Palestine: Four injured by Israeli army near Jenin

Palestinian medical sources reported that four residents were injured, on Tuesday evening, after inhaling fire fired by Israeli soldiers invading Zabbouba village, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.

The army invaded the village, and provoked dozens of residents by questioning them and checking their ID cards while pushing them around, an issue that pushed several residents to hurl stones and empty bottles at them, local sources reported.

Obama's Israel Problem

What is it about Israel that causes the American president and politicians to be afraid of criticising Israeli policies? 
By: Ian Buruma

On a rare foray outside his native Texas, Governor Rick Perry accused US President Barack Obama of "appeasement" towards the Palestinians.
Former New York City Mayor Edward Koch supported a Catholic Republican congressional candidate against a Jewish Democrat in New York, because the Republican supports Israel through thick and thin - and because Obama had voiced reservations about Israel's expansion of settlements on the West Bank. In Koch's words, Obama "threw Israel under the bus". The Republican won.