Posts tagged settlement
Is the United Nations anti-Israel? – a survey of UN resolutions

The United Nations has passed an inordinate number of resolutions critical of Israel (at least seven hundred), but very few critical of Palestine. Is there a good reason for this high number, or is this a case of anti-Israel bias? – or worse yet, anti-Semitism? This analysis breaks it down.

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Draft Democratic platform fails to endorse justice for Palestinians

Palestinian rights are becoming mainstream, and support for Israel is declining – especially among Democrats. But you’d never guess it from the Democratic Party platform, which refuses to use the word “occupation,” endorses $38 billion to Israel, and opposes BDS,.


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Trump is willing starve Palestinians into compliance with his Deal of the Century

by Kathryn Shihadah

A sadist to the core, #45’s cruelty knows no bounds. But Palestinians are well acquainted with cruelty, having lived under the thumb of Netanyahu lo these many years. They are indestructible.

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Israel has accelerated its annexation of the West Bank from a slow creep to a run

DON'T BLINK. Israeli leadership, with help from Washington, is on the move. Naftali Bennett has declared the intention to annex the West Bank right out from under Palestinians: “They have a Palestinian state in Gaza.” Later, he elaborated: International opposition would dissipate, he said. “After two months it fades away and 20 years later and 40 years later, [the territory is] still ours.”

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