2020-05-20: News Headlines

Stephen Lendman (2020-05-20). Abbas Suspending Agreements with Israel? globalresearch.ca In 2005, Israel virtually installed Mahmoud Abbas as Palestinian president and PLO chairman. | A rigged election with no legitimacy assured it. His mandate is serving as Israel's enforcer. | He's kept in power as long as remaining submissive to Israeli interests …

Lucas Leiroz de Almeida (2020-05-20). Israel and Iran Face Each Other in Cyberspace. globalresearch.ca Cyber ‚Äã‚Äãwarfare is one of the main bellicose activities of contemporary times. Through technologically advanced and powerful weapons, the great world powers face each other on the international stage in an invisible field, far from media attention, where the most …

Elijah J. Magnier (2020-05-20). Israel Strikes Syria to Keep the USA in the Levant 20 Years After the Unconditional Withdrawal From Lebanon — What Has Been Achieved? globalresearch.ca Following its

Marwa Osman (2020-05-19). International Al Quds Day 2020-MES EP.54. thealtworld.com Pro-Palestine activists across the world are making plans to replace street rallies with online events to commemorate this year's International Quds Day as the coronavirus pandemic has restricted social life and mass gatherings across the globe. How will this year's Quds Day affect Palestine? To discuss this issue with us from Montreal is Susane Khalil political scientist and researcher, founder of the Canaan Association and Host and produce of the radio show "Palestine 11 thousand years of history". | Israel's repression of Palestinian citizens in the occupied West Bank and Gaza has become more brutal over time.

Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo (2020-05-19). What You Need to Know about the ICC Investigation of War Crimes in Occupied Palestine. dissidentvoice.org Fatou Bensouda, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), has, once and for all, settled the doubts on the Court's jurisdiction to investigate war crimes committed in occupied Palestine. On April 30, Bensouda released a 60-page document diligently laying down the legal bases for that decision, concluding that "the Prosecution has carefully considered the …

Philip Giraldi (2020-05-19). News Stories Avoid Naming Israel. thealtworld.com There are two stories that seem to have been under-reported in the past couple of weeks. The first involves Michael Flynn's dealings with the Russian United Nations Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. And the second describes yet another bit of espionage conducted by a foreign country directed against the United States. Both stories involve the State of Israel. | The bigger story is, of course, the dismissal by Attorney General William Barr of the criminal charges against former National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn based on malfeasance by the FBI investigators. The curious aspect of the story as it is being rel…

Elijah Magnier (2020-05-19). Israà´l frappe la Syrie pour maintenir les États-Unis au Levant. Vingt ans après le retrait inconditionnel d'Israà´l du Liban, où en sommes-nous? 2/3. thealtworld.com Après avoir perdu sa deuxième guerre au Liban, Israà´l a découvert que le seul moyen de réprimer le Hezbollah …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-19). Israeli Troops Abduct Several Palestinians in West Bank and Israel. imemc.org Israeli troops reportedly abducted, on Tuesday, several Palestinians from various parts of the occupied West Bank as well as the Israeli-besieged Gaza Strip. In the occupied city of east Jerusalem, which Palestinians want as the capital of a prospective future Palestinian state, Israeli occupation authorities in the internationally-recognized occupied Arab-Palestinian …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-19). Israeli Troops Erect Settler-only Bypass Road in Southern Nablus. imemc.org Israeli troops reportedly embarked on erecting a bypass road, on Tuesday, in the Huwara village, south of Nablus city in the northern occupied West Bank. Local Palestinian media sources said that the road is seven kilometers-long and that it will be located on about 100 acres of Palestinian farm lands. …

Ali Salam (2020-05-19). Israeli Settler Convicted in Dawabsha Arson Attack. imemc.org Israel's Lod District Court convicted Israeli settler, Amiram Ben-Uliel, on Monday, for his involvement in the arson attack that resulted in the death of 18-month-old Ali Dawabsha, the Jerusalem Post reported. Ben-Uliel was involved in the 2015 terror attack that killed the infant and severely burned his older brother Ahmad …

David Hearst (2020-05-19). Israel's Annexation Plan Is "The Nakba Revisited" globalresearch.ca Anniversaries commemorate past events. And you could be forgiven for thinking that an event which happened 72 years ago is indeed in the past. | This is true of most anniversaries, except when it comes to

Michael Lynk (2020-05-19). Canada Missing in Action on Israel's Proposed Annexation of the West Bank. commondreams.org The UN Security Council meets on the situation in Syria at UN headquarters in October 2019. (Photo: THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Mary Altaffer) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/file-20200518-83348-6ewy1l.jpg

Ted Kelly (2020-05-18). The Nakba: 72 years of ongoing catastrophe. workers.org May 15 is the day commemorating Youm al-Nakba, the Day of Catastrophe, when white European settlers declared war on the people of Palestine in 1948. In the violence that immediately followed the settlers' so-called "independence" declaration, at least 700,000 Palestinians were forced out of their homes, and hundreds of towns . . . |

Staff (2020-05-18). How Democracy Falls In East Europe And The Balkans. therealnews.com Freedom House says Eastern European and Balkans democracies are in danger. COVID-19 has opened the door to surveillance, and threatens democracies from Hungary to India to Israel.

IMEMC News (2020-05-18). Israeli Soldiers Abduct Eight Palestinians, Injure Several Others, In West Bank. imemc.org Israeli soldiers abducted, Monday, eight Palestinians, and injured many others, in several parts of the occupied West Bank, after the soldiers invaded many communities, stormed and ransacked homes, and attack protesters. In Jenin, in northern West Bank, the soldiers invaded the home of Ahmad Nabeeh Abu ar-Rob, and violently searched …

graham (2020-05-18). Outspoken Palestinians — transformed into antisemites simply because they call for peace. truepublica.org.uk By Jonathan Cook: An attack on a prominent British-Palestinian doctor and academic, Ghada Karmi, by a self-styled "antisemitism watchdog" looks suspiciously like a new trend in anti-Palestinian bigotry and bullying dressed up as victimhood. Late last month, the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), which claims to represent the interests of the UK's Jewish community, said it …

IMEMC News (2020-05-18). Soldiers Abduct Four Palestinians, Injure Many, In Hebron. imemc.org Israeli soldiers invaded, earlier Monday, Hebron city, and nearby towns of Beit Ummar and Yatta, in addition to the al-'Arroub refugee camp, in southern West Bank, searched and ransacked many homes and abducted four Palestinians, in addition to wounding several others. Mohammad Awad, a local nonviolent media activist in Beit …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-18). Israeli Military Court Extends Detention of a Palestinian Teen Boy. imemc.org The Israeli military court of Salem, near Jenin city in the West Bank, ordered on Monday, the extension of the detention of Palestinian teenager, Qasem Abu Baker, 17, from the Palestinian village of Y'abad, south of Jenin city. The mother of Qasem, told media outlets that Monday's extension is the …

IMEMC News (2020-05-18). Soldiers Assault A Palestinian Before Abducting Him In Jenin. imemc.org Israeli soldiers assaulted, on Monday at dawn, a young Palestinian man in Misilyah town, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and abducted him after searching and ransacking his home. Media sources said several army jeeps invaded the town, before the soldiers stormed and ransacked the home of …

IMEMC News (2020-05-18). Israeli Colonists Chop Down 80 Olive Trees In Nablus, Bethlehem. imemc.org Several fanatic illegal Israeli colonists invaded, Sunday, a Palestinian olive orchard, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and cut more than 40 olive trees. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors Israel's illegal colonialist activities in northern West Bank, said the colonists stormed an olive orchard …

Sputnik News (2020-05-19). Israeli Operatives Behind 'Highly Accurate' Cyberattack on Iranian Port Facility — Report. iranian.com On 10 May, the managing director of Iran's Ports and Maritime Organization, Mohammad Rastad, confirmed in a televised statement that the county's port of Shahid Rajaee, in the coastal city of Bandar Abbas, was the victim of a cyberattack by an unknown foreign hacker on 9 May, bringing to a halt all shipping traffic in …

Andrey Areshev (2020-05-18). The 'Clean Break' Doctrine: A Modern-Day Sykes-Picot Waging War and Havoc in the Middle East. strategic-culture.org In 1996 a task force, led by Richard Perle, produced a policy document titled "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm" for Benjamin Netanyahu, who was then in his first term as Prime Minister of Israel, as a how-to manual on approaching regime change in the Middle East and for the destruction of the Oslo Accords. | The "Clean Break" policy document outlined these goals: 1) Ending Yasser Arafat's and the Palestinian Authority's political influence, by blaming them for acts of Palestinian terrorism 2) Inducing the United States to overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq. 3) Launching war against Syr…

en.mehrnews (2020-05-20). Palestine to be liberated one day: Rouhani. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 20 (MNA) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that the philosophy of Quds Day is that Quds will not be forgotten and Palestine will finally be liberated.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-20). Experts Assembly calls for defying normalization of ties with Israeli regime. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 20 (MNA) — Iran's Assembly of Experts has called on the Islamic countries to be united against efforts of normalizing ties with the Israeli regime and to stand up for the rights of the Palestinian nation.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-20). Palestinian Authority terms accords with Israeli regime, US 'null and void'. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 20 (MNA) — President of Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas announced on Tuesday that his administration considers all agreements signed with the Israeli regime and the United States null and void, following the Zionists' plan for the annexation of the West Bank.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-20). Consequences of Zionists' dangerous project in West Bank. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 20 (MNA) — Annexing parts of the West Bank to the occupied territories have severe consequences for Jordan and the country will most probably oppose this Israeli move.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-20). Whispers of Zionist regime's death can be heard from Tel Aviv streets. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 20 (MNA) — Chief of Staff of Iran's Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Bagheri issued a message on the occasion of the upcoming International Quds Day, pointing to failures of Israeli-American plots for the region.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-20). Zionist regime was born through terror: Foreign Ministry. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 20 (MNA) — Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in its twitter account on Wednesday wrote that the Zionist regime was born through terror, adding that a terrorist regime in nature, Israel still continues to sow seeds of chaos in our region.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-20). Imam Khomeini unified all freedom-seekers against tyrants by forming Intl. Quds Day: Jew MP. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 20 (MNA) — Head of Tehran Jewish Association Homayoun Sameyeh says the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, formed the International Quds Day with the aim of unifying all the freedom-seekers in the world against the global Arrogance and their hegemony.

sputniknews (2020-05-20). Biden Voices Opposition to Israel Annexing West Bank as Potentially 'Choking off Any Hope of Peace'. sputniknews.com On 28 January President Donald Trump formally unveiled his plan for Middle East peace, authored by a team led by his son-in-law and senior advisor Jared Kushner, at the White House alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with Palestinian authorities rejecting the proposal as flagrantly biased.

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-18). Israeli Army Bulldozers Raze Palestinian Farm Land in Tulkarem. imemc.org In the West Bank city of Tulkarem, Israeli troops reportedly attacked Palestinian farm land, earlier on Monday, and army bulldozers began razing olive trees in an area estimated at four acres in size. Local Palestinian sources said that the farm land razed is located between the Kafa and Shoufa villages, …

IMEMC News (2020-05-18). Israeli Colonists Hurl Stones At Teqoua' Town Council. imemc.org Several Israeli colonists hurled stones, Sunday, at the building of the Local Municipal Council of Teqoua' town, east of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank. Salem Abu Mfarreh, the mayor of Teqoua', said the colonists stopped their car in front of the Local Council's building, before jumping …

Fight Back (2020-05-17). Boisterous Nakba Day car rally rolls through Minneapolis suburb. fightbacknews.org Columbia Heights, MN – Just outside city limits from Northeast Minneapolis, Central Avenue was awash with Palestine flags during Friday rush hour as Palestinian-Americans and solidarity activists commemorated Al-Nakba. Nakba Day, held each year on May 15, remembers the 1948 ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of indigenous Palestinians from their national homeland by Zionist settlers. Around 60 cars and dozens of families drove in a long caravan through the heavily Arab-American neighborhood, with chants of "From the river to the sea…" echoing for blocks. The protest was one of many actions that happened…

Zero Hedge (2020-05-17). Chinese Ambassador To Israel Found Dead, Sparking Avalanche Of Rumors Amid Tensions. iranian.com China's Ambassador to Israel has been found dead inside his home near Tel Aviv Sunday morning, Israel's Foreign Ministry has confirmed. 57-year old ambassador Du Wei had only assumed his post in February 2020 in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, due to which he entered a two week mandatory self-quarantine upon his arrival. He'd previously been China's envoy to …

Ari Paul (2020-05-16). Missing the Context of De Blasio's 'Jewish Community' Tweet. fair.org New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's tweet ( Time for a Yiddish lesson: Shanda, meaning a shame or disgrace; a scandal. | Right-wing voices throughout the media thought they found one with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's tweet ( The background is this: Some Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn, members of a strictly Ort…

Richard Becker (2020-05-15). 72 years after 'al-Nakba' in Palestine. liberationnews.org May 14 marks the 60th anniversary of what is billed in the U.S. and Israeli mainstream media as Israel's "independence," and what the Palestinian and Arab peoples as a whole know as al-Nakba—the Catastrophe.

Staff (2020-05-14). Israel Strips Financial Aid From Palestinian Prisoners, Leaving Them To Face COVID-19 Alone. therealnews.com Calls and visits are denied to many of Israel's Palestinian prisoners, leaving their fate in the pandemic unknown.

Denijal Jegiƒá (2020-05-13). In banning Hezbollah, Germany responds to far-right, U.S. and Israeli pressure — not any security threat. thegrayzone.com Hezbollah has never been charged with any crimes in Germany nor does it have an official presence in the country….

Ryan Cristián (2020-05-03). The FULL Story Behind "Fauci's" 3.7 Million To Wuhan, Flu/CV Overlap & It Was Always Israelgate. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (5/2/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …

Ryan Cristián (2020-04-29). Israel Attacks Syria, US OKs Annexation, OPCW Caught Again & Impending (Already Here) Bio False Flag. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (4/28/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …

Middle East Eye (2020-02-07). Russia Says Israel Used Civilian Plane as Human Shield During Syria Strikes. theantimedia.com Russia accused Israel of "making a total mockery of the lives of hundreds of innocent civilians."