The number of Arab residents of East Jerusalem Al-Quds stripped of their residency rights by the Israeli Interior Ministry strikes an all-time record. Last year, the ministry revoked the residency of 4,577 Palestinian residents of […]
The Hamas interior minister says that a prisoner exchange with Israel is likely to take place this month as a German mediator is in Gaza City to deliver Israel’s final response to Hamas’ demands over […]
Retired international soccer star Zinedine Zidane will be paying a visit to the Gaza Strip as part of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) efforts to promote peace between Palestinians and Israelis. The three-time FIFA […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the regime will return to settlement construction after a "temporary" moratorium on new construction in the occupied West Bank. Netanyahu said on Tuesday that a 10-month settlement freeze he […]
By Alfred Warkentin – Montreal All agree. Only America is important. There’s a current of opinion in the Middle East that says: "If you want peace, you don’t want justice." Peace, peace, but there is […]
By Franklin Lamb – South Beirut, Lebanon Like many liberation and resistant movement ‘Manifestos’, ‘Charters’ or ‘Declarations’ issued to the public early in its founding – the African National Congress, Palestine Liberation Organization, Hamas, Algerian FLN, and various […]
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington It is par for the course for the mainstream American media to adopt the U.S. official line on U.S. foreign policy, especially when it concerns the Arab-Israeli conflict, rather than […]
Israeli army tanks have opened fire on houses and farmlands in the northern sector of the Gaza Strip, according to a report. A number of Israeli tanks commenced firing Monday afternoon while withdrawing from an […]
While Israel has already defied a 10-month settlement freeze it had earlier announced, settlers and right wing politicians say they "will do everything" to continue the illegal constructions. "We will do everything we can to […]
Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah says the movement provides Lebanon with stability and security against a ‘permanent threat called Israel’. Speaking at a press conference in Beirut, Nasrallah said that Israel has always been […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London (Open letter to: The Most Rev. and the Rt. Hon. the Archbishop of Canterbury, Spiritual leader of the Anglican Church) Dear Archbishop, Two years ago, on returning from Gaza and […]
By Jim Miles Canwest Global Communications Inc. is owned by the Asper family, with Leonard Asper its current CEO. The corporation is decidedly pro-Israel and frequently has news articles on television or in the daily […]
By Dr. Ludwig Watzal On December 10, 2009, President Barack Hussein Obama will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. The award was premature, and for Obama it will be a heavy burden. That […]
Israel claims it may release 980 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for its captive soldier Gilad Shalit, taken prisoner by the Hamas Islamic resistance fighters. Israel’s ‘State Prosecution’ said it is likely to free the 450 […]
The Israeli navy has fired several shells at a number of Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of Gaza. The Israeli navy opened fire on the fishermen near the al-Shudaniyya shore, northwest of Gaza City. […]
A Likud activist has accused US President Barack Obama of being anti-Semitic for his repeated calls for a settlement freeze in the West Bank. About 200 Likud activists attended a meeting on Saturday to express […]
By Stu Harrison Israel’s ongoing takeover of East Jerusalem shows it is trying to kill any hope of a negotiated settlement to Palestine’s struggle for self-determination. Israel approved plans to build 844 housing units outside […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Israel’s finance minister was accused last week of trying to deflect attention from discriminatory policies keeping many of the country’s Arab families in poverty by blaming their economic troubles on what […]
By Sonja Karkar The news that former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was in Australia and was welcomed by the honourable members of our parliament came as somewhat of a shock. It is one thing to […]
Israel plans to develop tourist magnets in the West Bank despite pledging to temporarily halt settlement construction in the occupied territories. Israeli Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov announced the plans, hot on the heels of a […]
Israeli troops have fired tear gas, rubber-coated bullets, and live ammunition at an anti-apartheid wall rally, injuring several Palestinians in the West Bank village of Nil’in. In retaliation, the Palestinian protesters, including international activists, threw […]
Two Palestinians have reportedly died, succumbing to injuries they suffered in an Israeli air raid on a Gaza-based refugee camp. The Israeli army reported that one Gazan had died after a Friday aerial bombardment it […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel Thomas Friedman, the New York Times columnist, has an idea. That happens to him quite often. One might almost say – too often. It goes like this: The US will […]
By Jim Miles The task of saving and reviving humanity oft times appears overwhelming when studied from a fully global perspective: occupations, wars, and terror abounds; starvation, disease, poverty, homelessness, accompany the wars and are […]
By Alfred Warkentin When ‘W’ walked into the Oval Office he was a theocracy. He had received his orders; he understood them. From the moment he sat down he knew he was about God’s work. […]
Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas has dismissed Israel’s plan for a ‘temporary halt’ in settlement construction as insufficient to resume peace negotiations. During his first visit to Venezuela, Abbas said on Friday that "we […]
The US and Israel welcome a decision by the UN atomic watchdog to censure Iran over the construction of its Fordo enrichment plant. "Our patience and that of the international community is limited, and time […]
By Ghada Karmi Palestinian history is at one of its most serious and important junctures. The peace negotiations that commenced with the Oslo accords in 1993 are at an end. Even hardened devotees of the […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London The UK is now in the grip of festive fever as the nation prepares for the customary annual binge called Christmas. Despite the recession families are being urged to spend, […]
By Adam Shapiro One year ago, I watched election results coming in for Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District, where my friend and colleague Tom Perriello was challenging incumbent Virgil Goode, Jr. CNN kept flipping the winner […]
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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