A winter storm hits the West Bank, Gaza & Israel.
Flooding near Bilin.
Flooding in Old Quarter Hebron.
Khaled 'Azayzeh, a B'Tselem field researcher, shows his life in Gaza.
Who knew Christmas in Bethlehem is celebrated with bagpipes?
Gazans call for a 24 hour worldwide hunger strike in solidarity with Palestinians imprisoned in Israel.
Palestinians are harassed by settlers in Susya, then arrested by the IDF.
The Palestinian Authority has started to use State of Palestine on all its' documents.
Al Jazeera looks at the remaining Samaritans of Mount Gerizin, West Bank.
Seventeen year old Muhammed Al Badan is shot & wounded by an IDF soldier.
There was a demo in Nabi Saleh.
An Israeli activist tries to enter the settlement of Neve Daniel.
The Stream looks at the controversy on University of California campuses over pro-Palestinian student activism.
Max Blumenthal attends a Birthright event in Jerusalem, where Jewish youth listen to Netanyahu & dance with the IDF.
The Jerusalem Post profiles an Israeli voter living near Gaza.
The head of the settler party Bayit Yehudi, Naftali Bennett, in an interview calls for annexing Area C of the West Bank.
from Richard Silverstein's blog:
Balad, the Israeli Palestinian political party with three MKs (including Haneen Zoabi), prepared a hilarious campaign commercial that featured Palestinian performers singing the Ha-Tikvah (national anthem). For the most part, it was even a straightforward rendition of the song. No words were changed.
Of course there was one small catch: as the song was played a bunch of mincing marionettes representing the crème de la crème of the Israeli far-right danced across the screen with Avigdor Lieberman chief among them. The video is meant as a satire of Lieberman’s bill requiring Israeli Palestinian citizens to swear an oath of loyalty to Israel and sing the national anthem. The actual singing of HaTikvah in the video is meant to satirize the legislation.
Here is how Ali Abunimah translated the Lieberman puppet’s statement:
“I have become convinced of the need to change the anthem a bit so that the Arabs can learn it and sing it.” The gag is that the altered version Lieberman and other right-wing politicians perform is simply the same Zionist lyrics to an Arab beat.
The Knesset election committee banned the ad as insulting to Israeli icons. They were referring to the anthem (which wasn’t insulted at all) but might just as well have been referring to Lieberman (who was).
Shas has produced an election video that says Russian Israelis aren't really Jews. Huh? They pulled the ad.
From Jews sans frontieres:
Eldad Yaniv used to be an aide for Netanyahu. Now he has formed a new party Eretz Hadasha, & has posted ten videos alleging corruption among Israel's political & business elite.