The government of the United Kingdom has decided to boycott Israeli diamond and real estate mogul Lev Leviev over his companies’ construction of Israeli settlements on Palestinian land in the Occupied West Bank, the Israeli […]
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged on Tuesday to press hard for Palestinian statehood and open dialogue with Syria, putting Washington on a possible collision course with Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu. "We happen […]
Hamas movement accused on Tuesday, March 3, some in the international community, particularly the United States, of politicizing donations to rebuild the bombed-out Gaza Strip and blackmailing the group to change its policies. “Some participants, […]
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan The Palestinians in the occupied lands and the refugee camps must have been puzzled by those Palestinian leaders’ declarations and commentators’ peppy articles lamenting the loss of the butchers of Gaza, […]
By Ivan Eland A front page article in the New York Times starts out with the sentence: "The budget that President Obama proposed on Thursday is nothing less than an attempt to end a three-decade […]
Defying international calls to halt settlement expansion and dealing a new blow to the two-state solution, Israel will double Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. "The Ministry of Construction and Housing is planning to […]
International donors pledged on Monday, March 2, almost 4.5 billion dollars for the reconstruction of the bombed-out Gaza Strip and the Palestinian economy and called for the "unconditional" opening of all Gaza’s borders. "We have […]
The lack of technical means to transport and process solid waste in Gaza is posing a severe risk to people’s health in the enclave, experts say. Many Gazans, especially children, have developed breathing problems as […]
By Joharah Baker There are some people whose faces betray the difficulties they have encountered throughout their lives. Salah Shweiki is one of them. Sitting under the large tent set up in Silwan’s Bustan Quarter, […]
By Natalie Abou Shakra – Gaza City "Can we take more massacres? Answer me! Can we?" demanded Fadi, an 18 year old student at Palestine University in Gaza. The hall was packed with students in […]
By Iqbal Jassat – Pretoria As Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) struggles to hold onto power, his Israeli-backed reign of the Occupied West Bank is turning into a colossal disaster for the Palestinians. Amidst encouraging signals […]
By Sarah Whalen What can you say about the kids who despised the war on terror? They painted ‘Freedom’ in giant letters on walls. They tied a scarf around the eyes of the ‘Justice’ courthouse […]
By Nathaniel Mehr Robin L. Riley et al Eds, Feminism and War: Confronting US Imperialism (London: Zed Books, 2008). ‘Feminist geopolitics,’ writes Jennifer Hyndman, “aims to recast war as a field of live human subjects […]
By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai This looks like an open season for Dubai bashing. From liberal socialists to idle socialites and from old-fashioned cynics to habitual Arab-Muslim baiters, just about everyone is coming up […]
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago After the 1929 October 24, 28 and 29 market crash, the weekly entertainment industry magazine Variety (on October 30) published its most famous ever headline: "Wall Street Lays an Egg." […]
By Rassool Jibraeel Snyman I look for the stars in Gaza I cannot see them The smoke blinds me The acrid smell of burned flesh chokes me Bodies litter the landscape My hands covered in […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel 979 days have passed since the soldier Gilad Shalit was taken prisoner. On any one of these days it would have been possible to free him for the price fixed […]
By Ramzy Baroud The political outcomes of the Gaza war are yet to be entirely decided with any degree of certainty. However, the obvious political repositioning which was reported as soon as Israel declared its […]
Israeli right-winger Benjamin Netanyahu and centrist Tzipi Livni met on Friday but failed to agree on forming a coalition government and left it unclear whether negotiations between their parties would continue. After meeting for over […]
European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana toured the war-shattered Gaza Strip on Friday, as the EU announced that it would donate $553 million in aid to Gaza. Solana’s trip is the first of its […]
After failure to remove harsh criticism of its major ally Israel, the United States said Saturday, February 28, it will boycott a UN anti-racism conference over claims of anti-Semitism. "We’re not going to further engage […]
With Gaza casting its shadows at the far distance, Sweden has banned fans from a Davis Cup tie, fearing protests over the deadly Israeli war in the densely-populated strip. "We do not agree with the […]
By Jamal Juma’ The Israeli bombing and invasion of Gaza, which has now claimed more than 1,400 lives, generated serious popular backlash the world over. The overwhelmingly weak official positions and statements, especially in the […]
By Terry Lacey – Jakarta There is a strange post war silence about Gaza and Palestine in Indonesia as if the activists and political leaders that got involved have discovered a can of worms. The […]
By Ralph Nader As the 2009 Academy Awards swept their way into history, the glitz and the massive global audiences show that across cultures fictional stories, mythologies and money go hand in hand. As the […]
By Dina Jadallah-Taschler There is an abundance of discourse over the means and methods that are pursued and/or justified by the Palestinians in their quest for independence and liberation. In the first part of this […]
Palestinian factions, including rival Fatah and Hamas, launched on Thursday, February 26, long-awaited Egypt-brokered reconciliation talks with an eye on bridging gaps and forming a national unity government. "They concluded the first day of meeting […]
A group of former international peace negotiators is advocating a re-think of the West’s Hamas isolation policy, insisting that the Palestinian group must be engaged in the peace process. "As former peace negotiators, we believe […]
By Dina Jadallah-Taschler The issue of Palestinian resistance, in terms of its permissibility and types, is a highly inflammatory question for most Western observers. Mainstream media discourse frequently boils down to criticisms and condemnations of its […]
Israel’s outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert shot a thinly-veiled warning at Iran on Thursday after the Islamic state announced the completion of its first nuclear power plant. "We are a strong country, a very strong […]
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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