US Embassy Move Tears Last Fig Leaf Off of Long-Standing US-Israeli Designs for Palestine

The Embassy move made by “a strong America” was also a “recognition of the truth” of a longstanding Israeli policy, now fully endorsed and legitimized by U.S. unilateralism, of taking over and colonizing East Jerusalem, which began immediately following its seizure by Israel in 1967.

Steven Chovanec
By Steven Chovanec
A relative of a Palestinian killed during a protest on the border with Israel mourns over his body in a morgue in Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip, Monday, May 14, 2018. Israeli soldiers shot and killed dozens of Palestinians during mass protests along the Gaza border on Monday. It was the deadliest day there since a devastating 2014 cross-border war and cast a pall over Israel's festive inauguration of the new U.S. Embassy in contested Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

It is our right to transfer the Arabs … The Arabs should go!” – Yosef Weitz, leading Zionist figure, director of the Land and Afforestation Department of the Jewish National Fund (JNF), 1940 The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war.” – David Ben-Gurion, 1937 The main thing is, first

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American Jews Stand Against the US Embassy Move and Israel’s Mass Killing of Protesters in Gaza

“This is the ongoing Nakba: Celebrating the annexation of Jerusalem while gunning down Palestinian protesters”

Jewish Voice for Peace
By Jewish Voice for Peace
BDS March JVP

WASHINGTON - As the ceremony to open the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem is taking place, Israeli military forces are killing Palestinian protesters in Gaza. In moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, U.S. President Trump is cementing the U.S. - Israeli partnership to annex Jerusalem and further repress Palestinian rights. “This is the ongoing Nakba,”

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Under New Deal, Palestinians to Be Offered Less Than Half of West Bank

This deal is, it appears, being cooked up with the co-operation of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the Gulf States. It will be presented to Palestinians on a take-it-or-leave-it basis.

Ben Jamal
By Ben Jamal
Donald Trump | Benjamin Netanyahu

Having announced his intention to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in December of last year, reversing years of U.S. policy and violating international law, President Donald Trump seems determined to further rub salt in the wound. He announced weeks ago that the new embassy would open on May 15. No more provocative a date could

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Bibi & Trump, Both Under Investigation, Meet on Phony ‘Deal of the Century’

Netanyahu hopes that Trump will put the weight of the US government toward full apartheid and accelerated Israeli squatting, bestowing Washington’s seal of approval on current Israeli policies.

Juan Cole
By Juan Cole
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting at the World Economic Forum, Jan. 25, 2018, in Davos. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Far-right Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet Monday with far-right white nationalist president Donald J. Trump in an apparent effort to hurry up Trump’s announcement of the “Deal of the Century” between Israel and the Palestinians. The Arabic press is speculating that Netanyahu, who has faced large anti-corruption rallies at

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Trump Invites Netanyahu To US As He Prepares Embassy Move To Jerusalem

The White House said that it is in the “early stages” of moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem as Trump vowed an unprecedented commitment to Israel.

teleSUR
By teleSUR
A sign hangs on a building under construction in Jerusalem congratulating U.S. President Donald Trump, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. Trump has vowed to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

(REPORT) --- The new U.S. administration is in the early stages of preparing for the controversial relocation of the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, the White House said Sunday just hours before a phone call where President Donald Trump extended an invitation to right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit Washington,

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Palestine To Revoke Recognition Of Israel If US Moves Embassy To Jerusalem

The Palestinian call to action and warning to Trump came a week after the new U.S. Congress introduced a bill to move the country’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

teleSUR
By teleSUR
Palestinian

(REPORT) --- Palestinian leaders Tuesday called for prayers at mosques across the Middle East this week to protest plans by President-elect Donald Trump to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, and also threatened to withdraw the Palestinian recognition of Israel if the move is realized. Mohammad Shtayyeh, a senior Palestinian official

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