By Caoimhe Butterly – Gaza The morgues of Gaza’s hospitals are over-flowing. The bodies in their blood-soaked white shrouds cover the entire floor space of the Shifa hospital morgue. Some are intact, most horribly deformed, […]

By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth This week the death toll in Gaza passed the 1,000 mark, after nearly three weeks of Israeli air and ground attacks. But surprisingly, no one has reported an even more appalling […]

By Artists Around the World We regard Israel’s indiscriminate killing in Gaza as a crime against humanity. We protest against Israel’s exterminating tactics and offer our wholehearted support to the people of Gaza. (Click on the […]

By Eugene Sigaloff (pp, moderato, minacciando)The ape: The clever ape,The fluent ape,The gone-to-school well-spoken ape, (p, più intensivo)The babbling specious ape,The sophistical lying ape,The tell-it-like-it-isn’t dissembling casuistical ape, (mp, incalzando)The grasping unyielding unbending ape,The whining […]

By Suzanne Roberts The thunder of Israeli war planesshakes the rubble of a mosque.The call to prayer echoes Allâhu Akbar, God is great,through the dusty smoke.The faithful kneel toward Mecca.Behind them, bodies draped with the […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai We have entered the third week of Israel’s war on Gaza. Pundits have said whatever needed to be said from the comfort and safety of their cocoons. In fact, we […]

By Steve Sosebee As an American working for 20 years in the Gaza Strip, I feel overwhelming pain and sadness at the destruction being wrought on friends who have suffered so much there for so […]

By Jeremy Salt – Ankara I, the Lord, have called you in righteousness and will hold your hand and keep you, and I will establish you as a covenant of the people for a light […]

By UK Academics – London  The massacres in Gaza are the latest phase of a war that Israel has been waging against the people of Palestine for more than 60 years. The goal of this […]

By Stuart Littlewood – London "What we have done is to start a running sore in the East, and no-one can tell how far that sore will extend." Twice running we have stood back and […]

By Pat Bernstein – France Painful, horrific, appalling, infuriating. Appropriate adjectives elude me to describe what I feel. Honest people around the world, I am sure share the same feelings. My friends ask me, “How […]

By Rowan Wolf I come from a varied background which has taken me on a winding a somewhat tortuous trail throughout my life. There are a series of threads that tie me to Judaism and […]

By Ramzy Baroud As Israel unleashed its military fury against Lebanon for several weeks in July-August 2006, it had one major objective: to permanently ‘extract’ Hezbollah from the South as a fighting force, and to […]

By Timothy Seidel The Israeli offensive into Gaza continues this morning with devastating effects for Palestinians across the Gaza Strip. Say what you will, but the military strategy that has marked Israel’s “Operation Cast Lead,” […]

By Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh – Gaza I write this article to Western readers across the social and political spectrum as the Israeli war machine continues to massacre my people in Gaza. To date, almost […]

By Gilad Atzmon – London Haaretz reported today that IDF Senior officials "believe that Israel should strive to reach an immediate cease-fire with Hamas, and not expand its offensive against the Palestinian Islamist group in […]

By Iqbal Jassat – South Africa It’s pretty well known that the Israeli massacre of Palestinians could only happen with the complicit approval of leading actors on the international stage. These are not confined to […]

By Savo Heleta Dear Mr. Wiesel, First time I read "Night," your memoir that describes your horrific experiences during the Holocaust, was in 2003. In my opinion, two books everyone in the world should read […]

By Max Kantar Israel’s operative military policy in the Gaza Strip has been fairly consistent with its stated definition of what it considers to be legitimate military targets, which in practice has amounted to mass […]

By Belén Fern

By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth The only three Arab parties represented in the Israeli parliament vowed yesterday to fight a decision by the Central Elections Committee to bar them from running in next month’s general election. In […]