Fascist Rule in Israel
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago On February 10, Israel held parliamentary elections for 120 seats in its 18th Knesset. The process repeats every four years unless the body calls an earlier election by majority vote. […]
Month: February 2009
Free Speech and Fatwa
By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai This appears to be a year of anniversaries. If it was Iran’s Revolution last week, the media spotlight this week has been on the fatwa the late Ayatollah Khomeini […]
Gaza War Strengthened Israel’s Far Right
By Roni Ben Efrat The results of the elections to Israel’s 18th Knesset clearly bolstered the far Right, which won 65 of the parliament’s 120 seats. This outcome is partly due to the paralysis that […]
Livni’s Message: Divide and Conquer
By Mohannad El-Khairy On February 2, 2009, then foreign minister Tzipi Livni, one of the architects of the 2008-2009 Gaza Massacre and Israel’s recent election winner, addressed a gathering that draws together both Israeli and […]
Gaza and Antonio Caso
By Andrea Allamb (Antonio Caso was a Mexican philosopher who died in 1946, and was a friend of the poet Octavio Paz.) Antonio Caso warned us of this, in the language of the beautiful other […]
Gaza Destruction Shocks US Congressmen
American lawmakers were shocked by the scale of Israeli destruction they saw on Thursday, February 19, during a rare visit to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip. "The amount of physical destruction and the depth of human […]
Netanyahu to Form Israeli Government
Right-wing Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu was named Friday, February 20, to form a new Israeli government, fueling concerns that a right-wing coalition would torpedo the Middle East peace process. "The president has made a […]
A New Afghanistan Nightmare
By Ramzy Baroud When US envoy to Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke met with Afghanistan’s ‘democratically’ installed President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on February 14, he may have just learned of the historic significance of the following […]
Europeans in Direct Hamas Talks
In a major policy shift, several European countries are holding direct contacts with the Palestinian resistance group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip. "It is the beginning of something new – although we are not […]
US Senator John Kerry Visits Sderot, Gaza
U.S. Senator John Kerry travelled to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip following two other Democratic lawmakers who also were in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory on Thursday, witnesses said. Kerry, a 2004 presidential candidate who now chairs […]
Netanyahu Edges to Premiership
Hawkish Benjamin Netanyahu became on Thursday, February 19, very close to achieving his dream of a premiership comeback after as far-rightist Avigdor Lieberman backed his bid to form the next government. "We recommend Bibi Netanyahu, […]
The Roots of Hatred in the Zionist Ideology
By Salim Nazzal In 1939 Europe turned a blind eye to the rise of Nazism. The British foreign minister Neville Chamberlain believed that a policy of appeasement would work with Hitler; it did not. Hitler […]
Fearing One State Solution, Peres Serves Pabulum to Washington
By Franklin Lamb – Ain el Helwe Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon "Whatever will happen in the future, we shall not repeat the mistakes we made in leaving Gaza." – Shimon Peres to members of the […]
Tennis Boycott of Israel Serves Ace
By Iqbal Jassat – South Africa Business Day carries an interesting account of a controversy raging in tennis circles over the denial of a visa to Israel’s Shahar Peer by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), […]
Singing Martyrdom
By Natalie Abu Shakra – Gaza ‘Raise your voice, raise your voice, raise it in your song! Songs are still possible, they are still possible!’ "Please tell me how he was! How did you find […]
‘I Will Never Vote for Corruption’
By Mats Svensson Not a long time ago….. He himself intended to vote for Hamas. "I am not religious," he said. "I don’t pray, I don’t fast. But I will vote for Hamas because we […]
Israel’s Dirty War in Gaza and Complicity of Her Allies
By Marc Herbermann – Seoul In recent years, life had become more and more unbearable in the area which once was called Palestine. Palestinians today, under a Jewish state that allows them no autonomy, suffer […]
Israel Launches Covert War inside Iran: Report
Israel is involved in a covert war of sabotage inside Iran in an effort to delay Tehran’s attempts to develop a nuclear weapon, the Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on Tuesday. Quoting intelligence experts and an […]
Gaza’s Empty Shops
By Ola Attallah – Gaza City Abu Ahmed Al-Madhoun has never felt more desperate. He toured Gaza City for hours with a long list of necessary commodities for his family. In every shop he visited […]
Thousands of Gazans Remain Homeless
Thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip remain homeless after their houses were badly damaged or destroyed during Israel’s recent military offensive there. The Israeli army began with aerial bombardments of the enclave on 27 […]
Israeli Elections: From Bad to Ugly
By Dr. Ahmed Yousef – Gaza Pundits have asked Palestinians of every persuasion what they think of Israeli elections over the past several weeks. Opinions are varied and thoughtful; yet the truth is that to […]
‘Salt of the Earth’ Sends Aid Convoy to Gaza
By Stuart Littlewood – London Unable to attend the Viva Palestina convoy send-off in London, I watched video footage of the occasion with tears in my eyes. Here at last were people of courage and moral backbone… […]
Winning in Gaza
By Miko Peled The common wisdom regarding Israel’s latest attacks on Gaza suggests that Israel is defending itself against a vicious enemy and that all means justify the cause of security for the citizens of […]
Just Listen to the Palestinian People
By Antoun Issa A culmination of events in recent years, and more importantly the past two months, has thrown the entire structure of the peace process upside down. Ironically, the two main protagonists in the […]
Who is a Terrorist?
By Mats Svensson There is a shrinking group of free people, people who believe in a context with everyone’s equal worth. This group still dreams about a society where everyone is included and for this, […]
Bolivarianism Triumphs in Referendum Vote
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago On February 15, Venezuelans voted on whether to let presidents, National Assembly representatives, governors, mayors, and state legislators run indefinitely for re-election after Chavez last December proposed a national referendum […]
One Million and a Half Broken Hearts
By Natalie Abu Shakra – Gaza Tears drop on her hands, hands that he had once kissed passionately, on her engagement ring, that ring he chose for her, on her cheeks that oust the redness […]
Choose Life; Gaza as a Turning Point
By Deb Reich Most people will say I’m delusional; that’s okay. I will say what I have to say anyway. When your opinion is way out on the periphery, it may mean you are delusional […]
Promises, Promises and Obamese Seduction
By Gaither Stewart – Rome ‘To seduce also means to destroy.’ I ran into a reference to The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits and found the suggestive old poem extensively reproduced […]
