Israel Laid Out Its Plan to Take Palestinian Territories in 2017 and Now It Is Happening

Israel’s announcement of a a new offensive to “conquer” Gaza, along with claims by Bezalel Smotrich, the Israeli Minister of Finance, that the strip will be “entirely destroyed”, have flustered the international community. Observers may be distressed, disturbed or upset by these plans. But they should come as no surprise. This kind of genocidal ideology has…

MK Touma-Sliman: Attacks on Christians Rise in Israel

At a session of the Knesset’s Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs Committee on last Monday, May 5, Hadash MK Aida Touma-Sliman, a Communist legislator from northern Israel, sounded the alarm about a disturbing pattern of harassment of Christians in the country. During Holy Week, many Palestinian Christians from the occupied West Bank were denied entry…