Palestinians are being forced to agree to “acceptable” candidates for elections to offices that will have only as much power as the Israeli government, underwritten by the Bush administration, grants.
Mustafa Barghouti, one of the candidates vying to be the next president of the Palestinian Authority, was arrested by the IDF for campaigning in East Jerusalem.
High-school students in Tel Aviv protest “the military takeover of the education system” in Israel, chaining themselves to the entrance of an auditorium where an Israeli air commander was due to speak.
Israel will expand its infrastructure in occupied Palestine, as they announced the construction of a new Tel Aviv to Jerusalem rail line that will run through Israeli settlements in the West Bank.