A powerful report by Human Rights Watch on the eve of a FIFA meeting forces the global soccer association to act against Israeli settlement teams.

On the morning of 27 September 2016, Israeli authorities demolished 22 structures, half of which were homes, in five Palestinian communities throughout the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Fifty-six people were left homeless, 30 of them minors under the age of eighteen. The authorities also demolished water cisterns, livestock pens, and a structure that served as a school.

Thousands demonstrate against energy deal with Israel, signed in secret and derided by opponents as ‘occupation’ by ‘Zionist entity.’

In the early morning hours of August 23, the Palestinian Authority Security Forces (PASF) arrested Ahmed Halawa. While in custody, the 50-year-old was viciously beaten to death. The incident caused an uproar in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, Halawa’s hometown.

The last U.S. president to go to Israel for a state funeral was Bill Clinton 20 years ago, when the prospects for peace in the Middle East seemed nearly within reach. On Friday, President Obama, who made a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a central part of his foreign policy, joined other world leaders in Jerusalem to mourn another Israeli leader. Rarely has peace seemed more distant or unattainable.

“On a key issue, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Trump has made a 180-degree shift in his position. And, for a candidate who proudly boasts about self-funding and not being in the pocket of billionaires and special interests, his shift has coincided with a $25 million infusion of Super PAC funds from casino billionaire, and pro-Israel mega donor, Sheldon Adelson,” writes Eli Clifton.