2014 News

The percentage supporting a one-state solution increased from 24 percent last year to 34 percent this year.

Several of RE/MAX's Israeli franchises sell property in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, including the French Hill, Armon HaNatziv, and Pisgat Ze'ev.

Quite frankly, blasphemy and apostasy laws are themselves blasphemous to the teachings of the Qur'an. Not in the traditional sense, but because they violate the very instructions the scripture gives regarding freedom of belief.

EU Nations draft U.S. resolution on Israel-Palestine and Israel is not happy with it

France's lower house of parliament votes 339 to 151 in favour of symbolic motion to recognise statehood of Palestine.

The divide between Mr. Netanyahu and the centrist parties in the government widened after the breakdown of American-brokered peace negotiations with the Palestinians in the spring.

A strip of illegal Jewish settlements built on what was northern Bethlehem threatens to cut the city off from its historic twin, Jerusalem and Push out the remaining Christians.

One day after Israel charged an officer with manslaughter in the shooting of a Palestinian teenager, the boy's father and an Israeli architect who helped reconstruct the killing argued that the officer should be indicted on a murder charge instead.

A religious war? This explanation for the clashes and attacks in the capital ignores the facts that make Palestinian life there unbearable.

I am truly concerned about the future of the Zionist project. I am concerned about the critical mass of the threats against us on the one hand, and the government's blindness and political and strategic paralysis on the other.

Current reality demands that Palestinians delay demanding their national rights in favor of protecting their human rights - by supporting right-wing settler legislation to apply Israeli law to all the West Bank

Religious Leaders of Jerusalem: Christians, Muslims, Druze, visited the synagogue, which was the target of a vicious attack the day before.

Netanyahu deflects criticism of his tactical approach to leading by constantly sowing fear through the continual emphasis of the threats, real and perceived, that he articulates so well in his dramatic oral presentations.

Many Palestinians were deeply angered by Israel's decision last month to suspend access to the Al-Aqsa mosque.

The new President of Israel, is ardently opposed to the establishment of a Palestinian state. He is instead a proponent of Greater Israel, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea with equal rights for Palestinians.

Source who took part in sensitive forums says intelligence branches have voiced caution time and again. And yet Netanyahu's government showed total complacency in this regard.

Israel is increasingly becoming a project of ethno-religious purity and exclusion.

Leaders of major Muslim and Christian organizations, religious leaders and activists met in Washington, D.C., at the invitation of the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation, to form a specific plan of action for the protection of Christians and religious minorities.

Israel's prime minister issued a rare warning yesterday that his nation risked being compared to apartheid-era South Africa if it failed to agree an independent state for the Palestinians.

Britain warned that Israel is losing support in the UK. Also, former Conservative minister described the situation in one Palestinian city as "apartheid".

The prime minister apparently is not so enthusiastic about [Rawabi]," said Beilin. "He isn't against it enough to torpedo it, but he is not fighting for its success.

Sweden's new prime minister said Friday that his government will recognize a Palestinian state, a move that drew praise from Palestinian officials.

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This year, hajj will take place against the ugly backdrop of a group that has come to represent the antithesis of what the pilgrimage signifies

Full transcript of Abbas speech at UN General Assembly

Israel is a Jewish state, so like our Muslim neighbors; we suffer on a daily basis from this ideology of exclusivity. As Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories, we wait in line and share the same humiliations at the checkpoints

A civil rights struggle opens the door for Arab-Jewish cooperation on both sides of the Green Line, and leaves aside the questions of statehood and historical narratives that people love to debate. Instead, it focuses on the lives of real people under occupation

A 2011 survey conducted by the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding found that almost half of American Latinos feel US foreign policy is too supportive of Israel.

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Muslim Scholars urge media to STOP using "Islamic State" and instead use "Al-Qaeda Separatists in Iraq and Syria."

Mr. Zanoli, 91, whose father died in a Nazi camp, went to the Israeli Embassy in The Hague and returned a medal he received honoring him for saving Jews during the Holocaust.

White House was caught off guard last month when they learned that the Israeli military had been quietly securing supplies of ammunition from the Pentagon without their approval.

According to Likud, the Palestinians are to remain stateless people with no future inside the borders of modern Israel

A one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is upon us. It will happen, sooner rather than later, as the states on Israel's borders disintegrate and other regional players annex whatever they can. As that happens, Israeli sovereignty in Palestine is becoming inevitable.

Turn off the TV, calm down and stop trying to convert people to your religion.

Hundreds of civilian structures have been damaged and destroyed in the Palestinian enclave. The U.N.'s top human rights official, Navi Pillay, says homes, hospitals, U.N. schools, and life-sustaining infrastructure, such as the power station, water and sewage services in Gaza are protected under international law.

Israel launched a deadly attack on a UN school housing refugees in Gaza despite repeated warnings that civilians were sheltering there, the UN has said.

We could take steps to allow for the safe flow of goods and services into Gaza and the export of goods and services to neighboring countries. We could advocate for Gazans to have freedom of movement.

The Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation Board of Directors, Staff, and Volunteers beseech all who will listen to take a stand against the needless death and suffering of defenseless and innocent civilians in Gaza.

From Rihanna on Twitter to Jon Stewart and The Onion: Pro-Palestinian perspectives punch back at the establishment warhawks where it hurts: in the media.

"I spoke with the families of the parish," "everyone told me that they did not slept a wink all night because of the bombing. The houses were shaking, the children were crying".

Almost 80 percent of those killed as a result of the Israeli bombing of Gaza are civilians, the United Nations said in a report.

More than 15,000 Americans of Arab heritage fought during World War II to defend the United States against the Japanese and their German Nazi and Italian Fascist "Axis" powers.

The activism amongst Christian Palestinians and the growth in solidarity amongst Western churches - and a picture emerges that is extremely worrying for Israel and its lobbyists.

The decision to sentence the woman to death by hanging for "apostasy" is barbaric and the government of Sudan must be held accountable for its actions.

"Where is the Palestinian ship sailing, and where will it find a haven? Where do the Palestinians stand now? What future awaits them so long as they are mired in a complex struggle with the occupation and a deep internal schism?

John Kerry has offered us a reminder that in American politics, the debate about our closest ally in the Middle East has all the candor and thoughtfulness of a cabinet meeting in North Korea.

The Israeli army restricts Palestinians' freedom of movement for the sake of security. How can we strike a balance between serving one people's freedom at the cost of another's?

Worried that U.S.-brokered peace talks might collapse in coming days, Palestinians are weighing their options, which they say range from urging international boycotts against Israel.

Discrimination against visiting Arab-Americans is the primary reason Israel is not eligible for a program allowing Israeli tourists in to the United States without visas, the Obama administration said.

Kairos Palestine is preparing an Easter Alert, in order to encourage churches, parishes, lay-persons and clergy all around the world to remember this season that marks the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

The UN Special Rapporteur on occupied Palestine accused Israeli authorities of conducting colonialist policies that constitute forms of apartheid and ethnic cleansing

Arab members of the Knesset unanimously condemned the bill as a "racist" act and a "divide-and-conquer" tactic. "Colonialists try to separate groups of natives. The prime example of this is South Africa,"

We should grant Palestinians citizenship, equality, invest in their infrastructure and [give them] voting rights.

MK Zvulun Kalfa says Palestinians should become full citizens of Israel as part of a one-state solution.

Though the Palestinian towns of Beitin and Deir Debwan are located only a few kilometers east of Ramallah, it takes the villagers one hour to reach the city instead of 10 minutes

ONCE derided as the scheming of crackpots, the campaign for boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel, widely known as BDS, is turning mainstream.

Israel appears divided on how best to respond to the growing boycott campaign. Israel's Intelligence Ministry, reportedly advocates a heavily funded public-relations counteroffensive. But Israel's Foreign Ministry believes such a campaign could actually play into the hands of boycott advocates by raising their profile.

The CEO of the First International Bank of Israel informed the prime minister that the largest investment fund in Holland had announced that it will not invest in Israel because of its treatment of the Palestinians.