TruemorsUN ‘concerned’ over Israel’s settlement expansion plan
UNITED NATIONS - UN chief Ban Ki-moon is ‘deeply concerned’ about Israel’s plan to expand a settlement in the occupied West Bank and renews his call to the Jewish state to freeze all settlement activity, his spokeswoman said Thursday. “The secretary-general is deeply...
Israelis Claim Secret Agreement With U.S.
Another example of the wide chasm between the US's stated policies on Palestine and its behind-the-scenes agreements with Israel. It's hard to see why they would make this public now though, and whether this was done...
Facebook transfers Israeli Ma'aleh Adumim residents to 'Palestine'
(An Update below)
Facebook decided that the Israeli residents in the West Bank are Palestinians...
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Facebook no longer allows members from Ma'aleh Adumim, Ariel, Betar Illit and other settlements over the... 
'Soldier ghost' caught on camera
"A group of amateur film-makers believe they may have proof that ghosts really do exist after one of them caught something strange on camera. George Gunn said he captured pictures of a ghostly apparition while out walking along a footpath in Outwood, near Wakefield, West...
International debt issuance hit by market turmoil: BIS
"Turbulence in global financial markets caused a sharp drop in the number of international debt securities issued in the third quarter, the Bank for International Settlements said.Bonds and notes worth 396 billion dollars (270 billion euros) were issued between June and...
Supermarkets fined £116m for dairy price fixing
After agreeing to co-operate with the Office of Fair Trading some of the supermarkets have admitted collusion whilst Lactalis McLelland, Morrisons and Tesco deny the allegations."Supermarket giant J Sainsbury has...
OECD warns UK outlook more ‘uncertain’
"The Bank of England should be poised to cut interest rates because of the risk of lower economic growth and a housing slowdown in the wake of recent financial market turmoil, the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development said in a report on Thursday. “The...Coalition of Evangelicals Voices Support for Palestinian State
It's about time."n recent years, conservative evangelicals who claim a Biblical mandate to protect Israel have built a bulwark of support for the Jewish nation — sending donations, denouncing its critics and urging it not to evacuate settlements or forfeit territory. Skip...
Another Great Depression? The Fed's Role in the Bear Stearns Hedge Funds Melt...
"The Bank for International Settlements issued a warning this week that the Federal Reserve’s monetary policies have created an enormous equity bubble which could lead to another “Great Depression”. The UK Telegraph says that, “The BIS--the ultimate bank of central...
The High Ground at Chomesh
Thousands of Israelis ascended to the top of the hillside
that once hosted the West Bank settlement of
Chomesh. Today in the ruins of the city,
right wing activists and settlers gathered to listen to speakers and to... 
Protests Mark 40th Anniversary of Six Day War
Marking the 40th anniversary of the 1967 Six Day War hundreds of anti-settlement protesters gathered in Hebron, the iconic city home to the first settlement marking for some the glory of the settlement movement and... Amnesty: Watchdog Needed for Israel
"JERUSALEM (AP) - Amnesty International marked 40 years since the outbreak of the 1967 Middle East war with a call for Israel to dismantle West Bank settlements and roadblocks, for the Palestinians to end attacks on Israeli civilians and for the international community to... The New York Review of Books: Jimmy Carter and Apartheid
"Jimmy Carter and Apartheid By Joseph Lelyveld Palestine Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter Simon and Schuster, 264 pp., $27.00 Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide by Jeffrey Goldberg Knopf, 316 pp., $25.00 1. Perhaps an intrepid researcher will one...
Staten Island Ferry damage claims now uncappable
This is very good news for families and current victims of the horrible crash; shame on the city for trying to implement an age-old rule with little current applicability. "A federal judge today rejected New York...
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