By Joharah Baker The concept of offering one’s life for the sake of a cause has been revered throughout history by nations, religions and political systems. In Palestinian culture, it is the highest possible status, […]
By Jim Miles – Canada There are several large problems that afflict the globe in a major way today, with the economy being the prime time concern receiving the vast majority of the governmental/corporate/media attention. […]
Binyamin Netanyahu has been sworn in as Israel’s new prime minister after parliament approved the broad coalition he had assembled during weeks of wrangling. The Knesset voted 69-45 for the new government, which is comprised […]
By Jonathan Cook – Arrabeh Palestinians across the Middle East were due to commemorate Land Day today, marking the anniversary of clashes in 1976 in which six unarmed Palestinians were shot dead by the Israeli army […]
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago This article responds to a March 15 Los Angeles Times Judea Pearl one headlined: "Is anti-Zionism hate?" Pearl teaches computer science at UCLA, is the father of slain journalist Daniel […]
By Mahmoud El-Yousseph Tristan Anderson is a young American fighting for his life 5000 miles away in a hospital after being shot in the face. Upon learning of what happened, his parents rushed to Tel […]
By Mamoon Alabbasi – London "Those dirty A-rabs don’t deserve democracy. We give them freedom and they kill our troops. We should nuke them all in their shit-hole." "Bring our troops home. What are they doing […]
Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president, has arrived in Qatar on the eve of an Arab League summit, defying an arrest warrant issued against him for alleged war crimes in Darfur. Al-Bashir was greeted on a […]
Israeli police dressed in Palestinian garb who have gone under cover to catch violent Jewish settlers got a taste of what Palestinians routinely confront as Jewish settlers attacked undercover officers thinking they were Arabs, Israeli […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel Is this the government of Biberman (Bibi Netanyahu and Avigdor Liberman) or perhaps of Bibarak (Bibi and Ehud Barak)? Neither. It is the government of Bibiyahu. Binyamin Netanyahu has proven […]
By William A. Cook Canada’s border security officials and Jason Kenny, the immigration minister, banned George Galloway, MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, from Canada where he was scheduled to speak in Toronto on the […]
By Dan Lieberman The Kennedy Center’s festival of Arab culture, which brought to Washington’s principal cultural center the music, voices and heritage of the 22 Arab nations, proved to be a political breakthrough. Within artistic […]
By Jeremy Salt – Ankara The spate of reports coming out of the Middle East in the past two weeks are signs of a coming danger greater than the region has known in its modern […]
By Tony Davies On 13th March, at Birzeit University near Ramallah, five articles from the university’s Department of Public Health on health in the occupied Palestinian territories were launched. The articles are being published by […]
Sudan said on Friday it believed Israel was behind two attacks on suspected smugglers which killed up to 40 people in the remote north of the country in January and February. "The first thought is […]
By Ramzy Baroud It seems that the Palestinian-Israeli peace process is in serious jeopardy. This is the immediate impression one gleans from media reports from Israel. Unlike Israel’s Kadima and Labour party "moderates" prime minister-designate […]
By Joharah Baker Yesterday, March 24, clashes broke out in the Palestinian-Arab town of Um Al Fahm inside Israel between the residents and Israeli police and right-wing demonstrators. The incident was an accident waiting to […]
By IRIN News Many university students who lost relatives or whose homes were destroyed during the recent 23-day Israeli offensive are finding it difficult to cope, according to university officials and students. Some have been […]
By Amr Emam – Cairo Thirty years to the signing of a landmark peace treaty between both countries, Egyptians still see Israel as "the enemy" and oppose any and all forms of popular normalization of […]
Conflicting reports that Hamas had resumed indirect negotiations with Israel on exchanging an Israeli soldier for Palestinians jailed by Israel surfaced Wednesday as Hamas officials both confirmed and denied a resumption of talks. Hamas official […]
By Mohamed El Mokhtar Sidi Haiba The rationale put forward by the prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo for rushing with his indictment against the sitting head of state of a sovereign nation was allegedly the imprescriptible […]
By Lauren Booth The British ambulances clashed with the sandy setting of the inner city centre car park. Bearing UK license plates and British drivers, the vehicles stood amongst half built buildings, guarded by Hamas […]
By Neve Gordon – Israel Thanks to Binyamin Netanyahu’s overweening ambition, Israel is to be saddled with a foreign minister who is a national disgrace Imagine a country that appoints someone who has been found […]
By Dina Jadallah-Taschler ‘Force overcome by force’ (Vi Victa Vis) Cicero, Roman Orator, politician, and philosopher (106 BC-43 BC) The first part of this essay has covered some of the diplomatic and economic controls that […]
A report by an international rights group has said that Israel’s use of white phosphorus during its recent offensive on the Gaza Strip is evidence of war crimes. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday […]
Israeli prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu concluded a secret deal with one of his coalition partners, pledging to expand settlements in a highly-contentious area of the West Bank, army radio said on Wednesday. The agreement is […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth A legal battle being waged by Palestinian families to stop the takeover of their neighborhood in East Jerusalem by Jewish settlers has received a major fillip from the recent souring of […]
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago Throughout its history, Israel has willfully and repeatedly committed crimes of war and against humanity, always with impunity. Yet under customary legal standards and norms (including Geneva, Hague, the UN […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London A British man recently applied to the Church of England to have his baptism into the Christian faith cancelled. Five months, he argued, was too young to decide his religious […]
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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