Saad al-Hariri, the leader of Lebanon’s Future movement, has said he will refuse to join a Hezbollah-led coalition government should the Shia party and its allies win the country’s forthcoming elections. Speaking to Al Jazeera […]
By Yacov Ben Efrat From the meeting between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on May 18, 2009, no wide-ranging agreement was to be expected. To judge from the public news […]
By Dr. Elias Akleh The surprise quick visit of the American Vice President Joe Biden to Lebanon last Friday May 22 marked the 14th visit by an American official during the last six months. The […]
By Belén Fern
By Motasem Dalloul – Gaza City It was a long journey for Jihad al-Sha’er to resettle in his new home, which he built from affordable and cheap materials after living homeless for four months after […]
The Israeli government’s decision to push through parliament a law banning its Arab citizens from marking Nakba, the day Israel was set up on the rubble of Palestine drew immediate rebuke from Labor ministers, Arabs […]
Israel’s prime minister has said that Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank will continue to be expanded. "I have no intention to construct new settlements," Binyamin Netanyahu was quoted by officials as telling his […]
Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) bases in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) and Israel are contaminating land and water sources, says a letter addressed to Maj-Gen Gadi Shamni, commander-in-chief of the central command in Israel. According […]
A banking and liquidity crisis is affecting the lives of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip: Civil servants are struggling to get their salaries, and humanitarian aid is being delayed. Thousands of welfare benefit recipients are […]
By Joharah Baker – Jerusalem Jaffa. The word itself conjures up images of warmth, comfort, beautiful sandy beaches and miles of blue-green sea and the smell of oranges mingled with the misty sea breeze. These […]
By Franklin Lamb – Beirut "We don’t know where the Der Spiegel magazine did get their information from and we don’t know where they brought this story from. No one in the prosecutor’s office has […]
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago On March 15, 2006, the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly 170 to 4 (with only the US, Israel, the Marshall Islands and Palau against) "to establish the Human Rights Council […]
By Josh Ruebner In pledging to trim ineffective spending, President Obama declared that "there will be no sacred cows and no pet projects. All across America, families are making hard choices, and it’s time their […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel Barack Obama is often compared to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but it is from the book of another Roosevelt that he has taken a leaf: President Theodore Roosevelt, who, 108 years […]
By Belén Fern
Floods of complaints have forced the Israeli government to withdraw tourism posters from London Underground for featuring a map that treating the occupied Arab lands as part of Israel. "(The ads are) a disingenuous attempt […]
By Rannie Amiri "What we are talking about is not Israelis and Palestinians sitting at the table, but Israelis sitting with Palestinians, Israelis sitting with Syrians, Israelis sitting with Lebanese. And with the Arabs and […]
By Rassool Jibraeel Snyman It risesIn all its brutalityInhumanityBestiality A concrete monsterSnaking through the land of Palestine Speaking gutturally of one people’sHatred of anotherThe exploitation of one by anotherThe theft of land and livesAnd dreamsAnd […]
Israeli troops have shot dead two Palestinian fighters after they approached Israel’s border fence with the Gaza Strip, the military said. An army spokesman on Friday said that the soldiers entered the Gaza Strip to […]
By Guy Gabriel When asked about the alleged Israeli involvement in airstrikes in north-east Sudan in early 2009, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert responded: "There is no point in going into detail, and everybody can use […]
By Franklin Lamb – Beirut "It appears that the Biden visit is part of a US bid to supervise the electoral campaign of a Lebanese party, which feels threatened politically, in light of the expected […]
By Belén Fern
By Ramzy Baroud "Gaza is not on the Pope’s itinerary, nor will it be. There will be no change in these plans. But I’ll say it very clearly, the Pope is absolutely not going to […]
By Muhammed Qasim – Washington As US President Barack Obama prepares to reach out to the Arab and Muslim world from Egypt, a new opinion survey in six Arab countries found a genuine opportunity for […]
In his first interview since the breakdown of talks between Palestinian factions, one leader of the Islamist group Hamas said progress had been made but called the newly-formed Palestinian government a step in the wrong […]
By Joharah Baker – Jerusalem Two major events took place this week, which will most definitely contribute to the shape and outcome of future events in the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The first is the meeting […]
By Nathaniel Mehr – London Judith Butler, Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? (London: Verso, 2009) Frames of War is a searching examination of the intellectual frameworks informing the double-standards which pervade contemporary political, […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London "Lucky we’re not in Gaza," I said to my surgeon last week, "or you wouldn’t have been able to fix my problem." I was lying in a hospital bed in […]
By George S. Hishmeh The Arab world was generally anxious that President Barack Obama would retreat from his view, reiterated recently by several of his key officials, that a Palestinian-Israel settlement merits top and immediate […]
By James Petras Introduction President Obama’s greatest foreign policy successes are found in the reports of the mass media. His greatest failures go unreported, but are of great consequence. A survey of the major foreign […]
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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