Newly declassified documents highlighting how the Israeli lobby routinely paid off journalists in the U.S. corporate media to write pro-Zionist propaganda in support of Israeli aggression against Palestine and Iran during the 60’s have taken on new significance after the Atlantic Monthly, which is named in the documents as being complicit in the bribing scandal, recently published a cover story hyping the necessity and inevitability of an Israeli attack on Iran.

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said an anticipated new round of peace talks will fall apart if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn’t extend a freeze on West Bank settlement building.

The London branch of Israeli cosmetics store Ahava is the subject of a probe by Camden Trading Standards after a complaint that it mislabelled its products as made in Israel.

The first direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations for more than 18 months were in prospect last night after successful diplomatic efforts to find a formula designed to allow the talks to start.

Among those surveyed yesterday was Ofra Ben-Artzi, a left-wing activist and the sister-in-law of Sara Netanyahu, wife of the prime minister. "I told the pollster, 'Imagine this kind of question being asked in London or New York.' It testifies to the level of racism we've reached," she said.

JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Tens of thousands of Palestinians lined up at West Bank checkpoints early on Friday morning, waiting to be granted access to the holy city of Jerusalem for prayer on the second Friday of Ramadan.

13th to 19th August 2010

• Nuclear inspection of Israel sought
• 150 Irish artists announce Israel cultural boycott
• The right's latest weapon: 'Zionist editing' on Wikipedia
• Anger over ex-Israeli soldier's Facebook photos of Palestinian prisoners
• Israel to demolish Al-Farisia for the 3rd time

'Idea is not to make Wikipedia rightist but for it to include our point of view,' Naftali Bennett, director of the Yesha Council says.

GAZA, (PIC)-- Norway asked Israel to allow entry of more goods into the Gaza Strip and facilitate the opening of Gaza crossings, while affirming that the European Union would work on ending the Gaza power crisis and water shortage

PA economy minister says after meeting with Ben-Eliezer that Israel's request to end the campaign proves that it is working.