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Month: January 2010

Obama: I Will Never Waver from Supporting Israel
Although US President Barack Obama vaguely acknowledged Israel as the cause of Palestinian "plight," he affirmed that he will never waver from support for Tel Aviv. Obama made the remarks in a speech to a […]

Obama Now Focusing on Domestic Concerns
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington DC Considering the serious economic woes that many Americans faced last year, and are still facing, President Barack devoted most of his first State of the Union address before […]

‘Attack on Hezbollah is Attack on Lebanon’
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (R) meets with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri at the Presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, January 28. Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri said on Thursday that Israel’s threats against Hezbollah […]

Settlers Seek to Recruit Indian Immigrants
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth The Israeli government is reported to have quietly approved the fast-track immigration of 7,000 members of a supposedly “lost Jewish” tribe, known as the Bnei Menashe, currently living in a remote […]

Israeli Tanks Target Gaza Homes, Farmlands
Israeli army tanks have opened fire on houses and farmlands in the eastern parts of the Gaza Strip, according to a report by the International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC). A number of Israeli tanks […]

Is Obama’s Magic Fading?
By Ali Younes – Washington DC For those who had hoped that President Obama’s first State of the Union speech would bring some vigor to troubled Middle East peace process, or bringing a new strategy […]

How the Great Howard Zinn Made All Our Lives Better
[Doctor Howard Zinn died of a heart attack on January 27, at the age of 87. A well-beloved figure, the author, historian, educator, and social-activist was best known for his tome, A People’s History of […]

No Peace Talks with Israel Before Settlement Freeze
Former Palestinian Authority foreign minister Nabil Sha’ath says peace talks with the current Israeli administration is unlikely on account of its construction in West Bank settlements. "Israel’s threats to invade the Gaza Strip and American […]

Israeli Supreme Court Chief Struck with Sneaker
An Israeli man has hurled his sneakers at Israel’s Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch breaking her glasses and knocking her off the chair. The shoe-thrower, Pinchas "Pini" Cohen, entered a hearing on medical marijuana on […]

It’s Not a New Turkey, It’s The Right Time
By Ramzy Baroud Uri Avnery’s assessment of the recent Israeli-Turkish diplomatic and political row – that “the relationship between Turkey and Israel will probably return to normal, if not to its former degree of warmth” […]

Israel Accuses Turkish PM of Anti Semitism
Israel has accused Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of inciting "anti-Semitism" by making remarks on the war crimes committed against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. A new report prepared by the foreign ministry […]

US Lawmakers Press Obama on Gaza Siege
A number of US congressmen have written to President Barack Obama, urging him to pressure Israel to ease the blockade of the Gaza Strip over humanitarian concerns. "We ask you to press for immediate relief […]

Holocaust Day Invite Raises Storm in Israel
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth An Arab member of the Israeli parliament has sparked controversy among Jews and Arabs in Israel over his decision to join an official Israeli delegation commemorating International Holocaust Day today at […]

Auschwitz Survivor Sees Nazi Acts in Israel
A Nazi death camp survivor slams Israel over its occupation of Palestine, drawing an analogy between the Israeli army’s indignations and the conduct of Nazi forces during World War II. "The Israelis tried to dehumanize […]

Israeli Exceptionalism
By Ahrar Ahmad M. Shahid Alam. Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) pp. 274. Dr. Shahid Alam is primarily an economist and an educator. But, he is also a […]

PA Blasted for Failing to Hold Elections
Human rights groups rap the Palestinian Authority leadership for failing to hold parliamentary and presidential elections before a January 25 deadline set by the Basic Law. According to the Basic Law, Palestinians were to go […]

Mubarak Condones Gaza Starvation, Hamas Suggests
Egypt’s defense of the sealing its border with Gaza amounts to condoning of the Palestinian suffering, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas suggests. Hamas Spokesman Mushir al-Masri on Monday offered the group’s reaction to the argument […]

Blockade Threatens Students’ Future in Gaza
Many students in the Gaza Strip aspire to a higher education abroad but the Israeli-Egyptian blockade deprives them of setting out on their journey. Hundreds of Gaza graduates receive scholarship to attend universities abroad, but […]


Lebanon, Middle East Reject AIPAC’s H.R. 2278
By Franklin Lamb – Beirut It is being reported in Beirut this morning that at exactly 3 a.m. Beirut time, a supporter of the National Lebanese Resistance led by Hezbollah, on duty above the Mediterranean coastal […]

Agents of Imperial Terror: Aggression and the Goldstone Report
By Jennifer Loewenstein – Madison, WI At the Nuremburg Tribunal in 1945 ‘Aggression’ was defined as ‘the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil […]

Israel Creates First ‘Army-owned’ University
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Ehud Barak, Israel’s defence minister, approved last week the upgrading to university status of a college in a settlement located deep inside the West Bank, a move certain to further undermine […]

Israel Sends Goldstone Rebuttal to UN
Israel has almost completed a rebuttal to the Goldstone report which criticizes Tel Aviv for committing war crimes in its last year war on the Gaza Strip. According to a report published by The New […]

Netanyahu: Israel will Never Quit Settlements
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that the Jewish settlement blocs in the West Bank would always remain part of Israel. Netanyahu made the remark during a ceremony to mark Israeli Arbor Day in the […]

Israel Bars Belgian Minister Way into Gaza
A Belgian minister, barred by Israel from visiting the Gaza Strip, has declared that he will take the matter to the European Union. Israel on Sunday prevented Belgian Cooperation and Development Minister Charles Michel from […]

Mubarak Defends Gaza Wall Despite Criticism
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has strongly defended his decision to construct an underground "Iron Wall" on the border with the Gaza Strip. Mubarak, who has come under international fire for aiding Israel in imposing a […]

The Liebarak: A Two-headed Monster
By Uri Avnery The business is registered in the name of Binyamin Netanyahu. But the reality is different. Netanyahu has never been more than a slick patent medicine salesman. That is a type that appears frequently […]

PA Appoints First Female Governor
The Palestinian Authority’s first female governor was sworn into office by acting PA chief Mahmoud Abbas on Friday. Laila Ghannam, who was the acting governor of Ramallah for six months, was officially appointed as the […]

Mitchell Can’t Jump-start Mideast Peace Talks
Israelis and Palestinians began pointing fingers at each other after US special envoy for the Middle East George Mitchell failed to convince both sides to return to peace talks. Acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas […]

Hamas to Stand Firm until the Very End, Says Meshaal
On the anniversary of the end of Israel’s war on Gaza, Head of Hamas political bureau Khaled Meshaal says Palestinians will never back down from resisting the Israeli occupation. on Friday, Meshaal highlighted national unity, […]