United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has kicked off a two-day meeting to debate a report on Israel’s war crimes during the Gaza conflict. On Thursday, most member states expressed their concerns about the deteriorating […]
By Timothy Seidel As he came near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, ‘If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace! But now they […]
By Joel S. Hirschhorn Millions of Americans are politically informed, smart, active and angry. They see many wrongs in our political and government system. They are fed up with politics as usual, meaning corrosive corruption of […]
By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai ‘Listen to this,’ my boss said compulsively scanning his inseparable BlackBerry for a zillionth time. ‘Barack Obama gets the Nobel Peace Prize!’ I laughed out loud. He was obviously kidding […]
Israel has announced plans to demolish 150 Palestinian homes in the mostly Arab east Jerusalem Al-Quds in a move that would displace more than 1,000 Palestinians. Palestinian homes that are threatened with imminent demolition are […]
A day before the UN Human Rights Council convenes to debate on a UN report accusing Israel of war crimes in Gaza, Tel Aviv threatens to scrap peace talks with Palestinians unless the damning report […]
115 countries of the Non-aligned Movement (NAM) have called on the UN Security Council to hold Israel responsible for atrocities committed in Gaza during its offensive. NAM Ambassador Maged Abdelaziz asked the Security Council on […]
By Ramzy Baroud As Israeli bombs fell on the Gaza Strip during its one-sided war between December 27, 2008 and January 18, 2009, millions around the world took to the streets in complete and uncompromising […]
‘Yousef Abu Zuhri, 38, the brother of Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri, was martyred in an Egyptian prison as a result of torture,’ Fawzi Barhum, the other main spokesman for the group, told AFP news […]
On the eve of a UN meeting on the atrocities Israel carried out during the Gaza war, the Israeli prime minister has declared that Israeli officials will not submit to prosecution for war crimes. The United […]
By James Gundun Several droplets had barely dripped down the sides of a frozen Israeli-Palestinian conflict when a new blizzard iced them up again. The Goldstone report, nearing infamy, has transformed into a political groundhog. […]
The Acting Palestinian Authority chief says he will push for a vote on a recently released UN report about Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip. Mahmoud Abbas had earlier requested the UN Human Rights […]
Freelance Swedish journalist Donald Bostrom has reportedly demanded an international war crimes investigation into claims that Israeli soldiers harvest organs of dead Palestinians. Six weeks after he caused a political storm over his article "Our […]
The political bureau chairman of Hamas, Khalid Mashaal, says the acting Palestinian Authority chief, Mahmoud Abbas, is unfit and ineligible to lead the Palestinian nation. During a speech in Damascus on Sunday evening, Mashaal referred […]
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon backs a Palestinian bid to re-launch the debate on the Goldstone report, which accuses Israel of war crimes as well as crimes against humanity during its weeks-long onslaught on […]
By Jeff Gates The Nobel Committee again piqued the interest of those who marvel at the impact of an annual ritual of global branding that in 1973 labeled Henry Kissinger a peace laureate. As with many […]
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago The Nobel Committee’s tradition is long and inglorious, but for the well-informed no surprise. Consider its past honorees: — Henry Kissinger; — Shimon Peres; — Yitzhak Rabin; — Menachem Begin; […]
Amid rampant speculations about an Israeli attack on Iran by next year, Washington claims ‘the world will not wait indefinitely” for Iran to cooperate on its nuclear issue. "The international community will not wait indefinitely […]
The signing of a Palestinian reconciliation agreement brokered by Egypt and originally set for October 25 has been delayed for several weeks. The news came as US President Barack Obama’s Middle East envoy, George Mitchell […]
The Swedish journalist who caused a controversy by accusing Israeli forces of stealing and selling Palestinian organs says he has been receiving death threats. Donald Bostrom’s article was published in Aftonbladet daily in August and […]
Christians of several denominations gathered in Jerusalem Friday for a silent vigil in solidarity with besieged Islamic holy sites at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City. "We are here to support […]
By William A. Cook When beliefs morph into truth, regardless of the realities of time and place, the non-initiated become fodder for those with the zeal and power to enforce their will. Thus the great discoverer […]
By Flora Nicoletta – Gaza The Gaza Strip has only one beach, but it is long approximately 45 km, from north to south. Golden sand, cafeterias, restaurants, palm shelters, and a summer without end. It […]
By Tammy Obeidallah Throughout the world, people have attempted to distinguish ordinary Americans from the United States government. Perhaps our complacency for aiding and abetting war crimes has been attributed to lack of education, apathy […]
The Palestinian ministry for prisoners’ affairs says at least 25 lawmakers along with two former ministers are still being held in Israeli prisons under appalling conditions. According to a press release published on Saturday, the […]
Turkey has canceled a planned joint military drill with Israel to protest against Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip earlier this year. Turkey informed Israel of cancellation of the Anatolian Eagle exercise last week, Jerusalem […]
The number of children born with birth defects has increased dramatically since the Israeli operation "Cast Lead" on the Gaza Strip, The Hamas Health Ministry has declared. "We have found cases among newborn babies involving […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth The Israeli government announced yesterday it would consider banning Israel’s Islamic Movement at the next cabinet meeting, in a significant escalation of tensions that have fuelled a fortnight of bloody clashes […]
By Jim Miles When I first saw the headline, in Rob Kall’s OpEd News, I thought ‘This is a joke.’ However on further checking the joke on the web – through sites as diverse as […]
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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