#Gaza #Palestine - Arab leaders endorse Egypt’s Gaza reconstruction plan: Al Jazeera

5 March 2025

Arab leaders have endorsed an Egyptian plan for the reconstruction of Gaza, countering an Israeli-backed proposal by US President Donald Trump.

The announcement came at an emergency meeting in Cairo.

The five-year plan will cost around 53 billion dollars and, unlike Trump's proposal, enables Palestinians to remain in the strip.

Egypt will ask Muslim nations for their support at a meeting in Saudi Arabia on Friday.

Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Jamjoom reports.

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#USA #lobbying #israel #palestine - "Israelism" How Young American Jews’ Views of Israel Are Shifting | Films on VICE

18 December 2024

The critically acclaimed feature-length documentary ‘Israelism’ investigates a movement of young American Jews who are campaigning to redefine Judaism’s relationship with Israel. At the heart of the documentary are Simone Zimmerman, who grew up in Los Angeles and visited Israel on an exchange programme; and fellow American Eitan, who joins the Israeli military after graduating high school. Simone and Eitan are raised to defend the state of Israel at all costs but their lives are changed when they witness the mistreatment of Palestinians with their own eyes. Their stories reveal a generational divide in the American Jewish community as more young Jews question the narratives their synagogues and Hebrew school teachers gave them as children. ‘Israelism’ features interviews with academics and political activists, including Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Lara Friedman and a former director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abe Foxman. The film was initially released in February 2023, generating significant debate across American campuses.

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#israel #palestine - Israel launches large-scale West Bank raid: CNN

28 August 2024

Israel’s military carried out raids and airstrikes in multiple parts of the occupied West Bank, killing at least nine Palestinians in an offensive Israel says is its most expansive in years. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed it had launched a large counter-terror operation overnight with the Israel Security Agency (ISA) in the areas of Jenin and Tulkarem in the north of the West Bank. #CNN #News

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AIPAC was founded in 1954 by Isaiah L. Kenen, a lobbyist for the Israeli government, partly to counter negative international reactions to Israel's Qibya massacre of Palestinian villagers that year. AIPAC only became a powerful organization during its peak influence in the 1980s.

In turn, Israel provides a strategic American foothold in the region as well as intelligence and advanced technological partnerships in both the civilian and military worlds. During the Cold War, Israel was a vital counterweight to Soviet influence in the region.

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