Turkey to Open Trade Office in West Bank
Turkey has announced plans to open a trade office in the West Bank city of Ramallah in a bid to promote its commercial ties with the Palestinians. "We will open an office in Ramallah so […]
Month: October 2010
Israeli Court Convicts Two Soldiers
An Israeli court-martial has found two soldiers guilty of forcing a nine-year-old Palestinian boy to search for suspected booby-traps on their behalf during the 2008-2009 war in the Gaza Strip. The conviction on Sunday, which […]
Cultural Resistance: A Conversation with Robert Wyatt
By Gilad Atzmon – London The legendary British music icon Robert Wyatt is a big supporter of Palestine. A few days ago he came down to London to promote For the Ghosts Within (Wyatt/ Stephen/Atzmon, […]
Humiliating Israeli Video Condemned
A video of a male Israeli soldier bellydancing around a bound and blindfolded female prisoner has been received with disgust among Palestinians and in the Middle East. The video provoked an angry response from the […]
Untenurable: The Firing of Ariella Azoulay
By Neve Gordon – Israel ‘Everything is political,’ cultural theorists often claim. Recently, Bar Ilan University in Israel, decided to prove them right. Located on the outskirts of Tel-Aviv, Bar Ilan likes to boast that […]
Israel ‘Probes’ West Bank Mosque Blaze
Israel says it has launched a ‘widespread’ investigation into an attack on a West Bank mosque blamed on Jewish settlers. According to witnesses, parts of the Al-Anbiya mosque in the Palestinian town of Beit Fajjar […]
PLO Urges Abbas to Quit Peace Talks
An influential Palestinian body has urged the Palestinian president to quit direct talks with Israel, saying there should be no further peace talks as long as Israel continued settlement construction in the occupied territories. Reading […]
Syrian Leader Attacks Direct Talks
During a visit to Iran, Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, has said direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks were only aimed at bolstering domestic support for the US president. "Nothing has changed in the Palestinian peace process […]
Shooting from Mavi Marmara: Time for Israel to Put Up or Shut Up
By Richard Lightbown The inappropriately named Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC) is reputed to have links with Israeli intelligence. On 15 September the organization published a report that was based in part on information […]
Obama’s Cave-in to Israel: Letter Suggests US not Honest Broker
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth The disclosure of the details of a letter reportedly sent by President Barack Obama last week to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, will cause Palestinians to be even more […]
Indigenous Resistance, from Colombia to Palestine
By Anna Baltzer – Lopez, Colombia "They only see our water, our land, our trees. They don’t care about us. They want the land — without the people on it." These words are not of […]
Canada and Israel
By Jim Miles (Canada and Israel – Building Apartheid. Yves Engler. RED/Fernwood Publishing, Canada. 2010.) While much is made of U.S. support of Israel, its unstinting rhetoric and its similarly unstinting financial generosity, Canada has […]
All We Ask
By Sam Hamod (For Our Brothers and Sisters In Palestine, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia) We want very little a sip of fresh water, a small piece of bread, perhaps an olive again, if the […]
Obama Offers Bribes over Settlement
The US has reportedly pledged Israel to block any efforts to bring Palestinian statehood before the UN Security Council should Tel Aviv extend its settlement freeze. US President Barack Obama in a letter also gave […]
‘Israel Ruining Talks with PA on Purpose’
A top Palestinian official has accused Israel of deliberately ruining the new round of talks between Palestinian Authority and Tel Aviv by resuming its settlement activity. Senior Palestinian Authority official Yasser Abed Rabbo said on […]
