By Ramzy Baroud My right knee is wrapped. My left ankle is iced. I lost the nail on my right big toe, and have about 20 blisters and a similar number of bruises on both […]

By Sam Leibowitz and Mazin Qumsiyeh As the endless negotiations between Israeli government and Palestinian Authority officials regurgitate old arguments while making no progress, a growing number of Israelis and Palestinians are paying attention to […]

By Ralph Nader Barack Obama is receiving lots of advice from many people these days about the collapse of Wall Street, the sinking economy and the quagmire wars he will inherit from the Bush regime. […]

By Paul Craig Roberts If the change President-elect Obama has promised includes a halt to America’s wars of aggression and an end to the rip-off of taxpayers by powerful financial interests, what explains Obama’s choice […]

By Eva Bartlett – Gaza Gaza is host to a new power outage. It came the evening of the day when a delegation of 11 European Members of Parliament had visited Gaza’s only power plant, […]

By Sonja Karkar – Melbourne The illegal settlement movement, supported by every Israeli administration to date, has burgeoned out of control and its right wing leaders are vehemently opposed to negotiating land for peace. We […]

By Joharah Baker – The West Bank Whichever way you slice it, the cancelled reconciliation talks slated to have taken place in Cairo on November 9 is bad news. If our goal is to merely […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago On October 28, the Financial Times’ columnist Martin Wolf wrote: "Preventing a global slump must be the priority." He cited Nouriel Roubini back in February listing "twelve steps to financial […]

By Ron Taylor "The children face beatings from settlers," says O. "Sometimes they spend all day in fear. The settlers must leave. If the settlers are here there is no safety, only fear." O is […]

By John Chuckman There has been an ad on television recently, one featuring a young couple walking or drifting into a place of enchantment, a warm and colourful fantasy world, a kind of biblical Disneyland. […]

By Steve Breyman The director of Israel’s domestic security agency—the Shin Bet—expressed his deep concern in a cabinet meeting on November 2 that Israeli leaders who seek peace with the Palestinians may be assassination targets […]

By Sarah Gillespie – London The Brits are incapable of moderation when it comes to America. Normally the British enjoy a scathing, self righteous superiority, happily recycling the most embarrassing verbal blunders of Palin, Bush, […]

By Ivan Eland The media and the Washington foreign policy elite breathed a sigh of relief when Barack Obama thumped John McCain in the election. Had John McCain won, there was always the chance that […]

By Hatim Kanaaneh – Arrabeh, Galilee Nowadays things change fast, so much so that some worry we may be at the verge of bringing about our own demise as a modern civilization. That doesn’t keep me […]

By Motasem Dalloul – Gaza Marking the fourth anniversary of iconic Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s death, many Palestinians blame rivals Fatah and Hamas for an ever-increasing divide and hijacking unity hopes. "For the failure of […]

By Ali Alarabi Senator Barack Obama’s victory is no less important than storming the Bastille more than 200 years ago in 1789 which was perhaps the one iconic event that ushered the dawn of the French […]

By Omar Barghouti A spate of recent news reports on international companies moving out of the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) to locations inside pre-1967 Israeli borders gives the impression that boycotting products originating in illegal […]

By Muhammad Khawajah, 12 I live with my family in Ni’lin. We live on the ground floor of the house, my two uncles and their families live on the first floor, and my grandmother lives […]

By Kim Bullimore Violent attacks by Jewish residents in the Israeli city of Acre last month have left 14 Palestinian families, a total of 72 people, homeless. All 72 are Israeli citizens who had their […]

By Ghassan Khatib There is no doubt that the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, 13 years ago, was a turning point in the history of the Palestinian-Israeli peace process and that the period that followed could have […]

By Nadia W. Awad While researching the structure of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), I was taken aback when I came upon an article referring to them as ‘the most moral army in the world’. […]

By Jeff Halper Even before the voting began, Israeli politicians and pundits were asking: Will an Obama Administration be good for Israel? “Be good for Israel” is our code for “Will the US allow us […]

By Dr. Elias Akleh After Obama’s presidential victory a euphoric feeling swept the streets of most of the States. Thousands of people gathered in the Grant Park in Chicago, thousands others went into the streets […]