Daily Archives: October 28, 2018

2018-10-28: News Headlines

Maan News (2018-10-28). Israel Launches Over 80 Airstrikes Across Gaza (Videos). iranian.com Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting more than 80 sites across the besieged Gaza Strip, on Saturday, as a form of response to 30 rockets fired from Gaza towards Israel, according to the Israeli army. A Ma'an reporter said that Israeli warplanes carried out continuous airstrikes over Gaza since the predawn hours until Saturday morning. […]

IMEMC News (2018-10-28). Colony's Guard Attacks Two Palestinians Near Nablus. imemc.org An armed guard of an illegal Israeli colony near Qaryout town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, attacked a member of the town's local council and a bulldozer driver, while conducting preparation work for a new agricultural road. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors Israeli …

IMEMC News (2018-10-28). Israeli Soldiers Abduct Three Palestinians In Bethlehem. imemc.org Israeli soldiers abducted, on Sunday at dawn, three young Palestinian men from several areas in Bethlehem Governorate, in the occupied West Bank. The Bethlehem office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said the soldiers invaded and searched several homes in Teqoua' town, southeast of Bethlehem, and abducted Ahmad Jamal al-'Amour, …

Middle East Monitor (2018-10-28). US To Reveal 'Deal Of The Century' To Israel Next Week. iranian.com Israeli public radio said on Friday that the US administration would reveal the details of its "Deal of the Century" to Israel next week. US President Donald Trump's envoy to the Middle East, Jason Greenblatt, is scheduled to travel to the region to meet with Israeli officials and reveal the details of the US plan, Quds […]

IMEMC News (2018-10-28). Young Man Dies From Serious Wounds Suffered Friday. imemc.org The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that a young Palestinian man died, on Saturday at dawn, from serious wounds he suffered, on Friday October 26th, after Israeli soldiers shot him during the Great Return March protests, in the Gaza Strip. Dr. Ashraf al-Qedra, the spokesperson of the Health Ministry in …

INA (2018-10-28). Investigate and Prosecute Pillage, Appropriation and Destruction of Palestinian Natural Resources. imemc.org On 26 October, 2018, Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) submitted, to the International Criminal Court (ICC), a 500-page file on alleged crimes committed by Israelis, in particular high-level Israeli officials, and individuals associated with corporations that are extracting and destroying …

Jacob Eder (2018-10-28). Why HIAS Became a Target of Hate. zcomm.org The aid agency has transformed itself over the past decade from a group that aids refugees because they are Jewish, to a group of Jews that aids refugees.

The Iranian (2018-10-28). US Foreign Policy Mindset In A Nutshell: Ann Coulter Says Trump Should Order US Military To Invade Mexico. iranian.com US Foreign Policy Mindset In A Nutshell: Ann Coulter Says Trump Should Order US Military To Invade Mexico "We didn't ask for Iraq's approval to go in," the controversial conservative pundit told Fox News host Laura Ingraham. What will political commentator/author/proud racist Ann Coulter suggest next, the Israeli approach of snipers killing weaponless men, women […] | The post

wsws (2018-10-28). Eleven killed in deadliest attack on Jewish community in US history. wsws.org The attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh occurs in the midst of an international escalation of fascist violence.

INA (2018-10-27). Palestine: What's Working, What's Not. imemc.org Katie Miranda A telesummit with 20 activists, journalists, and more. Join. I first arrived in East Jerusalem during a bitterly cold Palestinian winter in late 2005 to join the International Solidarity Movement.

INA (2018-10-27). Why Israel Sees BDS As A 'Strategic Threat'. imemc.org Asa Winstanley is an investigative journalist living in London who writes about Palestine and the Middle East. He writes for The Electronic Intifada where he is an associate editor and also a weekly column for the Middle East Monitor. As leaders of a state that is totally alien to the …

INA (2018-10-27). Settlers Vandalize Nazareth Village with Graffiti. imemc.org Israeli settlers sprayed anti-Arab graffiti in the Yaffa al-Nasriyyeh village in Nazareth of northern Israel, early Friday morning. Locals said, according to Ma'an, that a group of Israeli settlers raided the Marah Ghuzlan neighborhood of the village, sprayed racist slogans, including "price tag," "revenge," and "death to Arabs" on walls …

IMEMC News (2018-10-27). Soldiers Ram Two Palestinians With Armored Jeep; Fire Tear Gas at Crowd. imemc.org An Israeli army jeep rammed, Saturday, two Palestinians in Azzoun town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, while the soldiers fired dozens of gas bombs, causing many Palestinians to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation. Medical sources have reported that two Palestinians, identified as Omar Abdul-Halim Hussein, …

IMEMC News (2018-10-27). Israeli Air Force Fires Dozens Of Missiles Into Gaza. imemc.org The Israeli Air Fore carried out, overnight, dozens of strikes targeting many areas in the besieged Gaza Strip. The army said it attacked eighty "Hamas targets" in the costal region, after 30 shells were fired from Gaza into adjacent Israeli area. The army said the strikes against Gaza were carried …

Staff (2018-10-27). Rockets Fall on Israel, Warplanes Strike in Gaza. truthdig.com GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli aircraft struck dozens of militant sites across the Gaza Strip early Saturday as militants fired some 30 rockets into Israel, in the heaviest exchange of fire between the bitter enemies in several weeks. | The fighting followed a bloody day of border protests, in which Israeli forces shot and killed four Palestinians protesting along the perimeter fence dividing Hamas-ruled Gaza and Israel. The sudden burst of fighting and bloodshed complicated the mission of Egyptian mediators, who have intensified shuttle diplomacy to achieve calm and prevent a full-blown conflict between t…

Staff (2018-10-27). 11 Dead in Pittsburgh Synagogue Attack. truthdig.com Truthdig update: Robert Bowers "was charged late Saturday with 29 federal counts, including weapons offenses and hate crimes," and President Trump has ordered flags at federal buildings across the nation flown at half-staff in respect for the victims of Saturday's shooting in Pittsburgh, The Associated Press reported. According to a CNN article, the Anti-Defamation League said in a written statement that the massacre is believed to be the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in U.S. history. | PITTSBURGH—A gunman who's believed to have spewed anti-Semitic slurs and rhetoric on social media barged into a…

IMEMC News (2018-10-27). Palestinian Dies From Serious Wounds Suffered Friday. imemc.org The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza has reported that a young man died, on Saturday at dawn, from serious wounds he suffered Friday, east of the al-Boreij refugee camp, in central Gaza. It said that the Palestinian, identified as Mojahed Ziad Zaki Aqel, 23, died from his serious wounds at …

Fight Back (2018-10-27). Two Palestinians killed in the Great Return March. fightbacknews.org According to widespread media reports, two Palestinian protesters were killed in Gaza, October 26, while participating in the Great Return March. According to the news outlet Ma'an, "Spokesperson of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf al-Qidra, identified one of them as Muhammad Khalid Mahmoud Abed al-Nabi, 27, saying that al-Nabi succumbed to his wounds while being treated at the al-Shifa Hospital." | More 200 unarmed Palestinians have been killed and thousands wounded since the onset of the Great Return March demonstrations. | The Trump administration has constantly backed the Israeli occupation'

Middle East Eye (2018-10-27). Israeli Forces Launch 87 Overnight Airstrikes Against Gaza Strip. theantimedia.com (MEE) — The Israeli army carried out scores of air strikes across the besieged Gaza Strip in the early hours of Saturday, in the highest-intensity offensive on the coastal Palestinian territory since the summer. The Israeli army launched at least 87 air strikes, Israeli news outlet Ynet reported, saying it was in response to some 34 rockets …

RT (2018-10-27). 'All these Jews need to die': Pittsburgh shooter used AR-15 & handguns in synagogue massacre. rt.com The gunman who opened fire in a Pittsburgh synagogue didn't want any of the Jews inside to live, he told police at the scene. Armed with a rifle and handguns, the man surrendered after killing several people and firing at police.

Andrew Levine (2018-10-26). After the Khashoggi Murder, It is Up To Israel to Repair the Crack in the Axis of Evil. counterpunch.org Israel and Saudi Arabia used to be mortal enemies. Though hardly close friends now, they have become de facto allies. To make their mark on the world, they are both utterly dependent on the United States. The United States depends on Saudi Arabia for its oil, for the financial clout its oil makes possible, and for keeping the global oil market on track in ways that accord with America's global interests. Israel has nothing comparable to offer the United States — it is no longer even useful as an off-shore military base — but the political clout of the Israel lobby, both Jewish and Evangelical Christian, mo…

pip.hinman (2018-10-26). Palestinian champions 'drift' racing for women. greenleft.org.au Noor Daoud was the only woman to take to the track in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, where the Palestinian car racer impressed the crowds with her "drift" driving skills. | On Palestine's streets, Daoud mastered the art of drift — deliberately oversteering to make the rear wheels skid —and travelled to Sharm el-Sheikh for a regional competition. | "Since I was little I've become used to meeting up with the guys to play football or tennis," said the 27-year-old on the sidelines of the competition. | Racing

Joe Catron (2018-10-26). Will Israel's Gaza Massacres Finally Prod the ICC into Action? mintpressnews.com Both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, normally reserved in their criticism of Israel, have accused the occupying state of "war crimes." Some hope the sheer scale of Israeli fire against unarmed civilians, along with the copious documentation of it, will prod the ICC to action.

Ron Jacobs (2018-10-26). Refugees, A Hog Wallow, and the Midterms. counterpunch.org While reading media descriptions of the migrant procession through Central America and Mexico two stories came to mind. The first is the song by Bob Marley and the Wailers titled "Exodus." The second is the flight of the Israelites from the Pharaoh's Egypt. When examined even just a little, neither the song or the biblical More

Robert Fantina (2018-10-26). Trump, Saudi Arabia and the Khashoggi Murder. counterpunch.org Is there no crime so obvious, so egregious and so blatant that it won't be overlooked by United States President Donald Trump, if doing so suits his twisted needs? He looks past Israeli barbarity, despite the obvious, unspeakable human rights abuses that that rogue, racist apartheid nation commits. He ignores the abject suffering caused by More

Ramzy Baroud (2018-10-26). 'A Cruel Choice': Why Israel Targets Palestinian Schools. counterpunch.org Several Palestinian students, along with teachers and officials, were wounded in the Israeli army attack on a school south of Nablus in the West Bank on October 15. The students of Al- Sawiya Al-Lebban Mixed School were challenging an Israeli military order to shut down their school based on the ever-versatile accusation of the school More

Middle East Monitor (2018-10-26). Israel is Lobbying Europe to Declare BDS "Fundamentally Anti-Semitic" mintpressnews.com In its ongoing battle against the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign Israel is pushing for European political parties to declare the movement "fundamentally anti-Semitic." The latest drive saw Israel's Minister of Jerusalem Affairs, Ze'ev Elkin, attending a conference in Brussels backed by the Israeli government which proposed a text for prospective MEPs and political parties to sign up to before European elections in May next year. | The text, the Guardian reported, urges European parties to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's (IHRA) "working definition of anti-Se…

Alison Weir (2018-10-26). Israeli Social Media Star May Have Worked as a Secret Agent on US College Campuses. mintpressnews.com The Forward reports that a hugely popular pro-Israel speaker and writer, Hen Mazzig, has been secretly working directly for the Israeli government. It appears that his actions may have violated U.S. espionage laws.

Democracy Now! (2018-10-22). "Reminiscent of South Africa's Grand Apartheid": Israeli Human Rights Group Slams Israel at U.N. democracynow.org Shortly after Israel announced a new "zero tolerance" policy toward demonstrations in Gaza, some 130 Palestinians were injured Friday while protesting ongoing Israeli occupation and demanding the right of return. Four paramedics and 25 children were among the injured. Ten thousand protesters gathered along Israel's heavily militarized separation barrier with Gaza as part of the weekly Great March of Return protests that began March 30. Since then, Israeli forces have killed at least 170 Palestinians, including more than 30 children, and injured thousands more. We speak with Hagai El-Ad, the executive director of…

Democracy Now! (2018-10-22). Headlines for October 22, 2018. democracynow.org Trump to Withdraw from 1987 U.S.-Russia Nuclear Deal, Plans to Establish Biological Definition of Gender Threatens Trans Rights, Saudi Arabia Says Khashoggi Killed in "Fistfight" Amid Mounting U.S. Pressure, NYT: Saudi Troll Farm Targeted Khashoggi, Other Critics on Twitter, Afghanistan: 27 Killed, 100 Injured as Voters Head to Polls, Gaza: Israeli Forces Shoot and Injure 130 Palestinian Protesters, Israel Delays Plans to Evict Bedouin Village in West Bank, Central American Caravan Crosses into Mexico as Trump Threats Mount, Honduras: Lawyers for Victim Berta Cáceres Removed from Murder Trial, Florida: $339 Milli…

Democracy Now! (2018-10-19). Netanyahu Attacks Israeli Human Rights Group B'Tselem for Criticizing Israeli Occupation at U.N. democracynow.org Fears are growing as Israel escalates its military presence along its heavily militarized separation barrier with Gaza. Israel has deployed 60 tanks to meet Palestinian protesters gathering today to protest the ongoing Israeli occupation and demand the right of return for those displaced from their homes. Israel has announced it is implementing a "zero tolerance" policy toward protesters in Gaza, who have been staging weekly Friday protests since March 30 under the banner of the Great March of Return. Since then, Israeli forces have killed at least 170 Palestinians, including more than 30 children, and injured at…

Ricardo Vaz (2018-10-11). Venezuela Takes Center Stage in Brazilian Far Right Presidential Campaign. venezuelanalysis.com Frontrunner Bolsonaro has vowed to sever diplomatic relations with Caracas and back sanctions while establishing closer ties with the ultra-right government in Israel.

Max Blumenthal (2018-09-05). Censored Documentary Exposes the Israeli Government's Attack on Black Lives Matter. grayzoneproject.com Exclusive footage from the censored Al Jazeera documentary, "The Lobby — USA," shows Israeli government officials taking credit for attacks…

Max Blumenthal (2018-08-29). Leaked Scenes from Censored Documentary Reveal Israel Lobbyist Noah Pollak Astroturfing an Anti-Palestinian Protest. grayzoneproject.com Exclusive leaked scenes from Al Jazeera's "The Lobby — USA" documentary show how Emergency Committee for Israel Executive Director Noah…

Hamzah Raza (2018-08-22). Meet the Owner of Canary Mission's Anonymous Anti-Palestinian Blacklisting Website. grayzoneproject.com Canary Mission has exploited its anonymity to smear college students with impunity. The Grayzone has obtained documents identifying the owner…

2018-10-28: Social Media Postees

Young Man Dies From Serious Wounds Suffered Friday
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-10-28
The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that a young Palestinian man died, on Saturday at dawn, from serious wounds he suffered, on Friday October 26th, after Israeli soldiers shot him during the Great Return March protests, in the Gaza Strip. Dr. Ashraf al-Qedra, the spokesperson of the Health Ministry in …

Young Man Dies From Serious Wounds Suffered Friday

Investigate and Prosecute Pillage, Appropriation and Destruction of Palestinian Natural Resources
INA | imemc.org | 2018-10-28
On 26 October, 2018, Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) submitted, to the International Criminal Court (ICC), a 500-page file on alleged crimes committed by Israelis, in particular high-level Israeli officials, and individuals associated with corporations that are extracting and destroying …

Investigate and Prosecute Pillage, Appropriation and Destruction of Palestinian Natural Resources

Colony's Guard Attacks Two Palestinians Near Nablus
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-10-28
An armed guard of an illegal Israeli colony near Qaryout town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, attacked a member of the town's local council and a bulldozer driver, while conducting preparation work for a new agricultural road. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors Israeli …

Colony’s Guard Attacks Two Palestinians Near Nablus

US To Reveal 'Deal Of The Century' To Israel Next Week
Middle East Monitor | iranian.com | 2018-10-28
Israeli public radio said on Friday that the US administration would reveal the details of its "Deal of the Century" to Israel next week. US President Donald Trump's envoy to the Middle East, Jason Greenblatt, is scheduled to travel to the region to meet with Israeli officials and reveal the details of the US plan, Quds […] | The post US To Reveal 'Deal Of The Century' To Israel Next Week appeared first on The Iranian.
iranian.com/2018/10/27/us-to-reveal-deal-of-the-century-to-israel-next-week/

Israel Launches Over 80 Airstrikes Across Gaza (Videos)
Maan News | iranian.com | 2018-10-28
Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting more than 80 sites across the besieged Gaza Strip, on Saturday, as a form of response to 30 rockets fired from Gaza towards Israel, according to the Israeli army. A Ma'an reporter said that Israeli warplanes carried out continuous airstrikes over Gaza since the predawn hours until Saturday morning. […] | The post Israel Launches Over 80 Airstrikes Across Gaza (Videos) appeared first on The Iranian.
iranian.com/2018/10/28/israel-launches-over-80-airstrikes-across-gaza-videos/

US Foreign Policy Mindset In A Nutshell: Ann Coulter Says Trump Should Order US Military To Invade Mexico
The Iranian | iranian.com | 2018-10-28
US Foreign Policy Mindset In A Nutshell: Ann Coulter Says Trump Should Order US Military To Invade Mexico "We didn't ask for Iraq's approval to go in," the controversial conservative pundit told Fox News host Laura Ingraham. What will political commentator/author/proud racist Ann Coulter suggest next, the Israeli approach of snipers killing weaponless men, women […] | The post US Foreign Policy Mindset In A Nutshell: Ann Coulter Says Trump Should Order US Mi…
iranian.com/2018/10/27/us-foreign-policy-mindset-in-a-nutshell-ann-coulter-says-donald-trump-should-order-u-s-military-to-invade-mexico/

Israeli Soldiers Abduct Three Palestinians In Bethlehem
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-10-28
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Sunday at dawn, three young Palestinian men from several areas in Bethlehem Governorate, in the occupied West Bank. The Bethlehem office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said the soldiers invaded and searched several homes in Teqoua' town, southeast of Bethlehem, and abducted Ahmad Jamal al-'Amour, …

Israeli Soldiers Abduct Three Palestinians In Bethlehem

Why HIAS Became a Target of Hate
Jacob Eder | zcomm.org | 2018-10-28
The aid agency has transformed itself over the past decade from a group that aids refugees because they are Jewish, to a group of Jews that aids refugees.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/why-hias-became-a-target-of-hate/

Eleven killed in deadliest attack on Jewish community in US history
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-10-28
The attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh occurs in the midst of an international escalation of fascist violence.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/27/pitt-o28.html

Palestinian Dies From Serious Wounds Suffered Friday
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-10-27
The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza has reported that a young man died, on Saturday at dawn, from serious wounds he suffered Friday, east of the al-Boreij refugee camp, in central Gaza. It said that the Palestinian, identified as Mojahed Ziad Zaki Aqel, 23, died from his serious wounds at …

Palestinian Dies From Serious Wounds Suffered Friday

Israeli Air Force Fires Dozens Of Missiles Into Gaza
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-10-27
The Israeli Air Fore carried out, overnight, dozens of strikes targeting many areas in the besieged Gaza Strip. The army said it attacked eighty "Hamas targets" in the costal region, after 30 shells were fired from Gaza into adjacent Israeli area. The army said the strikes against Gaza were carried …

Israeli Air Force Fires Dozens Of Missiles Into Gaza

Settlers Vandalize Nazareth Village with Graffiti
INA | imemc.org | 2018-10-27
Israeli settlers sprayed anti-Arab graffiti in the Yaffa al-Nasriyyeh village in Nazareth of northern Israel, early Friday morning. Locals said, according to Ma'an, that a group of Israeli settlers raided the Marah Ghuzlan neighborhood of the village, sprayed racist slogans, including "price tag," "revenge," and "death to Arabs" on walls …

Settlers Vandalize Nazareth Village with Graffiti

Two Palestinians killed in the Great Return March
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2018-10-27
According to widespread media reports, two Palestinian protesters were killed in Gaza, October 26, while participating in the Great Return March. According to the news outlet Ma'an, "Spokesperson of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf al-Qidra, identified one of them as Muhammad Khalid Mahmoud Abed al-Nabi, 27, saying that al-Nabi succumbed to his wounds while being treated at the al-Shifa Hospital." | More 200 unarmed Palestinians have been killed and thousands wounded since the onset of the Great Return March demonstrations. | The Trump administration has constantly backed the Israeli occupation'…
www.fightbacknews.org/2018/10/26/two-palestinians-killed-great-return-march

Rockets Fall on Israel, Warplanes Strike in Gaza
Staff | truthdig.com | 2018-10-27
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli aircraft struck dozens of militant sites across the Gaza Strip early Saturday as militants fired some 30 rockets into Israel, in the heaviest exchange of fire between the bitter enemies in several weeks. | The fighting followed a bloody day of border protests, in which Israeli forces shot and killed four Palestinians protesting along the perimeter fence dividing Hamas-ruled Gaza and Israel. The sudden burst of fighting and bloodshed complicated the mission of Egyptian mediators, who have intensified shuttle diplomacy to achieve calm and prevent a full-blown conflict between t…
truthdig.com/articles/rockets-fall-on-israel-warplanes-strike-in-gaza/

Palestine: What's Working, What's Not
INA | imemc.org | 2018-10-27
Katie Miranda A telesummit with 20 activists, journalists, and more. Join. I first arrived in East Jerusalem during a bitterly cold Palestinian winter in late 2005 to join the International Solidarity Movement.

Palestine: What’s Working, What’s Not

Why Israel Sees BDS As A 'Strategic Threat'
INA | imemc.org | 2018-10-27
Asa Winstanley is an investigative journalist living in London who writes about Palestine and the Middle East. He writes for The Electronic Intifada where he is an associate editor and also a weekly column for the Middle East Monitor. As leaders of a state that is totally alien to the …

Why Israel Sees BDS As A ‘Strategic Threat’

Soldiers Ram Two Palestinians With Armored Jeep; Fire Tear Gas at Crowd
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2018-10-27
An Israeli army jeep rammed, Saturday, two Palestinians in Azzoun town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, while the soldiers fired dozens of gas bombs, causing many Palestinians to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation. Medical sources have reported that two Palestinians, identified as Omar Abdul-Halim Hussein, …

Soldiers Ram Two Palestinians With Armored Jeep; Fire Tear Gas at Crowd

11 Dead in Pittsburgh Synagogue Attack
Staff | truthdig.com | 2018-10-27
Truthdig update: Robert Bowers "was charged late Saturday with 29 federal counts, including weapons offenses and hate crimes," and President Trump has ordered flags at federal buildings across the nation flown at half-staff in respect for the victims of Saturday's shooting in Pittsburgh, The Associated Press reported. According to a CNN article, the Anti-Defamation League said in a written statement that the massacre is believed to be the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in U.S. history. | PITTSBURGH–A gunman who's believed to have spewed anti-Semitic slurs and rhetoric on social media barged into a…
truthdig.com/articles/multiple-casualties-after-shooting-near-pittsburgh-synagogue/

Israeli Forces Launch 87 Overnight Airstrikes Against Gaza Strip
Middle East Eye | theantimedia.com | 2018-10-27
(MEE) — The Israeli army carried out scores of air strikes across the besieged Gaza Strip in the early hours of Saturday, in the highest-intensity offensive on the coastal Palestinian territory since the summer. The Israeli army launched at least 87 air strikes, Israeli news outlet Ynet reported, saying it was in response to some 34 rockets …

Israeli Forces Launch 87 Overnight Airstrikes Against Gaza Strip

'All these Jews need to die': Pittsburgh shooter used AR-15 & handguns in synagogue massacre
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-27
The gunman who opened fire in a Pittsburgh synagogue didn't want any of the Jews inside to live, he told police at the scene. Armed with a rifle and handguns, the man surrendered after killing several people and firing at police. | …
rt.com/usa/442440-pittsburgh-jewish-synagogue-shooter/

Will Israel's Gaza Massacres Finally Prod the ICC into Action?
Joe Catron | mintpressnews.com | 2018-10-26
Both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, normally reserved in their criticism of Israel, have accused the occupying state of "war crimes." Some hope the sheer scale of Israeli fire against unarmed civilians, along with the copious documentation of it, will prod the ICC to action. | The post Will Israel's Gaza Massacres Finally Prod the ICC into Action? appeared first on MintPress News.
mintpressnews.com/will-israels-gaza-massacres-finally-prod-the-icc-into-action/251074/

'A Cruel Choice': Why Israel Targets Palestinian Schools
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-26
Several Palestinian students, along with teachers and officials, were wounded in the Israeli army attack on a school south of Nablus in the West Bank on October 15. The students of Al- Sawiya Al-Lebban Mixed School were challenging an Israeli military order to shut down their school based on the ever-versatile accusation of the school…
counterpunch.org/2018/10/26/a-cruel-choice-why-israel-targets-palestinian-schools/

Israeli Social Media Star May Have Worked as a Secret Agent on US College Campuses
Alison Weir | mintpressnews.com | 2018-10-26
The Forward reports that a hugely popular pro-Israel speaker and writer, Hen Mazzig, has been secretly working directly for the Israeli government. It appears that his actions may have violated U.S. espionage laws. | The post Israeli Social Media Star May Have Worked as a Secret Agent on US College Campuses appeared first on MintPress News.
mintpressnews.com/social-media-star-hen-mazzig-may-have-worked-as-a-secret-israeli-agent/251062/

Refugees, A Hog Wallow, and the Midterms
Ron Jacobs | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-26
While reading media descriptions of the migrant procession through Central America and Mexico two stories came to mind. The first is the song by Bob Marley and the Wailers titled "Exodus." The second is the flight of the Israelites from the Pharaoh's Egypt. When examined even just a little, neither the song or the biblical…
counterpunch.org/2018/10/26/refugees-a-hog-wallow-and-the-midterms/

Palestinian champions 'drift' racing for women
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2018-10-26
Noor Daoud was the only woman to take to the track in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, where the Palestinian car racer impressed the crowds with her "drift" driving skills. | On Palestine's streets, Daoud mastered the art of drift — deliberately oversteering to make the rear wheels skid –and travelled to Sharm el-Sheikh for a regional competition. | "Since I was little I've become used to meeting up with the guys to play football or tennis," said the 27-year-old on the sidelines of the competition. | Racing now dominates her lif…
greenleft.org.au/content/palestinian-champions-%E2%80%98drift%E2%80%99-racing-women

After the Khashoggi Murder, It is Up To Israel to Repair the Crack in the Axis of Evil
Andrew Levine | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-26
Israel and Saudi Arabia used to be mortal enemies. Though hardly close friends now, they have become de facto allies. To make their mark on the world, they are both utterly dependent on the United States. The United States depends on Saudi Arabia for its oil, for the financial clout its oil makes possible, and for keeping the global oil market on track in ways that accord with America's global interests. Israel has nothing comparable to offer the United States — it is no longer even useful as an off-shore military base — but the political clout of the Israel lobby, both Jewish and Evangelical Christian, mo…
counterpunch.org/2018/10/26/after-the-khashoggi-murder-it-is-up-to-israel-to-repair-the-crack-in-the-axis-of-evil/

Trump, Saudi Arabia and the Khashoggi Murder
Robert Fantina | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-26
Is there no crime so obvious, so egregious and so blatant that it won't be overlooked by United States President Donald Trump, if doing so suits his twisted needs? He looks past Israeli barbarity, despite the obvious, unspeakable human rights abuses that that rogue, racist apartheid nation commits. He ignores the abject suffering caused by…
counterpunch.org/2018/10/26/trump-saudi-arabia-and-the-khashoggi-murder/

Israel is Lobbying Europe to Declare BDS "Fundamentally Anti-Semitic"
Middle East Monitor | mintpressnews.com | 2018-10-26
In its ongoing battle against the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign Israel is pushing for European political parties to declare the movement "fundamentally anti-Semitic." The latest drive saw Israel's Minister of Jerusalem Affairs, Ze'ev Elkin, attending a conference in Brussels backed by the Israeli government which proposed a text for prospective MEPs and political parties to sign up to before European elections in May next year. | The text, the Guardian reported, urges European parties to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's (IHRA) "working definition of anti-Se…
mintpressnews.com/israel-is-lobbying-europe-to-declare-bds-fundamentally-anti-semitic/251082/

Imposing 'Balance' Requires Distortion of Palestine/Israel Struggle
Gregory Shupak | fair.org | 2018-10-23
Since the Palestinians' Great Return March began on March 30, Israel has killed 217 Palestinians in Gaza, 163 of whom were participating in the demonstrations. Among the dead are 33 children, three paramedics and four people with disabilities; Israel has injured a further 11,155 Palestinians, many of whom will be maimed for l…
fair.org/home/imposing-balance-requires-distortion-of-palestine-israel-struggle/

"Reminiscent of South Africa's Grand Apartheid": Israeli Human Rights Group Slams Israel at U.N
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-10-22
Shortly after Israel announced a new "zero tolerance" policy toward demonstrations in Gaza, some 130 Palestinians were injured Friday while protesting ongoing Israeli occupation and demanding the right of return. Four paramedics and 25 children were among the injured. Ten thousand protesters gathered along Israel's heavily militarized separation barrier with Gaza as part of the weekly Great March of Return protests that began March 30. Since then, Israeli forces have killed at least 170 Palestinians, including more than 30 children, and injured thousands more. We speak with Hagai El-Ad, the executive director of…
www.democracynow.org/2018/10/22/reminiscent_of_south_africas_grand_apartheid

Netanyahu Attacks Israeli Human Rights Group B'Tselem for Criticizing Israeli Occupation at U.N
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-10-19
Fears are growing as Israel escalates its military presence along its heavily militarized separation barrier with Gaza. Israel has deployed 60 tanks to meet Palestinian protesters gathering today to protest the ongoing Israeli occupation and demand the right of return for those displaced from their homes. Israel has announced it is implementing a "zero tolerance" policy toward protesters in Gaza, who have been staging weekly Friday protests since March 30 under the banner of the Great March of Return. Since then, Israeli forces have killed at least 170 Palestinians, including more than 30 children, and injured at…
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Venezuela Takes Center Stage in Brazilian Far Right Presidential Campaign
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2018-10-11
Frontrunner Bolsonaro has vowed to sever diplomatic relations with Caracas and back sanctions while establishing closer ties with the ultra-right government in Israel.
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