An Israeli cabinet minister warns of the third Israeli war on Lebanon amid reports that Tel Aviv has mobilized its troops. "We are heading toward a new confrontation in the north," said minister without portfolio, […]
By Stephen Lendman Established in 1989, the MA’AN Development Center is "an independent Palestinian development and training institution….work(ing) towards sustainable human development in Palestine" through its various programs. On October 31, it released a publication […]
Officials in Gaza warn that the dire gas shortage in the blockaded coastal strip could bring closer to reality a humanitarian crisis as a cold winter nears. Mahmoud al-Khaznadar, vice president of the gas station […]
Israel on Wednesday deported an American journalist serving as head of the English department in a Palestinian-based news agency. Jared Malsin, who is contracted to Ma’an News Agency, was deported after being held by authorities […]
The Palestinian Authority (PA) rejects hawkish Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s idea of policing eastern borders of a future Palestinian state. A spokesman for the Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday that […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London Its mission statement says: ‘Trust is the foundation of the BBC: we are independent, impartial and honest.’ However, people are complaining bitterly to the BBC about its pro-Israel stance when […]
By Ramzy Baroud Should the United States be concerned about Iran’s determined efforts to reach out to Latin America? Or, as was suggestively described in the Economist, by the Ayatollahs’ strategy of cozying up to […]
The United Nations and the World Health Organization (WHO) voice concern about the blows the Israeli-imposed blockade have dealt to the Gazan healthcare system. "We are deeply concerned about the current health system in Gaza […]
Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu has attacked the acting Palestinian Authority chief for his refusal to resume peace talks over demands for settlement freeze in the occupied Palestinian territories. "The Palestinians are piling demand upon demand […]
Hamas says it has not received a new Saudi initiative to end the internal divisions among Palestinians and to achieve national reconciliation. In an exclusive interview with Press TV on Tuesday, a member of the […]
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh Tuesday praised the Story of Resistance film festival for supporting the anti-Israeli resistance movement. In a message to the international festival’s closing ceremony, Haniyeh insisted on the legitimate right of the […]
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington The row that took place recently between Israel and Turkey when the Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon undiplomatically “rebuked” the Turkish ambassador to Israel during a humiliating encounter […]
By Jim Miles The Israel-Palestine Conflict – Contested Histories. Neil Caplan. Wiley-Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons), Malden, MA. 2010. There are obviously multiple stories concerning any act or incident, and any series of acts or […]
By Frank Barat A year ago, Israel launched ‘Operation Cast lead’ in Gaza. It started on 27th of December 2008 and finished on 18th of January 2009. Those 22 days were the most brutal and […]
By Mohamed El Mokhtar Sidi Haiba The autocratic regime of Egyptian leader Mubarak is more and more overtly complicit in aiding and abetting the inhumane strangulation and criminal blockade of the Gaza strip. It has […]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM – Israel and the Vatican are negotiating a deal over the ownership and tax status of Christian religious sites in Al-Quds (occupied East Jerusalem). "The Church wishes for safeguards against future ‘taking’ by […]
Israel has opened the floodgates of one of its dams in the eastern part of the Gaza Strip, flooding Palestinian houses and causing severe damage. The Israeli authorities opened the dam’s floodgates without any prior […]
Israel jails a Palestinian peace activist on charges of "illegal arms possession" and inciting stone-throwers. The charges against Abdallah Abu Rahme, 39, the coordinator of the Bil’in Popular Committee, relates largely to a protest exhibition […]
Amnesty International (AI) says both Israel and Egypt are to blame for "collectively punishing" the population of the Gaza Strip with the long-imposed siege of the coastal sliver. "The blockade constitutes collective punishment under international […]
Israeli warships intercepted three fishing boats off the coast of the Gaza Strip and abducted nine Palestinian fishermen on Saturday, Hamas sources say. The Israeli military confirmed it had stopped three fishing boats and arrested […]
Ahead of a Israeli-German cabinet meeting in Berlin, median reports indicate that Israel intends to station one of its German-made Dolphin submarines in the waters of the Persian Gulf. "Israel’s use of the dolphin submarine […]
By Ali Jawad ‘It seems obvious that [the] effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked […] so long as the possessors of power continue to carry on with impunity their policy of collective […]
By Bianca Zammit and Rada Daniell – Gaza The Palestinian Film Forum (the Forum) was established in 2004 as a branch of the Palestinian Artists Union covering both Gaza and the West Bank. In the […]
By M. Shahid Alam On January 12, the New York Times, carried an article by David Brooks on Jews and Israel. It so caught my eye, I decided to bring its conservative author to my […]
By Jeremy Salt Early in the 20th century the Zionist leader Vladimir Jabotinsky wrote of the ‘iron wall’ that would have to be built between the settlers and the indigenous people of Palestine, whom he […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London We keep hearing from the British government that they have spent £millions in humanitarian aid for Gaza. But nobody is saying exactly where the money has gone and who benefited. […]
Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas was bullied by Israel to postpone a UN vote on the Goldstone report last year, an Israeli newspaper says. Abbas’ decision to request the UN Human Rights Council to […]
Tel Aviv, which is at odds with Ankara, has threatened to expel the Turkish ambassador, should Turkish dramas depicting Israeli brutality continue. In a series of confrontations between the once-close allies, Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister […]
A high ranking European parliamentary delegation in the Gaza Strip has called for the prosecution of Israeli officials over war crimes in the territory. The high ranking delegation which includes 60 parliament members of 12 […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel I tried to resist the temptation to tell the same classical Jewish joke a second time, but circumstances delivered a plausible excuse. Almost every Jew knows the sentence “Kill a […]
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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