By Gilad Atzmon A few days ago, British Chief of Defence Staff General Sir David Richards admitted that victory in Afghanistan is unachievable. "In conventional war,” said Richards, “defeat and victory is very clear cut […]
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington, D.C. The longer the standstill in the peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority the further both are from a fair settlement and the more complex the terms will […]
By Stephen Lendman Launched in March 2009, "The Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RTP) seeks to reaffirm the primacy of international law as the (way to settle) the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." Its mandate focuses on "the enunciation […]
By Rama Chakaki There is no shortage of inspiration in Palestine. There is a shortage of platforms and media venues featuring inspiring people in and outside Palestine on a local, regional and global scale. When […]
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has sharply denounced a new Israeli law which conditions any withdrawal from the occupied territories on holding a referendum. "The Israeli leadership, yet again, is making a mockery of international law," […]
The European Union’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has criticized Israel for not easing the three-year blockade on the Gaza Strip. "Gaza remains a source of great concern for me," Ashton said on Monday, speaking […]
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) reportedly plans to evacuate its wounded troops to Israel if a war breaks out in the region. The UN peacekeeping force set the plan ten days ago […]
Hamas has accused its rival Fatah party of souring the atmosphere, saying the forces enlisted with the Ramallah-based party collaborate with Israel. The forces functioning under Fatah’s leader, Mahmoud Abbas, are working "in close coordination […]
A Lebanese minister says Beirut has found new evidence over Israel’s illegal espionage activities in the country’s telecommunication sector. During a press conference on Tuesday, Lebanon’s Minister of Telecommunications Charbel Nahas said Israel is continuing […]
An Israeli military court has handed down suspended prison sentences to two former soldiers who forced a Palestinian boy to search for suspected booby-traps during the Gaza Strip war. The ruling, issued on Sunday by […]
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has reportedly met stiff opposition within his cabinet to a US proposal for freezing settlement construction in the West Bank for 90 days. Netanyahu’s cabinet has been mulling the […]
By Lillian Rosengarten I want to give you a small sense of the political climate that hovered over us when we attempted to sail to Gaza. The bottom line truth of my experience on the little […]
By Ralph Nader After nearly two years out, I can imagine George W. Bush writing his successor the following letter: Dear President Obama: As you know I’ve been peddling my book Decision Points and while […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel ‘A disaster!’ the courtiers of the King of Hanover cried, ‘Seven renowned professors at Göttingen University have published a declaration of protest against you!’ That was 173 years ago. The […]
By Deepak Tripathi Never underestimate the cost of humiliation. For in war victory is never clean, because it empowers the vanquished, or their successors, to struggle in the future. Recent wars in Iraq, on the […]
By Dallas Darling ‘…determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.’ — Preamble of the UN Charter Pledge, 1945 When President Barack Obama announced support regarding a permanent seat for India on the […]
By Stephen Lendman In October, the Adalah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, together with nine other human rights organizations, addressed a position paper on "The unconstitutionality of the state’s policy of demolishing […]
The United States is prepared to offer Israel written security guarantees if it would help to restart stalled Middle East peace talks. "We continue our discussions with the Israelis. If there is a need to […]
Israel has fired mortar shells at three targets in the Gaza Strip, in what it claimed to be a response to rocket strikes from the territory. The Israeli Air Force said it had hit targets […]
The parliamentary speaker in Lebanon has said that Israel’s withdrawal from a disputed border village will do little to assuage "resistance" against the country. Nabih Berri made the comments on Thursday, after Israel pulled out […]
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By Stuart Littlewood – London From champion of the vulnerable to betrayer in one bound… Nick Clegg, Britain’s new deputy prime minister, is surprisingly agile. Betrayal started with Sheffield Forgemasters, a well-respected company in Clegg’s […]
By Stephen Lendman On September 15, 2009, the UN Human Rights Council’s (HRC) Goldstone Commission issued its findings on Cast Lead, Israel’s war of aggression against Gaza, inflicting enormous loss of life, thousands of injuries, […]
Israel is holding talks with the US to acquire an additional 20 Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter jets, a top Israeli military official says. Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi said that Israel would welcome another 20 […]
Reports suggest that future acts of aggression by Israel will involve the use of a state-of-the-art projectile, which Tel Aviv already tested in its war on Lebanon in 2006. The smart hardware, named ‘July,’ is […]
An Israeli commander is suspected of protecting the murderer of a Palestinian woman by intercepting a report on war-time crime, writes an Israeli daily. A reserve officer discovered the document on a military laptop, giving […]
Hezbollah has condemned the alleged Israeli plans to withdraw from parts of the Lebanese territory in order to evade the international legal system. On Wednesday, Israeli ministers voted in favor of pulling troops out of […]
By Ramzy Baroud I recall the first sentence of my fifth grade essay on ‘Education and Youth’. Written with the occasional aid of my father, and dotted with clichés, it might have read something like […]
By Philip Giraldi President Barack Obama’s speech in Indonesia in which he conceded that the United States must do more to establish a good working relationship with many Muslim nations would have ranked as one […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Watching the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians drag on year after year without conclusion, it is easy to overlook the enormous changes that have taken place on the ground […]
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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