A senior member of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s ruling party branded Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman as a "fascist," promising protests against his upcoming visit. "Lieberman is a racist and a fascist," […]
The Israeli government continues major funding of settlement expansions in the occupied territories amid increased international pressure aimed at halting the illegal activity. Tel Aviv "allocates 4.1 percent (of) its total budget for municipalities to […]
France summoned the Israeli ambassador in Paris to demand a halt to ‘illegal’ expansion of Jewish settlements in east al-Quds (Jerusalem). The move on Tuesday came as Russia lent its voice to the mounting international […]
Israel has rejected calls from the United States, the European Union and Russia to halt a controversial building project in the occupied east Jerusalem (al-Quds). "Israel acts and will act in line with its national […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth The passionate support for Israel expressed on talkback sections of websites, internet chat forums, blogs, Twitters and Facebook may not be all that it seems. Israel’s foreign ministry is reported to […]
By Belen Fernandez This past weekend in Buenos Aires, an American acquaintance presented me with page 9 of Saturday’s Buenos Aires Herald, the English-language daily, such that I might join the ranks of those who […]
By Uri Avnery Like the ghost of Hamlet’s father, the evil spirit of the Gaza War refuses to leave us in peace. This week it came back to disturb the tranquility of the chiefs of […]
American millionaire and bingo and gambling magnate Irving Moskowitz has dedicated tens of millions of dollars for the building of Jewish settlements in occupied Palestinian territories, including Al-Quds (occupied East Jerusalem). "Moskowitz is taking millions […]
The Israeli prime minister had defied US demands to suspend a settlement construction project in East Jerusalem, sparking what Washington calls "intense" negotiations between the allies. Binyamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that he would not […]
By Ira Glunts The public disagreement between Israel and the U.S. over continued settlement expansion in the West Bank and Jerusalem has heated up considerably. At a cabinet meeting on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu […]
By Belen Fernandez In a July 14 column on the New York Times website entitled "Goodbye Iraq, and Good Luck," Thomas Friedman informs us that he is in Kirkuk "tagging along" with Admiral Mike Mullen, […]
The Islamic Hamas movement has announced its preconditions for the Palestinian Authority (PA) elections scheduled for January 2010. In a press statement on Monday, Sami Abu Zuhri, the movement’s spokesman in Gaza, said that one […]
Jewish settlers have set fire to at least 1,500 olive trees owned by Palestinians in the West Bank after officials evacuated a number of illegal buildings. The assailants on horseback attacked the Palestinian farms on […]
By Tammy Obeidallah Western media has eroded into little more than sound bytes of celebrity gossip or inane stories about how cutting calories can help people live longer. When there is no way to get […]
Israel has sent envoys to Ethiopia to examine the applications of 3,000 Ethiopians who claim to be descended from Jews as 2,000 French Jews are to emigrate to Israel this year, an agency helping to […]
Hezbollah’s secretary general blasts the international community for accepting Israeli aggression towards the Palestinians and the Lebanese. "Israel is a racist state; a state which was invented; a state which was placed at the heart […]
The Israeli Foreign Ministry has slammed Switzerland for holding diplomatic talks with representatives of the Hamas movement. "We are angry, since Hamas is still considered as a terrorist organization by the European Union, even if […]
Israel plans military exercises at a US naval facility using its Arrow interceptor missiles in a series of drills that also deploys American missile systems. The Israeli Air Force (IAF) will ship the required hardware […]
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington Some key European governments, unlike the Obama administration, have now come up with some tangible steps to start the ball rolling towards a peace settlement between an anxious Palestinian […]
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago B’Tselem is the Jerusalem-based independent Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (OPT) with a well-deserved reputation for accuracy and integrity. It was founded in 1989 to […]
Some troops fighting in Israel’s war on Gaza were urged by their commanders to shoot first rather than worry about killing civilians, a document from an Israeli activist group shows. Published on Wednesday, the document […]
Farouk Kaddoumi, a Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official, has told Al Jazeera he stands by documents that he says show that Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, was involved in a conspiracy to assassinate Yasser Arafat, […]
Taking a softer tone on Israeli settlement building, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged Arab countries to take immediate steps to normalize relations with Israel. "We know that progress toward peace cannot be […]
By Ramzy Baroud Nearly six months have passed since the Israeli army ceased pounding the tiny stretch of land that is the Gaza Strip. Since then, Gaza continues to appear on the news once in […]
Israel and Western countries are shaping a deal for an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities in return for "concessions" on the construction of Jewish settlements on occupied Arab territories and peace talks. "Israel has […]
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago Founded in Geneva, Switzerland in 1863, the International Committee of the Red Cross is an "impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and […]
Tel Aviv takes a step closer to war with Tehran as two Israeli warships sail through the Suez Canal within cruise-missile range of Iran. Earlier this week, two Israel Navy gunboats, the Hanit and the […]
By Jonathan Cook – Jenin The reality of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s promises of ‘economic peace’ for the Palestinians is nowhere under greater scrutiny than in Jenin, the northern West Bank city being aggressively promoted […]
Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai Xinjiang does not exist. For nearly a century, China has done everything to help the world forget about the existence of its large and once vibrant Muslim region. Like Arthur […]
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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