U.S. Iranian Policy
By Ron Forthofer The U.S. has long been concerned about Iran’s legal enrichment of uranium for civilian use based on the fear that the enrichment could lead to an Iranian nuclear weapons program. Recently released […]
Month: July 2010
A Tweet Costs CNN Employee Her Job
CNN has fired its senior editor for Middle Eastern affairs after she published a Twitter message praising the late Lebanese Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah. Octavia Nasr has been told to leave the […]
Cluster Bombs and Civilian Lives: Efficient Killing, Profits and Human Rights
By Ramzy Baroud Cluster bombs are in the news again, thanks to a recent report from Amnesty International. The human rights agency has confirmed that 35 women and children were killed following the latest US […]
UNHRC Appoints Flotilla Commitee Head
A former president of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is to head the UN Human Rights Council’s probe into Israel’s deadly attack on a Gaza-bound aid convoy. Renowned ICC judge and the Hague-based court’s first […]
Egypt Destroys Gaza ‘Survival Tunnel’
Egyptian authorities have destroyed another cross-border tunnel along Rafah used as a conduit for vital supplies to the besieged Gaza Strip. According to Egyptian security officials, the tunnel was being used for sending cars into […]
PA Tepid on Obama’s Direct Talks Call
The Palestinian Authority (PA) says further progress in indirect negotiations is needed before direct peace talks with the Israelis could start. Acting PA chief Mahmoud Abbas "insists on the necessity of progress in indirect negotiations […]
Human Rights Volunteers Needed in Palestine
By International Women’s Peace Service – Palestine Since 2002, the International Women’s Peace Service in Palestine (IWPS-Palestine) has been documenting and non-violently intervening in human rights abuses carried out by the Israeli military and Israeli […]
The Book That Obama and Netanyahu Must Read
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington, D.C. It was my intention while cruising the Danube River, which is disappointingly muddy and not blue as Mozart claimed, for two weeks last month aboard a comfortable Viking boat […]
Judaizing Jerusalem
By Stephen Lendman The Middle East Monitor (MEM) covers significant regional issues and events through its weekly newspaper and reports like Samira Quraishy’s September 2009 Briefing Paper titled, ‘The Judaization of Jerusalem,’ discussing Israel’s "escalating […]
5 EU States Call for End to Gaza Siege
Five European countries have called for the implementation of the United Nations Security Council resolution which calls for the blockade of the Gaza Strip to be lifted. On Monday, the foreign ministers of Italy, France, […]
Israel Plans 2700 New Settlements
Israeli settlement councils plan to build 2700 new settlements in the West Bank immediately after the existing settlement freeze on September 27. The plans await approval by Israeli Housing Ministry and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud […]
Feyadh under Fire over Barak Meeting
Gaza’s resistance movements have slammed a meeting between the Palestinian Authority’s caretaker Prime Minister Salam Feyadh and the Israeli defense minister. The meeting between Feyadh and Israel’s Ehud Barak was held in al-Quds (Jerusalem) on […]
Trickle into Gaza Just PR Stunt
Israel has decided to lift restrictions on the entry of a trickle of consumer goods into Gaza, but the move appears to be just a publicity stunt, observers say. Israel’s international reputation is still in […]
Bibi Back at the White House
By Jeff Gates With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visiting the White House July 6th, it’s time to recall how Tel Aviv deceived Washington throughout the entirety of the U.S.-Israeli relationship. U.S. military leaders will be […]
Fear or Apathy, We Are All To Blame
By Tammy Obeidallah Over the years, I have lambasted the U.S. government, particularly in the area of foreign policy. Wars, copious amounts of taxpayer dollars in aid to an apartheid state, inherent racism and hypocrisy […]
Letters from Palestine – Book Review
By Jim Miles Letters from Palestine – Palestinians Speak Out about Their Lives, Their Country, and the power of Nonviolence. Kenneth Ring and Ghassan Abdullah. Wheatmark, Tucson, AZ, USA. 2010. Kenneth Ring’s writing on Palestine […]
Egypt Destroys 400 Gaza Tunnels
Egypt has destroyed hundreds of Palestinian tunnels across its border with the Gaza Strip as part of the joint Israeli-Egyptian blockade of the enclave. Egyptian authorities on Sunday announced that they have destroyed some 400 […]
Gaza Children at Grave Malnutrition Risk
Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip is associated with long-term damage to Palestinians’ health, placing their children at risk of stunted growth or malnutrition. Latest figures have revealed that more than 1,400 individuals were killed […]
Ahmad Sa’adat: A Palestinian Prisoner of Conscience
By Stephen Lendman He’s the 1967-founded Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine’s (PFLP) General Secretary, one of thousands of Palestinian political prisoners, sentenced in 2002 to 30 years in prison "for a range of […]
Israel Rebuffs Turkey’s Apology Demand
Israel has once again rejected calls by Turkish officials demanding Tel Aviv to apologize over its deadly attack on a Gaza-bound humanitarian aid convoy. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Monday said his country would […]
Guess Who Wants to Kill the Internet?
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Abbas: No Progress in Indirect Talks
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has denied a breakthrough in indirect negotiations with Israel, saying the US-brokered talks have been ineffective so far. "In fact there is no progress in negotiations, and the situation is still […]
Targeting Israel’s Legitimacy
By Iqbal Jassat – Pretoria While Kader Asmal’s opinion piece ‘World must deny legitimacy to Israel’ [South Africa’s Mail & Guardian, June 25] was welcomed as a breathtakingly courageous call for action against the Zionist […]
Israel’s Attack on Egypt in ’67 was not ‘Preemptive’
By Jeremy R. Hammond It is often claimed that Israel’s attack on Egypt that began the June 1967 ‘Six Day War’ was a ‘preemptive’ one. Implicit in that description is the notion that Israel was […]
Israel: A Failing Colonial Project
By M. Shahid Alam Increasingly, despite its early military and political successes, it appears unlikely that Israel can endure for long as a colonial project. In order to firmly secure its existence – as firmly […]
A Rift in Relations: Israel vs. Turkey
By Anait Brutian Speaking in Toronto, during the G20 Summit, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that ‘his country has closed its airspace to some Israeli military flights.’ Turkish officials said that the ban […]
Time to Muzzle Israel
By Gulamhusein A. Abba The bloody and dastardly attack, by Israeli forces, in international waters, under cover of darkness, on a peaceful and unarmed flotilla, carrying nothing but humanitarian aid to a besieged people experiencing […]
‘No Apology for Attack on Flotilla’
Israel has ruled out any formal apology for the May 31 attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that left nine Turkish activists dead. In a meeting with Israeli Trade Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer in Brussels on […]
Netanyahu Angers Shalit Supporters
Tens of thousands of Israelis have protested against Tel Aviv’s refusal to accept a deal to swap captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit for imprisoned Hamas officials. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raised public anger after […]
A Broomstick Can Shoot
By Uri Avnery – Israel A victory is a victory. A big victory is better than a small one, but a small victory is better than a defeat. This week we won. Immediately after the […]
