Over the last year, Palestinian and Arab residents on both sides of the Green Line have been losing their homes at the hands of the self-proclaimed Jewish state. In the occupied West Bank, Israel has continued its policy of knocking down Palestinian homes that the military administration or Jerusalem municipality (in the case of East Jerusalem) has not granted permits for, while the families of resistance fighters continue to be collectively punished by the army through home destruction.
 
Meanwhile in Palestinian and mixed cities inside Israel, of which the Palestinian residents are Israeli citizens, large Israeli development companies have been working alongside local municipalities to build exclusively Jewish housing in the heart of Palestinian neighbourhoods....

Max Blumenthal, Lia Tarachansky, and David Jacobus speak to Israelis who rallied outside the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv on Thursday June 4th, 2010. The rally was meant to celebrate Israel's attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.

Boy Scouts and Commandos
By Hadani Ditmars
June 1, 2010
 
The two men sat across from each other in identical black suits - very Brooks Brothers, very corporate machismo. Their feet firmly apart, they leaned forward on their chairs with purpose, as if they were discussing sales figures at an AGM.
 
The two shared similarly thinning hairlines and a certain pudgy middle-aged smugness. They occasionally smiled and guffawed good naturedly, called each other by their first names and one mentioned that 'we go back a long way, don't we?' One almost expected them to reminisce about a long lost golf tournament.
 
But these chummy cohorts were in fact Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Peter...

Photograph by Edo Medicks
ASHDOD, ISRAEL – On Monday, as news broke of the Israeli assault on a humanitarian aid ship into Gaza, killing at least nine people, Israeli activists demonstrated in support of the flotilla. Dozens gathered outside the port of Ashdod, where the ships were taken after the commando unit seized them. Demonstrators stood on the shoreline, holding signs calling to lift the siege of Gaza and denouncing Israeli violence. “Stop the army, not the aid!” read one sign.
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JAFFA, ISRAEL – Hundreds of Jaffa residents gather on the main street of Yeffet in the heart of Ajami. They're standing in solidarity with a Palestinian family who was confronted by settler youth from Kiryat Arba on April 18, 2010 when Israelis commemorated the night of the fallen soldier. 24/04/10
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By Carmelle Wolfson
April 26, 2010
 
Tensions are rising between Israeli settlers and Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel after clashes in Occupied East Jerusalem and Jaffa this past weekend.
 

Ultranationalist religious Jews attempted to provoke and intimidate local Palestinian residents while marching through the Occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on Sunday as hundreds of Israeli police stood guard. Hundreds of residents clashed with police in response, some throwing rocks and lighting tire fires. Twenty Palestinians and solidarity activists were injured as police shot rubber bullets and beat protesters. Two police were also injured when they were hit by rocks.
 

The seventy right wing...

How activist murals give confused, romantic impressions of the Oslo era
April 16, 2010
By Nidal Hatim
 
 
It was 10 a.m. on a rainy morning during an obscene Palestinian winter when I met Palestinian artists Akram Abu Aly and Muhammad El-Aza in the kitchen of the Ghirass Cultural Center in Bethlehem – the only room in which you can smoke cigarettes and drink caffeine. Throughout the hour-long interview we must have downed more than four or five cups of coffee.
 
 
Muhammad and Akram hail from around Bethlehem – the alleged birthplace of Christ, but the artists trace their roots across the Green Line, back to villages geographically near yet worlds away in their accessibility. Both were born and...