Besieged Gaza,Occupied Palestine,July.18.2010 Dear John Lydon, We are academics and students from Gaza representing more than 10 academic institutions therein. Our parents and grandparents are refugees who were expelled from their homes by the nascent Israeli […]
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has called for the further easing of Israel’s four-year blockade of the Gaza Strip during a visit to the impoverished coastal sliver. Ashton, after meeting some Palestinian and Israeli […]
The Arab League have ruled out direct peace talks between Palestinians and Israel unless there are written guarantees from Tel Aviv about major issues. "Moving from proximity talks into direct ones without any confirmation or […]
The European Union’s foreign policy chief has arrived in Gaza in an attempt to put pressure on Israel to lift its three-year blockade of the coastal enclave. Catherine Ashton arrived in Gaza on Sunday morning. […]
Echoing a demand by the international community for the unimpeded delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, several Asian states call for an end to the plight of the Gaza residents. In a draft document released […]
The United States plans to provide Israel with its most extensive military aid package in history, reports say. The US Assistant Secretary of State, Andrew J. Shapiro claims that the increased US military assistance should […]
By Seraj Assi On June 14, 2010, hundreds of Orthodox Jewish protestors took to the streets in Jaffa to riot against what they see as a “desecration of Jewish grave sites” in the luxury housing […]
By Nicola Nasser Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) officials in the government of Mohamed Abbas often complain they spend more time negotiating with American rather than Israeli governments. This has been particularly true of late. Since […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel When I was first elected to the Knesset, I was appalled at what I found. I discovered that, with rare exceptions, the intellectual level of the debates was close to […]
By Stephen Lendman Under siege for over three years, Gaza’s humanitarian crisis continues unabated, Israel’s bogus easing doing little to relieve it, including a serious electricity shortage, what the Gisha Legal Center for Freedom of […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth The Israeli government is facing legal action for contempt over its refusal to implement a Supreme Court ruling that it end a policy of awarding preferential budgets to Jewish communities, including settlements, […]
While playing the mediating role between the Israelis and the Palestinians, Washington reassures that it is "fully and firmly committed" to Tel Aviv. American Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice reiterated the US’ carte […]
Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa has called on Israel, which believed to be the sole possessor of nuclear weapons in the Middle East, to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Moussa made the call […]
An Israeli accused of killing four Palestinians has claimed he was encouraged by the Israeli security agency Shin Bet to commit violent acts. Chaim Pearlman’s associates have released new recordings of alleged conversations between Pearlman […]
A military court has convicted an Israeli commander and one of his soldiers of shooting a blindfolded Palestinian in the occupied West Bank. The court on Thursday convicted Lieutenant Colonel Omri Burberg on charges of […]
By Ron Taylor Dear Tony Blair, I think even you would admit your appointment, in 2007, as Special Envoy to the Middle East Quartet was not met with unfettered joy in occupied Palestine. In fact, […]
By James Gundun – Washington, D.C. Despite Israel’s perceived strength it really isn’t in a position to bargain. America is now the only dependable ally, having lost Europe after the Gaza war. Turkey has renewed […]
By William A. Cook A confluence of news stories emerged this past week that, if related, shed an unusual light on the deteriorating crisis in the mid-east, most especially on Palestine and Iran. On June […]
Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement says it is fully prepared for any future Israeli attack, warning Tel Aviv of disastrous consequences of another conflict. The movement’s Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem said on Wednesday that […]
Hamas has protested an Israeli court ruling against a senior Palestinian cleric, condemning his conviction as politically motivated. An Israeli court in occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem) on Tuesday convicted Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of […]
Demonstrators in Greece have delayed an Israeli flight bound for the occupied Palestinian territories for two hours seeking to protest the siege of the Gaza Strip. Members of the labor union of Greece gathered at […]
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has criticized the Israeli ambassador for his comments about his visit to Portugal, saying some Israeli envoys are "Mossad agents." Mottaki described the Israeli envoy’s comments as interference in other […]
Israel says it will keep attacking aid ships heading for the Gaza Strip as the humanitarian situation in the besieged coastal sliver continues to deteriorate. "No ship can breach this blockade, be it civil or […]
By Ramzy Baroud Resistance is not a band of armed men hell-bent on wreaking havoc. It is not a cell of terrorists scheming ways to detonate buildings. True resistance is a culture. It is a […]
The Israeli Navy reportedly blockades a Libyan-chartered aid vessel which has set sail for the blockaded Gaza Strip, issuing threats against the convoy. "Israeli warships are surrounding and threatening the cargo ship. There is a […]
Israel’s Army has opened fire at a local residence inside the Gaza Strip, killing one woman and injuring five other people, Palestinian medics say. The Tuesday attack on al-Bureij neighborhood saw an Army forces shooting […]
Knesset, the Israeli parliament approved stripping an Arab Israeli lawmaker of her privileges for her joining the Gaza-bound relief convoy, Freedom Flotilla. The Knesset voted in favor of the decision which saw Hanin Zuabi losing […]
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has once again demanded that Israel apologize for the attack on the Freedom Flotilla. "This is an inhuman act, simply we can call it an act of piracy and […]
By Janan Abdu I used to tell my husband, Ameer Makhoul, ‘One day, they’ll come for you.’ As chairman of the Public Committee for the Protection of Political Freedoms he’d begun to organize an awareness-raising campaign […]
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington, D.C. The Lovefest celebrated here for all to see when Barack Obama escorted Benjamin Netanyahu on the front lawn of the White House and at a joint press conference was […]
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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