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By Delinda C. Hanley (L-r) Menachem Begin (Ron Rifkin), President Jimmy Carter (Richard Thomas) and Anwar Sadat (Khaled Nabawy) “negotiate” at “Camp David.” (Photo Courtesy Arena Stage) There’s something quite remarkable about a play. A great actor can magically connect with a person sitting in the last row of a theater. Intense emotions can engulf the audience, one heart at a …

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday praised Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for condemning the alleged abduction of three Israeli teenagers, but slammed the unity pact between Fatah and the Hamas. The three teens had disappeared from a popular hitchhiking spot in West Bank on June 12th, and Israel has rounded up several hundreds of Palestinians as a part of …

Israel on Wednesday killed 65 people in West Bank, as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas lashed out at the people responsible for the kidnapping of 3 Israeli teenagers. The hunt for the Israeli youths enters its sixth day on Wednesday, as Israel continues its crushing drive against Hamas, who it blames for the kidnappings. As Israeli troops continued to press their …

Palestinians on Thursday said that they would appeal to the UN regarding Israeli plans to build 1,500 new settler homes. Israel had announced their plans as a response to the newly formed unity government in Hamas. The government of technocrats has been recognized by both the US and the EU, but Israel has promised to boycott what it calls a …

On Wednesday, Israeli forces raided the headquarters of a Palestinian publishing house in the occupied city of Ramallah in West Bank. They also warned the publishing house not to publish newspapers close to Hamas. Palestinian officials have criticized to move, and said that it violates their freedom of expression. Israeli authorities were not immediately available for comment. The headquarters of …

Israel on Monday approved their plans to build at least 50 new settler units in the district of East al-Quds in occupied Jerusalem despite international outrage over Israel’s settlement activities. The Israeli regime has said that at least 50 settler units are set to be built in the Har Homa settlement. Yosef Pepe Alalu, city councilor of Jerusalem, said on …

Israeli soldiers shot two Palestinians in a Nakba day demonstration near Ramallah in West Bank. The Palestinians, twenty-year-old Musaab Nuwarah and seventeen-year-old Mohammed Udeh, died of their wounds in a Ramallah hospital on Thursday. The Palestinians were shot in the chest by Israeli Border Police forces during a demonstration held on Nakba, literally translating to catastrophe, remembering the day of …

BDS is a ” global movement for a campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel” which aims to force Israel to comply with international law by using   non-violent punitive measures,like the boycott against apartheid in South Africa. It was initiated by Palestinian civil society in year 2005, and coordinated by the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), which was established …

The peace talks between Palestine and Israel are back to square one again as Israel torpedoed the US brokered talks as a response to the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation deal on Thursday. In an interview with the BBC, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu summed up their stance in the situation, saying that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas can “have peace with Israel or …