By: Wafa Aludaini The resistance attack in front of a Jewish synagogue in the Neve Yaacov settlement, which is built on the lands of the Palestinian town of Beit Hanina in Occupied Jerusalem on January 27, confused the Israeli occupation forces and exposed the fragility of their security regime and the failure of Israelization endeavors…
By Ramzy Baroud The words uttered in Hebrew by a person believed to be Avera Mengistu, an Israeli soldier of Ethiopian origin who was captured and held in Gaza in 2014, are telling. “For how long will I be in captivity? After so many years, where are the state and the people of Israel?” he said on…
By Ramzy Baroud The words “For how long will I be in captivity? After so many years, where are the state and the people of Israel?” were uttered, in Hebrew, by a person believed to be Avera Mengistu, an Israeli soldier of Ethiopian origin who was captured in Gaza in 2014. Footage released last week of…
The Biden administration is doubling down on its predecessor’s reckless decision to recognize Israel’s claims to Jerusalem as its capital, a break with nearly 70 years of policy. The State Department is advancing plans to erect an embassy building in Jerusalem partly on land stolen by Israel shortly after its establishment from Palestinian refugees, including…
After barely two weeks in power, the most hard-line and religious government in Israel’s history, headed by Benjamin Netanyahu already is fomenting divisions at home and barreling toward conflict with the Palestinians and Israel’s allies abroad. “We are not waiting, and I think the citizens of Israel already feel this,” Netanyahu told lawmakers in his…
Twelve hours before the High Court of Justice hearing in the matter of serial criminal and cabinet minister Arye Dery, the veteran consigliere who rose to prominence moved quickly and, following Mafia custom, sent an explicit threat to the justices: Your honors can go to hell. Yariv Levin sent them not a bloody horse’s head…