The Palestinian Authority has warned of an inevitable violence in the region, should the US fail to force Israel into halting settlement activity on the occupied lands. "If America remains unable to assume its required […]
In a joint military drill held in October, the US and Israeli military simulated unconventional attacks on Israeli towns, a report says. Israeli and American soldiers launched the three-week Juniper Cobra military exercise in October […]
By Ramzy Baroud When British Foreign Secretary David Miliband uttered a few words regarding the illegality of the Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, many wanted to believe that London was taking a sharp stance […]
By Uri Avnery Mahmoud Abbas is fed up. The day before yesterday he withdrew his candidacy for the coming presidential election in the Palestinian Authority. I understand him. He feels betrayed. And the traitor is Barack […]
By Aijaz Zaka Syed- Dubai My apologies for returning to Rudyard Kipling in every discussion about Afghanistan! But the man, who gave us such enduring classics as Jungle Book and an endless repertoire of tales, ballads, […]
Following years of persistent threats by Israel to attack Iran, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister rejects speculations that the warnings are just a bluff, insisting they are very real. Nearly three weeks after three consecutive days […]
Israel drastically fails to meet all requirements of a tolerant pluralistic society, according to a US State Department report issued on Saturday. The report, written by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, indicates […]
By George Hishmeh – Washington DC The first nine months of US President Barack Obama’s tenure at the White House have been pregnant with thought-provoking ideas and commendable aspirations aimed at improving the tarnished US […]
By M. Shahid Alam At the outset of the classes I teach, I always address the question of bias in the social sciences. In one course – on the history of the global economy – […]
Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, has said that he is to pass a report alleging Israeli and Palestinian war crimes during the former’s offensive on the Gaza Strip to the UN Security Council. "As […]
The General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly in favor of a report, which accuses Israel of war crimes as well as crimes against humanity during the weeks-long onslaught on the Gaza Strip. 114 states endorsed a […]
Norway has dismissed a complaint filed by a group of lawyers accusing Israeli officials of committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip. Chief prosecutor Siri Frigaard dismissed the complaint, claiming "there is no good reason" […]
By Steve Breyman From December 27, 2008 through January 18, 2009, Israel waged war on the Gaza Strip. Twelve to fourteen hundred Palestinians were killed, including many women and children. Thirteen Israelis were killed; several […]
By Franklin Lamb- Beirut On November 4, 2009, the 30th anniversary of the student takeover of the American Embassy in Tehran, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini gave a speech which is being much discussed […]
By John V. Whitbeck In the wake of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s public praise for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s ‘unprecedented’ attitude toward continued Israeli settlement expansion, Saeb Erakat, chief negotiator for the […]
The following is a joint press release, drafted and submitted by the following Palestinian Organizations: Adalah – Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel – Al Dameer Association for Human Rights – Al-Haq – […]
South African Judge Richard Goldstone’s name may spark anger for some in Israel, but in Gaza the name is synonymous with heroism and to prove it, it is being sewn onto souvenir Palestinian headscarves in […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London Hamas marked the 92nd anniversary of the infamous Balfour Declaration by recalling the misery of the 1948 Nakba (Catastrophe) and insisting that European states in general and Britain in particular […]
The London-based publisher, Pluto Press has decided to move forward the date of a book about Gaza to coincide with the first anniversary of the Israeli war on the Strip, which began on December 27, […]
By William A. Cook ‘Even the most perfect of Golem, risen to life to protect us, can easily change into a destructive force. Therefore let us treat carefully that which is strong, just as we bow […]
By James Gundun – Washington DC Like a room filled with methane, the combustible element of failure waited silently for a spark. Neither special envoy George Mitchell nor President Obama could budge the Palestinians from […]
Amnesty International has called for an independent investigation into war crimes in the Gaza Strip and Israel ahead of a General Assembly meeting on Goldstone report. In an open letter to the United Nations General […]
Hamas says remarks about its possessing weapons is a mere ‘fabrication’ to mobilize world opinion against the movement ahead of the UN General Assembly’s vote on a Gaza war crimes report. Israeli Military Intelligence chief […]
Israel’s Military Intelligence warns about Hamas’ growing military power, saying the movement has recently test fired a missile capable of reaching targets in Tel Aviv. Military Intelligence chief Major-General Amos Yadlin told the weekly cabinet […]
The US House of Representatives has condemned the UN Goldstone report, which accused Israel of committing war crimes in its 22-day war against the Palestinians in Gaza. By a vote of 344 to 36, the […]
By Ramzy Baroud When the first Arab Human Development Report (AHDR) was published in 2002, a star glistened in a vast, gloomy sky. The fact that a UN-sponsored report, authored by independent Arab scholars would […]
By Mamoon Alabbasi – London As people across the world breathed a sigh of relief to see the back of former US president George W. Bush, top American intellectual Noam Chomsky warned against assuming or […]
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago On October 28, New York Times writer Nick Bunkley wrote the following: "Federal agents (today) fatally shot a man they described as the leader of a violent Sunni Muslim separatist […]
By Jim Miles The thrift in me allowed me to wait until Michael Moore’s "Capitalism – A Love Story" came out on second run theatres – it was well worth the wait. The powerful effect […]
Israeli authorities have torn down several Palestinian houses in occupied east Jerusalem, defying international calls to halt the demolitions in the occupied city. Gidi Schmerling, a Jerusalem municipality spokesman, said the houses in the Shuafat, Zur […]
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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