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By Ramzy Baroud Let’s call her Jenny. Jenny was alone, and clearly confused. Her face was dotted with acne, and her short, blond hair was stiff at the ends. As the Skyline train sped towards […]
By James Gundun – Washington, D.C. Mahmoud Abbas, acting president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), seems to have an infinite number of reasons to disengage from US-sponsored negotiations with Israel. Reduced to a singularity, […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel Ehud Olmert raised his hands before his face, two fingertips almost touching: ‘We were that close!’ He was talking about the negotiation he had conducted personally with Mahmoud Abbas, just […]
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) agrees to back a resolution endorsing the critical findings of an inquiry into Israel’s attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. The resolution, which had been initially approved by the […]
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington, D.C. Although some may blame Benjamin Netanyahu and even Mahmoud Abbas for dropping the ball soon after their peace negotiations began three weeks ago, the more likely person who will […]
Dubai’s police chief, who had played a key role in uncovering details of the assassination of a senior Hamas leader, says he has received two death threats from Israel’s spy agency, Mossad. Gen. Dahi Khalfan […]
Locals in an Israeli-occupied neighborhood find traces of banned weaponry, used by Israeli forces in their crackdown on a recent wave of protests. The Silwan neighborhood of East al-Quds (Jerusalem) has been swept with outrage […]
By Belen Fernandez While attempting to read an article on the Haaretz website this afternoon about the brutality of the IDF takeover of the Gaza-bound boat Irene, filled with Jewish activists, I was distracted by […]
A South African university has threatened Israel’s Ben-Gurion University (BGU) with boycott if it continues its cooperation with the Israeli Army. The South African University of Johannesburg (UJ) said in a Wednesday statement that it […]
By Stephen Lendman Who do they serve anyway? It’s clear from the sham peace talks and a new development. The Mahmoud Abbas-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA) wants Israel absolved of accountability for Cast Lead crimes of […]
A UN expert has announced that the International Criminal Court (ICC) may probe Israel’s brutal attack against a Gaza-bound aid convoy. The Mavi Marmara ship was assaulted by Israeli navy commandos in international waters in […]
Israeli warships have intercepted a Jewish aid boat bound for the blockaded Gaza Strip, forcefully diverting the aid vessel to the Israeli port of Ashdod. "Ten Israeli warships forced the boat to head for (the […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth With the resumption of settlement construction in the West Bank yesterday, Israel’s powerful settler movement hopes that it has scuttled peace talks with the Palestinians. It would be misleading, however, to assume […]
By Richard Irvine As Israel’s self-imposed and largely irrelevant settlement freeze ends, Prime Minister Netanyahu has asked settlers to show ‘restraint’. It is an interesting choice of adjective, for people who show restraint are the […]
By Iqbal Jassat – Pretoria In a recent interview, South Africa’s ambassador to the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, Ted Pekane, made an intriguing observation: “Currently we have no intention of […]
By Dallas Darling As a lawyer and one time activist, President Barack Obama should not have lashed out at the Cynics when he asked the United Nations General Assembly and the world to back his […]
By George Polley In an article published in the September 6th edition of The Palestine Chronicle (“Imagining Palestinians as Equal”) I began with this quote from novelist Aldous Huxley: “The propagandist’s purpose is to make […]
Tel Aviv has urged the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to stop investigating Israel’s deadly onslaught on the Gaza Strip at the turn of 2008. An Israeli envoy to the UN said on Monday […]
Israel has officially announced that it would not allow a new aid convoy, which entirely consists of Jewish human rights campaigners, to reach the Gaza Strip. The Jewish activists onboard the Irene "will be stopped" […]
By Richard Lightbown Following Israel’s raid on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla on 31 May, the UN Human Rights Council elected to establish an independent international fact-finding mission to investigate violations of international law, including humanitarian […]
Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has urged the Palestinian Authority (PA) to quit direct talks with Israel after Tel Aviv refused to extend a partial settlement freeze. Hamas political chief Khaled Meshaal said on Monday that […]
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan Facts that cannot be denied regarding the Palestinian-Israeli issue: the conflict did not start in 1967; Arab Palestinians constituted seventy-five percent of the total population and owned around 94.2 % of […]
Israel’s ten-month partial freeze on settlement building came to an end with the launch of the construction of two thousand illegal houses across the West Bank. At the settlement of Revava, near the city of […]
By George Polley (The Invention of the Jewish People. Shlomo Sand. Verso, New York, 2009.) Myths are powerful because they tell the story of origins – the origins of tribes and the origins of a […]
The Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah have begun the reconciliation process at a meeting during which most of their differences, including the issue of power sharing, were resolved. Delegations headed by Hamas political bureau chief […]
A senior Israeli commander has threatened that the military would not hesitate to use any of its means of engagement in the next war against the Gaza Strip. "We have less performance constraints there than […]
Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa has warned that the Middle East will head toward an arms race should Israel maintain its nuclear weaponry. Speaking at a press conference in New York on Friday, Moussa […]
A Palestinian man has dies of his injuries sustained during an Israeli attack which took place near a village in the northern Gaza Strip, a report says. The military wing of the Islamic resistance movement […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London In the space of a few short years Nick Clegg has shot from obscurity to stardom in British politics, joining Conservative leader David “I’m-a-Zionist” Cameron at the head of Britain’s […]
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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