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Israeli Security Forces Spray `Skunk` at Palestinia​n Homes

The Israeli military has been looking for an alternative to tear gas canisters for "crowd control," as they saturate neighborhoods.

(OCCUPIED PALESTINE) - Israeli forces have sprayed Palestinian homes in the village of Nabi Saleh with "skunk"* as a punishment for organising weekly protests against the Apartheid Wall built on occupied West Bank land.

Human rights watchdog B'Tselem published a video showing Israel's armoured tanker trucks fitted with "water cannons" which spray the foul fluid at Palestinian protesters.

`No I Can`t` Obama Says

The reality is that America is a democracy in name only, not substance.

(LONDON) - The double standard and hypocrisy at the heart of American foreign policy was evident in what U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama said within minutes of his arrival in Israel.

"Iran’s leaders have to realise they must meet their international obligations."

Obama in Occupied Palestine

Long term, the changing reality (in the Arab world) and demographics in Palestine will ensure change...

(BETHLEHEM) - I am a Palestinian from the Bethlehem area but who also happens to hold a US passport. The latter does not allow me to enter Jerusalem and the US government will not protect this or other rights I have (including family reunification).

Meanwhile, any Jewish American can come and get automatic citizenship and live on stolen Palestinian land in our city.

Survivors of Israeli Attack on Mavi Marmara React to Netanyahu Apology

Israeli PM apologizes to Erdoğan for deadly attack on flotilla ship in 2010.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - The prime minister of Israel apologized for the deadly attack on a peace ship three years ago that left nine dead. Activist Kevin Neish was there, he shares his thoughts on the development.

Of Forgiveness, Justice and Peace

People who are taught to forgive are the abused, those who are wronged in the first place, they are generally the passive, meek and good-natured.

(LONDON) - Forgiveness is not a one way street, just like love, forgiveness is an act of between two; the forgiver is the giver, the forgiven is the receiver to-be-given.

No matter how much willing the forgiver might be to forgive, his/her gift cannot be felt, sensed or received if the forgiven-to-be is not ready to receive.

Press Conference to Discuss New Israeli Apartheid Ad on Metro North Line

While Israel denies its policies constitute apartheid, one who knows the colonial, racist policies best, Desmond Tutu, recognizes Israel as an apartheid state.

(NEW YORK) - The American Muslims for Palestine, today announced the launch on March 25 of its new nationwide outdoor advertising campaign

This grassroots organization is calling for an end to Israeli apartheid and to unconditional American aid for Israel.

Obama Fails to Demand Halt to Illegal Settlements

“There is no peace process, it’s an annexation process…”

(LONDON) - Miko Peled doesn’t mince words.

“The Israeli-Palestinian issue is, politically, a toxic wasteland that no US president in his right mind would want to clean up. It has become a vicious cycle of deceit and double standards, and it will contaminate any politician who tries to clean it up.”

Video: Israeli Soldiers Round Up Children in Hebron

"This type of mass arrest of a group of minors, not on the basis of individual suspicions is unacceptable..." - B'Tselem, Israeli human rights organization

(BETHLEHEM Ma'an) - Israeli rights group B'Tselem said Wednesday's mass arrest of Hebron children was "unacceptable," and released a video of the detentions.

The video shows soldiers forcefully arresting schoolchildren, dragging one on the ground, as the children's relatives protested.

`We Have No 3G in Palestine`

To Obama’s credit, he is trying. Maybe he feels he, too, is on a “mission from God”. And just maybe, he is right.

(CHICAGO) - Unless security forces have torn it down, the poster (shown here) was one of the sights President Obama would see if his motorcade made its way to Ramallah, Palestine on a West Bank highway.

The poster was posted on a corner after the road passes through the Qalandia checkpoint separating the West Bank from east Jerusalem.

Viral Occupation: Cameras and Networked Human Rights in the West Bank

When I film, I feel like the camera protects me. But it’s an illusion. —Emad Burnat, West Bank Palestinian and co-director, 5 Broken Cameras

(TEL AVIV) - When Israeli security forces arrived in the middle of the night at the Tamimi house in Nabi Salih, the occupied West Bank, the family was already in bed.

The raid was not unexpected, as news had traveled around the village on that day in January 2011: Soldiers were coming to houses at night, demanding that young children be roused from sleep...