The World Council of Churches (WCC) has called for "resistance" against Israel’s decision to expand its settlements in east Jerusalem Al-Quds. WCC declared that the expansion of the Israeli settlements "may destroy any chance for […]
Austria has condemned Israel’s decision to expand its settlements in occupied Palestinian lands, saying such a decision is a deliberate move to block peace efforts. "Israel’s ongoing settlement policy is increasingly becoming a targeted effort […]
By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai Just when relations between the United States and the Islamic world appeared to be improving slowly but decisively, thanks to President Barack Obama, it seems we are back to […]
By William A. Cook ‘After so many years of setting the tone, bribing UK politicians and controlling the BBC they (Zionists) are used to being untouchable.’ (Gilad Atzmon, “Britain Must de-Zionist Itself Immediately,” Nov. 17, […]
On Tuesday, Israel announced plans to build 900 new homes in Gilo neighborhood in East Jerusalem (Al-Quds). Israel’s decision to erect hundreds of new housing units in the West Bank have dismayed in the United […]
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington There is growing frustration, inside and outside the United States, with the otherwise attractive Obama administration primarily because of its failure to bring about any measurable change in U.S. […]
By Ramzy Baroud A Muslim family sits across of me in café, in a largely Muslim Asia country. An older woman shyly hunches over and desperately trying to avoid eye contact with the giant plasma […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London Last night Channel 4’s ‘Dispatches’ program set out to investigate the pro-Israel lobby in Britain, and to boldly go where no TV team had gone before. On the Dispatches website we were […]
By James Gundun – Washington DC ‘Israel is prepared to hold negotiations without precondition with the Syrians,’ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proclaimed last week, shunning his usual rhetoric that Syria isn’t serious about peace. […]
Just as news of the early release of a book about Gaza was made public, hackers mobilized, taking down the personal website of the prominent Palestinian writer, Ramzy Baroud. In the past week, the author’s […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth An Israeli judge made an historic ruling last week when he decided that an Arab teenager needed "protection" from the justice system and ordered that he not be convicted despite […]
By The Palestine Chronicle A Gaza book, regarded as a ‘people’s history of Gaza’ which has won many endorsements prior to its release, will be marketed in the US as a ‘trade title’, publisher and […]
Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, has warned the Palestinian leadership against any attempts to unilaterally declare statehood for the Gaza Strip, the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. West Bank-based Palestinian officials said on Sunday […]
Israel has threatened to annex more land in the occupied West Bank, should Palestinians declare statehood without concluding a peace agreement. "If the Palestinians take such a unilateral line, Israel should also consider … passing […]
The wife of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks out to keep alive the memory of Palestinian women and children suffering from a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. Iranian First Lady Azam Farahi urged world […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel When the TV news starts with a murder, people are relieved. This means that no war has broken out, no suicide bomb has exploded, no Qassam rocket has been launched […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Right-wing groups in Israel want to create a climate of fear among left-wing scholars at Israeli universities by emulating the ‘witch-hunt’ tactics of the US academic monitoring group Campus Watch, Israeli professors […]
Palestinian officials are preparing to ask the United Nations to endorse their quest for an independent state after years of failed peace talks, Palestinian authorities have said. Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, said officials […]
The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has warned that Israel is fabricating pretexts to launch a fresh military offensive on the Gaza Strip. Israel recently accused Hamas of having test-fired a long-range missile that could reach […]
Talking to the press alongside US officials in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Sunday, Salam Fayyad dismissed Israeli concerns as irrelevant and said, "They’re talking about unilateralism, to which we reply yes, building […]
By Ron Forthofer This past September, the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict issued its report. Richard Goldstone, a South African Justice and a strong supporter of Israel, headed the effort. During the […]
By Deepak Sarkar ‘In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.’ — The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Nobel Laureate (Former British Admiral […]
By Professor Haidar Eid – Gaza Strip Dear Mr. President, You will probably not read this letter due to your busy schedule and the huge number of messages you receive from Presidents, Kings, Princes, Sheiks, […]
Israeli soldiers have killed a Palestinian and wounded at least one other in a confrontation near a Gaza Strip crossing, the Israeli army and Palestinian medical workers said. An Israeli military official said their troops […]
Israeli forces have opened fire on Palestinian protesters in the West Bank village of Naalin, leaving two of them wounded. Palestinians demonstrating against the Israeli separation wall, said Israeli forces resorted to force and used […]
By Franklin Lamb- Beirut If those in Lebanon watching the news on 11/12/09 blinked they might have missed an interesting news item. It appeared at approximately 4:20 pm on Narharnet.com, the pro-US/Saudi news website. The news […]
By Steve Lendman – Chicago A personal note. This writer was stationed at Fort Hood in summer 1956, a quiet time, post-Korea and pre-Vietnam, when terrorism and Islamophbia weren’t issues, and shooting only happened on […]
The Palestinian Authority’s Central Elections Commission Chairman blames Hamas for a likely postponement of the upcoming elections in Gaza. Hanna Nasser, talking to reporters in the central West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday, said […]
Israeli forces detain two Palestinians and nine foreign nationals working on the ‘Green Palestine’ project near the village of Umm Salamoneh south of Beit Lahm (Bethlehem). Ibrahim Awad, the coordinator of the Popular Committee Against […]
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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