Netanyahu's Rival Benny Gantz to Hold Private Meeting With Trump Ahead of Mideast Peace Plan Reveal
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-26
The long-awaited publication of the peace plan is expected to take place amid a state of political uncertainty in the Jewish state, which has been unable to form a new government for nearly a year along with its prime minister also being indicted on corruption charges.
sputniknews.com/world/202001261078142709-netanyahus-rival-benny-gantz-to-hold-private-meeting-with-trump-ahead-of-mideast-peace-plan-reveal/

Trump's Threat to Dispossess Four Million Palestinians by Violent Annexation of East Jerusalem and West Bank
Hans Stehling | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-26
50 million Christian Zionists, including US VP Mike Pence, have succeeded in persuading a gullible Donald Trump to propose the forced annexation of Palestinian East Jerusalem and the West Bank by hard-line extremist Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, …
globalresearch.ca/18-un-likely-support-trump-threat-dispossess-4m-palestinians-violent-annexation-east-jerusalem-west-bank/5701735

Gaza: The Auschwitz of our Time
Khalid Amayreh | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-26
International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In Commemoration of the Liberation of Auschwitz, January 27, 2020 | *** | First published in August 2007 | In 1940, several months after invading Poland in September 1939, the Nazis forced about 500,000 Jews into the Warsaw Ghetto, …
globalresearch.ca/gaza-the-auschwitz-of-our-time/6509

Israeli Detained in Russia for Drug Trafficking Pleads Pardon From President Putin
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-26
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu previously filed a plea for mercy from the Russian head of state to release the Israeli citizen. Putin, who has met with the mother of the detained woman, has stated that "everything is going to be fine".
sputniknews.com/russia/202001261078142874-israeli-detained-in-russia-for-drug-trafficking-pleads-pardon-from-russian-president/

Israel approves travel to Saudi under limited circumstances
yenisafak.com | 2020-01-26
Israel on Sunday announced that it would permit Israeli citizens to travel to Saudi Arabia for the first time, under certain conditions.Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, after consulting with the country's security establishment, issued a statement saying that Israelis would be allowed to travel to Saudi Arabia under two circumstanceS: for religions reasons on pilgrimage on the haj, or for up to nine days for business reasons such as investment or meetings.Travelers would still need permission from the Saudi authorities, the statement said.
yenisafak.com/en/world/israel-approves-travel-to-saudi-under-limited-circumstances-3510509

Human Rights Commission Calls Killing of Three Palestinian Teens a War Crime
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-01-25
Palestinian human rights activist accused the Israeli occupation of executing three Palestinian children east of the Gaza Strip, on Tuesday evening, in cold blood, calling it a war crime, Alray reported. The head of the International Commission for the Support of the Rights of the Palestinian People "Hashd", Salah Abdel-Ati, …
imemc.org/article/human-rights-commission-calls-killing-of-three-palestinian-teens-a-war-crime/

How Israel Exploits the Holocaust to Justify War Crimes Against Palestinians
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-25
counterpunch.org/2020/01/24/how-israel-exploits-the-holocaust-to-justify-war-crimes-against-palestinians/

Palestinian Boy Allegedly Kidnapped by Settlers, Found Dead
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-25
An eight-year-old Palestinian boy who went missing in East Jerusalem Friday afternoon was found dead at the bottom of a cistern filled with rainwater after long hours of search efforts Saturday. | RELATED: | Israel Breaches Law, Transfers 34 Palestinian Minors From Prisons | Qais Abu Rmaileh was found in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina and was immediately taken to Hadassah hospital, where lifesaving attempts were unsuccessful. | The Jerusalem Post cited Israel…
telesurenglish.net/news/Palestinian-Boy-Allegedly-Kidnapped-by-Israeli-Settlers-Found-Dead-20200125-0013.html

Israel Carries Out New Airstrikes Against Southern Gaza
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-25
The Israeli Defense Forces confirmed they launched a series of airstrikes striking a number of targets in eastern Khanyounes in the southern Gaza Strip Saturday night. | RELATED: | Israel Carries Out Fresh Airstrikes Over Gaza | According to the IDF, the targets included a weapon-manufacturing depot and a military post operated by Hamas; in retaliation to alleged multiple explosive and incendiary balloons launched from the besieged territory over the past few weeks. | Hamas has not issued any…
telesurenglish.net/news/Israel-Carries-Out-New-Airstrikes-Against-Southern-Gaza–20200125-0010.html

Israeli Air Force strikes multiple targets in Gaza in response to 'explosive balloons'
rt.com | 2020-01-25
Israel has carried out a series of airstrikes against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, in retaliation for multiple explosive and incendiary balloons launched from the enclave over the past few weeks. | The targets included an alleged "weapons production site and a military compound," the IAF said amid reports of explosions in the central Gaza Strip, as well as near Khan Younis in the south. There were no immediate reports of casualties. | We just struck Hamas targets in #Gaza, after a series of balloons with explosives attached to them…
rt.com/news/479197-israel-gaza-strikes-balloons/

Israeli Authorities Ban the Imam of the Al-Aqsa Mosque for Four Months
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-01-25
On Saturday at 2: 00 am, Israeli forces hammered on the door of the head of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third-holiest site in Islam, while he was sleeping. When he woke, the troops handed him a notice that he would be banned from entering the mosque that he heads for a …
imemc.org/article/defying-israeli-ban-sheikh-sabri-attempts-to-enter-al-aqsa/

Israeli Soldiers Injure Three In Kufur Qaddoum
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-01-24
Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, and injured two Palestinians and one Israeli peace activist. Morad Eshteiwi, the coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in Kufur Qaddoum, said the soldiers surrounded the …
imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-injure-three-in-kufur-qaddoum/

Trump's "No-Peace/Peace Plan" for Palestine. Netanyahu/Gantz Invited to White House to Discuss "Deal of the Century"
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-24
Leaked information shows Trump's so-called deal of the century is a one-sided scam, favoring Israel at the expense of fundamental Palestinian rights. | The so-called peace process is the greatest hoax in modern times, along with the US war OF terror …
globalresearch.ca/netanyahu-gantz-white-house-invitation-discuss-trump-regime-no-peace-peace-plan/5701629

Scientists for Palestine Conference Hears Message of Palestinian Scholar, Political Prisoner Ubai Aboudi
IMEMC News & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-01-24
Hind Shraydeh protests for Ubai's release with their three children, Khaled, Ghassan and Basel. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network On the evening of 10 January, a packed hall at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hosted the third international conference of Scientists for Palestine, a global initiative working …
imemc.org/article/scientists-for-palestine-conference-hears-message-of-palestinian-scholar-political-prisoner-ubai-aboudi/

In the Name of "Israel's Security": Retreating US Gives Israel Billions More in Military Funding
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-24
Billions of US tax-payers' money will continue to be funneled into Israel in the next fiscal year, and for many years in the foreseeable future. Republican and Democratic Senators have recently achieved just that, passing a bill aimed at providing Israel with $3.3 billion in annual aid. The Bill, co-sponsored by Democratic Senator, Chris Coons…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/24/in-the-name-of-israels-security-retreating-us-gives-israel-billions-more-in-military-funding/

In the Name of "Israel's Security": Retreating US Gives Israel Billions More in Military Funding
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-24
Billions of US tax-payers' money will continue to be funneled into Israel in the next fiscal year, and for many years in the foreseeable future. Republican and Democratic Senators have recently achieved just that, passing a bill aimed at providing Israel with $3.3 billion in annual aid. The Bill, co-sponsored by Democratic Senator, Chris Coons…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/24/in-the-name-of-israels-security-retreating-us-gives-israel-billions-more-in-military-funding/

European Jewish Congress (EJC) Launches Campaign Against 'Antisemitism' (Aka Support for Palestinian Rights)
Alison Weir | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-24
The European Jewish Congress (EJC) has announced the launch of a worldwide, star studded social media campaign against what it calls "antisemitism," but which is often advocacy for Palestinian human rights and opposition to Israeli apartheid. EJC is the …
globalresearch.ca/jewish-congress-launches-campaign-against-antisemitism-support-palestinian-rights/5701608

Israel Accused of Flooding Khan Younis
IMEMC News & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-01-24
The municipality of Khan Younis City, in southern Gaza, has accused the Israeli occupation authority of intentionally releasing collected rainwater from dams in the east and swamping many areas of the city, especially Salahuddin Street. Days of Palestine reports that Mohamed al-Asttal, head of the municipality's emergency committee, said on …
imemc.org/article/israel-accused-of-flooding-khan-younis/

Wing Chun Kung Fu Popular Among Palestinians
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-24
Over 40 students are learning Wing Chun, a Chinese martial arts, at the Palestinian Cultural School of Wing Chun Kung Fu, based in the northern city of Beit Lahia in Gaza Strip, opened in 1989. | RELATED: | Israeli Opposition Leader Gantz Pledges to Annex Jordan Valley | The school has witnessed an increasing number of participants in the past few years. "I joined the school four years ago, in an attempt to control my hasty…
telesurenglish.net/news/wing-chun-kung-fu-popular-among-palestinians-20200124-0009.html

Illegal Israeli Colonists Burn A Mosque In Jerusalem
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-01-24
Illegal Israeli colonists, squatting on stolen Palestinian lands, burnt sections of a mosque in Sharafat Palestinian village, southwest of occupied East Jerusalem, after infiltrating into the village at dawn. An eyewitness told the Palestinian Maan News Agency that, as he and around forty other Palestinians, headed to the mosque for …
imemc.org/article/illegal-israeli-colonists-burn-a-mosque-in-jerusalem/

Jordan Denounces Israeli Attack On Worshiper In Al-Aqsa Mosque
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-01-24
The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates strongly denounced the Friday dawn Israeli attack against Palestinian Muslim worshipers in Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem. The Ministry said that the invasion into the courtyards of the holy sites, and the violent assault against the worshipers, is another serious Israeli violation …
imemc.org/article/jordan-denounces-israeli-attack-on-worshiper-in-al-aqsa-mosque/

Soldiers Injure Two Palestinians, Attack Worshipers, In Al-Aqsa Mosque
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-01-24
Israeli soldiers shot, on Friday at dawn, a young Palestinian man and a woman with rubber-coated steel bullets, and assaulted many others with clubs and batons, following dawn prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied East Jerusalem. Media sources said the soldiers assaulted dozens of worshipers, and fired rubber-coated steel …
imemc.org/article/110796/

Israeli Soldiers Abduct Thirteen Palestinians In Jerusalem
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-01-24
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Friday at dawn, at least thirteen Palestinians, including one woman and two journalists, from their homes in several parts of occupied East Jerusalem. Media sources said the soldiers invaded and ransacked many homes in several parts of Jerusalem, including the Old City, and Beit Hanina town. …
imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-abduct-thirteen-palestinians-in-jerusalem/

Families in Disbelief After Israeli Army Kills Three Gaza Teens
Middle East Eye | theantimedia.com | 2020-01-24
Israel says Mohammed, Salem and Mahmoud snuck into Israel and attacked the army – but their relatives reject this version of events.

Families in Disbelief After Israeli Army Kills Three Gaza Teens

Families in Disbelief After Israeli Army Kills Three Gaza Teens
Middle East Eye | theantimedia.com | 2020-01-24
Israel says Mohammed, Salem and Mahmoud snuck into Israel and attacked the army – but their relatives reject this version of events.

Families in Disbelief After Israeli Army Kills Three Gaza Teens

Pence, Netanyahu use Holocaust event in Israel to rail against Iran
wsws.org | 2020-01-24
The slander of Iranian "anti-Semitism" and unfounded claims that Tehran is seeking nuclear weapons are propaganda to justify a steady buildup toward war.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/24/holo-j24.html

Putin's Trip to 'Israel' Will be Remembered as an Important Part of His Legacy
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-24
Putin's trip to "Israel" on Thursday to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was a defining moment of his 20-year-long presidency and will forever be remembered as an important part of his legacy due to the extremely …
globalresearch.ca/putin-trip-israel-remembered-important-part-legacy/5701613

Pence, Netanyahu use Holocaust event in Israel to rail against Iran
wsws.org | 2020-01-24
The slander of Iranian "anti-Semitism" and unfounded claims that Tehran is seeking nuclear weapons are propaganda to justify a steady buildup toward war.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/24/holo-j24.html

Selected Articles: Trump's "No-Peace/Peace Plan" for Palestine
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-24
Trump's "No-Peace/Peace Plan" for Palestine. Netanyahu/Gantz Invited to White House to Discuss "Deal of the Century" | By Stephen Lendman, January 24, 2020 | Leaked information shows Trump's so-called deal of the century is a one-sided scam, favoring…
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-trump-no-peace-peace-plan-palestine/5701647

White House pours cold water on 'Prince Charles snubs Pence' claims (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-01-23
A video showing the UK's Prince Charles appearing to dodge a handshake with US Vice President Mike Pence doesn't tell the whole story, the White House has insisted, claiming the two men greeted each other warmly earlier. | Prince Charles appears to snub Pence as he shakes the hands of a row of international leaders and VIPs at the World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem, sparing the American a brief glance and moving on to greet Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu instead. The British royal seems to mutter something under his breath as he conspicuously avoids engaging with Pence. | The vice president's staff entered d…
rt.com/news/479021-pence-charles-handshake-drama/

In the Name of "Israel's Security": Retreating US Gives Israel Billions More in Military Funding
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-22
Billions of US tax-payers' money will continue to be funneled into Israel in the next fiscal year, and for many years in the foreseeable future. Republican and Democratic Senators have recently achieved just that, passing a bill aimed at providing Israel with $3.3 billion in annual aid. The Bill, co-sponsored by Democratic Senator, Chris Coons …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/in-the-name-of-israels-security-retreating-us-gives-israel-billions-more-in-military-funding/

Saudi Crown Prince Likely Used Israeli Spyware to Hack Bezos' Phone: UN Experts
Middle East Eye | theantimedia.com | 2020-01-22
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In the Name of "Security" Retreating US Gives Israel Billions More in Military Funding
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-21
Despite the fact that the U.S. is retreating from the Middle East, lacking strategy and future vision, lawmakers are congratulating themselves on passing yet another generous aid package to Israel.
mintpressnews.com/united-states-bill-gives-israel-billions-military-aid/264251/

In the Name of "Security" Retreating US Gives Israel Billions More in Military Funding
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-21
Despite the fact that the U.S. is retreating from the Middle East, lacking strategy and future vision, lawmakers are congratulating themselves on passing yet another generous aid package to Israel.
mintpressnews.com/united-states-bill-gives-israel-billions-military-aid/264251/

The Israeli Right has Reason to Believe the Stars are Finally Aligned for Annexation
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-20
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu needs all the help he can muster before voters head to the ballot box on March 2

The Miracle of Kindness
Chris Hedges | zcomm.org | 2020-01-19
Take a brief journey through the eyes of American, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges to Jerusalem, Gaza, and Iraq, and discover the sacred bonds that make us human…
zcomm.org/zvideo/the-miracle-of-kindness/