Introduction by Nicola Nasser Agreeing to the Israeli neo-historian Ilan Pappe’s interpretation of the term "Nakba," Palestinian chief negotiator Ahmad Qurei said that peace and peace negotiations with Israel "could not hang on forever," warned that […]

By Deepak Tripathi I cannot help thinking that the recent trip of President Bush to the Middle East was a spectacular failure. In Israel, Saudi Arabia and Egypt – in every country he visited and […]

By Remi Kanazi Free speech is not without consequence. In the United States, for example, criticism of Israel is tantamount to heresy. Former US President Jimmy Carter felt a societal backlash last year after the […]

By Alberto Cruz On April 6th a general strike was called in Egypt. One month later, on May 7th, another one was called in Lebanon. The causes were the same in both countries: calls for […]

By Stuart Littewood Some readers will remember the 1969 film The Assassination Bureau, a tongue-in-cheek romp based on Jack London’s unfinished novel. The setting is the turn of the century a hundred years ago, a […]

By Ben White They are a rare breed, but you can still find them, in positions of political power and newspaper opinion pages. Their motives are mixed, but they have one thing in common; they […]

By Dan Lieberman The 60th anniversary of the state of Israel prompted reviews of the post World War II declarations that resulted in the formation of a nation that had no name until David Ben […]

By Uri Avnery Lately we are flooded with friends. The Great of the Earth, past and present, come here to flatter us, to fawn on us, to grovel at our feet. "God, save me from […]

By Hasan Afif El-Hasan The Zionists and their supporters read the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict within the context of success in establishing the State of Israel; but the facts suggest it is a history […]

By Ira Glunts In a talk eerily reminiscent of his “Axis of Evil” speech, President George W. Bush told the Israeli Knesset on May 15 of his commitment to vanquish any group that opposes his […]

By Franklin Lamb in Beirut This week Israel’s Military Intelligence Chief Major General Amos Yadlin complained to the Israeli daily Haaretz that "Hezbollah proved that it was the strongest power in Lebanon… stronger than the […]

By Stephen Lendman Who said crime doesn’t pay? Read on. The Washington-based Cato Institute is all about "Individual Liberty, Free Markets, and Peace," or so says its web site. It’s been around since 1977 preaching […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed Contrary to what some of my friends suspect, I hate to go on and on about the Middle East and the games big powers play in this part of the world.  […]

By Kim Bullimore This year marks the 60th anniversary of Al Nakba, the catastrophe, which saw the destruction of Palestinian society and the ethnic cleansing of more than 700,000 indigenous Palestinians from their historic homeland. […]

By Ramzy Baroud ‘Don’t ask for what you never had,’ is the underlying message made by supporters of Israel when they claim Palestine was never a state to begin with. The contention is, of course, […]

By Rich Wiles and Nidal Al Azzeh The events of 1947-49, and specifically 1948 itself, are known as Al Nakba – the Catastrophe. It was the time of the forced expulsion of at least 750,000 […]

By Rifat Audeh "The old will die and the young will forget." — David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, commenting on the dispossessed Palestinian people kicked out of their homes by Israel. Well, it is […]

By Jeff Halper Israeli Independence Day 2008, marking the sixtieth anniversary of the rise of the Jewish State on the ruins of Palestinian society, should be cause more for sober reflection and reevaluation than for […]

By Robert Weitzel "To misunderstand the nature and threat of evil is to risk being blindsided by it…An evil unchecked is the prelude to genocide." – Dr. Mordechai: The Ezekiel Option There are over 70 […]

By Ivan Eland From the administration that used the 9/11 tragedy to violently pursue an unrelated vendetta against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, we get Round Two. After a cyclone devastated portions of Burma (which the despotic […]

By Ron Forthofer After WWII, political pressure increased for a Jewish state instead of a homeland in Palestine. This pressure was due in part to the terrible guilt felt by people in the U.S. and […]

By Franklin Lamb in Choufeit, Lebanon In the lower Chouf village of Choufeit with its panoramic view of Beirut’s closed airport (which will likely stay closed for 4 or 5 more days as a Hezbollah […]