Jerusalem Syndrome

"Sometimes tourists show up at Jerusalem's mental health centers, convinced that a voice from the heavens told them they were the messiah. The illness, commonly known as Jerusalem Syndrome, usually passes once they have left the city.

Why has the left in Israel vanished?

"The threats uttered against a possible Palestinian declaration of independence by our leaders Benjamin Netanyahu, Avigdor Lieberman and Ehud Barak let the Israeli sanctimony (usually tedious and belabored) drop to the floor for a moment, like a woman's slip.

Netanyahu: Israel is world's 'most threatened country'

Israel is "the most threatened country in the world," and the rocket attacks its civilian population has suffered are "attacks not experienced by any other state since Britain in World War II," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday

Judge: State discriminating between Jews, Arabs

"Nazareth Juvenile Court acquits teen accused of attempting to sabotage police car during Operation Cast Lead, criticizing State's 'systematic selective enforcement' "

Charity makes us who we are

"Thankfully, the citizens of Tel Aviv are not as callous as national leaders when it comes to practising one tenet of the Jewish faith" This is a great article that demonstrates the distinguishes Israeli citizens from their government.

'US foreign policy is straight out of the mafia'

Noam Chomsky is the west's most prominent critic of US imperialism, yet he is rarely interviewed in the mainstream media. Seumas Milne meets him

Would Israel arrest a Jewish terrorist with only Arab victims?

"Experience - and statistics - show that Israeli law enforcement is remarkably lax when it comes to tackling violence against Palestinians. Twelve years ago, Teitel confessed to killing two Arabs and then took a break from such activity.

Poll: Anti-Semitic views in the U.S. at a historic low

"Anti-Semitic attitudes in the United States are at a historic low, with 12 percent of Americans prejudiced toward Jews, an Anti-Defamation League survey found on Thursday. "

Israel sees court rulings on Palestinian land as mere 'recommendations'

"So what if the Supreme Court rules? In Israel those decisions are just recommendations, especially if they deal with Palestinian land.

Who's afraid of young Israelis talking?

"Are Israeli youth allowed to speak about their views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Not always.

Rattling the Cage: Our exclusive right to self-defense

A good article in the Jerusalem Post, which is uncommon.

Justice in Gaza by Richard Goldstone

"I ACCEPTED with hesitation my United Nations mandate to investigate alleged violations of the laws of war and international human rights during Israel's three-week war in Gaza last winter. The issue is deeply charged and politically loaded.

Israeli settlers petrol-bomb army jeep: report

" Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank have attacked an army jeep with a petrol bomb for the first time, Israeli public television reported on Tuesday.

Israeli settlers, troops clash at outpost

Settlers and security forces clashed yesterday afternoon at the northern West Bank outpost of Havat Gilad. The clashes broke out following an attempt by security forces to confiscate a truck which was supposedly used to illegally transport a mobile home to the site.

IDF officer: Soldiers can't beat Palestinian civilians

"GOC Central Command Gadi Shamni said on Thursday that Israel Defense Forces soldiers were not authorized to attack Palestinian civilians during arrest raids, adding that those who cross the army's "red lines" must be put to trial."

Rights group: Most Gazans killed in war were civilians

"The vast majority of the Palestinians killed in Israel's operation in the Gaza Strip last winter were innocent civilians rather than combatants, according to a new report to be published by the B'Tselem organization Wednesday morning.

Analysis / Israel wrecked Arafat, crowned Hamas, and gave birth to Al-Qaida in Gaza

" This week marked four years since the Gaza disengagement, and it seems that the Strip is becoming increasingly radical - that peace is more distant and the settlers who were removed from the enclave are more embittered.

How settlements in the West Bank are creating a new reality, brick by brick

"There is a hilltop east of Jerusalem with striking views down into Jericho, across the dry slopes of the West Bank and on to the Dead Sea. From the red ochre of the rock came the name Ma'ale Adumim, Hebrew for the Red Ascent."

Settlers smash windows of Palestinian houses in Hebron

"Following evacuation of Maoz Ester outpost, settlers resume acts of protest by hurling stones, damaging cars and houses in West Bank. Extreme rightist Ben-Gvir: Netanyahu and Barak are pyromaniacs "

Settlement Foes Take Fight to Israel's High Court

"The compulsion won't come from Israel's politicians, world public opinion or the Obama administration, Etkes contends, but from Israel's Supreme Court, where local advocacy groups are having increased success challenging settlements with simple property claims. "

Far-rightists urge IDF draftees to cover up abuse of Palestinians

"Far-right activists distributed fliers to fresh draftees at the Israel Defense Forces induction center in Tel Hashomer on Tuesday urging them not to confide in their commanders and to refrain from cooperating with investigators if they physically abuse Palestinians in the territ …

Most Arabs refused property in West Jerusalem

"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed this week that Jerusalem is an "open city" that permits all its inhabitants, Jewish and Palestinian, to purchase homes in both its eastern and western parts. "

Economic Revival and Security Raise Hopes in West Bank

"For the first time since the second Palestinian uprising broke out in late 2000, leading to terrorist bombings and fierce Israeli countermeasures, a sense of personal security and economic potential is spreading across the West Bank as the Palestinian Authority's security forc …

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