By Rawan Yousef Salah, Nablus, The West Bank Finally, it was time for departure. The trip supervisor finished checking the students’ list on the bus. The driver closed the door, and the bus moved slowly […]

By Zohar Shechtman, Hulon, Israel I am driving; the road is quiet. I turn the radio on and a familiar song is playing. He liked this song, liked it a lot… I remember that ever […]

By Joel Gulledge I left my home in the United States to spend the summer in the West Bank, where I was attacked by Israeli settlers late last month. As a member of the Christian […]

By Zohair M. Abu Shaban – Gaza As a Palestinian from the Gaza Strip, I could not have been more proud to learn last June that I had earned a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to study […]

By Robert Weitzel – Madison, WI "If I were a Jew, I would be a Zionist. I am a Zionist. You don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist." – Senator Joseph Biden Considering […]

By Wassim Al-Adel – London  While boycott and divestment campaigns in the West become more sophisticated and widespread, the Arab world’s longstanding boycott of Israel is being undermined by Arab governments, companies and businessmen. This […]

By Uri Avnery "If he steals my cow, that is bad. If I steal his cow, that is good" — this moral rule was attributed by European racists to the Hottentots, an ancient tribe in […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago Prior to entering WW II, US strategists had a clear aim in mind at its conclusion – to hold unchallengeable power in a new post-war global system: military, economic and […]

By Neve Gordon Eighteen-year-old Sahar Vardi is currently in an Israeli military prison. She is being punished for the crime of refusing to be conscripted into the Israeli military. A few weeks before her imprisonment […]

By Stuart Littlewood – London When Ron Prosor arrived in London last year to take up his post as Israeli ambassador he was eager to step up public relations. He told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz: […]

By Vijay Rajiva In a recent article on Palestinian political economy we are given a lucid and comprehensive account of neo liberal economic policy and the US-Israeli and European involvement in the process of integrating […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai You don’t have to be born in the West or be a Westerner to hate the Taleban. Most of us in the Middle East and the larger Muslim world […]

By John Chuckman McCain does a good job with the appearance of a boyishly honest man. He puts on his quiet voice and uses his boyish (albeit now partially fossilized) expressions and, reminding me of […]

By Ramzy Baroud To run a full marathon experts suggest that the aspiring athlete requires at least six months of rigorous training, proper gear, a particular diet, regular check-ups, mental focus and preparation, and a […]

By Ghassan Michel Rubeiz – New York Israelis are not united in supporting their government’s policies of a four-decade festering occupation of Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese territories. The occupation is costly, morally troubling and beyond […]

By Joharah Baker – The West Bank In what will probably be her last trip to the region in her capacity as US Secretary of State this week, Condoleezza Rice called Israel’s settlement activity in […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago The UN Convention against Torture defines the practice as: "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes […]

By Ivan Simic – Belgrade On August 25, 2008 the Federal Assembly of Russia unanimously voted to urge President Medvedev to recognise Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states. On the following day, President Medvedev […]

By Ali Alarabi  The candidacy of Senator Barrack Obama is a remarkable one by all accounts, from a historical perspective it is an unprecedented feat that an African American stands for the highest office in […]

By Jim Miles Racing the Enemy – Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan.  Tsuyoshi Hasegawa.  Belknap Press, Harvard University, 2005. The end of the Second World War with Japan is a story of the […]

By Saber Ahmad Jazbhay Plain in the sniperscopelittle more than fleshless than completely skeletala silhouettedefiantly heads acrossno man’s landwhena missile less thanan inchblows a hole in his chestand like a dead leafhe crumbles in a […]

By Ghassan Khatib Israel’s decision to release some 200 Palestinian prisoners as a "goodwill gesture" to President Mahmoud Abbas comes not long after the exchange of prisoners and bodies, including many Palestinians, between Israel and Hizballah […]

By Huwaida Arraf – Gaza On Saturday, after 32 hours on the high seas, I sailed into the port of Gaza City with 45 other citizens from around the world in defiance of Israel’s blockade. […]

By Ralph Nader The “politics of avoidance” is receiving a great deal of media attention during this period of national political conventions. Unfortunately, the newspapers and television programs do not use the phrase: “the politics […]

By Rannie Amiri Many, many years later, the memory of a campus speech delivered by Senator—now vice presidential candidate—Joseph Biden of Delaware remains especially vivid. Although the topic was predictably foreign policy, on which he […]