Day after 300,000-strong protests across Israel, Netanyahu said ‘government can’t satisfy everyone’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced yesterday (Sunday) the formation of a special economic team to “reduce the soaring cost of living”, looking to ease tensions and mass protests a day after 300,000 people demonstrated across the country against government and for social justice. The team will be headed by a neo-liberal technocrat economist from Tel-Aviv…

Police arrest six peace activists protesting a new settlement in East Jerusalem

Six peace Israeli activists were arrested during a protest at the newly settlement “Ma’ale Zeitim” in Palestinian East Jerusalem on Friday. Just two days earlier, on Wednesday, extreme-right Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, Interior Minister Eli Yishai, Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar and Environmental Protection Minister Gilad Erdan attended the dedication ceremony of…

Communist Member of the Knesset Mohammad Barakeh is again the target of the Israeli government

The Office of the Attorney General of the Israeli Government’s Counsel General Menachem Mazuz issued today (Tuesday, April 28, 2009) a decision to provide a new indictment against MK Mohammad Barakeh, Chairman of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash) and leading member of the Communist Party of Israel. The Attorney General targeting Barakeh, Mazuz, is the same who made the decision to close the investigation into the killers of 13 of young Arab people during the demonstrations in October 2000.