A half-century of occupation has needed an industry of lies and self-deceptions to make sure the consciences of Israelis are never clouded by a moment of doubt
There were plenty of opportunities ā more honorable ones ā over the past decade to shut the Holy Land’s major Christian pilgrimage sites in protest
Israeli PM Netanyahu’s days in office are numbered as police investigate two new corruption probes
The recommendation by police to charge Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu with two counts of bribery ā there are more cases looming…
It now emerges that the last four years of Julian Assangeās effective imprisonment in the Ecuadorean embassy in London have been entirely unnecessary. In fact, they depended on a legal charade
Nazareth, Israel – Thousands of Israeli families who have been searching in vain for answers since their babies mysteriously disappeared in the…
How did a 14-year-old Palestinian girl who has never set foot in the open-air prison of Gaza find herself being dumped there by Israeli officials ā alone, at night and without her parents being informed?
For the first time in its history, an interrogator from Israelās secret police agency, the Shin Bet, is to face a criminal investigation over allegations of torture
Is the terrible suffering Israel is now inflicting on African refugees not also the moment for liberal Israelis to appreciate that Palestinians have been enduring similar abuses for seven decades?
Last week Israeli military officials for the first time echoed what human rights groups and the United Nations have been saying for some time: that Gazaās economy and infrastructure stand on the brink of collapse
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