The US plotted to overthrow the democratically elected Hamas government in the Palestinian territories, according to leaked documents obtained by Aljazeera. One of the documents appears to show that Washington tried to persuade Mahmoud Abbas, the […]
The Bush administration had drawn up plans to topple the ruling Hamas after its January 2006 parliamentary victory with the help of Fatah strongman Mohammad Dahlan, prompting Hamas to take a preemptive action by taking […]
Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, has called on Palestinians to quickly resume peace talks with Israel. Rice made her remarks after landing in Egypt on Tuesday at the beginning of two days of shuttle […]
Gaza’s residents remain wary of further Israeli attacks, with air raids continuing even as Israeli troops withdrew after a campaign that killed 120 Palestinians over six days. The last Israeli tanks pulled out of Gaza on […]
By Jennifer Loewenstein Around 10:30pm on the night of February 28th, M and his wife S spoke in low tones in a dark room dimly lit by a battery-operated lamp. They were trying to decide […]
By Mohamed Omer I had a long day, an awful day, taking photos and writing from on the ground in Gaza City and northern Gaza. I met with two children who survived Wednesday’s Jabalyia soccer […]
By Stephen Lendman At 8:50AM on February 27, an Israeli aircraft fired two missiles at a civilian microbus on the coastal road near Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Six members of the Izziddin […]
By Agustin Velloso 2008 marks the 20th anniversary of Hamas as a political movement in Palestine, involving two decades of continuous struggle against Israeli occupation. Most importantly, Hamas has confronted not just the Middle East’s […]
By John V. Whitbeck The hijacked aircraft which crashed in Pennsylvania on September 11 may well have had the U.S. Capitol, seat of the U.S. Congress, as its target. While we may never know for […]
By Jim Miles Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier issued a news release expressing his concern about the escalating violence in the Gaza Strip. It does nothing to help resolve the situation and only demonstrates […]
By Stuart Littlewood If Prince Harry (motto adorning his baseball cap: "We do bad things to bad people,") is determined to return to the fray and pop off his guns again, he might at least pick […]
By James Zogby in Washington This month, the US Institute for Peace released “Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East,” a report that examined US peace-making efforts over the past four decades. The […]
Israel has pulled back its troops from the Gaza Strip with an army spokesman saying that military operations in the territory were ‘winding down’. The move on Monday came after an intense Israeli assault on the […]
By Omar Barghouti On Friday, 29 February 2008, Israel’s deputy defense minister Matan Vilnai threatened Palestinians in Gaza with a "holocaust," telling Israeli Army Radio: "The more Qassam fire intensifies and the rockets reach a […]
By Uri Avnery We Israelis live in a world of ghosts and monsters. We do not conduct a war against living persons and real organizations, but against devils and demons which are out to destroy […]
By Kathleen and Bill Christison We want to express our strong support for Ralph Nader’s presidential candidacy. There are several reasons. The first is a response to the many who say that, because Obama cannot […]
GAZA CITY – Emboldened by a mild international and Arab reaction, Israeli occupation forces killed ten Palestinians on Sunday, March 2, in its continued air and ground blitz against the Gaza Strip. Three people were […]
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal insisted on Saturday, March 1, that Palestinian rocket attacks are a result of not the cause of ongoing Israeli aggressions against the Palestinian people. "They [Israelis] do not want to end […]
By Rep. Ron Paul In recent months the undeclared war in Iraq seems not to have been on the minds of most Americans. News of the violence and deprivation which ordinary Iraqis are forced to […]
By Dr. Sam Hamod Sadly, America is going through a kind of hypocrisy. Remember, we are supposed to be an "open society," with religious freedom and respect, and all those good things we keep saying […]
By Jim Miles Each year I take several sabbatical retreats into wilderness country, to find the calmness and serenity that the thin veneer of civilized life cannot provide. The wilderness may be wild and completely […]
GAZA CITY – At least 46 Palestinians, including six children and three women, were killed on Saturday, March 1, during an ongoing Israeli onslaught against the sealed off Gaza Strip. "We are in the middle […]
A recent New York Times made many claims about the ‘mass rape’ of Israeli women on October 7. But two leading Palestinian media organizations, The Palestine Chronicle and Friends of Palestine Network, conducted a joint investigation, the outcome of which resulted in the ‘The Black Dress’, a groundbreaking 18-minute documentary looking into allegations and the possible falsification of evidence.
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