On the anniversary of the Land Day, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics announces that more than 85% of Palestinian land remains under Israeli control, adding that 55% of illegal settlers reside in Jerusalem (al-Quds). […]
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington, D.C. Believe it or not, Benjamin Netanyahu may be coming back to Washington next weekend. The Israeli prime minister has apparently wiped the spit – – not rain – – […]
Israel has completely closed all of its border crossings with Gazans as it begins to mark the week-long Jewish Passover holiday. Israel and Egypt have put Gaza under tight siege since June 2007 when Hamas […]
By Jim Miles Part of the dilemma in Palestine is that the more the ‘peace’ process is delayed, moving nowhere, the more Israel gains in the way of confiscated and settled land. There are two […]
Sweden’s biggest retirement fund boycotts an Israeli electronics company involved in the operation of the surveillance system installed on the West Bank separation barrier. The Israeli army’s Elbit Systems has been barred by the Forsta […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London Fr Manuel Musallam recently retired at the age of 71 after serving as the parish priest of the Holy Family Church in Gaza for 14 years. For most of that […]
Tuesday, March 30, 2010. For Immediate Release – Please Circulate Widely LONDON/NEW YORK – My Father was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story, the latest book by Palestinian-American author Ramzy Baroud, was released in the […]
By Sonja Karkar ‘There isn’t one I haven’t heard’ or so goes one of the lines in a well-known American musical. Yet, this time the world is imbuing the words with new meaning when it […]
Israeli and Palestinian Authority (PA) forces have cracked down on protesters at a Beit Lahm (Bethlehem) rally by firing tear gas and stun grenades. More than 200 people joined the rally on Monday to protest […]
A Palestinian teenager has been shot dead by Israeli soldiers near the Palestinian border town of Rafah, Palestinian medics say. Mohammed al-Faramawi, 15, was shot dead close to Gaza’s defunct airport, Muawiya Hassanein, the head […]
By Samah Sabawi This is to all of the Palestinian parents in exile and the long trail of olive trees they’ve planted around the globe. A few days ago, my father emailed me a photo […]
By M. Shahid Alam Zionists have worked hard and cleverly for their successes, but their cause has been greatly advanced at each stage by the logic of their colonial project aimed at the creation of […]
A coalition of Palestinian solidarity movements are tightening their plans for a major Israeli boycott campaign, set to kick off on Tuesday 30th March. Consumers will be urged to boycott all Israeli products as part […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Under cover of a sudden interest in developing new green technologies, the Israeli government hopes to weaken the Gulf states by making their oil redundant and thereby defeating ‘Islamic terror’. Uzi Landau, […]
Arab leaders have expressed their total rejection of Israel’s settlement policy in occupied East Jerusalem at the end of a two-day regional summit in Libya. Regional leaders issued the statement on Sunday after the final […]
A Palestinian man missing since a March 26 confrontation with Israeli soldiers was found dead with bullet wounds in the southern Gaza Strip, medics say. According to medical staff, the dead man was identified as […]
A senior Hamas official has criticized the leaders of the Arab League for what he called their failure to defend the Palestinians during their summit in Libya. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said in a statement […]
By Sam Bahour In 2010, Jews in Israel and around the world will celebrate Passover beginning on March 30th. Passover is the seven-day holiday of the Feast of Unleavened Bread commemorating the ancient Hebrews’ escape […]
By Dr. Elias Akleh During the last two weeks people were faced with a propaganda campaign trying to convince them that there developed a crisis in the American Israeli relationships due to Israel’s announcement of […]
By Stephanie Westbrook The theme of this year’s annual policy conference for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was ‘Israel: Tell the Story.’ And it was quite a story that AIPAC wanted to tell. […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London There can be few sights more pathetic than ex-ministers and chums of Tony Blair offering to use their government contacts to help influence policy on behalf of business clients. "I’m […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel In January 1077, King Henry IV walked to Canossa. He crossed the snow-covered Alps barefoot, wearing a penitent monk’s hair shirt, and reached the North-Italian fortress in which the Vicar […]
A senior Israeli minister has threatened that Tel Aviv will "liquidate" Hamas sooner or later, adding that Israel may even launch a new offensive on the Gaza Strip. Israel’s Finance minister Yuval Steinitz said Tel […]
By Jonathan Cook – Haifa An Arab-owned restaurant in the Israeli city of Haifa has been caught in a whirlwind of legal action and threats of violence after staff refused to serve a soldier in uniform, […]
The Israeli cabinet is to vote on a new proposal by Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, which states that ex-soldiers should be favored for diplomatic posts. Tel Aviv will discuss the new bill on Sunday, […]
By Stephen Lendman The numbers vary but range at any time from over 7,000 to 12,000 or more. In April 2008, the Adalah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel cited 11,000, including 345 […]
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has blasted Israel’s insistence on its stance to consider the whole Jerusalem (Al-Quds) as its united capital as ‘madness.’ "This is madness and it does not commit us in […]
By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai The weather in Dubai still remains gorgeous. So much so that a lazy, couch potato like me drags himself for an occasional walk around the sprawling Zabeel Park in […]
US President Barack Obama quit a recent meeting with Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu to have dinner in private after the latter failed to hand a written promise of concessions on Jewish settlements, reports say. The […]
By Ershad Abubacker The recent dueling positions of long time friends and all time allies Israel and America over the construction of 1,600 new apartments in east Jerusalem has obviously hit the headlines worldwide. This […]
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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