Jewish settlers rampaged in the occupied West Bank on Monday, June 1, blocking roads, burning farming fields, cutting down olive trees and shooting Palestinian civilians. "They attacked when the minibus (carrying 17 Palestinian workers on […]
Nicholas Noe – Beirut Over the last decade and a half, Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of Lebanon’s militant Shiite movement Hezbollah, has steadily moved front and center in the often vitriolic (and regularly […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel How lucky we are to have the extreme Right standing guard over our democracy. This week, the Knesset voted by a large majority (47 to 34) for a law that […]
By Terry Lacey – Jakarta In Cairo President Barack Obama has to show if he can make a break with the illusions of the Bush legacy as far as the Muslim world is concerned. Arief […]
By Jim Miles The Devil We Know – Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower. Robert Baer. Crown Publishers (Random House), New York, 2008. Iran is obviously a key player in the Middle East. The many […]
By Belen Fernandez A recent article in the online edition of the Jerusalem Post states that "Israel is becoming increasingly anxious about the fate of UNIFIL if Hezbollah increases its power in upcoming parliamentary elections […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London UK politicians are currently reeling from a public lashing for fiddling their expenses big-time. Such is their arrogance that many, when confronted with their crimes, don’t see that they have […]
Barack Obama has repeated his call for Israel to stop settlement construction after holding talks with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president. Declaring that Washington was a "stalwart ally" of Israel, the US president nonetheless said […]
Reports published recently by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), Israeli NGO B’Tselem and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) paint a grim picture of life in Gaza more than four months […]
Human Rights group Amnesty International has condemned Israel for the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the blockaded Gaza Strip. In its annual report, the London-based group says Israel’s massive offensive on Gaza has brought the situation […]
By Ramzy Baroud "We’ve accomplished quite a few things, and I think the most important one is to cement the principle that the path to peace is through negotiations and not through violence." These were […]
By Bryan Saario Following up upon a Christmas donation to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund in 2006, I offered my services as a retired oral and maxillofacial surgeon for one of their future cleft palate missions […]
By Mohannad El-Khairy – Dubai So, here we are. One of the most right-wing governments has taken over Olmert’s Apartheid duties in Israel; Benjamin Netanyahu at the helm of what can only be deemed as […]
By Joharah Baker – Jerusalem Sometimes, reading commentaries on articles is more interesting than reading the articles themselves. It gives an extremely lucid perspective on what goes on in the average person’s mind – at […]
The Israeli Knesset passed on Wednesday, May 27, a preliminary reading of a bill criminalizing citizens who refuse the Jewish nature of Israel, drawing immediate rebuke from opposition lawmakers. The bill, initiated by Knesset’s Education […]
A US court has sentenced the former heads of a Muslim charity to 65 years in prison for allegedly providing aid to the Palestinian group Hamas. Shukri Abu-Baker, the charity’s ex-chief executive, and Ghassan Elashi, […]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Washington early Wednesday for his first official meeting with President Barack Obama as Jordan summoned the Israeli envoy in Amman to protest a reported Israeli proposal to set up […]
A pay dispute between employees and the management of the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) in Jordan could affect vulnerable refugees, especially in the many UNWRA-run schools and clinics. Thousands of UNRWA employees went […]
By Mats Svensson It feels like a very long time ago. Between a then and a now walls have been built. Not just one but many. The walls have also become higher, uglier, thicker and […]
By Dina Jadallah The last few days have witnessed an inflection point in the history of Israel. It has effectively shed its democratic veneer and blatantly embraced its racist, fascist and colonialist ideology. I am […]
By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai George W Bush and his overzealous friends might have signed off but their shenanigans during their eight years in power continue to emerge, fascinating the world. Last week, Robert […]
By George S. Hishmeh The inconclusive meeting between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this month, has confused rather than assuaged their audiences in the US and overseas. The interpretations […]
By Rima Merhi Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) were on a routine errand throwing hand grenades at three o’clock in the morning in one of the most populated areas in Gaza. Their faces were camouflaged in […]
By Belén Fern
An infant has become the most recent casualty of the nearly two-year-old Israeli policy of collective punishment and its blockade of the Gaza Strip. On Monday, the 12-month-old infant, named Muhammad Rami Ibrahim Nofal, died […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is willing to tear down settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank in return for U.S. backing on its stance on arch-foe Iran, local media reported on Tuesday. Netanyahu told […]
After months of blocking emergency aid to Gaza, Egypt loosens its grip and allows a humanitarian convoy to cross into the bomb-scarred Palestinian territory. The European aid-laden convoy called ‘Hope’ which includes 40 wagons of […]
Israel targets its Arab citizens with a newly-introduced legislation that would force them into pledging an oath of allegiance to the Tel Aviv government. The ultranationalist party led by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has unveiled […]
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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