Amnesty International has accused in its recent 112-page report that Israel is denying Palestinians access to even the basic minimum of clean, safe water. It further states that Israeli water restrictions discriminate against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Israel has termed the report flawed and has said that the Palestinians get more water than was agreed under the 1990s peace deal.
However, the fact is that on average Palestinian daily water consumption reaches 70 litres a day, compared with 300 litres for the Israelis. Does it means that in …

Israeli Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman told a news conference at a hospital in central Israel, “we should call this Mexican flu and not swine flu.” He was pointing to the refence to pigs is offence to Jews and Muslims.
JERUSALEM (AP) — The outbreak of swine flu should be renamed “Mexican” influenza in deference to Muslim and Jewish sensitivities over pork, said an Israeli health official Monday.
Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman said the reference to pigs is offensive to both religions and “we should call this Mexican flu and not …

Jordan’s King Abdullah II who is on an official visit of Romania said that an Arab peace initiative offers a solution for peace in the Middle East, emphasising that Israel should seize the opportunity or risk ongoing conflict in the region.
He said, “Israel must decide whether they want to observe this opportunity and become integrated in the region or whether they want to remain a fortress … and keep the Middle East hostage in conflict.”
The king met Romanian President Traian Basescu to discuss bilateral issues and the need …

International calls to investigate Israel over alleged war crimes in the Gaza Strip prompted Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday to promise military personnel state protection from foreign prosecution.
“The commanders and soldiers sent to Gaza should know they are safe from various tribunals and Israel will assist them on this front and defend them, just as they protected us with their bodies during the Gaza operation,” Olmert said.
It is well known now that Israel used white phosphorus munitions indiscrimnately in the densely populated areas of Gaza strip. White phosporus can …

The UN Security Council passed a resolution last Thursday (January 8, 2009) calling for an immediate ceasefire in the three-week-old conflict in the Gaza Strip and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza where more than 1000 Palestinians have been killed and thousands have wounded.
Fourteen of the council’s 15 members voted in favour of the resolution. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in a speech,
“In the night between Thursday and Friday, when the secretary of state wanted to lead the vote on a ceasefire at the Security Council, we did not want her to vote …

The death toll of Palestinians or Hamas millitants/terrorists has crossed 1000. This is the result of three weaks of continuous shelling and bombing of Gaza by Israel’s armed forces which claims that the operation is aimed at stopping the rocket fires into Israel by terrorists in Gaza. 
Nearly 300 of those killed are children and at least over 500 are civilians. The only crime of the civilians was that they elected Hamas as their ‘democratic’ government. The countries which claim that they are for democracy in Middle East refused to accept …

It has been two weeks since Israel started pounding 350 square kilometer area of Gaza strip. The official death toll is 765 palestinians as a result of shelling and bombing which was targeting Hamas. About 250 of the deads are children.
The advocates of Israel tell the world that Israelis phone Palestinians before attacking so that Palestinians can take shelter, wounded Palestinians are treated in top notch medical facilities of Israel and Israel takes all the precautions to avoid the common palestinians. Hamas fired over 6000 rockets into Israel since 2005.
How many …

Miguel D’escoto Brockmann, the president of the UN General Assembly, termed Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza was a “monstrosity” and a marked failure for the United Nations.
He said:
“I think it’s a monstrosity; there’s no other way to name it. Once again, the world is watching in dismay the dysfunctionality of the Security Council.”
The Security Council once again failed to reach an agreement as US once agained blocked any consensus during the late-night emergency meeting. US blames Hamas for all the violance in Gaza stating Hamas must stop smuggling arms into …