Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to build a wall on the border with Egypt to prevent African migrants from changing Israel’s racial balance. Netanyahu believes building a wall along the southern borders with […]
European Union foreign ministers have agreed on the recognition of Jerusalem Al-Quds as the "joint capital" of both Israelis and the Palestinians. The foreign minister meeting for a second day of talks in Brussels adopted […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London The great Viva Palestina convoy is on its way. It left London on Sunday, with the media doing their best not to notice despite photo opportunities and a press event […]
A British lawmaker has called on Muslims and all freedom-seeking people across the world to make efforts to lift blockades on the Gaza Strip and help the oppressed Palestinians. People in Gaza are in dire […]
European Foreign Ministers are expected to discuss a Swedish proposal which calls on Israel to recognize East Jerusalem Al-Quds as the capital of Palestine. According to a draft statement obtained by media outlets, the EU […]
Israeli forces have shot dead an Israeli man who tried to cross a barrier surrounding the Gaza Strip near the Erez crossing, the Israeli military says. The Israeli man was shot dead in the early […]
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit says Israel is stalling on a prisoner swap with Hamas by refusing to free certain Palestinian prisoners. "Israel is still placing obstacles toward releasing all those demanded by the […]
As the international community demands a complete halt in Israel’s settlement activities, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims his "one-time" and "temporary" settlement freeze shows Israel is after peace with the Palestinians. Netanyahu last week announced […]
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago They’re numerous, outspoken, and range from secular to orthodox to one group calling itself "True Torah Jews Against Zionism." They believe that "traditional" Jews don’t support Zionism, an ideology they call […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Some 35,000 Bedouin residents of Israel’s southern Negev have been denied the right to hold their first local council election after the Israeli parliament passed a law at the last minute to […]
An international aid convoy is scheduled to take humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip from London, marking the first year anniversary of Israel’s three week war against Gazans. The Viva Palestina convoy of 250 vehicles […]
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri says even if prisoner exchange negotiations are completed, Israel will not end the siege of Gaza. Zuhri made the remarks on Saturday following Israeli media reports quoting officials close to […]
Israeli authorities deny Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheal Martin permission to visit the impoverished coastal sliver of Gaza which has long been under an Israeli siege. Speaking at the Oireachtas Committee on European Affairs […]
By William A. Cook Ben Gurian ‘…realized that the holy book could be made into a secular national text, serve as a central repository of ancient collective imagery, help forge the hundreds of thousands of […]
By Trond Øverland Listening to Grasshoppers; Field Notes on Democracy, Arundhati Roy, Hamish Hamilton, Penguin, India 2009, 240 pages, 499 rupees. Arundhati Roy is an unusual Indian woman. Instead of acting the graceful upholder of […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel It would have been the epitome of political kitsch. Binyamin Netanyahu and ten of his ministers were to hold a joint meeting with Angela Merkel and ten members of the […]
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago During Israel’s war on Gaza, only 5 of 535 congressional members dissented on pro-Israeli resolutions. On January 8, 2009, the Senate unanimously passed S 10: "A resolution recognizing the right […]
Some Israeli Knesset members opposed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s partial settlement freeze are drafting a bill to unfreeze settlement construction. Opposing Likud and Kadima parties’ members said on Thursday that they are drafting a […]
The European Union accuses Israel of actively pursuing the annexation of East Jerusalem Al-Quds, undermining hopes for peace with Palestinians. Diplomats in Brussels say an EU meeting on Monday is to likely to discuss the […]
Top political leader of the Hamas movement in Lebanon, Osama Hamdan, has ruled out reports that the prisoner of war, Gilad Shalit, has been moved to Egypt as part of the efforts to reach a […]
Israel has barred Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, head of the Higher Islamic Committee in Jerusalem Al-Quds, from the Al-Aqsa Mosque for six months. The restriction order was handed to Sheikh Sabri, the Khatib (speaker) of the […]
By Mary Rizzo Anyone who has witnessed the events in Palestine/Israel has been able to notice a cycle that repeats itself continually between the two groups of people. It can be summed up in two […]
In apparent defiance of a recently announced plan for a moratorium on new construction work in the West Bank, Israel has approved expanding settlements there. The coordinator of government activities in the occupied territories, Maj. […]
A top PLO member says Israel’s 10-month freeze in settlement activity in the West Bank is a cover for a dangerous plot to take over East Jerusalem Al-Quds. Former Palestinian Authority prime minister Ahmed Qurei, […]
A senior commander for the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Hamas movement, has died in the central Gaza Strip. "Yasser Sabri Radi, 37, a field commander in the Qassam Brigades from […]
By Dr. Haidar Eid – Gaza The Palestinians have ‘realized,’ thanks to Hilary Clinton, that the US is biased towards Israel. According to the American Secretary of State, negotiations between "the two parties" should resume […]
By M. Shahid Alam ‘The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the foremost minds of the ruled class, the more stable and dangerous becomes its rule.’ — Karl Marx A few days back, […]
By Ahmed Amr Let it never be said that Pan-Arab nationalism died with a whimper. In the streets of Cairo, Algiers and Khartoum – Algerians and Egyptians celebrated the final death knell with gusto. But […]
By Kevin Zeese If I ever get cancer, I want Barack Obama to tell me I’m dying. He could probably convince someone like me who does not believe in the supernatural that death is life. He […]
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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