Israel can be deprived of Jerusalem. The world’s leading countries are trying to solve the crisis in the Middle East against the background of yet another conflict between Palestine and Israel. Arab countries are about to convince Israel ’s major ally, the USA, to approve the Saudi initiative, in accordance with which Israel will no longer have Jerusalem. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov... 

A New York City judge has spared an 85-year-old former U.S. Army engineer any prison time but fined him $50,000 for passing classified documents to the Israelis in the 1970s and ’80s. Federal Judge William Pauley told Ben-ami Kadish he had committed a grave offense but noted the government had dramatically reduced the charge against him. In December, the Monroe Township, N.J., man admitted passing... 

The European Commission has raised fresh concerns over Israel’s continuing closure of the Gaza Strip, which it says is preventing European humanitarian aid worth more than €34m from reaching the Palestinian territory. According to an internal Commission document sent to EU member states last week, the tight Israeli restrictions on imports of goods and cash into the strip are doing both humanitarian... 

British film crew threatened by a settler in Hebron. Efforts Tel Rumeida Project and International Solidarity Movement.  Read More »