The US has pressured Israel to ease the Gaza blockade, insisting that Tel Aviv should not link ending the siege to the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. According to the Israeli daily Ha’aretz, three […]
Head of Mossad Meir Dagan says that a Mousavi win in Iran’s presidential election would have spelled bigger problems for Israel. Speaking to the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee of Knesset on Tuesday, the chief […]
Hezbollah parliamentary leader Mohammad Raad met British ambassador Frances Guy on Thursday in the first such contact in Lebanon between the group’s political wing and a senior British official. "The talks covered the recent election […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel "You must be celebrating," the interviewer from a popular radio station told me after Netanyahu’s speech. "After all, he is accepting the plan which you proposed 42 years ago!" (Actually […]
By Jonathan Cook – Canada Park Canada’s chief diplomat in Israel has been honored at an Israeli public park — built on occupied Palestinian land in violation of international law — as one of the donors […]
By George S. Hishmeh Why didn’t Barack Obama call a spade a spade after Benjamin Netanyahu described his laughable vision of an emaciated Palestinian state alongside Israel? Of course, it is a well-known fact that […]
By Joshua Frank It’s time to toss those Obama t-shirts in the trash. On Monday the Democrat controlled House voted 226-202 to approve a rushed $106 billion dollar war spending bill, guaranteeing more carnage in […]
Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli foreign minister, is in Washington to hold talks with Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, and other officials. The issue of a Palestinian state, controversy over Israeli settlements and ongoing […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth The rights of Palestinian children are routinely violated by Israel’s security forces, according to a new report that says beatings and torture are common. In addition, hundreds of Palestinian minors are […]
By Abdelrahman Rashdan "When the forces approached us … I still remember .. we were sitting – me, my father, my mother, my older brother, my two sisters – in the lower story of our house […]
By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai Former US president Jimmy Carter is one of those rare birds who have retained their humanity even after four years in the world’s most powerful job. The architect of […]
By Nizar Sakhnini Partition of Palestine into two-states was introduced on 29 November 1947 when Resolution # 181 was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations. Palestinian Arabs took to the streets in […]
Former US president Jimmy Carter said he had to "hold back tears" while touring scenes of devastation in the war-torn Gaza strip on Tuesday, June 16, and seeing Palestinians treated more “like animals" under the […]
By Saud Abu Ramadan – Gaza Outside a pharmacy in Gaza City, Mohamed Jarada, 19, was sad and worried after the pharmacist refused to sell him the drug he used to take to deal with […]
The Hezbollah secretary general says the recent remarks by the Israeli premier served to re-assert the eternal Tel Aviv policy of disregard for the Palestinian interests. On Monday, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said that Israeli Prime […]
Netanyahu’s idea for the creation of a limited Palestinian state drew criticism from Palestinians as well as Arab states. Conditions set by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the creation of a Palestinian state keeps […]
Transcript of former US President Jimmy Carter’s Address to the United Nations Relief Works Agency’s Human Rights Graduation in Gaza, June 16, 2009. By Jimmy Carter – Gaza Director of UNRWA operations John Ging, thank […]
By Joharah Baker – Jerusalem For some reason, everyone wanted to hear what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had to say in his policy speech given on June 14. After the right-winger finished and the […]
By Ali Jawad One of the dominant themes that has consistently defined the workings of the modern world – even after the undoing of the (visible) chains of colonialism – has been the axial role of […]
By Ali Younes No one should be surprised or even raise an eyebrow over Netanyahu’s speech this past Saturday regarding his policies with the Palestinians. True to his cunning nature, Netanyahu played the semantics game […]
Palestinian officials have condemned a major policy speech by Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, saying it had "closed the door" on moves to reach an agreement between the two sides. In his address, Netanyahu […]
The United States and its European allies rushed to welcome Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial speech outlining his policy regarding the long-stalled Mideast peace process. "[President Barack Obama] welcomes the important step forward in […]
Israeli hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech on peace with the Palestinians offered nothing but preconditions, dated clichés and negotiations non-starters that dim any real prospects for peace, Israeli analysts and peace-advocate politicians agreed. "Netanyahu’s […]
By Ira Glunts President Barack Obama’s lofty rhetoric persuades and inspires, but are his actions delivering the kind of change that his words have promised? Certainly his rhetoric has not matched his actions in Afghanistan […]
By Susan Abulhawa Following Netanyahu’s much anticipated policy speech, politicians and journalists, like mindless automatons, have set about repeating Israel’s tired mantra that Palestinians should recognize Israel’s right to exist. Never mind the fact that […]
By Ronnie Kasrils – Cape Town, South Africa (Address by Ronnie Kasrils – Cape Town International Conference: Re-envisioning Israel/Palestine. June 12, 2009) May I start by quoting a South African who emphatically stated as far […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel Remember Dov Weisglass? The one who said that peace must wait until the Palestinians become Finns? Who talked about preserving the peace process in formaldehyde? However, Weisglass will mainly be […]
By Rannie Amiri The adulation of tens of thousands of Iranians that greeted Mir-Hossein Mousavi and his equally popular wife, Zahra Rahnavard, during the country’s presidential campaign has now transformed itself into righteous indignation and […]
By Jim Miles In Mortal Hands – A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age. Stephanie Cooke. Bloomsbury, New York, 2009. In an era when the corporate media and the corporate politicians and the corporate military […]
By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai A strange thing happened this week. Hundreds of villagers in Pakistan’s Northwest turned on Taliban fighters after a suicide attack on a mosque killed more than 40 worshippers during […]
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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