"A senior U.S. military officer who oversaw the training of Palestinian security forces in the West Bank was aware that some engaged in the torture of detainees, according to a confidential document published Tuesday.

'The Hamas government in the Gaza Strip plans to raze another 180 Palestinian houses, on top of the 20 it recently demolished in the southern town of Rafah, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights charged on Thursday.

"Palestinian Authority security officials have detained a meat dealer on suspicion of selling land to Jews, Palestinian media outlets reported Friday.

"The Palestinian Authority refused to grant permission for a rally to celebrate the overthrow of Tunisia's authoritarian president on Wednesday in Ramallah, the administrative capital of the West Bank.

'Christians have been living in the Middle East seven decades prior to the arrival of Islam, and for 14 other decades as part of, or under, the law of Islam. Never has the situation of Christians reached such a difficult, unstable situation as it has in the last two years.

World eagerly awaits for S. Sudan to separate from 'Arab Islamic Racist Apartheid' in the north

BETHLEHEM: "I spend my evenings at home on the Internet because there is nothing to do here for people our age," said Sally Zaghmout, 19, a student at Bethlehem University

Opinion -- From Rantings of a Sandmonkey", a popular Egyptian weblog:

"After Israel says it 'reserves the right' to prevent Lebanese ships from accessing Hamas-ruled enclave, Ban's spokesman says world body's stated preference remains that aid to Strip should be delivered by established routes

" Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to inject urgency into Israeli-Palestinian peace talks Friday, warning the negotiations may be "the last chance for a very long time" to reach an agreement.

"Palestinian Authority security forces have vowed to arrest Hamas members and bring order to the West Bank, according to a Thursday report by London daily Asharq Al-Awsat.

"President says any attempt at a solution other than the two-state solution would be dangerous; praises Obama, Mubarak.

In 2000, the media published a photo of Tuvia Grossman, a Jewish student from Chicago -- bloodied and battered -- crouching beneath a club-wielding Israeli policeman.

"A Jaffa youth choir made up of Jews and Arabs girls isn't just sharing a message of coexistence with audiences throughout Israel, it is also practicing that message."

"Fancy restaurants, five-star hotels, glitzy bars, discotheques, luxury apartments and scores of new construction sites. Welcome to the new Ramallah, the de facto capital of Palestine.

"Hamas accused the Palestinian Authority on Tuesday of "waging war on Islam and Allah" by detaining and firing hundreds of imams and banning the recitation of the Koran over loudspeakers on mosques.

"Palestinian Authority terrorists over the weekend attacked workers building an underground "Iron Curtain" between Egypt and Gaza as Cairo tightens security at the border in an effort to end the weapons and drug smuggling into Gaza.

"It's Not Just About Israel" "The whole emphasis on Israel's salience in this matter, and of the related idea of subcontracting a strike to the Israeli Defense Forces, is an evasion, somewhat ethnically tinged, of what is an international responsibility."

"Most people don't believe Israeli and Palestinian high school students can get together and get along. But a summer program in Jerusalem proves they can.

Excellent analysis, plus some very enlightening links.

"Senior Israeli Defense Forces officials have provided the following video about the "Flotilla Incident" that took place on May 31, 2010. It reveals the truth behind the event, which has been ignored by the international community and buried by the mainstream media.

Ehad Ever is a religious Zionist. In this video he explains his views on Israel, Zionism, race, policies of the current Israeli government (Olmert's Kadima Party), etc.

"Psychological analysis of Palestinian suicide bombers who failed to blow themselves up indicate they have certain personality characteristics that make them more likely to be recruited to or to volunteer for suicide-bombing missions.

"The Turkish charity that led the flotilla involved in a deadly Israeli raid has extensive connections with Turkey's political elite, and the group's efforts to challenge Israel's blockade of Gaza received support at the top levels of the governing party, Turkish diplomats …

"Hamas's security forces in the Gaza Strip detained over the weekend dozens of Fatah activists in one of the largest crackdowns in recent months, Fatah officials said.The latest clampdown on Fatah comes after fresh mediation efforts to solve the crisis with Hamas failed.

"Muslim extremists -- believed to be from Hamas-- have repeatedly vandalized a UN summer camp in Gaza because they believe the children are being "corrupted" with a summer program of "games, sports and human rights lessons."

"The two truths that we see from the new Pal/Lebanese rights movement: 1. No Arab country wants them. 2. Their supposed "nationalism" is a fake construct designed to pressure Israel - and keep them from becoming citizens in Arab countries.

"Muslim states said on Wednesday that what they call "islamophobia" is sweeping the West and its media and demanded that the United Nations take tougher action against it.

"The second annual Football Village of Hope soccer camp brought together over a hundred Palestinian and Israeli youth for two weeks.

Hey there all you starry eyed humanitarians, do gooders, peace activists, liberal religious, anti Israel, anti Jewish haters and other useful idiots! Do you want to help a small beleaguered minority group of Muslims in the Mideast fighting for a state of its own against a larger, …

Pro-Israel highlights from Barack Obama's June 4th, 2008 speech to the AIPAC policy conference.

"Evidently, a lot of people out there really think there was a huge need for the supplies being brought in by the Turkish "peace activist" flotilla. "

"The Free Kurdistan Movement, human rights group, says it is planning the first international flotilla and motor convoy to reach Turkish-occupied Kurdistan-

"Sec. Hillary Clinton discusses the government's position on Israel's raid of a flotilla carrying aid supplies to Gaza.

In a damage control effort, Israeli officials and their right-wing American supporters are now trying to deflect blame onto the activists, saying that there was no reason for them to be trying to breach the blockade to deliver supplies because there is no humanitarian crisis in G …

The SA government summoned the Israeli ambassador to demand the release of a South African journalist held after a raid on a ship in Israel on Monday.South Africa's deputy minister of international relations, Sue van der Merwe, summoned Israeli ambassador Dov Segev-Steinberg to register the government's "strongest possible protest" to the Israeli government, after an attack on the ship, the Mavi Marmara on Monday morning.

"There is a cardiac ward in a hospital in Tel Aviv where children lie on cots as doctors and nurses check charts and adjust advanced medical equipment. It is busy here.

Ehad Ever is an Israeli and strong proponent of Zionism. In this video he explains what Zionists believe, and debunks much of the current anti-Israel propaganda.

"The terrorist psychology of the Jews derives only from their love of money. The only god or religion of the Jews is money – not the Jewish religion or the dream of the so-called Greater Israel. This is a lie they tell themselves.

Another Arab pundit says that the Jews deserved genocide-- Essa bin Mohammed Al Zedjali justifies the Holocaust.

"Ingenuity, creativity, and guts have sustained this People longer than any other identifiable group of people in existence today. The only thing that may have outdone this is their sensitivity to needs of others.

JERUSALEM — Palestinian political activists from the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank on Sunday condemned a camp youth orchestra's performance for Holocaust survivors in Israel last week, and said they were banning the orchestra's director, an Israeli Arab woman …

"Many Palestinians share these views. There are a number of serious, pragmatic Palestinian leaders. But Palestinian radio and television have often recycled Holocaust skepticism. A recent poll of Arab citizens of Israel found that 40 percent deny that the Holocaust occurred.

"The National Democratic Party (NPD), a German neo-Nazi party, announced on its Web site Monday that it will hold a solemn vigil on January 27 in downtown Berlin to "stop the Israeli holocaust in the Gaza Strip."

Mona Eltahawy is a well known Egyptian writer and human rights activist.

"Here are some pictures of that awful "apartheid wall" separating Arab families from each other and causing big problems among Palestinian Arabs.