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Tuesday, September 26, 2023

A Palestinian kid killed in a traffic accident with another Arab driver? Nathan Thrall blames Israel!

Israeli medics at the scene of a fatal Palestinian car crash in 2017From The New York Review of Books:Heading Toward a Second NakbaDavid ShulmanNathan Thrall argues that the accident in which Abed Salama’s son died was a predictable, even inevitable, outcome of the Israeli occupation in its quotidian forms.On a stormy winter day in February 2012, a Palestinian bus carrying...

Arab Israelis move to Area C - and blow apart the "apartheid" lie

Palestinian site Safa reports:In the last five years, the demand of Palestinians from the occupied interior to buy land and real estate in the occupied West Bank has increased.The western towns of Ramallah, some villages of Salfit, the city of Rawabi, and Jericho witnessed a great demand by internal Palestinians to buy lands, own homes and apartments, and reside in them.Palestinian...

European Union think tank seems think the Abraham Accords are a mistake

From the EUISS webpage:The European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) is the Union’s Agency analysing foreign, security and defence policy issues. Its core mission is to assist the EU and its member states in the implementation of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), including the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) as well as other external action...

When the Mufti planned to build settlements on the West Bank

From The New York Times, September 17, 1951:BEIRUT, Lebanon, Sept. 16— Haj Amin el Husseini, the exiled Mufti of Jerusalem, and his Arab Higher Committee have started. a move to create a solid belt of Palestine Arab settlements around Israel and prevent-the moving of refugees away from Israel borders.This change of front has come with the present evident collapse of the. former...

Haaretz really hates pro-settler NGOs

Last week, Haaretz published a supposed expose of Regavim, an NGO that insists that the Israeli government adhere to its own laws in Area C of Judea and Samaria.The article didn't dig up any dirt. Regavim is quite open about its aims. But now the government has some former Regavim officials, and that is scary to Haaretz:Haaretz is upset.The article shows Regavim members documenting...

The "extreme right wing Israeli government, left wing Supreme Court" narrative has been upended

Something happened this week that completely contradicts everything you've been reading about the current Israeli government - and the High Court.From Haaretz:The Supreme Court should reject a petition demanding the eviction of residents of the Palestinian village of Khan al-Ahmar, because the eviction involves “diplomatic and security considerations” that should be made by...

Israel to increase funds for monitoring illegal Arab Area C construction

From Haaretz:The Israeli ministry that oversees settlements intends to double the budget allocated to settlers for drones and inspectors to monitor Palestinian construction. The National Missions Ministry intends to allocate a total of 40 million shekels ($11.1 million) for this purpose.In 2020 the National Missions Ministry – then the Settlement Ministry, and headed by Likud...