Today's New York Times front-page story on Egyptian protests against the Israeli embassy largely neglects a primary cause of the anger: Israeli forces' killing of five Egyptians. Egyptian outrage over these deaths grew even greater when Israel's defense minister Ehud Barak refused to apologize.

One of them, killed by an Israeli drone, was a 13-year-old boy who had been planting vegetables with his family.

PCHR reports that 28 Palestinians, including 13 children, 7 women and an old man, were wounded by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, and one civilian was wounded in the West Bank. There were 68 Israeli incursions into the West Bank. Below is the PCHR report:  

A retired college professor who has sailed approximately 8,000 miles to the eastern Mediterranean has now arrived at his destination: the exact location where Israeli forces tried to sink a US Navy ship in 1967, killing or injuring over 200 American servicemen.

Larry Toenjes, 74 years old, is planning to hold a memorial service for those killed on board the ship, the USS Liberty. Israel shelled and torpedoed the ship, an electronics surveillance ship, in an attack that lasted as long as the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The following is a short synopsis of this conflict. We recommend that you also read the much more detailed account, "The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict."

For centuries there was no such conflict. In the 19th century the land of Palestine was inhabited by a multicultural population – approximately 86 percent Muslim, 10 percent Christian, and 4 percent Jewish – living in peace.

AntiWar.com - Israel's Jerusalem Post newspaper recently published an article calling Israel "The New Golden Country" for young people from around the world. It reports that Israel boasts an ever-increasing GDP, a strong currency, and a "lower unemployment rate than the US."

U.S. State Department spokesperson slams bill, saying cutting U.S. funding would 'undermine U.S. international standing and dangerously weaken the UN as an instrument to advance U.S. national security goals'.

The head of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is also seeking to ban U.S. contributions to the UN Human Rights Council and an anti-racism conference seen as a platform for anti-Israel rhetoric.