Mahmoud Darwish, the world’s most recognized Palestinian poet passed away in a US hospital Saturday, August 9, 2008 after undergoing complicated heart surgery. Darwish has published more than two dozen books of poetry and prose […]

By Ramzy Baroud Ahmed Moussa was a 12-year-old Palestinian boy from the West Bank village of Nilin, near Ramallah. Mohamed Bahloul is a 12-year-old Palestinian boy from Gaza City. The former was shot and killed […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago There’s good news and bad, mostly the latter but don’t discount the good. On May 22, (non-binding) HR 362 was introduced in the House – with charges and proposals so […]

By M. Shahid Alam "Anti-Semitism has grown and continues to grow, and so do I." — Theodore Herzl [1] As a self-defined movement for the national ‘liberation’ of European Jews, Zionism had an anomalous relationship […]

By Amin Howeidi – Cairo Barring any unexpected developments, the Palestinians may have a state before the end of 2008. It will not be the best of states in the best of worlds. It will […]

By Robert Weitzel, Madison, WI "People of the world — look at Berlin, where a wall came down . . . and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands […]

By Jeff Halper In another few days, I will sail on one of the Free Gaza movement boats from Cyprus to Gaza. The mission is to break the Israeli siege, an absolutely illegal siege which […]

By Yaser Wishah, Olathe, KS Imagine if Chinese-Americans visiting relatives were prevented by the Chinese government from returning to America. Or if an American traveled to Iran and was then forbidden from reaching an airport […]

By Cindy Sheehan "It is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists will we be?" – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr You know, I don’t care if it’s not proper for […]

By Joshua Frank It was at the onset of the Nazi era that coal-to-liquid technology came to the forefront of modern energy science. In the latter part of the 1920s, German researchers Franz Fischer and […]

By Vijaya Rajiva In 2007 a distinguished panel of signatories issued the One State Declaration calling for the establishment of a secular democratic state in historic Palestine that would be a state of citizens with […]

By Roger Tucker What are the real options remaining for resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict? The time has long since passed when the Zionists could contemplate driving out all non-Jews, or the Palestinians could seriously contemplate […]

By Mohammed Omer – Gaza I am a Palestinian journalist from Gaza. At the age of 17, I armed myself with a camera and a pen, committed to report accurately on events in Gaza. I […]

By Joharah Baker Israel’s policy of demolishing Palestinian homes is nothing new. Since the inception of the occupation in 1967, thousands of Israeli military orders have been handed to Palestinians informing them of the imminent […]

By Ivan Eland Many opponents of the Bush administration’s invasion and occupation of Iraq have always argued that this conflict is an irrelevant and even counterproductive sideshow to the real "war on terrorism" in Afghanistan. […]

By Ivan Simic – Belgrade Recently, former 1st President of Republika Srpska, and one of the world most wanted fugitives, Radovan Karadzic, was arrested in Belgrade by the Serbian authorities after an alleged tip-off from […]

By Nizar Sakhnini 1949, 4 January: Egypt announced her readiness to begin armistice negotiations.  The UN-decreed cease-fire went into effect on 7 January, marking the formal end of the war.  Armistice negotiations between Israel and […]

By Nizar Sakhnini PROLOGUE: When the Zionists began to talk about creation of a state in Palestine, the number of Jews living in Palestine did not exceed 10,000.  Accordingly, creation of a “Jewish State” in […]

By Stuart Littlewood  – London  Will the ‘Free Gaza’ boat, which is about to sail from Cyprus, succeed in running the gauntlet and delivering its desperately needed cargo of medical supplies to the besieged enclave […]

By Hiyam Noir – Gaza A Palestinian man receives goods from Egypt through a tunnel, which is digged 35 meters underneath the border in Rafah. The tunnels under Gaza’s border to the Egyptian side are […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago After Hamas’ January 25, 2006 electoral victory, Israel targeted Gaza oppressively. All outside aid was cut off. Sanctions and an economic embargo were imposed, and the democratically elected government was […]

By Ramzy Baroud The exit of Bush from the White House is already anticipated in the Arab region with sighs of relief. But what is ahead under the next US president; more of the same, […]

By Uri Avnery Ehud Olmert’s resignation speech reached us on our way back from a demonstration. We were protesting the death of Ahmad Moussa, aged 10, who was murdered during a demonstration against the Separation […]

By Gaither Stewart – with Patrice Greanville "It seems to me that the nature of the ultimate revolution with which we are now faced is precisely this: That we are in process of developing a […]