Fatah cell claims responsibility for murder of Israeli couple

A cell affiliated with Fatah’s armed wing assumed responsibility for the murder of an Israeli couple near the West Bank settlement of Itamar.

The Abdel Qader al-Husseini Brigades, a group affiliated with Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, announced on Friday that its men on Thursday night opened fire on the car of Eitam and Naama Henkin, a couple in their thirties, while they were driving home with four of their six children, aged four months to nine, from Hebron. The children were not wounded in the attack.

The ‘Golden Age’ narrative is bad history

In the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, history is arguably the most powerful element. Historical narratives influence the way each side understands the environment in which the conflict occurs, and determine how each side fits day-to-day realities – like flotillas and checkpoints –  into its own collective schema.

United Church strengthens call to end Israeli occupation

The United Church of Canada’s general council voted last week to strengthen its opposition to what it calls Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian land, but it voted down a controversial proposal to end the church’s support of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

COVER STORY: Is religious extremism a threat in Canada?

After the murder of a Palestinian baby and his father at the hands of arsonists widely believed to be extremist Jewish settlers, many in the international Jewish community are still reeling, rushing to distance themselves from the ultra-right-wing agenda of the purported assailants, the so-called “hilltop youth,” a radicalized group known for flouting Israeli law and plotting violent attacks against Palestinians and Christian religious sites.

Will we see an Israeli-Cuban rapprochement?

Ever since Cuba’s Fidel Castro decided to  unilaterally sever relations with Israel in 1973 – just days after the end of the Yom Kippur War – the two countries have, for the most part, remained cool to each other.

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