By Uri Avnery – Israel Passover week is a time for outings. News programs on radio and television start with words like: "The masses of the House of Israel spent the day in the national […]

By Nima Shirazi On March 19th, two months after the 22-day devastation of Gaza and the slaughtering of over 1,400 Palestinians, the Israeli daily newspaper Ha’aretz published harrowing testimonies by numerous Israeli soldiers who had […]

By William A. Cook Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s new Prime Minister, in an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg (Atlantic Monthly, March 2009), ordered the new President of the United States to complete two “great missions” on behalf […]

By Hasan Afif El-Hasan Jewish people are observing the Passover tradition of escaping slavery in Egypt and enjoying freedom. While they celebrate their ancient struggle against slavery and claim having Jewish moral superiority, they at […]

By Iqbal Jassat The minutes of a meeting of the Jewish Agency Executive on 12 June 1938 records a chilling statement made by David Ben-Gurion: “I am for compulsory transfer; I do not see anything […]

By Dina Jadallah-Taschler The adjectives weak and ineffectual come to mind when describing the military capability of most Arab regimes to exert internal and external territorial defense, a necessary component of sovereignty. We often hear […]

By Edward Mast The sand is frozen.Each particle fixed in place.Salt sparkles on solid wavesthat lift and crest unmoving and do notreach the frozen shoreline.Inland broken weeds stand bent,    unfalling undying leaning on air.Jagged stones […]

By Ali Jawad Arab League summits have become renowned in the Gulf region as venues for the annual ‘diplomatic circus’. Circus performers, in the shape of diplomats, who display immense dexterity at word-juggling, and in […]

[After attending a reading of Seven Jewish Children, A Play for Gaza, by Caryl Churchill, New York Theatre Workshop, March 26, 2009.] By Rafiq Kathwari Dear Tony, I am a hyphenated –American born and raised […]

By Ramzy Baroud Any variation of the words ‘Palestine’ and ‘massacre’ are sure to yield millions of results on major search engines on the World Wide Web. These results are largely in reference to hundreds […]

By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Obstacles to Israel’s Arab minority participating in higher education have resulted in a record number of Arab students taking up places at universities in neighboring Jordan, a new report reveals.  Figures […]

By Physicians for Human Rights-Israel Independent fact-finding mission of medical experts commissioned by Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and the Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) published today (April 6) its special report on the Israeli offensive […]

By Nasir Khan On February 27, 2009 President Barack Obama delivered his much-anticipated policy speech on Iraq. The important point in his announcement was the withdrawal of some U.S. troops from Iraq by August 31, […]

By Dan Lieberman Academic symposiums usually clarify history and knowledge to a select group who absorb the history and knowledge in order to impart the history and knowledge to others. The 2009 Annual Symposium of […]

By Natalie Abou Shakra – Gaza "Look, look! It’s him! It’s him!" screamed Shaymaa from the bus, as a group of 18 family members descended from it to walk closer to the border between Rafah […]

By Guy Gabriel While a hero in the Arab world, in the West the position of Iraqi journalist Muntadher al-Zaidi was more ambiguous. Few people seemed to mind that such a bold statement as throwing […]

By Joharah Baker For Palestinians, it is hard to figure out what all the commotion is about. True, newly sworn in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is clearly not the most sympathetic person to the […]

By Muhammed Qasim – Washington Sensing a genuine desire on his part to turn a new leaf in America’s relations with the world, particularly Muslims, experts and community activists believe President Barack Obama needs to […]

By Ira Glunts This weekend the Israeli daily, Ma’ariv, published an interview in Hebrew with Professor Ben Zion Netanyahu, the 99-year-old father of the new Israeli prime minister. The elder Netanyahu is known for his […]

By Dima Omar – London Well, not much really .. Just that when you invite people who don’t consider each other to be ‘within the pale’, as British columnist David Aaronovitch said, then the discussion on […]