PALESTINE: Membership approved by Unesco – Video
simmons | December 22, 2011
Palestine has been approved membership of the UN cultural agency Unesco, defying calls from US and Israel not to allow it.
Israeli university wins joint bid for new NY science campus – Video
simmons | December 21, 2011
Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology will partner to build an applied sciences campus in New York City that officials hope will transform the metropolis into a center for entrepreneurship and technology innovation to rival California's Silicon Valley. In a news conference, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the schools' proposal had been selected in the multi-billion-dollar competition. The news conference was viewed live in the Technion campus in Haifa, in a crowd that included the recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry, Prof Dan Schechtman, who teaches at the Israeli university
The Truth About the Refugees: Israel Palestinian Conflict – Video
simmons | December 21, 2011
Israel's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Danny Ayalon explains the historical facts relating to the issue of refugees in the Israeli Palestinian conflict. The video explains the reason there are still refugees after more than six decades is because of Arab leaders' recalcitrance to accept their brethren and the United Nations which created a separate agency with unique principles and criteria. The video also highlights the issue of the Jewish refugees who were forced out of their homes in the Arab world, and were subsequently absorbed by the State of Israel.
Israel debates muffling call to prayer – Video
simmons | December 21, 2011
Israeli legislators are considering a controversial law that would ban mosques from using loudspeakers to call worshippers to prayer. A handful of European countries have similar laws in place and this latest proposal has sparked similar mixed reactions
Israeli policies under fire at Security Council – Video
simmons | December 21, 2011
The US is being criticised at the UN for blocking condemnation of Israeli settlement construction.
TOXIC HOLOCAUST – “Lord of the Wasteland” – Video
simmons | December 20, 2011
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Yehuda Glantz – Back on Stage in Israel! – Video
simmons | December 20, 2011
Homes of War: Israel settlements set Palestine on fire – Video
simmons | December 19, 2011
Israel is planning to build over a thousand new settlement homes in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. It's speeding up construction after Palestine won membership to the UN's heritage body in October. Palestinian leaders say peace negotiations are impossible without a settlement freeze.
Israel and Italy Play Aerial “War Games” – Video
simmons | December 19, 2011
Iran Hysteria: ‘Israel wants US to attack first’ – Video
simmons | December 18, 2011
While the Arab Spring has brought winds of positive change, the destiny of the whole region now hangs on the issue of Palestine, insists politician Mustafa Barghouti, a Palestinian MP and the president of the Palestinian National Initiative. Currently, the Palestinian bid for statehood is deadlocked with the US obstructing a UN Security Council vote on the issue. America's pressure appears to be bearing fruit -- on the other hand, European governments cannot be seen to be going against their own people, whose sympathies lie with Palestine.
