(2021-04-07). Jordan Is Where Domestic And Regional Fissures Collide — Analysis. eurasiareview.com 
Former Crown Prince Hamzah bin Hussein has papered over a rare public dispute in the ruling Jordanian family in a move that is unlikely to resolve long-standing fissures in society and among the country's elite and that echo multiple Middle Eastern fault lines. | Differences over socio-economic policies, governance, and last year's normalization of relations between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and three other Arab states as well as leadership of the Muslim world were laid glaringly bare by a security crackdown that targeted not only Prince Hamzah, a popular, modest, and pious 41-year-old half-brother of K…
(2021-04-07). Take action: Support the #HungerStrike4Yemen — stop U.S. support for the Saudi blockade of Yemen #YemenCantWait. samidoun.net 
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is honored to join and endorse the hunger strikers and the Yemeni Liberation Movement on the 10th day of their strike to demand the US end ALL support to the Saudi-led blockade on Yemen. The blockade, now in its fourth month, has prevented all fuel and food from entering the country, leading to mass starvation, electricity shortages, and death. All this while the Yemeni people have endured six years of onslaught from the Saudi-led coalition: The people of Yemen are being starved due to a war tactics blockade that has been imposed by Saudi-led, US-supported forces.
(2021-04-07). Israel Attacks Iranian Command Ship In Red Sea. popularresistance.org An Iranian command ship stationed in the Red Sea was damaged in an Israeli mine attack on Tuesday, a US official has told the New York Times (NYT). | The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said: "The Israelis had notified the United States that its forces had struck the vessel at about 7.30am local time." | The official said the ship was damaged below the water line and that Israel had called the attack a retaliation for earlier Iranian strikes on Israeli vessels. | Iran's foreign ministry said on Wednesday that the vessel, the Saviz, had been targeted in the Red Sea, a day after media reports that th…
(2021-04-07). Government in Israel Sharing Personal Information on Unvaccinated People. globalresearch.ca A new law in Israel will allow the government to share …
(2021-04-07). Israel to build settlement units in East Jerusalem for first time during Biden presidency. middleeasteye.net 
Israel to build settlement units in East Jerusalem for first time during Biden presidency | The proposed 540 housing units will be built in the Palestinian neighbourhoods of Beit Safafa and Sharafat, creating a link between two major illegal settlements | Wed, 04/07/2021 – 13: 40 | Buildings under construction in the illegal Israeli settlement of Har Homa in occupied East Jerusalem, 17 January 2017 (AFP) | Isr…
(2021-04-07). Biden administration restores $235 million in aid to Palestinians. middleeasteye.net 
Biden administration restores $235 million in aid to Palestinians | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says US assistance to Palestinians 'serves important US interests and values' | Wed, 04/07/2021 – 19: 49 | UNRWA provides essential basic services to Palestinian refugees, including health care and education (AFP/File photo) | The United States will restore $235 million in humanitarian aid to Palestinians h…
(2021-04-07). Israel Slams Biden's Resumption of UN Agency's Funding for Palestinians. news.antiwar.com The Biden administration UNRWA provides assistance to millions of Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. Israel claims the organization is "anti-Semitic and a threat…
(2021-04-07). Netanyahu: Iran Deal Threatens Israel 'With Annihilation'. news.antiwar.com Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stepped up his rhetoric against the Iran nuclear deal after talks to revive the agreement were held in Vienna on Tuesday. On Wednesday, "The nuclear deal with Iran is once again on the table. Such deals with extreme regimes are worthless," Netanyahu said at a speech during Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony. "A deal…
(2021-04-07). 4 Syrian soldiers injured in 'Israeli agression' over Damascus, Syrian state media report. rt.com 
Flashes and explosions tore up the night sky over the Syrian capital of Damascus. Air defenses intercepted the majority of incoming missiles, Syria's SANA news agency reported, calling the reported attack an "Israeli aggression." | Four Syrian servicemen were injured in the attack, that has also inflicted material losses, SANA reported. The missiles reportedly came in from the direction of Lebanon as well as the Golan Heights, a territory occupied by Israel since 1973. | There were
(2021-04-07). Al-Qaeda Police: Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham Arrested Nine Terrorists In Greater Idlib. southfront.org 
Illustrative image | Al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) is still working to tighten its grip over the northwestern Syria region of Greater Idlib. | In the last few days, the terrorist group's security forces arrested a number of infamous terrorists in Greater Idlib for not so clear reasons. | On April 4, seven terrorists, who were operating independently in Greater Idlib, were arrested by HTS. Enab Baladi listed the detainees as follows: | Abu al-Laith M'abar, Abu Osama al-Gaza'iri and Abu al-Darda' al-Gaza'ir…
(2021-04-07). The West Should Declare It Has No Strategic Interest In Israel — OpEd. eurasiareview.com 
By Jonathan Power* | On April 5, I watched on BBC News the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, walking into the courtroom where he is to be tried for corruption. He is impossible to read—his mask makes it even more difficult. In repose his intentions and personality are inscrutable. | On the most important political issue of all—whether to support a two-state solution—sometimes he has said he is for it, but now he says he doesn't. He prefers, it seems, to keep to the status quo, which means expanding Jewish settlements on Arab Palestinian land and refusing any political life to the oc…
(2021-04-07). Israel At Crossroads As Rivlin Reluctantly Calls On Netanyahu — OpEd. eurasiareview.com 
By Yossi Mekelberg* | Over the last week, the Jewish population in Israel observed Passover, a week-long celebration of liberation from a tyrant leader and slavery, when most take time off to enjoy early spring and travel across the country visiting its beauty spots. Notably missing from those taking a break from work, however, were Israel's politicians, who were digesting the results of the previous week's election. The political beehive has been buzzing with activity in an effort to translate another indecisive outcome into something that is capable of ending two years of protracted political deadlock. | On…
(2021-04-07). Israeli President Mandates Netanyahu, Amidst Criminal Trial, To Form Government — OpEd. eurasiareview.com 
Israel has once again passed another milestone in corruption. For the first time, the president has tasked a party leader to form a government who is currently on trial facing criminal charges. Conviction would not only end his political career, but land him in prison. Yesterday, Pres. Rivlin faced the choice of awarding either Bibi Netanyahu or Yair Lapid with the task for forming a government. In prior consultation, the various parties offered 52 votes for Bibi to form the government and 45 for Lapid. A president usually offers the candidate with the most votes the mandate. But there is no rule saying he mus…
(2021-04-07). Israel hints at responsibility for attack on Iranian ship as Vienna nuclear talks progress. peoplesworld.org 
(2021-04-07). Iranian Ship Linked To IRGC Attacked In Red Sea. eurasiareview.com 
An Iranian ship linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been attacked in the Red Sea. | The Saviz was hit by limpet mines, Iran's Tasnim news agency reported on Tuesday. | The attack took place off the coast of Eritrea and led to several injuries, according to Al Arabiya TV. | A US official told Reuters that the United States did not carry out the attack. | The Wall Street Journal reported last month that Israel has targeted at least 12 Iranian ships heading for Syria since late 2019. | The vessels have mostly been carrying oil in breach of US sanctions. However, the report said cargo and mi…
(2021-04-06). In Memoriam: Nawal el Saadawi, 1931-2021. counterpunch.org 
"It is very clear that neo-colonialism and religious fundamentalism are two faces of the same coin. You cannot exploit people without some sort of divine power or some sort of religion." Rereading this sentence from Nawal's foreword to my edited collection, Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out, published by the wonderful Palestinian-American press Interlink
(2021-04-06). Palestinian prisoner Rushdi Abu Mokh is released after 35 years in Israeli custody. peoplesdispatch.org Rushdi Abu Mokh was arrested in 1986 and charged along with three others with the murder of an Israeli soldier and membership of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine…
(2021-04-06). "Engaging the World": Palestine and the Making of Hamas' Foreign Policy. globalresearch.ca Hamas has been a strongly maligned actor within the western mainstream …
(2021-04-06). On Palestine Children's Day, 140 Minors Held in Israeli Prisons. orinocotribune.com Marking Palestine Children's Day, the Palestine Prisoners' Club revealed that there are 140 Palestinian children in Israeli prisons, including two under administrative detention. | According to the Defence for Children International-Palestine, every year between 500 and 700 Palestinian children are prosecuted by Israel in military courts. | Until the end of March 2021, human rights groups have counted 230 Palestinian children detained by the Israeli occupation, mostly from Jerusalem. | Dylan Williams, former US Senate staffer and senior vice president of the advocacy group J Street, tweeted last month: | "H…
(2021-04-06). Israeli court upholds travel ban on Amnesty International campaigner. middleeasteye.net 
Israeli court upholds travel ban on Amnesty International campaigner | Israel has barred Laith Abu Zeyad from leaving the occupied West Bank since 2019, citing 'security reasons' | Tue, 04/06/2021 – 19: 38 | Laith Abu Zeyad has been banned from leaving the occupied West Bank since October 2019 (Amnesty International) | An Israeli court has upheld a travel ban against a Palestinian campaigner for Amnesty Intern…
(2021-04-06). Israel elections: Netanyahu nominated to form government. middleeasteye.net 
Israel elections: Netanyahu nominated to form government | President Reuven Rivlin said the incumbent had a 'slightly' higher chance of success in forming a government | Tue, 04/06/2021 – 10: 56 | Benjamin Netanyahu addresses supporters at the Likud party campaign headquarters in Jerusalem after the end of voting in the fourth national election in two years (AFP) | Israel's president has n…
(2021-04-06). Israeli forces kill Palestinian man at West Bank flying checkpoint. middleeasteye.net 
Israeli forces kill Palestinian man at West Bank flying checkpoint | Osama Mansour, a father of five, was shot and killed after he had been told by soldiers to drive off | Tue, 04/06/2021 – 11: 40 | An Israeli soldier aims his weapon at a Palestinian driver at a flying checkpoint outside the Palestinian city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on 2 September 2010 (AFP) | Israeli forces shot and…
(2021-04-06). Tuesday 4/6: Yom HaShoah: The Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos w/ CJM SF. indybay.org Online event…
(2021-04-06). Israel's Netanyahu Rails Against Iran Nuclear Deal as Talks Begin. news.antiwar.com While talks to revive the Iran nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, kicked off in Vienna, "The danger that Iran will return — and this time with an international imprimatur — to a path that will allow it to develop a nuclear arsenal is on our doorstep on this very day," Netanyahu said at a meeting of his Likud party in the Knesset on Tuesday. | Like most Israeli officials, Netanyahu claims the JCPOA is somehow a path to a nuclear-armed Iran even t…
(2021-04-06). Iranian 'spy ship' damaged in 'attack' along major Red Sea shipping route — reports. rt.com 
An Iranian ship that Israel and Saudi Arabia have accused of acting as a base for Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces has been damaged, reportedly by a mine, in the Red Sea waters between Yemen and Eritrea. | State-owned Saudi broadcaster Al-Hadath TV reported the attack on Tuesday, citing an unnamed source calling it a "likely" Israeli operation off the coast of Eritrea. An anonymous US official later
(2021-04-06). Israel's President Tasks Netanyahu With Forming New Gov't. telesurenglish.net Israel's President Reuven Rivlin tasked Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday with forming a new government after the parliamentary elections did not end with a winner. However, Netanyahu got the most endorsements from the MPs to seek a coalition. | RELATED: | During the announcement, the president remarked that he was reaching out to Netanyahu. However, he is aware the current prime minister or any other candidate "won'
(2021-04-06). Amid testimony against him in corruption case, Benjamin Netanyahu is asked to form the govt. again. peoplesdispatch.org A day after the corruption trial against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu began, president Reuven Rivlin handed him the mandate to try and form a new government…