By Mats Svensson In a few hours, Israel will celebrate Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement and repentance. Everything will be closed for 24 hours. Tel Aviv Airport shuts. No planes land or depart. The […]

By Mahmoud Ali Egypt has presented Hamas with a package proposal to solve the long-running Palestinian inter-factional crisis, threatening sanctions for whichever faction foiling the initiative. "The Egyptian paper calls for the resignation of the […]

Eighth Anniversary of the Intifada Sees No Improvement for Palestinians [September 28 – October 4] By MIFTAH – West Bank The 28th of September marked the eighth year of the second Palestinian Intifada, an uprising […]

By Jonathan Cook No one is more surprised than Shlomo Sand that his latest academic work has spent 19 weeks on Israel’s bestseller list – and that success has come to the history professor despite […]

By Rannie Amiri As the world awaits the announcement of the recipient(s) of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, there is no doubt 2008 has been witness to a call to war. The pressure exerted by […]

By Nadia W. Awad Episode three of the Palestinian National Economic Development Conference took place in Jericho this Sunday October 5, hosted by Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. The conference did not receive much local […]

By Monica Hill Threats of war against Iran rise and fade by the hour. Aircraft carriers and destroyers and submarines steam toward the Persian Gulf. Congress almost passes House Resolution 362, whose added punishing economic […]

By Ghada Karmi – London Imagine the scene: the United Nations General Assembly meets to discuss a resolution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Unlike previous resolutions, which have been based on a Jewish state in most […]

By Uri Avnery It has happened. In a solemn ceremony, on a stage bedecked with Israeli and Palestinian flags, the peace treaty between Israel and Palestine has been signed. Negotiations did not take long. The […]

By Ivan Eland In politics, truth telling can be dangerous. Remember when Jimmy Carter was voted out of office, in part, for telling the American people, in a time of high inflation and unemployment, what […]

By Amnesty International UK PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: TUESDAY 7 OCTOBER 2008 HURNDALL CASE: ISRAELI MILITARY FORCES STILL KILL CIVILIANS WITH ‘NEAR-TOTAL IMPUNITY’ Ahead of a new television drama based on the controversial killing […]

By Mats Svensson Woke up early. Had had a strange dream. Got up and looked out the window. Foggy, could hardly see the house on the other side of the street. Far away, within myself, […]

By Mary Rizzo In what can only be described as a shocking glimpse into Zionist lobbying at the heart of British media, the Guardian last week dismissed an Iranian contributor after a group of pro-war, […]

Israel’s Occupation by Neve Gordon, [Year: 2008; ISBN: 978-0-520-25531-9; Publisher: University of California Press.] Interviewed by Chris Spannos Chris Spannos: Where did your book Israel’s Occupation come from? Neve Gordon: The book has two distinct […]

By Iqbal Jassat In the light of fresh debates centered on Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, particularly within the United States whose armed forces are deeply entrenched in the military conquest of the region under the […]

By Haidar Eid – Gaza The status of the left and its’ role in the liberation of Palestine continues to be the focus of analysis and discussion. Some argue that the Palestinian left is dead […]

By Ghassan Khatib – West Bank In spite of their recent fierce confrontations and the continuing hostile rhetoric, there are apparently three levels of direct and indirect dealings between Israel and Hamas of Gaza. A ceasefire […]

By Joharah Baker – West Bank Every year I wonder why the Palestinians don’t include Jewish holidays on their national calendar. At least those Palestinians in the West Bank and east Jerusalem should be afforded […]

By Abid Mustafa – London Lately, a number of contradictory statements between Europe and America over NATO operations in Afghanistan have raised awkward questions about the longevity of NATO’s mission in Afghanistan. Already cracks in […]

By The International Solidarity Movement  Israeli navy vessels today attacked a group of Gazan fishing boats using live ammunition, shells and a high-powered water cannon. The boats were only 4 miles away from the Gazan […]

By Uri Avnery In colloquial Israeli Hebrew, when someone discovers something that everybody else already knows, we say: "Good morning, Elijahu!" Why Elijahu? I don’t know. Now one could say: "Good morning, Ehud!" That’s what […]

By James Petras The ongoing collapse of the stock market and the loss of hundreds of billions of dollars managed by Wall Street investment banks illustrate the pitfalls and danger of free market capitalism facing […]

Wall Street – America’s Dream Palace.  Steve Fraser.  Yale University Press, New Haven. 2008. By Jim Miles With the United States bailout package now through Congress, but still waiting for Monday morning’s financial signals from around […]

By Hiyam Noir The City of Hebron ( Khalil) in the Palestinian West Bank, is nominated to a place in the UNESCO list of World Heritage sites by a group of European organizations and institutions, […]