Former Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg, in the past a member of Knesset from the Labor Party.

Former Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg Joins Hadash

Former Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg, in the past a member of Knesset from the Labor Party, attended a meeting of Hadash (Democratic Front for Peace and Equality) which took place in Nazareth on Saturday, January 3, and expressed his support for the Jewish-Arab front. “In the next elections I will support Hadash,” he said, though…

A demonstration in Jerusalem, last November, against oil drilling in the Golan Heights.

Israel Drilling for Oil in Occupied Golan Heights

Heavily subsidized Israeli settlements, extensive military areas, and tanks dot the rolling green hills of the Golan Heights, Syrian territory occupied by Israel since the 1967 Middle East war. It is here that Afek Oil and Gas, an Israeli company, has been granted exclusive license to conduct exploratory drilling for oil. Afek is a subsidiary…