Naftali Bennett is at best a continuation of Netanyahu’s policies and at worst an ideologue whose positions are to the right of Netanyahu’s. After 12 years, Israel finally inaugurated a new prime minister. While being hailed ...
Raed ShakShak is a resident of Gaza and the outreach coordinator for We Are Not Numbers. He graduated from Al-Azhar University in Gaza with a degree in English language and literature.
Ahmed grew up in Gaza, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in English literature from al-Azher University and was the inspiration for/original project manager for We Are Not Numbers. He later won the UK’s prestigious ...
U.S. policy has perpetuated the crisis and atrocities of the Israeli occupation by unconditionally supporting Israel in three distinct ways: militarily, diplomatically and politically. The U.S. corporate media usually report on Israeli military assaults in ...
There are two separate Sheikh Jarrah stories – one read and watched in the news and another that receives little media coverage or due analysis. (By: Ramzy Baroud, Mintpress News) There are two separate Sheikh ...
“The real joke here is how this extremely obvious reality is taboo and calling any attention to it is subject to a massive pressure campaign when the real pressure campaign should be against Apartheid, not ...
American neocons and hawks, including those inside his own administration, appear to be flexing their muscles to kill Biden’s commitment to diplomacy at birth, and his own hawkish foreign policy views make him dangerously susceptible to their ...
‘US and Israeli efforts to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program “have now morphed into Trump & Netanyahu sabotaging the next US President’ Israel used all four years of Trump’s presidency to entrench its systems of occupation ...
This agreement is more about shoring up Trump’s slumping electoral campaign and improving Netanyahu’s battered image in Israel than bringing peace to the Middle East. “HUGE breakthrough today,” crowed Donald Trump on twitter as he announced the ...
US racism and police violence are intrinsically linked and date back many years, but the militarization of the US police and its use of deadly violence against suspected petty criminals, or even non criminals, is ...
Most of the most powerful players in the world of digital surveillance aren’t government intelligence agencies, but private corporations. Technological advances and seismic shifts in the way information is diffused and transmitted have categorized the ...
New York City taxpayers are on the hook for a multi-million dollar cyber center in the heart of Manhattan with deep ties to Israel’s high-tech intelligence apparatus. (By: Whitney Webb, Mintpress News) Early last week, ...
“This censorship of my talk based on forced compliance to anti-BDS laws in Georgia is just one level of a nationwide campaign to protect Israel from grassroots pressure.” — Abby Martin (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress ...
“In the second of a three-part series, Agha Hussein investigates Russia’s financial motivation for teaming up with Israel and wealthy Gulf Arab states to curb Iran’s influence in post-war Syria.” (By: Agha Hussain, Mintpress News) ...
A new book by a mysterious alleged former Israeli spy claims Jeffrey Epstein participated in an Israeli-run blackmailing scheme. The deceased American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell were ...
Is Trump Attacking Iran To Distract From New Evidence In Impeachment Trial? The Trump administration’s assassination of Iran’s top general came only hours after the release of Office of Management and Budget emails that directly ...
Citizen Truth spoke with the Gaza representative for the BDS movement following recent moves by the Trump administration criticized for targeting growing support for BDS. On December 11, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive ...
After Israel, the Islamic Republic is home to the largest population of Jews in the Middle East. On December 14, 2019, a white male entered the Nessah Synagogue in Beverly Hills, vandalizing the sanctuary. He unrolled Torah ...
“In brief, I am satisfied that war crimes have been or are being committed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.” In an unprecedented statement, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced ...
In a reversal of the Trump administration’s approach to Palestine, the U.S. Congress is endorsing a 2020 budget with $150 million earmarked for Palestinian aid. The United States Congress agreed on Monday to grant a ...
![Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel [lleewu/Flickr]](https://citizentruth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2009_2_2-israeli-airport-288x180.jpg "Israel Wants $150 Billion Compensation for Jews Who Left Arab Countries 20")
“Israel could seek to claim these funds by going to US courts. The whole thing would be laughable if it were not for this fact.” (MEMO) Israel is preparing to claim a total of $150 ...
The recent Pensacola shooting at a U.S. naval base by a Saudi lieutenant is a reminder of the dangers of U.S. Middle East policy. The brutal shooting at a U.S. Naval Base in Pensacola, Florida ...
![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses reporters on June 27, 2016, at Villa Taverna - the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Rome, Italy - between a pair of bilateral meetings between him and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]](https://citizentruth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/27830918172_69fcb7146a_k-288x180.jpg "Israel is Heading for a Third Round of Elections 22")
Current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political career is still barely hanging on as Israel heads to yet another round of parliamentary elections. Israeli political leaders were reported Wednesday to have failed once again to ...
“Once our leadership decides to attack the Zionist enemy, we will be ready to do so.” The Defense Minister of the Yemeni militant Houthi group, Major General Mohammad Al-Atefi, warned over the weekend that Houthis ...
“We saw him on the ground and told him to crawl. But then a military vehicle raced up and a soldier fired at him, shooting him in the right leg. Soon a helicopter came and ...
“From the Gaza Strip, under Israel’s occupation and siege, we salute the students with Brown Divest and all those involved in this victory. It represents an important US university precedent.” A Brown University committee voted ...
A family mourns the loss of nine after a recent Israeli airstrike struck a civilian home in Gaza in a case of possible mistaken identity. At her asbestos-roofed home in the central Gaza Strip city ...
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces three serious criminal charges in what could be a major blow to his political career. Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit on Thursday indicted the sitting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...
“Israel is building illegal settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which are still considered occupied territories. This kills any alleged ‘peace process.’ There is no more 2 state solution.” U.S. Secretary of State ...
“Today’s vote indicates that the U.N.R.W.A. plays a major role in serving millions of Palestinian refugees and that the latest U.S.’ stance against such a vital U.N. organ is being rejected by majority of world ...
Tuesday morning Palestinians were awoken with the news that Israel launched two airstrikes on leaders of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, killing one and killing family members of both. Angry Palestinian crowds in Gaza, including ...
Hours after the Israeli army wounded scores of Palestinian border demonstrators in the Gaza Strip, projectiles from Gaza were fired into nearby southern Israeli towns. On Friday afternoon approximately 100 Palestinian border demonstrators in Gaza ...
Despite international condemnation of Israeli housing settlements in occupied Palestinian territories, Israel has ramped up building construction in 2019. Israel has approved the construction of over 2,000 Israeli housing units in the occupied Palestinian West ...
Sudan is eager to be removed from the U.S.’ list of states that harbor terrorism but also not ready to normalize relations with Israel. On the sideline of the meeting between Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla ...
“I don’t think the Israelis were spying on us. My relationship with Israel has been great…Anything is possible, but I don’t believe it.” On Thursday, Politico reported that the U.S. government determined Israel likely planted ...
At the time, Israel’s disengagement from Gaza 14 years ago seemed hopeful and significant, but little has improved for Palestinians and now Israel threatens annexation. September 12, 2005, is an especially a significant day for ...
A week before Israel heads to the polls to determine the country’s and Netanyahu’s future, Netanyahu made a bold vow to annex West Bank territory. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday his intention ...
An airstrike Sunday night targeted pro-Iran factions in Syria, while the party responsible is unknown, the strike fits a pattern of recent Israeli strikes on Iranian targets in Syria. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human ...
Last week, tension on the Lebanese-Israeli border escalated when Hezbollah fired rockets at Israeli military targets after accusations that Israel attacked Beirut with drones. A weekend exchange of fire has not helped de-escalation efforts. The ...
“The Lebanese government sees it best to avoid any sliding of the situation towards a dangerous escalation but this requires the international community affirming its rejection of this blatant violation.” Lebanese President Michel Aoun announced ...
Multiple Americans who attended an annual Iranian-backed conference critical of U.S.-Isreal policy reported threatening visits from the FBI in recent months. According to three U.S. former government or military officials, the U.S. Federal Bureau of ...
As tensions in the Middle East worsen, a recent military ranking index suggests an Iran-Israel military conflict would pit two equally formidable military forces. According to the annual Military Strength Ranking report compiled by Global ...
“Israel, in particular, allowed the transfer of arms covered by the ATT (Arms Trade Treaty) at a time when it had knowledge, or ought to have had knowledge, that they would be used in the ...
The statement revealed that the Israeli government endorsed construction of 2,400 housing units in existing Israeli settlements in C areas this week. It also highlighted that the expansion of existing settlements has been going unabated ...
President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is off on a Middle East tour possibly ahead of an Arab states conference at Camp David. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi reiterated his country’s support for a Palestinian-Israeli peace ...
After an air raid killed a civilian Tuesday night confusion abounds as to who exactly is responsible. Official sources in Syria confirmed on Wednesday the killing of a civilian in the village of Rashidia, an ...
“The demolition is a flagrant violation of those agreements and is null and void.” The Palestinian Authority (P.A.) president, Mahmoud Abbas, told P.A. officials and other Palestinian leaders during a meeting last Thursday, that the ...
Israeli claims that Hezbollah smuggles arms through Beirut is an attempt to rally the international community against Lebanon, says Hezbollah official. In a televised speech aired on Friday by the Hezbollah-run Manar TV, the leader ...
Tuesday night, just after midnight, Syria was on the receiving end of Israeli-launched rockets. Syria’s official news agency, SANA, and Syrian state television reported on Wednesday that Isreal launched a rocket attack on military targets ...
Last month, the Israeli Supreme court ruled that houses built in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sur Baher violated a construction ban. Palestinians contend the majority of the houses are in an area that belongs ...
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