Mawlid or Mawlid al-Nabi al-Sharif (مَولِد النَّبِي mawlidu n-nabiyyi, “Birth of the Prophet”, sometimes simply called in colloquial Arabic مولد mawlid, mevlid, mevlit, mulud among other vernacular pronunciations; … More
Category: Palestine
The Spirit of the IDF – from land, sea, and air
At least since 2005, the Israeli military has been operating with a new “ethical code” that is supposed to be … More
More Palestinians than Jews live in Israel & OT
Apartheid (“separateness”) is a system of institutionalized racial segregation; characterized by an authoritarian political culture based on supremacy, which encourages state repression of … More
tikkun olam – Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
HIAS (founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) is an American nonprofit organization that provides humanitarian aid and assistance to refugees. HIAS was established in … More
Jordan, Israel, Peace
Nearly a quarter of a century of formal peace between Jordan and Israel and 40 years of the Israeli-Egyptian peace … More
No Rockets, No Bombs – No Freedom, No Fear
The Palestinian group Islamic Jihad says it has agreed to stop firing rockets towards Israel after talks with an Egyptian delegation. The … More
Healthiest foods on the planet
Spinach Popeye’s favorite veggie is a great source of not only protein, but also vitamins A and C, antioxidants and … More
“Candles Youth” – where did they go
Rabin Square (Kikar Rabin), formerly Kings of Israel Square (Kikar Malkhey Yisrael), is a large public city square in the center of Tel Aviv, Israel. Over the … More
Nation state of the Jewish people, Arab democracy?
Israel’s parliament has passed a controversial law characterising the country as principally a Jewish state, fuelling anger among its Arab … More
November 4, 1995 – Rabin’s Last Speech
Permit me to say that I am deeply moved. I wish to thank each and every one of you, who … More
Robert Kennedy / Sirhan Sirhan
Sirhan Sirhan’s crime is one mired in the tragedy of Palestine. The son of a middle-class Christian Palestinian family uprooted by … More
ISIL Declared War on Hamas
January 2018 – JERUSALEM — The extremist Islamic State group’s branch in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has taken a simmering dispute with the Palestinian Hamas … More
Gaza Blockade since 2007
Under the blockade, Israel has banned these items from entering Gaza: fruits, vegetables, wheat, sugar, meat, chicken, fish products, dairy … More
John Bolton is a one-man Apocalypse
Crusade! Few words in the English lexicon rally so many jingoistic emotions. In the past, Knights jousted for the honor of … More
The Hypocrisy of the US Creates Forever War
In foreign policy, Americans like to keep it simple. Good countries versus bad countries. Democracies versus dictatorships. Of course, as … More
Balkanizing Syria and the Genie behind the seens
My first article John Bolton’s NATO Crusade for Zion in this Balkanizing Syria series, laid out some pieces on a mid-east chessboard which is … More
US Occupies 30% of Syria for Oil, Gas and Water
While the U.S. military presence in Syria has been ongoing since 2015 – justified as a means of countering Daesh … More
The history of Palestine
The history of Palestine is the study of the past in the region of Palestine, generally defined as a geographic region in the Southern … More
Palestine in the Bible
The names “Palestine” and “Palestina” occur four times in the Old Testament portion of the King James Bible (1611), the … More
Gaza sniper video
Israel pledged disciplinary action on Tuesday over a soldier’s leaked video showing an army sniper targeting a Palestinian across the Gaza border … More
