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Settlement Surge Looms Large over Netanyahu-Obama Meeting

“This report will loom large over Netanyahu in his meeting with President Obama today..." - Debra DeLee, the President and CEO of Americans for Peace Now

(WASHINGTON, DC) - As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu landed in Washington today, the Israeli government’s Central Bureau of Statistics issued a new report.

It shows a whopping 123% surge in West Bank settlement construction in 2013, more than double the number of new settlement homes built in 2012.

A Victory for Nonviolent Palestinian Resistance (Segue versione in italiano)

South Hebron Hills Popular Committee Nonviolently Prevents Israeli Forces from Halting Construction of a Kindergarten.

(AT TUWANI, Occupied Palestine) - On Sunday afternoon while Palestinians were building the structure for a new kindergarten in the South Hebron Hills village of At Tuwani, Israeli officials and army came to confiscate the building materials.

Palestinian men, women and children, successfully prevented the Israeli forces from taking away most of the materials through a nonviolent action.

Syria: The Crime and the Criminals

Video examines tragic evolution of the western effort to strike liberties and earn endless billions for the deadly defence industry.

(BANGKOK) - The Syrian civil war, insurrection, rebellion, revolt, uprising, call it what you will, was not home grown in Syria by Syrians with differing outlooks as to how their nation should be governed.

This is what the mainstream media would have you believe — that it was part of a strategy pre-planned by vicious, sociopathic foreigners called “Neocons” and they began their planning in 1991...

Donna Boyd of Portland, Oregon, Joins International Delegation of Women to Visit Women of Gaza

The delegation will be deliver solar lamps to Gaza's women.

(PORTLAND, OR) - Donna Boyd is joining an international coalition of 100 women traveling to Gaza to witness the hardships facing the 1.7 million residents.

They will deliver humanitarian aid, and call attention to the need for a longer-term strategy to achieve peace and justice for Palestinians.

Human Rights, Amnesty and More

Friday, there were lots of injuries due to attacks by occupation forces on demonstrators throughout the West Bank.

(BETHLEHEM) - A busy weeks comes to a close. In addition to clinical, laboratory, teaching, and museum work, other highlights follow.

Tuesday night we listened to Amira Hass articulate how Israeli policies of ethnic cleansing and domination continue unhindered.

AIPAC Policy Conference 2014 - Boycott AIPAC

"It's exciting to see so many people together who understand that sometimes you have to violate other people's human rights, if you want to take their land."

(WASHINGTON, DC) - AIPAC, the American-Israeli Political Action Committee, remains deeply committed to the Jewish and Israeli cause.

Drawing thousands each year, 2014 will be an interesting year as Americans are finally beginning to publicly object to Israel's...

We Must Pull Financial Rug from Underneath Israel: Anna O`Leary (VIDEO)

Netanyahu and his ministers are in a big flux... (Video set to autoplay)

(TEHRAN / DUBLIN Press TV) - Press TV has conducted an interview with Anna O'Leary, a political commentator, from Ireland, about the global boycott of Israeli-made products in the occupied Palestine.

O'Leary said, "I’m delighted to be asked to comment on this because I’m very proud of Luxembourg, which is a very small country like Ireland."

National Summit to Reassess the U.S. - Israel `Special Relationship`

Experts at The summit will include Salem-News.com writers Allan Brownfeld and Alison Weir.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - You're invited to participate in this historic nonpartisan symposium in which diplomatic, military, intelligence Congressional, academic and other experts will discuss the impact on Americans of U.S. support for Israel....REGISTER ONLINE TODAY!

Israel is often considered a key ally for the United States....

From Xenophobia to Oikophobia

In the past, the Left was concerned with the rise of xenophobia – animosity towards the stranger, the foreigner, the ‘Other’.

(LONDON) - Alimuddin Usmani Interviews Gilad Atzmon...

We spoke about Dieudonné, the 'socialist', The Zionification of the Left, Oikophobia, the devastating impact of the Frankfurt Yeshiva and the 68 revolution, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Shoa & Humour, the Jewish Question and more..

Netanyahu: `Peace? No thanks but I`ll accept the box of chocolates`

Obama is preparing to play his own part in the blame game - covering his backside.

(LONDON) - I have long thought that Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, a senior member of the PLO’s Executive Committee and the Palestine Legislative Council, is the most articulate spokesperson in Israeli occupied territory for her cause.

Her latest comment is a bleak assessment of the prospects for getting a real peace process going.