By Stephen Lendman Since its 1948 establishment, IDF military censor authority banned or sanitized material potentially damaging to Israel’s security. Thereafter, voluntary media/government agreements prevailed, all domestic and foreign news organizations abiding by censorship rulings. […]
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged Israel to extend its partial settlement freeze, as Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) have resumed talks. The UN chief made the remarks on Thursday during his meeting […]
By Ramzy Baroud A picture is not always worth a thousand words. The recently released photographs of Palestinian and Israeli leaders in Washington during their first direct talks in many months certainly don’t say anything […]
The Israeli army has announced that all Gaza crossings will be closed to traffic and incoming goods for four days as the Muslims celebrate Eid al-Fitr. The army announced the closure on Thursday, the Israeli […]
Israeli soldiers have been accused of sexually and physically abusing Palestinian children detained by the military, a report says. Five Palestinian children detained over minor offences, including hurling stones, and held in detention illegally, were […]
The United States President Barack Obama approves of the crippling blockade Israel has imposed on the Gaza Strip under the pretext of security. During a Tuesday meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Obama said […]
Israeli warplanes have bombed many targets in the besieged Gaza Strip, damaging several buildings and injuring two Palestinians. Sixteen Israeli warplanes have attacked the coastal strip a few hours before midnight on Thursday, firing at […]
An Israeli soldier, found guilty of "manslaughter" in the death of a pro-Palestinian British activist, has been released after serving about three quarters of his sentence. Israeli prosecutors had warned the Israeli military in July […]
Hamas has severely criticized the Palestinian Authority for arresting members of the resistance movement, accusing PA of "treason" and close collaboration with Israel. Over the past days, PA security forces have arrested a number of […]
A human rights group voices serious concern over Israel’s conviction of a Palestinian activist protesting against confiscation of his village’s land in the West Bank. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday that the conviction […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London ‘Negotiation today does not serve the Palestinian side… Just as there is currently no parity in the field of confrontation, there is also no parity around the negotiating table,’ says […]
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington, D.C. In the wake of last week’s peace talks in Washington heralding the imminent start of face-to-face peace negotiations between the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, will Benjamin Netanyahu now […]
By Kathy Kelly Libby and Jerica are in the front seat of the Prius, and Mary and I are in back. We just left Oklahoma, we’re heading into Shamrock, Texas, and tomorrow we’ll be Indian […]
A week after the talks in Washington, a senior negotiator of Palestinian Authority (PA) says it will not recognize Israel as a “Jewish state.” Acting PA chief Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu […]
As Israel and the Palestinian Authority engage in a new US-led direct talks, Russia and France called on Tel Aviv not to resume settlement activities in the occupied territories. Moscow and Paris expressed concern that […]
Egypt has expressed concern over Israel’s insistence on being recognized as a "Jewish state," saying this would endanger the fate of Israel’s Arab minority. "Israel wants to call itself a Jewish or Hebrew state. This […]
An Israeli Arab MP has raised doubts on the outcome of direct talks between the Palestinian Authority and Israel saying Tel Aviv’s rightist stance remains unchanged. "I don’t see signs Benjamin Netanyahu has changed. Therefore, […]
By Timothy Seidel Much is said about Palestine-Israel. There is no shortage of reporting, analysis, and opinion. And there is no shortage of expressions of personal commitments to ‘peace’. One need only glance at recent […]
By John Chuckman I don’t know how anyone given the task could draw a map of Israel: it is likely the only country in the world with no defined borders, and it actually has worked […]
By Elias Akleh Another round of the Palestinian/Israeli bargaining negotiations started September 2nd despite all the predictions and expectations of miserable failure. The two parties had met for the nth time, within the last 17 years, […]
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 […]
By Jamil Salman Following 17 years of failure under the Oslo regime and 2 years of stalemate since the last round of peace discussions (Annapolis), this week saw the commencement of renewed peace talks in […]
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan On the first day of the Palestinian-Israeli direct negotiations, I was reading a book by Avraham Burg on Israel. Avraham Burg, a man who once was at the heart of the […]
Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman says his far right Yisrael Beitenu party will block any attempt to extend Tel Aviv’s 10-month settlement freeze. "There is no need to extend the freeze," Lieberman said in an […]
By George Polley ‘The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.’ — Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963) If the question is, are the Israeli government […]
A group of renowned British and American artists have put their weight behind efforts by Israeli actors to refrain from performing in the occupied West Bank. More than 150 US actors, writers, and directors signed […]
By Belen Fernandez In an interview this week with Al Jazeera’s Shihab Rattansi, omnipresent Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev addressed the difficulty of defining the border between Israel and Palestine without knowing “what’s going to […]
After Israel’s bloody attack on a seaborne convoy which was heading to Gaza, a US-based body unveils plans to dispatch an aid-laden plane to the coastal sliver. The Free Palestine Movement has envisioned sending a […]
By Franklin Lamb – Beirut The untreated psychic wounds are still open. Accountability, justice and basic civil rights for the survivors are still denied. Scores of horror testimonies have been shared over the past nearly […]
Two Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air raids in the Gaza Strip, medics and security sources say. Another person has been critically injured. The Israeli army launched three raids in the south of Gaza […]
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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