OCCUPIED JERUSALEM – Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Friday ordered the demolition of the houses of two Palestinians behind recent deadly attacks against Jews after the attorney-general said the move was legally viable. Israel […]
By Frank Barat On Wednesday the 2nd of July, a “Palestinian from East Jerusalem deliberately plowed a bulldozer he was driving into a passenger bus on Jaffa Street in the capital shortly after noon, killing […]
By Kim Bullimore – The West Bank On 2 July, Husam Taysir Dwayat, aged 30, took the bulldozer he was driving and rampaged through West Jerusalem’s Jaffa St, killing 3 people and injuring at least 66 […]
By Kathy Kelly – Amman Over the past two years, here in Amman, Jordan, I’ve regularly visited the family of Umm Hamdi, an Iraqi woman forced out of her native Iraq four years ago by […]
A Response to Bill Moyers: Waking from the Patriot’s Dream to the Bliss of Global Reality By Sam Husseini When I was in high school in New York City, shortly after Ronald Reagan became president, […]
By Jim Miles Descent Into Chaos – The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. Ahmed Rashid. Viking (Penguin) New York, 2008. The popular news reporting from Pakistan […]
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has drafted a plan to reconcile between rival Fatah and Hamas, which would include disarming Palestinian resistance groups, reported Haaretz on Friday, July 4. The three-point plan envisages the dispatch […]
By Philip Rizq – Gaza At the border crossing into Gaza a middle aged woman sat next to me looking rather pale. She was accompanied by what looked like her mother, even frailer than her. […]
By Aijaz Syed – Dubai Our world would be so dull without its delicious ironies and ever fascinating double standards. Who could have ever thought that having condemned North Korea as part of the ‘axis […]
By Gaither Stewart – Rome Dedicated to those who continually raise the bugaboo of the Communist menace to the make-believe, hypocritical, lying and socially perfidious ‘American way of life’. I visited the tomb of Antonio […]
By Joharah Baker Prisoner swaps are the talk of the hour these days. With an imminent Hizbullah-Israel prisoner swap likely to take place as early as next week and a Hamas-Israel exchange also on the […]
Prominent Egyptian thinker and opposition leader Abdel-Wahab Al-Messeri passed away early Thursday, July 3 after a long struggle against illness. Messeri, 70, died at Palestine Hospital in Cairo from cancer. A professor of English literature […]
Israel is ready to use military strikes "without hesitation" on Gaza to prevent attacks, an Israeli minister said Thursday after a Palestinian driving a bulldozer went on a deadly rampage in Jerusalem. "Terror and smuggling […]
By Dr. Eyad Sarraj – Gaza After nearly one year of a suffocating siege imposed on Gaza by the Israeli military establishment, a truce agreement was reached between Hamas and Israel. This followed months of […]
By Javier Solana – Berlin Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have now been talking to each other for more than six months, since the peace process was re-launched at Annapolis in November 2007, with the stated […]
By Kathy Kelly- Amman The city of Amman, Jordan, is awash with numerous colorful signs that proclaim independence, “Istiklal.” The word is found on posters and placards in store windows. It names a major thoroughfare, […]
Palestinians clashed with Egyptian police at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip on Wednesday when some of the Palestinians tried to force their way across, witnesses said. Dozens of Palestinians from […]
By John Pilger Two weeks ago, I presented a young Palestinian, Mohammed Omer, with the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. Awarded in memory of the great US war correspondent, the prize goes to journalists […]
By William A. Cook President George W. BushThe White House1600 Pennsylvania AvenueWashington, DC 20500 Dear Mr. President: I recently outlined my views on the Middle East in a major speech given the day after I […]
By Jim Miles Marching Toward Hell – America and Islam after Iraq. Michael Scheuer. Free Press (Simon & Schuster), New York, 2008. Michael Scheuer’s new work “Marching Toward Hell” is very clear with its overall […]
By Uri Avnery Ehud Barak delivered an ultimatum: if Olmert is not replaced, he, Barak, will dismantle the coalition. But when the time approached, he understood that Olmert would drag him down with him into […]
The occupied West Bank is facing a grave water shortage as a result of the discriminate Israeli policies, an Israeli human rights group warned on Tuesday, July 1. "The shortage will have serious repercussions on […]
El-Arish, EGYPT – Egypt opened its border with the Gaza Strip on Tuesday for Palestinians needing to leave the territory, a security official told AFP. "The Rafah border crossing will be open for two days," […]
TEHRAN – Iran has sentenced to death an Iranian found guilty of spying for Israel, the Fars news agency reported on Monday, amid spiraling tensions between Tehran and the Jewish state. The sentence against Ali […]
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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