People.com
By the weekend, around 10 boats will arrive in the waters off the Gaza Strip in a bid to bring some 10,000 tons of aid to the Palestinian coastal enclave. However, past instances show that the Israeli navy will probably intercede and possibly prevent the flotilla from docking in Gaza.
The international [...]

Israel is set to block eight ships carrying 10,000 tons of aid and 800 activists and politicians on its way to Gaza.
Organizers behind the flotilla are hoping to send a message to the world that Israel has no right to starve 1.5 million Palestinians. The Free Gaza movement has organized several other [...]

Electronic Intifada
In recent weeks, the US- and Israeli-backed Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (PA) has made a show of calling on Palestinians to boycott goods manufactured in Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Despite the rhetoric of defiance and resistance, and exaggerated screams of anguish from Israeli settler groups, the [...]

By Carmen Yarrusso

Many Americans wonder why we continue to give Israel 3 billion of our hard-earned tax dollars every year instead of spending those billions on our own needy. Many Americans wonder why we give Israel billions more in bunker-busting bombs, Apache attack helicopters armed with TOW missiles, and other such advanced [...]

GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) – This is the month for Palestinians to remember their Nakba, or “catastrophe,” in which more than 700,000 women, men and children were pushed off their land and rendered homeless refugees by the Zionist attacks before, during and after the founding [...]

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Eramuslim
Government in Ankara has warned the Zionist regime of Israel linked the possibility of intervention to ship the humanitarian aid from Turkey into Gaza.
Aksam newspaper, published reports quoting Turkish Debkafile site wrote that the Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to deploy a helicopter to [...]

PressTV
The federal government of Australia says it has ordered the expulsion of an Israeli diplomat over fraudulent use of Australian passports by Israel to assassinate a Hamas official.
Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said on Monday that investigations had led to concrete evidence that Israeli intelligence services were behind the forgery of [...]

Last week, the BBC reported Barack Obama’s request to Congress for $200 million in military aid to assist Israel’s construction of a short-range rocket defence system, Iron Dome. The funding will be in addition to the $3 billion in military aid the US annually sends to Israel. A BBC online article [...]

Eramuslim
Source of senior Palestinian Authority revealed that the Palestinian authorities in Ramallah, headed by Mahmoud Abbas, has called upon a number of Arab countries and countries in the region in order to block a group of ships that will lead to the Gaza Strip, scheduled to arrive later this month.
The sources told the PIC on [...]

Goldstone report, which accuses Israel of committing war crimes against civilians in Gaza, was not folded yet till a book for one of the Israeli rabbis was issued permitting the killing of children, women, the elderly and the innocent of non-Jews in the necessities of war.
The book also accuses all nations [...]

Faisal Shahzad, a suspect in the failed car bombings in New York’s Times Square, was disappointed with the state of the Islamic world and trying to find ways to take the fight.
Two e-mails obtained by CNN to explain how mental turmoil U.S. citizen born in Pakistan.
“Everyone knows the current situation [...]

As’ad AbuKhalil
Every year, Arabs around the world commemorate al-Nakba or “the catastrophe” on May 15 – the day following Israel’s declaration of statehood in 1948.
But poems and speeches are now too embarrassing to recite and Arab governments barely seem interested in remembering – so busy are they trying to win [...]

“I find it hard to think of a similar case, in which entry to a person is denied because he is not lecturing in Tel Aviv. Perhaps only in Stalinist regimes,” Chomsky told Haaretz. — Haaretz
The Interior Ministry refused to let linguist Noam Chomsky into Israel and the West Bank [...]

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Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip is not successful to overthrow the government of Hamas and Mahmoud Abbas to restore government Fatahnya movement, said an Israeli writer on Monday (18 / 5).
Writing in an economic supplement to the Hebrew-language daily newspaper surata Yediot Ahronot, Danny Rubinstein said that [...]