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Israel launches the world’s first privately funded mission to land on the moon

Feb 22, 2019

Israeli scientists have launched the first privately funded moon landing mission this week, aiming to make Israel the fourth country to make a soft landing on the surface of the moon, after the US, Russia, and ...

US, in withdrawing from UNESCO, risks further isolation

West Side Story

Oct 18, 2017

Opinion, Policy, Science

Last Thursday, the US State Department announced plans to withdraw from UNESCO, the education and cultural body of the United Nations. The State Department emphasized that the decision “was not taken lightly,” ...

Breaking with past vetoes, US allows UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements to pass

West Side Story

Dec 23, 2016

Policy, Science, World

On Friday, the United Nations passed a resolution calling for Israel to stop settlements on Palestinian territory. The vote passed unanimously, after the United States abstained, declining to use its veto power...

UN Security Council vote for Israel’s occupation of Palestine

Charles Omedo

Dec 31, 2014

World

The hopes of Palestine to end Israel’s occupation of parts of its territory has been dashed after the United Nation’s Security Council voted against a Palestinian resolution demanding to end Israeli occupation ...

Cave excavations indicate humans started kindling fires some 350,000 years ago

Charles Omedo

Dec 15, 2014

Innovation

An archaeological discovery in Tabun Cave, 15 miles south of Haifa, in Israel, has lent proof to the fact that humans started kindling and using fire some 350,000 years ago. Located in northern Israel, the cave...

$Palestine accuses Israel of killing its minister after fracas with police$

Palestine accuses Israel of killing its minister after fracas with police

Charles Omedo

Dec 11, 2014

World

Following the sudden death of Ziyad Abu Ein, a Palestinian minister in President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party and also the head of the Committee to Resist the Wall and Settlements after a brief confrontation with...

Israel has flouted the rules of war in attacking Gaza – Amnesty International

Charles Omedo

Nov 5, 2014

World

Amnesty International, through its director for the Middle East and North Africa Programme, Philip Luther accuses Israel of carnage in the recently concluded war on Gaza by saying “Israeli forces have brazenly ...

Sweden’s Support to Palestine Outrages Israel

Jessie Godines

Oct 4, 2014

World

Sweden’s newly elected prime minister and a Social Democrat leader Stefan Loefven during his inaugural address in Parliament declared that his government will recognize the Palestinian state, becoming the first...

Israel suspects Hamas terrorists were from organizations run by UNRWA

Abby Smith

Sep 14, 2014

World

Israel suspected that Hamas terrorist were from organizations run by UNRWA (UN Relief and Works Agency). But State Department spokeswoman Maie Harf said that this does not justify the attacks against UNRWA in G...

Aftershocks of Protective Edge operations, UK reviewing arms exports to Israel over Gaza conflict

Ally Stackhouse

Aug 4, 2014

World

The fallout of the blitzkrieg Protective Edge by Israel on Gaza is getting it a lot of bad publicity and there are talks that UK is reviewing its arms export to Israel. It could be similar to the Cast Lead emba...

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