A Jewish-American extremist, Jack Teitel, has been charged in Jerusalem Al-Quds district court with 14 counts, including shooting two Palestinians to death. District attorney, Sague Ofir, said it was an "extraordinary" case with regards to […]
Ismail Haniyah cautions about Israeli plans for another military offensive against the Gaza Strip, reiterating that it is not the Islamic Hamas movement that is after a war. Hamas is "not looking for more violence," […]
By Jeff Gates When waging war ‘by way of deception,’ the motto of the Israeli Mossad, well-timed crises play a critical agenda-setting role by displacing facts with what a target population can be deceived to […]
The United Nations’ top human rights official has called for taking punitive measures against Israel over committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay told the Security Council on […]
The leader of the Lebanese group Hezbollah has accused Barack Obama, the US president, of ‘absolute bias’ in favour of Israel and of disregard for the dignity of Arabs and Muslims. In a televised speech […]
Twaneh School in Hebron has seen some improvements since former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair paid it a visit as UN Middle East envoy last year. The track leading from the school to the new […]
The latest attempt by the US president to salvage the Middle East peace talks appears to have come to nothing after his meeting with Israel’s prime minister ended with only a brief statement from the […]
Israel is facing mounting criticism over its continued settlement expansion as Tel Aviv allies see the prospects of peace through a two-state solution vanish into thin air. In a meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah in […]
A prominent leader of the Hamas movement has stated that no one will be sorry about the departure of Mahmoud Abbas from the political stage because he achieved nothing for the Palestinian people. Mahmoud al-Zahar, […]
Efforts to revive Middle East peace talks have so far failed to bear any result, says US Assistant Secretary of State William Burns. "I wish I could stand before you today and point to substantial […]
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington DC Like most of his predecessors, Barack Obama has failed to come up with a logical approach to resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, now in its 62nd year. Many optimists on […]
Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas has threatened to resign because of the impasse in peace negotiations. Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said on Tuesday that if the efforts to revive peace talks that can […]
The deputy director of the Hamas political bureau says the Islamic Resistance Movement is the pulse of the Arab and Islamic nations. This is because Hamas is the main advocate of resistance against Zionist occupation […]
The Palestinian Authority has warned of an inevitable violence in the region, should the US fail to force Israel into halting settlement activity on the occupied lands. "If America remains unable to assume its required […]
In a joint military drill held in October, the US and Israeli military simulated unconventional attacks on Israeli towns, a report says. Israeli and American soldiers launched the three-week Juniper Cobra military exercise in October […]
By Ramzy Baroud When British Foreign Secretary David Miliband uttered a few words regarding the illegality of the Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, many wanted to believe that London was taking a sharp stance […]
By Uri Avnery Mahmoud Abbas is fed up. The day before yesterday he withdrew his candidacy for the coming presidential election in the Palestinian Authority. I understand him. He feels betrayed. And the traitor is Barack […]
By Aijaz Zaka Syed- Dubai My apologies for returning to Rudyard Kipling in every discussion about Afghanistan! But the man, who gave us such enduring classics as Jungle Book and an endless repertoire of tales, ballads, […]
Following years of persistent threats by Israel to attack Iran, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister rejects speculations that the warnings are just a bluff, insisting they are very real. Nearly three weeks after three consecutive days […]
Israel drastically fails to meet all requirements of a tolerant pluralistic society, according to a US State Department report issued on Saturday. The report, written by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, indicates […]
By George Hishmeh – Washington DC The first nine months of US President Barack Obama’s tenure at the White House have been pregnant with thought-provoking ideas and commendable aspirations aimed at improving the tarnished US […]
By M. Shahid Alam At the outset of the classes I teach, I always address the question of bias in the social sciences. In one course – on the history of the global economy – […]
Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, has said that he is to pass a report alleging Israeli and Palestinian war crimes during the former’s offensive on the Gaza Strip to the UN Security Council. "As […]
The General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly in favor of a report, which accuses Israel of war crimes as well as crimes against humanity during the weeks-long onslaught on the Gaza Strip. 114 states endorsed a […]
Norway has dismissed a complaint filed by a group of lawyers accusing Israeli officials of committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip. Chief prosecutor Siri Frigaard dismissed the complaint, claiming "there is no good reason" […]
By Steve Breyman From December 27, 2008 through January 18, 2009, Israel waged war on the Gaza Strip. Twelve to fourteen hundred Palestinians were killed, including many women and children. Thirteen Israelis were killed; several […]
By Franklin Lamb- Beirut On November 4, 2009, the 30th anniversary of the student takeover of the American Embassy in Tehran, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini gave a speech which is being much discussed […]
By John V. Whitbeck In the wake of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s public praise for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s ‘unprecedented’ attitude toward continued Israeli settlement expansion, Saeb Erakat, chief negotiator for the […]
The following is a joint press release, drafted and submitted by the following Palestinian Organizations: Adalah – Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel – Al Dameer Association for Human Rights – Al-Haq – […]
South African Judge Richard Goldstone’s name may spark anger for some in Israel, but in Gaza the name is synonymous with heroism and to prove it, it is being sewn onto souvenir Palestinian headscarves in […]
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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