Hamas will reject a long-term truce with Israel being mediated by Egypt unless the deal includes lifting the blockade on the Gaza Strip, Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said on Friday. Addressing a rally in Damascus, […]
By Rannie Amiri "There was no such thing as Palestinians … They did not exist." – Former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir (The Sunday Times, 15 June 1969) Gaza is abuzz with activity. Humanitarian groups […]
The passengers and crew of a Lebanese aid ship seized by the Israeli navy as it sought to deliver aid to Gaza were expelled on Friday, while a senior Hamas official told Egyptian television late […]
Media Release: Issued by Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) – 6 February 2009 The Congress of South African Trade Union is pleased to announce that its members, dock […]
By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai Iran is celebrating 30 years of its Islamic revolution. Al-Jazeera English, the Middle East’s favorite television network, has been running a great series based on interviews and first-person accounts […]
By Shafiq Morton – Cape Town The Israelis invaded Gaza the day I went on leave. My Blackberry started buzzing with messages, and did not let up for 22 days. One of my contacts in […]
By Ramzy Baroud One cannot emphasize enough the stranglehold Israel’s lobbying infrastructure has on US foreign policy. The events of recent weeks undoubtedly attest to this. "The special relationship" that has been historically fostered between […]
DAMASCUS (IRIN) – The start of 2009 offers little hope to the residents of Al Tanf, a refugee camp on the Syrian-Iraqi border housing over 700 Palestinians who had fled persecution in Iraq. No country […]
Israeli gunboats opened fire Thursday on a Lebanese aid ship bound for Gaza and assaulted those on board, and according to Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak the navy is escorting it to the Israeli port […]
The Palestinian resistance group Hamas is still to give a final response to Egypt regarding a proposed year-and-a-half truce that stipulates opening Gaza’s crossings for 80 percent of goods. "The team will return here on […]
Egypt on Thursday closed its Rafah crossing with the Gaza Strip to all but exceptional cases after opening it to aid and wounded Palestinians during Israel’s war on Hamas. "The border is closed as of […]
Benyamin Netanyahu, widely tipped to become Israel’s prime minister after elections next week, has vowed to topple the Hamas movement in Gaza, calling the Palestinian group an "Iranian proxy". Addressing the annual Herzliya security conference […]
Experts from nine countries including the United States, Britain and France met in Copenhagen Wednesday to discuss ways of combating weapons smuggling into Gaza, the Danish foreign ministry said. The meeting took place amid calls […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Extremist rabbis and their followers, bent on waging holy war against the Palestinians, are taking over the Israeli army by stealth, according to critics. In a process one military historian has […]
By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad ‘The BBC cannot be neutral in the struggle between truth and untruth, justice and injustice, freedom and slavery, compassion and cruelty, tolerance and intolerance.’ Thus read a 1972 internal document called […]
By UNDP/PAPP – Jerusalem The 22 days of intense military operations in Gaza resulted in massive destruction to public as well as private buildings and housing units. An initial survey, conducted by the United Nations […]
By Hazem Jamjoum Following government orders, Israeli forces, demolition workers, and two bulldozers entered the village at 9:30 a.m. on 8 May 2007, while all the men of the village were at work. They destroyed […]
George Mitchell, the US special envoy to the Middle East, is to return to the region within weeks to pursue peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, said […]
As the International Criminal Court (ICC) launched a "preliminary analysis" on Tuesday to establish whether Israel had committed war crimes in its assault on Gaza, the Jewish state’s warplanes bombed a number of tunnels connecting […]
By Hussein Al-alak I was first introduced to the Baqa’a boxing team in May 2005, a team that represents over 120,000 displaced Palestinian’s, in a refugee camp that is located north of central Amman. On […]
By Joharah Baker Coming into work the other day, I passed by what is, to most people, a completely mundane scene – a bus stop. As uneventful as this may sound, it was the venue […]
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago Founded in 1971, the Geneva-based World Economic Forum (WEF) meets annually in Davos, Switzerland to bring together top business and political leaders as well as mostly neoliberal minded intellectuals, economists, […]
By M. Shahid Alam In the slow evolution of US relations with Israel since 1948, as the latter mutated from a strategic liability to a strategic asset, Israel and its Jewish allies in the United […]
By Noam Chomsky I’ve received many requests to comment on the article by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt (henceforth M-W), published in the London Review of Books, which has been circulating extensively on the internet […]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is working on a legal opinion on whether the Palestinian Authority (PA) can be considered a de facto state and is thus eligible to demand the persecution of Israel on […]
With brutal images from the recent Israeli onslaught on Gaza still flashing before his eyes, Ihab Issa swears he will not be voting in Israel’s upcoming general election. "It’s just war, war, war. Every couple […]
By Ola Attallah – Gaza City "A for Apache, B for Blood," little Shaimaa wrote in her colorful school notebook. It was not a school assignment, but the new alphabet children in the bombed-out Gaza […]
By Nicola Nasser, The West Bank The rebuilding of Gaza has become the latest siege weapon. The Israeli occupation, the US that had backed its offensive, and the EU which did nothing to stop it are […]
By Rannie Amiri As staggering as the statistics detailing Gaza’s destruction may be, they still do not present a complete picture of the unique travesties and tragedies suffered by individuals, families, neighborhoods and villages during […]
By Jim Miles Violence in the Holy Land – Witnessing the Conflict in the Middle East. Ed. Robert Wolf. Free River Press, Lansing, Iowa. 2004. The original concept for this work, as described by the editor […]
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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