting against the confiscation of Arab-owned lands inside Israel….
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Abraham Accords Advance Stage of Injustice By Ghassan Michel Rubeiz In my previous article The Abraham Accords undermined much needed peace with Palestinians the key concept is “deception”. The Accords are marketed as a peace plan, but what is really happening is escalation of tension in 2021 and beyond. The insertion of the name “Abraham” seductively implies…
Israel excludes Christians, Muslims in new Jewish-only neighborhood building Adalah: Construction of new neighborhoods exclusively for Israeli military personnel is illegal residential segregation. Israeli military’s ‘Housing Authority’ discriminates against Arab families, establishing dozens of housing developments nationwide at discount prices available only to selected career military personnel; Adalah: Project violates ban on housing and land allocation…
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On Saturday Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted at Western leaders of countries responsible for Israel’s nuclear program that, “Israel is expanding Dimona, the region’s only nuclear bomb factory… By Eileen Fleming Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif tweeted at President Biden and the heads of state of Britain, France and Germany regarding The Guardian’s, “Israel expands nuclear…
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