By Ghada Karmi I was invited to do something most Palestinians can only dream of: visit the house from which my family had been driven in 1948. Of all people, a New York Times correspondent […]

By Qays Abd Al-kareem Talking about a onestate solution, as opposed to a two-state solution, would be escaping forward and avoiding all the hard obstacles that are facing the Palestinian struggle for liberation, instead of […]

By Bassam Aramin Honorable General Ehud Barak, you don’t know me personally. I am a seeker of peace, and I struggle with all my strength and ability for the realization of a just peace that […]

By Harvey Wasserman US Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman are linking Internet censorship with atomic power in a way that should terrify us all. McCain is the real power behind Lieberman-Warner global warming bill […]

By Stephen Lendman The Global Peace Index (GPI) was launched in May 2007 and claims to be the first study of its kind ranking nations according to their peacefulness. Last year’s report covered 121 countries. […]

By Adalah-NY Officials at the United Arab Emirates Mission to the UN affirmed their government’s commitment to boycotting the businesses of Israeli settlement-builder Lev Leviev in a meeting Tuesday afternoon with representatives from Adalah-NY and […]

By Joharah Baker Unfortunately, Palestinians are no longer surprised at Israel’s racist policies. Discrimination against Palestinians and those who support them has become the rule, not the exception. Still, when the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed "I am puzzled at your silence and the silence of your newspaper on the Jaipur blasts," wrote in an intelligent reader based in the US. Venkat, an Indian techie, (not his […]

By Ramzy Baroud The recent uproar surrounding Pastor John Hagee is only remarkable in the sense that it took so long in coming. The fundamentalist pastor of the 19,000-member Cornerstone "mega-church" in San Antonio, Texas […]

By Stuart Littlewood Some time ago Hamas complained that the Palestinian Authority was not getting its message across thanks to "poorly qualified or unqualified spokespersons with inadequate political and linguistic abilities". Diplomacy had failed and […]

By Ralph Nader What factors are causing the zooming price of crude oil, gasoline and heating products? What is going to be done about it? Don’t rely on the White House—with Bush and Cheney marinated […]

By Jim Miles Pens and Swords – How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.  Marda Dunsky.  Columbia University Press, New York, 2008. In an era when American foreign policy has reached the pinnacle […]

By Gilad Atzmon Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert assured the daily Haaretz that the negotiation with Syria is nothing less than an ‘historic breakthrough’. He is absolutely correct. It’s the first time in Israel’s history […]

By Uri Avnery The Germans call it "die Flucht nach vorne" – escaping forwards. When the situation is desperate, attack! Instead of retreating, advance! When there is no way out, storm ahead! This method was […]

By Jim Miles For the past several months I have been receiving TIME magazine. The subscription originally started as a gift from someone unknown, with my last name spelled wrong, lasted for a year. When […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed in Dubai Unlike English poet Alexander Pope – I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came – I suffer from a natural discomfort with numbers. Which is why one had to […]

By Ramzy Baroud For the last 60 years, all those who have sought a genuinely peaceful and fair solution for Israel and Palestine have faced the same obstacle — Israel’s sense of invincibility and military […]

By Janine Roberts We British are not like Americans – we would not tolerate having Israeli lobbyists standing over our politicians like happens in Washington and thus gathering power. Why – they might bias our […]

By Susan Abulhawa We watch these celebrations with an ineffable collective loss and grief, and an equally deep vow never to give up our basic rights as the natives of Palestine. I recently took part […]

By Iqbal Jassat  The grand old dame of apartheid era South Africa Helen Suzman is still able to make pretty biting comments laced with arsenic sarcasm. This much is evident from her bitter attack of […]

By Franklin Lamb in Tent City, Beirut "The agreement was not ideal for either party and I hope that it will serve as a launch pad for decent relations between the majority and the opposition. […]

By Stuart Littewood Gaza’s gas… isn’t this home-grown source of energy something the Palestinians should be in charge of? Yes, but the way things are shaping it’ll probably be stolen from them just like their […]

By Shahper Hassan There are certain universal principles according to which life on our planet sustains. Earth naturally rotates as part of those physical laws; the impact of these laws on human life in many […]

Introduction by Nicola Nasser Agreeing to the Israeli neo-historian Ilan Pappe’s interpretation of the term "Nakba," Palestinian chief negotiator Ahmad Qurei said that peace and peace negotiations with Israel "could not hang on forever," warned that […]