Sons of Eilaboun
By Gilad Atzmon – London The truth of the Nakba has been hidden for many decades. Not many except the Palestinians are aware of the scale of 1948 ethnic expulsions and even fewer are aware […]
Year: 2009
Muslims Play Kingmaker in India
By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai It seems nothing succeeds like success. With Congress party registering a spectacular victory in the world’s biggest election, every pundit who cribbed about the Congress-led alliance and predicted its […]
Israel Stages Gaza Raids as PM Faces US Pressure
Israeli warplanes bombed a Hamas security outpost and tunnels by the Gaza border with Egypt late Tuesday in response to a rocket attack as the government faced fresh pressure from the United States to freeze […]
Israel PM Ready to Launch Mideast Peace Talks
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday he told U.S. President Barack Obama he was willing to launch peace talks with the Palestinians and Syria immediately. "I said that I was ready to immediately […]
Spy Chief Dismisses West Bank Wall
The head of Israel’s internal security service has said that Israel has no need to continue building its separation wall between Israel and the West Bank. Yuval Diskin, who heads Shin Bet, told a subcommittee […]
Can Obama Meet Netanyahu’s Challenge?
By Mustafa Barghouthi I cannot recall a more important meeting between an American president and an Israeli prime minister than today’s meeting between President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Will the Obama administration have […]
The Hebrew Republic
By Jim Miles The Hebrew Republic – How Secular Democracy and Global Enterprise Will Bring Israel Peace at Last. Bernard Avishai. Harcourt (Houghton Mifflin), Orlando. 2008. Two events have severely diminished the prospects of this […]
Playing Beach Tennis While the Helicopters Pass by
By Mats Svensson – Tel Aviv We don’t know if we should stay. Late afternoon on the beach in Bat Jam south of Tel Aviv. There is a cool breeze. Just a few middle aged […]
Abbas Unveils Palestinian Cabinet
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has unveiled a new government that excludes Hamas but comprises half of the cabinet from his Fatah faction. The government was sworn in on Tuesday at a ceremony in the […]
Israel ‘Deaf’ to Two-State Solution
US calls for a two-state solution "fell on deaf ears", the Palestinians’ chief negotiator with Israel has said. Speaking to Al Jazeera on Tuesday, the day after the first official meeting between Barack Obama, the […]
Hezbollah on Alert for Israel’s Largest-ever Maneuvers
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah warned late Monday that his Lebanese Shiite party was ready to fight a new war with Israel as the Jewish state prepares for one of its largest military exercises ever later […]
‘Terror’ Channels Face Freedom Threat
By Iqbal Jassat – Pretoria The perception that many American policies are influenced by Israel has been given a further boost with the latest attempt by the US Congress to silence free speech. The current […]
Boats from Libya Threaten Italian Identity
By Belén Fern
Cairo Expecting Fatah-Hamas Unity Agreement
Palestinian delegations representing President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party and the Islamist movement Hamas agreed on Sunday on forming a common security force in the Gaza Strip until the beginning of elections in January 2010, a […]
Tough Life for Palestinians in Neglected ‘Gatherings’
For the last 30 years Ali Mohammed Hindawi, aged 84, has lived alone in a rusty tin shack in south Lebanon, without water, electricity or a toilet, sleeping among chickens, flies and litter, and separated […]
Obama and Netanyahu Differ in Talks
Israel’s prime minister has refused to commit to an independent Palestinian state during talks with Barack Obama, the US president, at the White House. Binyamin Netanyahu told Obama that he wanted the Palestinians to govern […]
Bible Quotes Color US Iraq War Reports
Cover sheets for Iraq war intelligence reports written for then Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and presented to the White House were adorned with biblical quotations, according to pictures posted by the GQ magazine […]
How Many Secret Prisons Does Israel Have?
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth The United Nation’s watchdog on torture has criticized Israel for refusing to allow inspections at a secret prison, dubbed by critics as "Israel’s Guantanamo Bay", and demanded to know if more […]
Israel, Ahmadinejad and Peace: Interview with Ramzy Baroud
By Kourosh Ziabari Ramzy Baroud numbers among remarkable Palestinian journalists, alongside such figures as Khalid Amayreh and Laila el-Haddad. Having been a producer for Aljazeera, he taught Mass Communication at Australia’s Curtin University of Technology, […]
Obama’s Animal Farm: Bigger, Bloodier Wars
By James Petras ‘The Deltas are psychos…You have to be a certified psychopath to join the Delta Force,’ a US Army colonel from Fort Bragg once told me back in the 1980’s. Now President Obama […]
Israel and Palestinian Unity: Quarrel on the Titanic
By Uri Avnery – Israel One of the happiest moments in my life occurred in a restaurant. It happened before the second Intifada. I had invited Rachel to celebrate her birthday with dinner at a […]
Months On, Gazans Still Homeless
Despite billions of dollars of international aid pledges, thousands of Palestinian families in Gaza Strip still live in open air, months after Israel’s deadly war in the besieged strip. "We are living in a corridor […]
Gazans Remember 1948 Exodus
Thousands of Palestinians have gathered in the Gaza Strip to mark the 61st anniversary of the "Nakba", or "catastrophe", which describes the dispersal of hundreds of thousands of refugees following the creation of Israel. In […]
Netanyahu Won’t Back Palestinian State in US: MP
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will refuse on his trip to Washington to back the formation of a Palestinian state, an MP close to the premier said Saturday, according to Israeli national radio. "Netanyahu will […]
Pope Ends Middle East Pilgrimage
On the final day of his visit to the Holy Land, Pope Benedict XVI criticized Israel’s building of a wall separating Jerusalem and Bethlehem and called for the creation of a Palestinian state. The pontiff […]
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago After two years of ‘underground’ work, it was launched with a ‘successful press conference’ and announcement that: "The Russell Tribunal on Palestine seeks to reaffirm the primacy of international law […]
Arab-Latin American Cooperation: Shared Interests
By Martin Saatdjian – Venezuela The recently held summit of Arab and South American leaders in Doha, Qatar, took place during a very critical historical moment for humankind. Social, environmental, food, and economic crises have […]
‘There is Still Time to Separate’?
By Terry Lacey – Jakarta The mythological Ousalam bird became extinct because its mating dance was so complicated that it forgot the reason for doing it. Now we enter a new phase in the Middle […]
