Daily Archives: May 28, 2020

2020-05-28: News Headlines

teleSUR (2020-05-28). The PLO Keeps Defending Palestine After 56 Years of Its Founding. telesurenglish.net On May 28, Palestinians celebrate 56 years of the founding of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and remember the words of Yasser Arafat who told them that the main challenge for the people is to achieve an independent state. | RELATED: | In 1964, The Palestinian National Council, at its first meeting held in East Jerusalem from May 28 to June 2, created the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as the legitimate r…

Terrace (2020-05-28). Elections, A New Leadership And BDS Are Pivotal For Palestine. popularresistance.org Ever since President Donald Trump blundered blindly into the Middle East with his woefully inexperienced team of advisors, US foreign policy has swung wildly out of control. Predictably, it has destroyed the already fragile two-state solution as defined by the Oslo Accords. | It's no use pretending that such a solution is still viable. That, though, may not be all bad news for the Palestinians, whose current leadership in Ramallah is incapable of actually leading the people and taking control of the situation. | The Palestinians have never worn the cloak of victimhood very well; it is simply not in their DNA to s…

Rima Najjar (2020-05-28). Countering the Judaization of the Rest of Palestine. globalresearch.ca Netanyahu's impending annexation of the Judaized parts of the West Bank (he says July 1st) is a transformative event for Palestinian politics, and the Palestinian people, who have long been reined in by impositions that accept Zionist myths and outright …

Josh Ruebner (2020-05-28). Congress Is Poised to Pass Far-reaching Israeli Wish List. globalresearch.ca With the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's passage of the

Israel Shahak (2020-05-28). "Greater Israel": The Zionist Plan for the Middle East. globalresearch.ca When viewed in the current context, the war on Iraq, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing wars on Syria and Iraq, the war on Yemen, must be understood in relation to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East…

Steve Salaita (2020-05-28). To Students and Teachers Targeted by the Israel Lobby. zcomm.org Zionist defamation can be scary, but it needn't immobilize your commitment to justice…

Michael Jansen (2020-05-28). Netanyahu's Trial Closely Resembles Trump's Impeachment. globalresearch.ca Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought in vain to escape his mandatory appearance in court Sunday in his trial for fraud, bribery and breach of trust. At the insistence of the bench, he turned up surrounded by loyalists from his …

Kevin Zeese (2020-05-27). Launch Of Apartheid Off Campus. popularresistance.org Apartheid Off Campus was born officially just over a week ago and it could not have come at a better time, with the new and ever-mounting challenges the Palestinians have had to face. In this 7-day window, AOC acquired over 2000 followers across three social media platforms: Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. AOC has received far-reaching and overwhelming support from students and activists alike, enough to remind us that now is as perfect a time as any to launch an active, dynamic student-led movement for Palestine. | After an online-only (courtesy of the lockdown!) student campaign launch, hundreds of students a…

Ramzy Baroud (2020-05-27). Political Ambiguity or a Doomsday Weapon: Why Abbas Abandoned Oslo. dissidentvoice.org This time, we are told, it is different and that President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, is absolutely serious about his decision to absolve his leadership from all previous agreements signed with Israel and the United States. But this time is not different, and Abbas is not serious. "The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and …

Ramzy Baroud (2020-05-27). Why Does Israel Celebrate Its Terrorists: Ben Uliel and the Murder of the Dawabsheh Family. counterpunch.org Israeli media and Zionist apologists everywhere are busy whitewashing Israel's globally-tattered image using the rare indictment of an Israeli terrorist, Amiram Ben Uliel, who was recently convicted for murdering the Palestinian Dawabsheh family, including an 18-month-old toddler in the town of Duma, south of Nablus. The conviction of Ben Uliel by an Israeli three-judge court

Ron Skolnik (2020-05-27). Israel: A farewell to Labor, the peace and partial-annexation party. peoplesworld.org On April 26, the Central Committee of Israel's Labor Party voted (online, of course) to endorse Binyamin Netanyahu as prime minister. In doing so, the party lent its hand to the installation of a government that is poised to unilaterally annex West Bank territory this summer and perhaps deliver the knockout punch to the two-state …

Jen Marlowe (2020-05-27). Israel's Mizrahi Activists Are Fighting the Racist Nation-State Law. thenation.com Israel's Mizrahi Activists Are Fighting the Racist Nation-State Law…

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-27). Israeli Troops Abduct Sixteen Palestinians from West Bank. imemc.org Israeli troops reportedly abducted, on Wednesday morning, several Palestinian residents from the internationally-recognized occupied East Jerusalem and across the rest of the occupied West Bank. In the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, local sources reported that soldiers abducted Abdelraheem Sabbah, 28 and Ra'ed Ammar, 20, after having stormed their …

Staff (2020-05-27). Israeli Troops Demolish Palestinian Home & Two Buildings near Nablus. imemc.org On Wednesday morning before dawn, Israeli troops invaded several parts of the northern West Bank near Nablus and destroyed a Palestinian home and a tourism center. This follows the destruction earlier on Tuesday of a Palestinian-owned agricultural barn south of Nablus. In the pre-dawn invasion Wednesday, Israeli troops entered the …

Miko Peled (2020-05-27). Extortion, Entitlement and Mafia-Style Tactics Mark Israel's Current State of Affairs. mintpressnews.com Anyone who is not yet alarmed may not be aware of the underhanded mafia-style tactics, political extortion, and patronizing sense of entitlement currently on display in Israel. The following developments demonstrate how the county operates both internally and in the international arena. | Czech Foreign Minister slammed!: | As Israel prepares to formally annex large tracts of the West Bank, Tomas Petricek, the Czech Republic's Foreign Minister, was quoted as saying that "annexation is forbidden by international law and also raises serious questions about Israel's future as a democracy." By any normal diplo…

Almasdar News (2020-05-27). Israel Reveals Date of Planned West Bank Annexation. globalresearch.ca The head of the Governmental Coalition in Israel, Mickey Zohar, revealed that the measures to legislate the process of imposing Israeli sovereignty on all Jewish residential communities in the West Bank will begin in early July. | The Likud MP said …

The New Arab (2020-05-27). Erdogan Warns that Turkey 'Will Not Allow' Israel to Annex West Bank. globalresearch.ca Turkey's President "We are witnessing a new plan of occupation…

Ramzy Baroud (2020-05-26). The Ben Uliel Case: Has Israel Won the Battle Against Jewish Terror? mintpressnews.com The verdict was a best-case scenario for Israel's image as it deliberately absolved the massive terrorist network that spawned the likes of Ben Uliel and the Israeli army that protects those very extremists on a daily basis.

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-26). Israeli Authorities Order Ten Palestinian-owned Water Wells Closed. imemc.org Israeli military authorities reportedly plan to shut down ten Palestinian-owned water wells, to the west of city Salfit, in the northern occupied West Bank. Local Palestinian sources in the Al-Sawiya village in western Salfit, told media outlets including the Palestine WAFA News Agency, that Israeli military authorities delivered shutdown warrants …

Peoples Dispatch (2020-05-26). Israelis protest demanding Netanyahu's resignation. peoplesdispatch.org Israeli protesters staged a demonstration demanding the resignation of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu even as he stands trial in corruption cases.

Ali Salam (2020-05-26). Israeli Police Shoot, Injure Palestinian after Alleged Stabbing Attempt in Jerusalem. imemc.org A Palestinian young man was seriously injured, on Monday, when Israeli police officers shot him near Jabal Mukaber neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, The Palestinian Information Center (PIC) reported. Israel's Channel 7 alleged that the man attempted to stab police officers near Jabal Mukaber, video footage of the scene showed …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-26). Israeli Military Abducts Two Palestinians from Tulkarem. imemc.org Israeli military reportedly abducted, on Tuesday, two Palestinian young men from the northern occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem. Head of the Palestinian Prisoners' Society in the city, Ibrahim Alnemr, confirmed earlier today, that Israeli troops placed a mobile roadblock at the entrance of the city of Qalqilia, near Tulkarem …

Ali Salam (2020-05-26). Settlers, Soldiers Take Over 47 Dunams of Palestinian Land. imemc.org Illegal Israeli settlers, with the full support of the Israeli military, on Tuesday, took possession of Palestinian land, east of Ramallah, in the central occupied West Bank, a local official reported. Head of Deir Dibwan municipality, Mansour Mansour, told Palestinian WAFA news Agency that dozens of illegal colonial settlers stormed …

Ryan Cristián (2020-05-26). Closer Look At The COVID Profit-Motive, Bill Gates' Flexner Report 2.0 & Congress' Quiet Israel Push. 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 (5/25/20). 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."

Mike Walter (2020-05-28). The Heat: Netanyahu goes on trial+Israel's new unity government. america.cgtn.com History in Israel — a new unity government and Benjamin Netanyahu becomes the first sitting prime minister to go on trial for corruption.