Israel rejected Friday, January 9, a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, vowing more attacks in the bombed-out strip. "Israel has never agreed for any outside influence to decide on […]
By Ramzy Baroud "We are all Hamas," screamed a scrawny Mauritanian, repeatedly, as he determinedly drew his face closer to a TV camera. Behind him, thousands more tunefully chanted similar words, chants that were heard […]
By Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD- Bethlehem In Gaza as in Iraq, the US public is being lied to while US taxpayers and US power is wasted to support aggression. Vanity Fair reported on the scheme to […]
By Deepak Tripathi George W Bush was not going to leave the White House quietly. After eight days of relentless Israeli bombing of Gaza, he waved the green flag to Israel to invade the Gaza […]
By John Pilger "When the truth is replaced by silence," the Soviet dissident Yevgeny Yevtushenko said, "the silence is a lie." It may appear the silence is broken on Gaza. The cocoons of murdered children, […]
The UN Security Council has called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza that Arab nations hope will put an end to Israel’s 14-day assault on the territory. The resolution, passed on Thursday with 14 votes […]
The United Nations aid agency has suspended its operations in the Gaza Strip in the wake of a series of Israeli attacks on its personnel and buildings. "UNRWA decided to suspend all its operations in […]
The head of the UN agency in Gaza running the school that was attacked by Israel forces has rejected claims that Hamas fighters were inside the converted shelter. The Israeli military accused Hamas of using […]
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) accused Israel on Thursday, January 8, of blocking medical assistance to wounded Palestinians, amid shocking scenes of starving children and dead bodies in the bombed-out Gaza Strip. […]
Intensive talks were underway here Thursday to reconcile two rival Security Council resolutions proposed by Western and Arab foreign ministers seeking an immediate Gaza ceasefire. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, in agreement with his U.S. […]
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan Egyptian government spokesmen claim "Israel as an occupation power is responsible for Gaza"! This is no excuse for sealing the border if the occupation power is carrying out massacres against the […]
By Suzanne Baroud Ironically, it was in Palestine, 20 years ago, that I concluded that there is no God. For how could a God, who claims to love all and treat all with impartiality, allow […]
By Rannie Amiri "There is no humanitarian crisis in the [Gaza] Strip." — – Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, 1 January 2009. In 1925, Adolf Hitler, writing in Mein Kampf, defined ‘The Big Lie’. He […]
By John V. Whitbeck President-elect Barack Obama has a problem. Particularly in the wake of Israel’s holiday-season massacre of Gazans, he is under heavy pressure to focus immediately on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to "do […]
By Franklin Lamb – Beirut "There is no structure of an occupation that endured for decades and involved this kind of oppressive circumstances. The magnitude, the deliberateness, the violations of international humanitarian law, the impact […]
By Jim Miles A response to "Wartime in Gaza: The worst anti-Israel charges you’ll hear", Bradley Burston, Haaretz, December 29, 2008. The following “leftist” arguments were presented for denial by Mr. Burston, a Haaretz correspondent […]
By Issa Khalaf Those of us who originate from that unholy land, are gripped by helplessness, disgust and depression during those recurring depredations inflicted on the Palestinians, as they are now in Gaza, whose inhabitants […]
By Sherri Muzher Israel has successfully portrayed itself as the victim with the duty to defend its people, but the reality is that everyone has the right to defend its people and to live in […]
By Jeremy Salt – Ankara Hello, brave Israeli airman. What’s it like, firing missiles at people you can’t see? Does it help to keep saying that you are not deliberately targeting civilians? Does this […]
The United Nations on Wednesday denied Israeli army allegations that militants were inside a school in Gaza that was hit the previous day by an Israeli strike, killing at least 42 people. The Israeli army […]
Peace brokers proclaimed a breakthrough Wednesday in efforts to halt the Gaza conflict as Israel warmed to a Franco-Egyptian initiative. Israel stopped short of saying whether the plan floated late Tuesday by the presidents of […]
Israel has taken a battering in the global propaganda battle over its war on Gaza, despite deploying all weaponry ranging from Youtube videos to Twitter blogs and an overworked spokeswoman, analysts said. Governments have slammed […]
By Sameh A. Habeeb – Gaza Having nowhere to hide even inside UN-run schools, the latest Israeli target, more than 215 children have been killed so far in Israel’s ongoing military offensive against the sealed […]
Famed British journalist Robert Fisk believes that the slaughter of 45 civilians in Israeli attacks on UN-run schools in Gaza and the West’s complicity is yet another reason why some Muslims hate the West. "What […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth There are two persistent myths about the aim of Israel’s onslaught on Gaza: the first that it is an entirely defensive move, a way to end the rocket fire of Hamas; and […]
By Susan Abulhawa How can anyone watching Gaza burn escape the bitter realization that history repeats itself? Many have compared Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to Apartheid South Africa. But not in their cruelest hour did […]
By Mousa Abu Marzook – Damascus While Americans may believe that the current violence in Gaza began Dec. 27, in fact Palestinians have been dying from bombardments for many weeks. On Nov. 4, when the […]
By Neve Gordon – Israel Watching Israeli public television (Channel 1) these days can be an unsettling experience, and lately I’ve abstained from the practice. But after being stuck for seventy-two hours with our two […]
By Dan Lieberman Gresham’s Law briefly states "Bad money drives out good money." A corollary has: "Bad news analysis drives out good news analysis." Reports and dialogues on the events in Gaza give the impression […]
By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai Watching the mind-numbing savagery unleashed on Gaza in utter helplessness with the rest of the world and listening to the statements of Israeli and Western leaders over the past […]
A recent New York Times made many claims about the ‘mass rape’ of Israeli women on October 7. But two leading Palestinian media organizations, The Palestine Chronicle and Friends of Palestine Network, conducted a joint investigation, the outcome of which resulted in the ‘The Black Dress’, a groundbreaking 18-minute documentary looking into allegations and the possible falsification of evidence.
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