Monthly Archives: March 2021

2021-03-25: News Headlines

Ramzy Baroud (2021-03-25). The Nakba of Sheikh Jarrah: How Israel Uses 'the Law' to Ethnically Cleanse East Jerusalem. dissidentvoice.org A Palestinian man, Atef Yousef Hanaysha, was killed by Israeli occupation forces on March 19 during a weekly protest against illegal Israeli settlement expansion in Beit Dajan, near Nablus, in the northern West Bank. Although tragic, the above news reads like a routine item from occupied Palestine, where shooting and killing unarmed protesters is part …

RT (2021-03-25). Israel election: In tight race to power, Palestinian party emerges as possible kingmaker for Netanyahu. rt.com The United Arab List (UAL), a small Palestinian-Israeli party, is set to clinch five seats in Israel's election, and though the number is small, it could cast the party as kingmaker in a race that is going down to the wire.

RT (2021-03-25). Media blame Iran as missile hits Israeli-owned ship in Arabian Sea. rt.com An Israeli-owned container ship was hit and damaged by an Iranian missile in the Arabian Sea on Thursday, unconfirmed reports by the Israeli media claim. | The ship was reportedly struck as it traveled from Tanzania to India, Israel's Channel 12 reported. The broadcaster said the ship was targeted by an Iranian missile, but did not give more information. | The vessel in question was the Lori, a container ship sailing under the Liberian flag, but owned by Haifa-based company XT Management, other reports said.It was heading from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to India's Port of Mundra. | The route taken by the Israel…

Mike Walter (2021-03-25). The Heat: Israel Elections. america.cgtn.com Talks with potential partners have already begun as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears short of victory in the latest Israeli election. The results of the latest Israeli election point to yet another stalemate. Preliminary results show Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's potential right-wing alliance two …

Jason Ditz (2021-03-25). Iran Warns IAEA Chief's Comments Damage Credibility of Process. news.antiwar.com While Iran and the IAEA seemed to be on good terms in recent months, a split is starting to emerge from weekend comments by IAEA chief Rafael Grossi, who is seeking "very technical discussions" on undeclared Iranian uranium, and sites that are not listed in the official documentation. | Israel, and subsequently the US, have long accused Iran of having secret sites, but so far have not come up with solid evidence any of this has happened, and have mostly sent the IAEA to repeatedly search through an old carpet factory, finding what appeared to be trivial amounts of unprocessed uranium, hardly definitive of anyt…

MEE staff (2021-03-25). Covid-19: US announces $15m aid package for Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza. middleeasteye.net Covid-19: US announces $15m aid package for Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza | The funds will address 'most urgent, life-saving humanitarian needs', including emergency food assistance for communities struggling under pandemic | Thu, 03/25/2021 – 18: 26 | Elderly Palestinians wait to receive doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine at a clinic in city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on 24 March (AFP)…

Dave DeCamp (2021-03-25). Israeli-Owned Ship Hit With Missile in Gulf of Oman. news.antiwar.com According to Israeli media reports, an Israeli-owned ship

2021-03-24: News Headlines

Eds. (2021-03-24). Whose feminism? Palestine's feminism. mronline.org Palestinians affirm, yet again, that one cannot be a feminist while supporting gendered violence, settler-colonialism, indigenous dispossession, and apartheid. | Newswire…

Jessica Buxbaum (2021-03-24). Viral Video Shows IDF Arresting Vegetable-Picking Palestinian Kids at Behest of Israeli Settlers. mintpressnews.com "There were [dozens] of soldiers around, and one of the soldiers dragged one of the children to the vehicle and the other soldiers followed and started to arrest them… We begged the soldiers to wait until the children's families could come and talk to their families, but that didn't help."

Timothy Alexander Guzman (2021-03-24). Will Israel Use 'Bunker-Buster' Bombs Against Iran's Nuclear Program? globalresearch.ca Israel is extremely worried that Iran would develop a nuclear bomb …

Peoples Dispatch (2021-03-24). Palestinian prisoner Maher Abu Rayan launches hunger strike against Israeli medical neglect. peoplesdispatch.org 43-year-old Maher Abu Rayan is serving a 25-year prison term and is suffering from multiple health issues as a direct result of the extremely violent fashion in which he was arrested in 2003…

Lily Galili (2021-03-24). Israel elections: Netanyahu has to marry strange bedfellows if he wants to form a government. middleeasteye.net Israel elections: Netanyahu has to marry strange bedfellows if he wants to form a government | The prime minister's chances of forming a government appear pinned on a Palestinian party and a racist Jewish supremacist | Wed, 03/24/2021 – 13: 29 | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the Likud party, addresses supporters at the party campaign headquarters in Jerusalem (AFP) | The unbelievab…

Mustafa Abu Sneineh (2021-03-24). Mansour Abbas, the Islamist leader who could be Israel's kingmaker. middleeasteye.net Mansour Abbas, the Islamist leader who could be Israel's kingmaker | Abbas has called on Palestinians inside Israel to rethink their political alliances and be open to Jewish parties | Wed, 03/24/2021 – 15: 43 | Mansour Abbas, head of a conservative Islamic party, the United Arab List, or Raam, in its Hebrew acronym, 23 March 2021 (AFP) | Mansour Abbas, the Islamist, conservative…