Gaza’s Only Power Plant May be Forced to Shut Down
Gaza officials have warned that if no fuel is received, the Gaza Strip’s only power plant will have to be shut down on Friday night. The plant had already stopped services to all but 30-40 […]
Month: February 2010
Berlusconi Likens Gaza to Holocaust
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a stout ally of Tel Aviv, believes the victims of Israel’s Gaza war deserve the same empathy as that given to the victims of the Holocaust, The Financial Times reported […]
UN Unsure if Gaza Probes Set up
The UN secretary general has said he cannot determine if the Israelis and Palestinians have complied with a UN demand to carry out credible and independent investigations into alleged war crimes during the war in […]
Israel: When the Gun Turns
By Shafiq Morton If you’re a budding student of surrealism, I would recommend Israel. It will prove to be your greatest project. I can assure you that Israel’s bizarre political landscape will provide you with […]
Cracks in Israel’s Armor
By James Gundun – Washington America and Israel are fond of comparing similarities. Religious persecution, the desire to found new worlds, democracy, high technology – they seem to share all their strengths. They share a […]
Report: Israel Stole $2bn from Palestinian Workers
By Jonathan Cook – Jerusalem Over the past four decades Israel has defrauded Palestinians working inside Israel of more than $2 billion by deducting from their salaries contributions for welfare benefits to which they were […]
Hamas: Netanyahu to Blame for Prisoner Swap Deadlock
A leading member of the Hamas political bureau, Mahmoud al-Zahar, says negotiations between the movement and Israel over a prisoner swap involving Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and hundreds of long-serving Palestinian prisoners have broken down. […]
‘More Than a Book, It’s a Masterpiece’: My Father Was a Freedom Fighter
By Gilad Atzmon – London Ramzy Baroud’s ‘My Father Was A Freedom Fighter’ is more than a book, it is actually a masterpiece. In an overwhelmingly evoking personal style Baroud manages to bring to light […]
Israel Not Serious about Peace, Says Syria
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says Israel is not serious about achieving peace since all facts point out that Tel Aviv is pushing the region towards war. "Israel is not serious in achieving peace and that […]
Hamas Raps Fayyad over Attending Israeli Conference
Hamas has denounced the Palestinian Authority for the participation of the caretaker Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in an Israeli conference. Fayyad addressed Israel’s 10th annual Herzilya conference on Tuesday, following remarks by Tel Aviv’s Defense […]
Hamas Rejects Goldstone Report Accusations
Hamas has rejected accusations leveled against the movement that it had committed "war crimes" during the last year Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip. A UN Human Rights Council report that was compiled by a […]
Beware the Iron Wall, the Coming War
By Ramzy Baroud The Israeli military may be much less effective in winning wars than it was in the past, thanks to the stiffness of Arab resistance. But its military strategists are as shrewd and […]
Syria Warns Israel against Military Offensive
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem has cautioned Israel against any act of adventurism and launching a war against his country, saying such a move would only endanger the regime’s stability. "Israelis, do not test the […]
Israeli Hypocrisy in Haiti
By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai Israeli hypocrisy would be comical, if its consequences weren’t so tragic. These days, Israeli media and Israel’s powerful friends in the US media have been tomtomming about the noble […]
Hamas: Prisoner Swap Talks Deadlocked
Hamas leader Mahmoud az-Zahar says negotiations for a prisoner swap deal between his group and Israel have reached a dead end. "As regarding negotiations, as of now the process has failed," he said on Tuesday […]
Israeli Warplanes Bomb Gaza Supply Tunnels
Israeli warplanes have targeted and attacked a number of supply tunnels in the Gaza Strip in what the Israeli military said was retaliation for Palestinian rocket fire into southern Israel. Witnesses and medics said nine […]
Israel: Laws Set to Criminalize Dissent
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Leaders of the Arab minority in Israel warned this week that they were facing an unprecedented campaign of persecution, backed by the right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu, designed to stop their […]
Israeli Occupation Supportive Companies to Boycott
By Stephen Lendman In July 2005, a coalition of 171 Palestinian Civil Society organizations created the global BDS movement for "Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel Until it Complies with International Law and Universal Principles […]
Gaza Exiting Odyssey
Standing in the long rows, Nazmi Al-Masri was starting to get an idea of how grueling his journey out of his besieged Gaza homeland would be. All he wished was that he, his wife and […]
Blair’s War Decision: Secretive, Misleading
By Deepak Tripathi Clare Short, former Cabinet minister for international development in British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s cabinet at the time Iraq was invaded in March 2003, testified before the Iraq inquiry today (February 2, […]
Hamas Leader Survives Attempt on Life
A local Hamas leader in the southern Gaza Strip has escaped an attempt on his life which damaged nearby homes and left two children wounded. The incident happened on Monday night when a car belonging […]
The Israeli Whitewash
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington Much as the world has responded marvelously and generously to relieve Haitians after their devastating earthquake last month, the opposite has been true about the impoverished Palestinians in the Gaza […]
Israeli Police Who Put US Man in Coma Get off Scot-free
Israeli authorities have cleared the police of the charge of inflicting coma-inducing head injury to an American during a protest against the erection of an Israeli barrier. The officials claimed that there was no criminal […]
Barak Predicts Syria War in Absence of Talks
Israeli Defense Minister says it is crucial to clinch a peace deal with Syria before too late, saying otherwise Tel Aviv could find itself at war with Damascus. Addressing an annual gathering of senior army […]
Hamas Ready for Reconciliation with Fatah: Meshaal
Hamas political chief Khaled Meshaal said Monday that the movement is ready for reconciliation with the rival Palestinian Fatah party, calling on Egypt to host a meeting on the issue. Meshaal urged Cairo to arrange […]
Berlusconi Eyes Israeli Membership in EU
Italian Prime Minister says Israel should join the European Union, in a u-turn from his earlier remarks criticizing Israel’s settlement policy as an impediment to peace. "My greatest desire, as long as I am a […]
Why We Petition For Palestinian Civil Rights in Lebanon
By Franklin lamb – Beirut "We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change or resistance. Small acts, when multiplied by many people, can transform the world." "If we […]
‘Arafat Died of Thallium Poisoning’
Former senior advisor to the late Palestinian leader says Yasser Arafat had been poisoned by a lethal dose of thallium in his food or drinking water. Bassam Abu Sharif, once advisor to Yasser Arafat, accused […]
Secret CIA-Mossad Meeting, Preparation for New War?
A secret meeting between the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Leon Panetta and Israeli officials has reportedly centered on Iran’s nuclear program. In a secret flying visit to Israel on Thursday, the head […]
Hamas: Israel Seeks International Battlefields
Following the assassination of a Hamas members in Dubai by Israeli agents, the Palestinian resistance movement warned that Tel Aviv seeks to take the conflict between the two sides to a new phase. "We have […]
