RT (2020-02-06). Suspect in car ramming attack that left 12 Israeli soldiers injured detained after massive manhunt. rt.com Israeli security forces have detained the suspected terrorist who drove his car through a group of IDF recruits, injuring a dozen of them. He is reportedly a Palestinain man from East Jerusalem. | The car ramming attack, that occurred overnight in Jerusalem, left 12 Israeli soldiers injured. While one of them received wounds described as "critical," nine others have already been discharged from hospital. | The attack prompted a massive manhunt, involving various Israeli military and law enforcement units, that ultimately resulted in the arrest of a suspect. The attacker managed to flee the scene of the ramming…

RT (2020-02-06). IDF pounds Gaza for 2nd night in retaliation for rocket & mortar fire. rt.com The Israeli Defense Forces have launched a counter-attack on Gaza after a pair of mortars were fired into Israel, the second night in a row of tit-for-tat strikes. | Though the mortar attack late on Wednesday triggered no emergency sirens and reportedly landed in an unpopulated area, resulting in no damage or injuries, the IDF responded with air strikes on a number of targets near Rafah, according to Palestinian media. It is unclear whether there were any casualties in the reprisal. | The strikes come on the heels of over a dozen similar rocket and mortar attacks from southern Gaza over the last week, which Te…

RT (2020-02-06). Jerusalem car ramming against IDF soldiers investigated as a terrorist attack — police. rt.com Police are searching for a suspect who fled the scene after ramming a car into a group of people in Jerusalem, injuring 12 IDF soldiers and reportedly two more people. The incident is being investigated as an act of terrorism. | The suspect rammed a group of people at high speed shortly before 2am local time on Thursday. The IDF said that out of the 12 injured soldiers, one sustained severe wounds. | Security measures continue in & around Jeruslem after vehicle attack by terrorist. 12 injured. Police patrol units searching areas.

RT (2020-02-06). Sudan made no promise to Israeli PM of normalizing ties — transitional cabinet. rt.com Sudan's cabinet said on Thursday that the country's leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan had made no promise to Israel's prime minister of "normalizing ties" between the two states. | Burhan heads Sudan's ruling sovereign council. He met Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu for previously unannounced talks in Entebbe, Uganda on Monday that appeared to signal an end to Sudan's long-standing boycott of the Jewish state. | After their meeting, Netanyahu announced that the two leaders had agreed to cooperate towards normalizing ties, AFP reported. | However, the transitional cabinet in Sudan said on Thursday that meetin…

RT (2020-02-06). Jerusalem shooter who injured 1 police officer identified as Arab Israeli citizen. rt.com An assailant who opened fire on a group of police officers in Jerusalem's Old City, injuring one, has been identified by police as an Arab Israeli citizen. The attacker was shot and killed on the spot by law enforcement. | The shooting occurred right outside the Temple Mount on Thursday afternoon. The attacker approached a group of Israeli police stationed near the Lions Gate, abruptly pulling a gun on them and opening fire. | One border police officer was "lightly" injured during the shooting, while the attacker was killed on the spot as multiple officers returned fire. | "The officers responded with determin…

Jerome Irwin (2020-02-06). The "Final Solution" for Palestine? counterpunch.org President Trump and PM Benjamin Netanyahu's so-called "Peace Plan" for Palestine and Palestinians won't remotely bring about peace in the Middle East. This latest lunatical American Fundamentalist Christian & Orthodox Jewish Kamikaze plan can only but bring about another world war; because the sought after conclusion of such a war, in some key power circles

Telesur (2020-02-06). Draft UN Resolution Condemns Trump Middle East 'Peace' Plan. globalresearch.ca A draft United Nations Security Council resolution rebuked Tuesday President Donald Trump's pro-Israel Tunisia and Indonesia circulated the draft text to council members. Though it …

Ramzy Baroud (2020-02-06). The 'Deal of the Century' Challenge for Palestinians. zcomm.org The Palestinian leadership cannot be absolved from its responsibility towards the Palestinian people, and its unmitigated failure to develop a comprehensive national strategy…

South Front (2020-02-06). Video: Syrian Army Advance in Idlib Province. Netanyahu and Erdogan to the Rescue of Al Qaeda. globalresearch.ca In Greater Idlib the defences of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and other favorites of the foreign powers supporting 'Syrian democracy' are collapsing. | On February 5, the Syrian Army, supported by Russian airpower, took control of a number of villages in southeastern …

The Canary (2020-02-06). Israeli forces kill Palestinians amid growing opposition to Trump's land-grab plan. thecanary.co Israeli forces have killed at least two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, and a third person in Jerusalem. | This comes as tensions have soared following last week's release of Donald Trump's Trump-Israel pl…

Hasan Abu Nimah (2020-02-06). The 'Deal of the Century': Revealed and Reviled. globalresearch.ca Last week, on January 28, US President Donald Trump officially revealed his long-awaited '"Deal of the Century": The plan for resolving the century-old Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Except for some additional details, the lengthy document did not add much to what …

Sarah Seltzer (2020-02-06). Newish and Jewish: An Interview With 'Currents' Editor Arielle Angel. thenation.com Newish and Jewish: An Interview With 'Currents' Editor Arielle Angel…

sputniknews (2020-02-06). Israeli Police Shoot Gunman Dead After He Opens Fire at Officer in Jerusalem – Reports. sputniknews.com According to Israeli media, the attacker was identified as an Arab Israeli man from Haifa in his forties. The police officer targeted by the assailant sustained light injuries.

yenisafak (2020-02-06). Disarming Gaza: Outdated, inapplicable. yenisafak.com Imposed yet again in the latest so-called Middle East peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the demand to disarm Gazan resistance groups is an unlikely prospect, experts say.Palestinian observers and political analysts say it is all but impossible to apply such demands in the so-called "Deal of the Century" rolled out on Jan. 28 by U.S. President Donald Trump.According to the proposed plan, groups based in Gaza must relinquish their weapons and make the enclave a demilitarized zone before Israel would be held to fulfill its own obligations

RT (2020-02-05). Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas dead at 103. rt.com Kirk Douglas, a legendary actor from the golden age of Hollywood, has passed away at the age of 103, his son and fellow actor Michael has announced. | "To the world, he was a legend," the younger Douglas said in a statement on Wednesday. "But to me and my brothers Joel and Peter he was simply Dad." | Born Issur Danielovitch Demsky to impoverished Jewish immigrants from Russia, Douglas worked a variety of odd jobs before making it big in Hollywood. He is perhaps best known to modern audiences for his titular role in Stanley Kubrick's 'Spartacus' (1960), but film connoisseurs remember him for a range of roles, f…

Staff (2020-02-05). The Israel-Palestine "Peace Deal" Is an Apartheid Proposal. truthout.org Janine Jackson: The lead in the New York Times' January 28 There are a number of problems in that sentence, one of them being the paper's uncritical…

Jonathan Cook (2020-02-05). The Trump Plan is Just a Cover for Israel's Final Land Grab. dissidentvoice.org The Trump "Vision for Peace" will never be implemented — and not because the Palestinians reject it. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's enthusiastic public embrace of the plan belies the fact that the Israeli right detest it too. The headlines are that, with US blessing, Israel's dream is about to be realised: it will be able …

James J. Zogby (2020-02-05). Trump and Balfour Compared. globalresearch.ca Much has already been written about the Trump administration's release of its long-awaited plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace. I will not repeat the criticisms. Instead, I will focus on what I found to be the striking and disturbing parallels between this …

Telesur (2020-02-05). EU Rejects Trump Middle East Peace Plan, Annexation. globalresearch.ca The European Union rejected Tuesday some of the proposals outlined by U.S. President Donald Trump for the Middle East, prompting an angry response from Israel, which has actively supported the U.S. plan. | Following deliberations of the 27 members, the European …

teleSUR (2020-02-05). Iran's Supreme Leader Says Trump's Peace Plan Will 'Die Soon'. telesurenglish.net Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump's peace plan for Middle East will "die soon." | RELATED: | Using his official Twitter account, the Iranian Supreme Leader tweeted on Tuesday, "Trump's 'Deal of the Century' will die earlier than Trump himself." | Trump recently unveiled his plan promising to keep Jerusalem as Israel's undivided capital, and proposes an indepen…

Ramzy Baroud (2020-02-05). Trump's 'Deal of the Century': Old Israeli Demands in a New Package. mintpressnews.com Consisting of 80 pages, 50 of which are entirely dedicated to the plan's economic component, Trump's Deal of the Century is little more than a rehash of previous Israeli proposals that have already been rejected by Palestinians, writes Ramzy Baroud.

Ramzy Baroud (2020-02-05). Crisis and Opportunity: The 'Deal of the Century' Challenge for Palestinians. dissidentvoice.org After several postponements, US President, Donald Trump, has finally revealed the details of his Middle East plan, dubbed 'Deal of the Century', in a press conference in Washington on January 28. Standing triumphantly beside Trump, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, must have surely understood that the timing of the announcement, only a few weeks before …

IMEMC News (2020-02-05). Israeli Navy Attacks Palestinian Fishermen In Gaza. imemc.org Israeli navy ships attacked, Wednesday, Palestinian fishermen in Gaza territorial waters, near Gaza city, by firing live rounds, and using water cannons against them and their bots. Media sources said the navy attacked the fishing boats only three nautical miles from the shore, by firing many live rounds, in addition …

IMEMC News (2020-02-05). Including A Mayor And Two Children, Israeli Soldiers Abduct Fifteen Palestinians In West Bank. imemc.org The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has confirmed that Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, fifteen Palestinians, including two children and the mayor of Beit Kahil town, in the occupied West Bank. The PPS said the soldiers stormed and violently searched dozens of homes across the West Bank, and interrogated …

Jonathan Cook (2020-02-05). The Holocaust, the BBC and Antisemitism Smears. counterpunch.org Senior BBC news reporter Orla Guerin has found herself in hot water of an increasingly familiar kind. During a report on preparations for the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp, she made a brief reference to Israel and an even briefer reference to the Palestinians. Her reporting coincided with Israel hosting world leaders last week at Yad Vashem, its Holocaust remembrance centre in Jerusalem.

teleSUR (2020-02-05). Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Teen as Tension Rise Over US Plan. telesurenglish.net Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian teenager during clashes Wednesday in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. | RELATED: | "Mohammed al-Haddad, 17, was killed by a bullet that penetrated his heart," the ministry said in a statement. | According to Israel's military spokesman's office, soldiers "identified a Palestinian who hurled a Molotov cocktail at them [and] responded…

IMEMC News (2020-02-05). Soldiers Abduct A Palestinian Near Nablus. imemc.org Israeli soldiers abducted, on Tuesday evening, a young Palestinian man at a military roadblock, south of Nablus, in northern West Bank. The soldiers also injured several Palestinians in Hebron, in southern West Bank. The Jenin office of the Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS), said the soldiers abducted Mohammad Jamil Zeidan, 24, …

IMEMC News (2020-02-05). Soldiers Attack Schoolchildren Near Bethlehem. imemc.org Israeli soldiers attacked, Wednesday, many Palestinian schoolchildren in Teqoua' town, east of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank. Media source said the soldiers fired many gas bombs and concussion grenades at the student while heading to school. Taiseer Abu Mfarreh, a teacher of Teqoua' Secondary School, said …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-02-05). Palestinian Teen Shot Dead by Israeli Forces in Hebron. imemc.org A Palestinian boy identified as Mohammad Salman al-Haddad, 17, was shot and killed, on Wednesday, during confrontations between Palestinian youths and Israeli soldiers in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Witnesses said clashes broke out in Bab al-Zawiyeh, where the heavily-barricaded Israeli-controlled …

Staff (2020-02-05). Headlines for February 5, 2020. democracynow.org Partial Results from Iowa Caucus Show Buttigieg Leading in Delegate Count, Democrats Boycott & Walk Out of Trump's State of the Union Address, Death Toll of Coronavirus Approaches 500, Report: Israel Pushes U.S. to Recognize Moroccan Sovereignty over Occupied Western Sahara, Magnitude 5.0 Earthquake Rattles Puerto Rico, Canadian Court Dismisses Indigenous Challenge to Trans Mountain Pipeline, Homelessness Among School-Age Children Hits Decade-Long High, HBO Max Picks Up Documentary "On the Record", Judge Reverses Convictions of No More Deaths Volunteers…

IMEMC News (2020-02-05). Israeli Army Fires Missiles Into An Area In Khan Younis. imemc.org The Israeli army fired, on Wednesday at dawn, at least four missiles into a site, west of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Media sources said the missiles struck a building, causing property damage, without leading to civilian casualties. They added that the targeted site is …

teleSUR (2020-02-05). Netanyahu-Burhan Meeting Blasted in Sudan. telesurenglish.net News of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's RELATED: | I…

Janine Jackson (2020-02-04). 'This Is an Apartheid Proposal and It's a Nonstarter' – CounterSpin interview with Omar Baddar on Israel/Palestine 'peace deal'. fair.org Janine Jackson interviewed the Arab American Institute's Omar Baddar about the Trump/Kushner "peace deal" for Israel/Palestine for the Media…

Yoav Litvin (2020-02-04). Anti-Colonialism and anti-Semitism in Harlem. mronline.org The strong anti-colonial, anti-Zionist sentiment within the African-American community renders it impossible for organizations such as the Anti-Defamation-League (ADL) to assess its anti-Semitism accurately, as they conflate Judaism with Zionism and Israel, and anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. Jews and African-Americans can be natural allies who combat all forms of racism if and only if Jews also […] |

Max Blumenthal (2020-02-04). Billionaire pro-Israel Buttigieg backer Seth Klarman funds group behind Iowa's disastrous voting app. thegrayzone.com Behind the app that delayed Iowa's voting results is a dark money operation funded by anti-Bernie Sanders billionaires. Its top…

news.un (2020-02-04). Resolving Israel-Palestinian conflict, 'key to sustainable peace' in the Middle East: Guterres. news.un.org Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is "key to sustainable peace in the Middle East", the UN chief said on Tuesday, maintaining that the lack of any progress only "furthers radicalization across the region".

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-02-04). Palestinians Choke on Tear-Gas Near Jenin. imemc.org According to Shehab News Agency, a number of Palestinian civilians were suffocated on tear-gas, Tuesday evening, when the Israeli occupation army erected a military roadblock on Jenin Street, at the Nablus/Jaba junction. When Palestinians protested, Israeli forces fired tear-gas canisters, rubber-coated steel bullets, and concussion grenades towards the civilians. Also, …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-02-04). Israel to Demolish Palestinian Home in Jenin for Second Time. imemc.org A Palestinian resident of Jenin, northern occupied West Bank, was informed by the Israeli army, on Tuesday, that the house he rebuilt after it was demolished in 2018, will be demolished once again, the Palestinian News and Info Agency (WAFA) reported. Homeowner Jamal Qumba told WAFA that he received a …

IMEMC News (2020-02-04). Soldiers Demolish A Home In Jerusalem. imemc.org Israeli soldiers demolished, Wednesday, a Palestinian home in Beit Hanina neighborhood, north of occupied East Jerusalem, under the pretext of being built without a permit. The owner of the demolished property, Nidal Shawamra, said the soldiers and personnel of the City Council, broke into his home and forced him, long …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-02-04). Israeli Army Deliver Demolition Notices to Palestinians in Jordan Valley. imemc.org The Israeli army, on Tuesday, notified a number of Palestinians in the northern Jordan Valley village of Fasayil of its intention to demolish their under—construction houses and animal barns, under the pretext that they were built without Israeli permission. WAFA correspondent stated that the Israeli military has been intensifying its …

Global Research News (2020-02-04). Selected Articles: The Future of Palestine. globalresearch.ca Our objective at Global Research is to recruit one thousand committed "volunteers" among our more than 50,000 Newsletter subscribers to support the distribution of Global Research articles (email lists, social media, crossposts). | Do not send us money. Under

Staff (2020-02-03). Headlines for February 3, 2020. democracynow.org GOP Refuses to Call Witnesses in Impeachment Trial, Paving Way for Trump's Acquittal, Iowa Caucuses Kick Off 2020 Elections as DNC Loosens Rules to Let Bloomberg into Debates, Trump Expands Racist, Anti-Muslim Travel Ban, Coronavirus Claims First Victim Outside of China as Death Toll Tops 360, Hospitals in Syria Targeted as 100,000s of Civilians Forced to Flee, Palestinian Authority Cuts Ties with U.S. and Israel over Trump Middle East Plan, Iraqi Protesters Slam Appointment of Establishment Prime Minister-Designate, Dept. of Defense: U.S. Dropped 7,500 Bombs on Afghanistan in 2019, 6 Indigenous Leaders Killed in…

Fight Back (2020-02-02). Minneapolis protests anti Palestine "Deal of Century," racist travel bans. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On January 31, 40 people protested at the Minneapolis Federal Building to stand in solidarity with Palestine. The MN Anti-War Committee and Women Against Military Madness called this emergency response protest after President Trump's announcement of his 'peace' plan which he wants to impose on Palestine. The protest's message was clear: the "Deal of the Century" proposed by Trump and Netanyahu is a sham and part of an expanding apartheid against the Palestinian people. There can be no deal without the Palestinian right to return, the Palestinian right to exist, and the return of Jerusalem to Pal…

Ramzy Baroud (2020-02-02). On the Road to Gaza: The Freedom Flotilla Will Sail Again. zcomm.org True solidarity should aim at forcing Israel to end the protracted occupation and siege on the Palestinian people…

Middle East Eye (2020-02-02). Palestinian Authority Cuts All Ties With US, Israel. theantimedia.com Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced that "that there will be no relations at all" with Israel and the United States.

Aaron Maté (2020-02-01). Israel has played a key role in US aggression towards Iran. thegrayzone.com Before the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, Israel played a key and overlooked role in the Trump administration's aggression campaign against…

CounterSpin (2020-01-31). Omar Baddar on Israel/Palestine 'Peace' Plan, Rainey Reitman on Greenwald Persecution. fair.org MP3 Link This week on CounterSpin: It is strange to think that you could create a plan to shape the relationship between two entities, in consultation with one but not the other, and then not just declare it, yourself, a "win-win," but also say to the unconsulted party, "You better take it, or else." Yet …

Susan Price (2020-01-30). Trump's 'win-win' plan hands everything to Israel. greenleft.org.au

Fred_F (2020-01-30). Gaza Surf Project makes waves. greenleft.org.au

Staff (2020-01-29). Mehdi Hasan: Trump's Middle East Plan Is a Policy of Apartheid & Settler Colonialism. democracynow.org We continue our discussion of President Trump's long-awaited Middle East plan to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which he has described as the "deal of the century." The plan was drafted by Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner without any input from Palestinians and would give Israel sovereignty over large areas of the occupied West Bank, control over all of Jerusalem, and keep all illegal settlements built in the occupied West Bank. We speak with Mehdi Hasan, senior columnist at The Intercept, and Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said professor of modern Arab studies at Columbia University. Khalidi's latest book is…