ISRAEL OCCUPATION & ZIONISM
Israel-Palestine: UNICEF warns children are paying ‘the highest price’ as violence escalates
https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/01/1132982
Palestinian PM urges U.S. to stop all Israeli violations, unilateral measures
https://english.news.cn/20230113/a4c7bda7114843e3bf93646eaada0859/c.html
US vows to ensure Israel's 'qualitative military advantage'
The prospect of the UAE now obtaining advanced US weaponry such as the F-35 stealth fighter jet has worried Israel.
The United States will ensure Israel retains a military advantage in the Middle East under any future US arms deals with the United Arab Emirates, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday.
"The United States has a legal requirement with respect to qualitative military edge. We will continue to honour that," Pompeo told reporters after a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.
Jewish nation state: Israel approves controversial bill
Israel's parliament has passed a controversial law characterising the country as principally a Jewish state, fuelling anger among its Arab minority.
The "nation state" law says Jews have a unique right to national self-determination there and puts Hebrew above Arabic as the official language.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-44881554?ocid=global_bbccom_email_18072018_top+news+stories
Arab League: 'Reject apartheid system' in Palestine
Two-state solution is the only way forward as Arab leaders denounce Israel's 'continuous violations' at annual summit.
Arab leaders have demanded a two-state solution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict amid increased unease over the stance of the United States under the administration of President Donald Trump.
Israel denies redress to thousands of Palestinians
Legal changes have shielded Israel from paying compensation to families of killed or injured Palestinians, report finds.
Israel has given itself almost complete immunity from paying compensation in cases where its soldiers have killed, injured or disabled Palestinian civilians, an Israeli human rights group has warned.
The uneven alliance: How America became pro-Israel
Israeli lobby in the US managed to infiltrate all aspects of government, thus formulating US policy directly.
Ahmadinejad: Israel will be uprooted
"Devastating storm" heading to Israel, outgoing Iranian president says in lead-up to successor's inauguration.
Iran's outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that a regional storm was on the way to "uproot" Israel.
"I will inform you with God as my witness, a devastating storm is on the way that will uproot the basis of Zionism," Ahmadinejad said at annual Quds Day rallies.
Israel "has no place in this region", he said.
http://www.aljazeera.com/video/middleeast/2013/08/20138292630448838.html
Kerry backs Egypt army, irks Brotherhood
In strongest endorsement yet by US to Egypt's new army-installed government, secretary of state John F Kerry was quoted as saying that the military had been "restoring democracy" when it drove Islamist President Mohamed Morsi from office last month.
The Muslim Brotherhood decried the comments by Kerry and said their supporters would carry on with protests calling for Morsi's reinstatement. While speaking to a Pakistani TV station on Thursday, secretary of state John Kerry said the army "did not take over". "The military was asked to intervene by millions and millions of people, all of whom were afraid of a descendance into chaos, into violence," he said.
Iran's Rouhani calls Israel occupation 'old wound' on Islamic world
Iran's President-elect Hassan Rouhani has denounced Israeli occupation of Palestinian areas as an "old wound on the body of the Islamic world".