Palestine/Israeli Trump Update 5/13/2018... Jerusalem Day - Israelis Clash With Palestinians on Temple Mount (Videos)

Jerusalem Day: Israelis clash with Palestinians on Temple Mount

Netanyahu’s Speech on Jerusalem Day

Jews and Palestinians clash near Temple Mount

Jerusalem residents march against US embassy move

US-Israel Embassy: New embassy in Jerusalem opens on May 14

‘We’re on top of the world’ – Jerusalem celebrates Embassy move

A crazy week awaits the Middle East this week

Israel at 70: The enduring impasse with Palestinians; What’s left of the Iran nuclear deal?

Israel’s Netta Barzilai wins 2018 Eurovision Song Contest with ‘Toy’

Israel goes wild after Netta wins Eurovision Song Contest

Netanyahu cheery after Eurovision win, before US Embassy move

Israelis: How important is it to combat BDS?

Funeral held for 15 y/o shot at Israel/Gaza border

Palestine: Days of Rage: Traditions inspiring Gaza ‘tent city’

The man behind the ‘Great March of Return’

Great March of Return – The Last Friday

How did the Nakba happen?

As Gaza Sinks Into Desperation, A New Book Makes the Case Against Israeli Brutality

………In his new book, “Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom,” Norman Finkelstein presents Gaza’s case like a veteran prosecutor at a homicide trial. “This book is not about Gaza,” he writes. “It is about what has been done to Gaza.” He asks the reader to decide “whether this writer is partisan to Gaza or whether the facts are partisan to it.” He dissects three major Israeli military actions against Gaza – Operation Cast Lead in December 2008, Operation Pillar of Defense in November 2012, and Operation Protective Edge in July 2014 – as well as the Israeli commando raid on a Turkish aid flotilla in May 2010. His blistering critique encompasses the international response to those events and the prolonged siege of Gaza by Israel and Egypt. The book makes for harrowing reading, replete with exhaustive research and detailed analysis to explain Israeli objectives in Gaza. Summarizing the IDF’s use of Gaza, Israeli journalist Gideon Levy in the New York Times last April called it Israel’s “training field, a giant lab — for gauging the reactions of the nearly two million people it keeps under siege there, and for testing its innovating weapons, as well as the limits of what the world will let it get away with.”

Recent history indicates that Israel can “get away with” a great deal. It long ago closed Gaza’s port, airport and land border. The Palestinians’ traditional supporters in the Arab world, especially Saudi Arabia and Egypt, ignore them. Russia and China express sympathy while doing nothing. Nominal aid comes from Iran in the form of mostly ineffectual weapons for Hamas, a rare instance of the Shiite theocrats arming Sunni fundamentalists. Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin spoke for most of his countrymen when he said of Gaza, “If only it would just sink into the sea.”……..