Monthly Archives: February 2016

© ziv121213 / YouTube A Palestinian has brutally attacked an Israeli security guard in a shopping mall with something that resembled an ax, a CCTV video shows. The assailant, who was a mall employee, is seen striking the father of … Continue reading →

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35658287 This article from this morning states that a lot of the UN aid dropped to help Syrian civilians in Deir al-Zour actually missed its target. About half of the air-drops landed in areas “difficult to access”.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35654483 The UN recently delivered aid to thousands of civilians being held under siege in the Syrian-government held area of Deir al-Zour. There is also said to be a two-week long cease-fire declared by the main rebel umbrella group, the High Negotiations Committee . The … Continue reading →

Times of Israel article Here is a interview with Yitzhak Shamir from the 90’s about why he helped plan the assassination of Lord Moyne in Cairo in 1944. Essentially, he says that it they did it because he was an … Continue reading →

Israeli security forces were called on to examine the various tactics and “excessive force” used on Palestinians by a UN human rights investigator. There is also concern for Palestinian prisoners being held indefinitely without proper justification. The UN human rights investigator … Continue reading →

Demolitions occurred a couple of weeks ago in the Jordan Valley leaving 300 Palestinians disconnected to the water grid within their community. In another community close by, Israeli army piled rocks on the dirt road to block the connection to the main road. … Continue reading →

A defendant in a Lebanese military tribunal, which is hearing the case of five nationals arrested for alleged collaboration with Mossad, has claimed that IAF navigator Ron Arad was tortured and killed in 1988. Arad went missing in 1986 after he … Continue reading →

On January 22nd, the annual Creating Change conference, held in Chicago by the National LGBT Taskforce, had one of its session bombarded by anti-zionist protestors. The protestors were against an appearance by A Wider Bridge, an LGBT group that is pro-Israeli … Continue reading →

Palestine-Israel Live Map This is a website that uses Google Maps and allows users to report events using icons and linking news stories to them. It gets updated with most major events. On the top bar of the website there … Continue reading →

I stumbled across this article by TIME about an article published by the magazine in 1929 about tensions between the Jewish and Arab populations of Palestine. The article mostly covers the same information that we have gone over in class, … Continue reading →