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A Palestinian man displays a copy of Islam's holy book, the Quran, still burning inside a mosque that was set ablaze by Israeli settlers in al-Mughayir, in the occupied West Bank on November 12, 2014. AFP / Abbas Momani Updated at 7:00 pm (GMT +2): A group of Israeli settlers broke in and...

I do remember. Here's an example of the mental contortions that a Euroidiot, @A.P. Richelieu, who's led a sheltered life and never witnessed a shooting, engaged in to cast doubt on the video, so he could carry on undisturbed with his hatred of Palestinians and his love of an army of child...

It’s in how Israel and America, especially their respective leaders, react to these cops’ most outrageous crimes. Israeli police are not the only ones with a habit of getting trigger happy when they come up against members of a feared and hated ethnic minority. While many Israeli cops (and...

Israeli security forces detain a Palestinian with Israeli citizenship during clashes in the town of Kfar Kana, in northern Occupied Palestine on November 9, 2014, a day after security forces shot dead a 22-year-old Palestinian with Israeli citizenship. AFP / Jack Guez Updated at 6:20 pm (GMT...

KAFR KANNA (Ma'an) -- A young Palestinian citizen of Israel died on Saturday morning after being shot in the chest by Israeli police during an arrest raid in a village north of Nazareth. According to locals in the Galilee-region town of Kafr Kana in northern Israel, Khair al-Din Rouf Hamdan...

Einas Khalil, 5-year-old Palestinian girl run over and killed by a Jewish settler. An Israeli settler crashed into a wall after attempting on Thursday morning to run over a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, eyewitnesses said. The settler tried to ram his vehicle into...

Here's the video in case it hasn't been posted before. The soldiers sure were run over good but word is that they only got moderate injuries.:what:

Palestinian children sit on the window of a partially destroyed building in al-Tufah, east of Gaza City on October 11, 2014. Ramallah, October 29, 2014—Eight members of the Wahdan family, the youngest only two years old, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on their home in Gaza after Israeli...

I don't know, there are too many contenders. When it comes to geopolitics, Golda Meir's and Menachem Begin's governments brought about more hardship to Israel than has Netanyahu's so far. As the US officials quoted said, Netanyahu is actually a cautious man - "chickenshit", even. He's not a...

Binyamin Netanyahu is condemned by Obama administration officials in an interview for the Atlantic. Photograph: Amir Cohen/Reuters US relations with Israel have plunged to new depths of bitterness and hostility as senior officials in the Obama administration decried Binyamin Netanyahu as a...

A Palestinian hit-and-run suspect is sent to prison and winds up dead; a Jewish suspected of a similar but deadlier crime in the West Bank is sent home to his family. By John Brown* (translated by Sol Salbe) Israeli soldiers arresting a Palestinian man. (Illustrative photo by Anne...

Palestinians in Gaza appealed directly to Italy not to allow the Israeli military to take part in exercises on its soil. The Israeli air force has been removed from the list of armed forces now taking part in multinational military training exercises on the Italian island of Sardinia following...

I'm under the impression Kurdish women are getting exploited by a PR campaign aiming to get Western admiration and - with time - practical support. The flood of photo ops showing female - and only female - fighters departing from their families to fight ISIS is evidence. The PKK is being...

Israeli army chief of staff Benny Gantz has described Hamas fighters as "courageous." "We must be honest and say that we fought against brave men," Gantz said during a discussion with army soldiers. "To run up and try to put an explosive charge upon a tank is the act of courageous people," he...

RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- A Palestinian teenager was shot dead by Israeli forces in the village of Beit Laqiya northwest of Ramallah on Thursday evening. Medical sources said Bahaa Samir Badir, 13, was shot in the chest after Israeli forces raided the village. Badir was reportedly shot in the chest...

Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv. Photo via Flickr user llee_wu Turning a corner in the back of an Israeli police van, Michael Bublè’s “Home” began to blare out of the speakers. “Let me go home / I’ve had my run / Baby, I’m done / I gotta go home,” he crooned. We both wanted to go...

SALFIT (Ma'an) -- A large group of Israeli settlers on Saturday morning violently beat a young Palestinian woman while she was picking olives from trees in an orchard in the village of Yasuf in the Salfit district in the central West Bank, a Palestinian official said. The assault is the third...

Journalist Jonathan Cook says Israeli Arab kids were also victimized. For some reason, the documentary glosses over them. I don't have a precise number of fatal victims - like you, I didn't know about that story before today. But total number of victims - lethal and survivors - appears to be...

By the early 1950s, Israel had absorbed most of the Holocaust survivors and other immigrants from western countries. These were generally the preferred Ashkenazi Jews, who were the nation’s elite. It was then that Jews from Arab lands began arriving in great numbers. David Ben Gurion knew he...

Video footage of Jewish Israelis with ISIS-style flags, chanting “niggers go home” at an anti-African rally in Tel Aviv on October 5 has surfaced. Hundreds of protesters could be heard in streets of Tel Aviv chanting anti-African racial slurs, following an Israeli High Court ruling to close down...