By Issa Samander Assad is a farmer from a small village near the northern West Bank town of Tulkarm. The family concern has done well over the years, producing some 12,500 liters of olive oil and […]

By Gaither Stewart in Buenos Aires A book by the dean of Argentine writers, the 96-year old Ernesto Sabato, bears the title, La Resistencia, though the word Resistance itself is used sparingly in his 150-page […]

By Ghassan Khatib There would appear to be two strands of interaction between Palestinians and Israelis in the current negotiations process. One deals with final status issues and involves the top political leadership on both […]

By Peter Chamberlin If it is true that the power belongs to the people in America, and Congress still answers to the people, then what force prevents the people from rising up to demand that […]

By Lenni Brenner According to the classic publishing world joke, Lincoln, doctors and dogs are always public favorites, so a book about Lincoln’s doctor’s dog would always be the best seller the year it came […]

By Joshua Frank "There sure as hell is a draft going on," the passenger sitting next to me said begrudgingly as the flight attendant handed him a ginger ale on our way in to Los […]

By Uri Avnery "Hey! Take your hands off me! Not you! You!!!"–the voice of a young woman in the darkened cinema, an old joke. "Hey! Take your hands off Tibet!" the international chorus is crying […]

By Judith Pugh in Melbourne Recently, the Federal Parliament of Australia passed a motion apologising to the indigenous people whose society was destroyed by the settler population. Many Australians were unaware that Mr Mark Liebler […]

By Salman Abu Sitta To Palestinians, as well as to an increasing number of people the world over, Al-Nakba represents the largest, longest, planned ethnic cleansing in modern history for which reason the title under […]

By Gaither Stewart Arab resurgence was born on the heels of European occupation of Arab lands in the 19th century as an anti-European, anti-imperialist struggle. However instead of Pan-Arabism the awakening spawned Pan-Islam, today reaching […]

By Jim Miles The Zoo on the Road to Nablus – A Story of Survival from the West Bank. Amelia Thomas. Public Affairs, New York, 2008. This tale from the West Bank operates at several […]

By Joharah Baker Why is it that when a Palestinian motorist approaches a checkpoint, he or she instinctively slows down, rolls down the window and reaches into their pocket to pull out their ID card […]

By Archbishop Desmond Tutu Dutch MP Geert Wilders’ comparison of the Quran to Mein Kampf is deeply offensive and betrays a profound ignorance of Islam. Wilders is now claiming to have produced a film in […]

By Rannie Amiri Seasoned Middle East observers have long been familiar with the contempt the United States holds for genuine democracy in the region, despite the equally familiar rhetoric and platitudes to the contrary. One […]

By Mats Svensson A while ago there was a big enough opening in the wall for a car to pass through. Now it is closed. The place is almost empty of people. A young man […]

By Kevin B. Zeese In the last two weeks Senator Obama has been sounding rather hawkish. Perhaps he believes he has the Democratic nomination wrapped up and now can start running to the center-right. The […]

By Eileen Fleming in Jerusalem On April 3, 2008, the Associated Press in Jerusalem reported, "An Israeli wrecking crew knocked down Shadi Hamdan’s home in an Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem in just a couple of […]

By Najwa Sheikh in Gaza It is March, the month of flowers, and good weather, however since yesterday it was burning, with hot dry winds. I thought summer is coming so fast this year, and […]

[This article is written by Beenish Gaya, the sister of one of the accused in the infamousToronto 18 case, that of 18 local Torontonians who have been arrested, accused and ‘charged’ since June 2nd, 2006: […]

By Larry Adams, Michael Letwin, and Brenda StokelyNew York City Labor Against the War (To endorse the following statement, please go to: petitiononline.com/Gaza/petition.html) New York City Labor Against the War joins the Congress of South […]

By Jim Miles Bad Samaritans – The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism. Ha-Joon Chang. Bloomsbury Press, New York, 2008. Every now and then a ‘prize’ of a book comes along […]

By Hasan Afif El-Hasan The two day-Arab League summit meeting held in Damascus last March called on Israel to accept the Arab land-for-peace initiative that had been offered by Saudi Arabia in 2002 to solve […]

By Osama Al Sharif To say that time is running out for a just and peaceful resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict is a gross understatement. But it is a fact that few in today’s world […]

By Caelum Moffatt When people around the world read about the international deeds of ‘America’ or the ‘US’ in the newspaper or watch their interaction with other countries on TV, the interested party will invariably […]