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Obama’s last card – will he play it?

Alan Hart argues that, with the help of pressure from the European Union, US President Barack Obama could be nudged into signalling the end of American tolerance of Israeli crimes

MB chairman congratulates Salah on his release from prison

Muslim Brotherhood chairman Dr. Mohamed Badie sent a letter to Sheikh Raed Salah, President of the northern wing of the Islamic Movement congratulating him on the occasion of his recent

Haaretz: Active illegal construction in all settlements since freeze ended

Haaretz newspaper said Monday that since the end of the alleged settlement freeze in the occupied Palestinian territories and the resumption of settlement activities last September, there has been active

Israel’s war on Jerusalem children: 1,200 arrested in one year

Jonathan Cook reports on the brutality meted out by Israeli police to Palestinian minors, some as young as seven years old, including arrests, interrogation without the presence of a lawyer

AL: Israel trying to eject Palestinians from Jordan Valley to take over region

The Arab League's Palestine and occupied Arab land sector released a report documenting the rise in restrictions Israel has placed on Palestinian residents of the Jordan Valley in what it

B’Tselem: Jerusalemite children tortured by Israeli interrogators

The Israeli information center for human rights in the occupied territories B'Tselem said in a report that Palestinian children in Silwan town, occupied Jerusalem, were severely tortured at the hands

Obama’s Israel policy: speak softly and carry a very big carrot

Maidhc ? Cathail views US President Barack Obama’s policy of solid support for Israel and the lynchpins of that policy, from Israel’s fifth columnists in Congress to key Obama advisers

Haneyya: The issue of prisoners will always be on the top of our priorities

Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya stated that his government will never relinquish the issue of Palestinian prisoners that will always remain on the top of its priorities.

Israeli official: Collapse of Aqsa Mosque is imminent

Col. Yoram Lev-Ran, the Commander of the Jerusalem district of the Home Front Command, has warned that a disaster might befall the holy Aqsa Mosque and that the old Marwani

Totah: We prefer living in tents rather than in palaces away from OJ

-- Palestinian lawmaker Mohamed Totah, facing eviction from Jerusalem, said he prefers living in the sit-in tent to living inside a luxury house away from his native city and birth