Israeli soldiers have clashed with Palestinians in the East al-Quds (Jerusalem) neighborhood of Silwan, firing stun grenades and rubber bullets at the protesters. Clashes broke out in Silwan on Sunday when Israeli authorities stormed the […]
By Stephen Lendman Besides mass slaughter and destruction, wars create refugees, millions at times, uprooted, displaced and homeless, on their own somehow to survive. Israel’s "War of Independence" was no different, dispossessing hundreds of thousands […]
New evidence has surfaced regarding Israel’s spying on Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement during the 33-day war it imposed on the country in 2006. Latest confessions by members of Lebanon’s Alfa telecom company indicate that Israel […]
By Iqbal Jassat – Pretoria The latest scandal to hit a self-confessed pro-Israeli organization in South Africa, the SA Zionist Federation, [SAZF] is likely to invigorate the ‘Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions’ [BDS] campaign against Israel […]
Israeli soldiers have reportedly burnt the Muslim holy book of Qur’an during an overnight attack on a Palestinian family in the occupied West Bank. Sahar Beida said on Monday that she and her daughter had […]
By George Polley Admittedly, I am a relative newcomer to this discussion, which is not the same thing as saying that I am an ignorant one, as one Israeli correspondent has implied, saying that I […]
Israeli troops have abused Palestinian detainees during the 2008-2009 attack on the Gaza Strip, new photos released by a rights group show. The photos were published on Monday by Breaking the Silence, an Israeli group […]
By Richard Lightbown On 26 August the Turkel Committee took evidence from Israel’s Chief Military Advocate General, General Mandelblit. The morning session was open although a number of documents that the participants referred to do […]
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington, D.C. While all the world was watching, silently, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has by all measures managed to sabotage the U.S. – sponsored ‘peace talks’ with the Palestinians, led […]
By Ali Younes Mohammad Hosni Mubarak, former Air Force General became president of Egypt after the assassination of President Mohammad Anwar Al Sadat by Muslim extremists on 6 October 1981. President Mubarak, as a result, became […]
By Lillian Rosengarten Palestine! You call to me with whispers of pain.You speak of lost poets, children who cry for lost parents, lost teacherslost childhoods, dreams torn from their roots, mangled in a desert gone dry.In […]
The US has urged Palestinians to give up resistance against Israel and instead turn to negotiations as talks between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Tel Aviv remain deadlocked. "Negotiations are not easy, but they are […]
A controversial Israeli rabbi has encouraged the use of Palestinians as human shields by army soldiers, even if the victim happens to be a civilian. "Anything you do to keep the war tough is permissible, […]
Former world leaders have lambasted Israel’s discriminatory policies in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) during a tour of a troubled neighborhood in the occupied territory. The one-time political heavyweights, known as Elders, paid a visit to Silwan […]
The recent trend of Israeli settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories by far exceeds those of the past two years, a study shows. The Jewish settlers have started building nearly 550 new housing units […]
Lifeline 5, the fifth aid convoy organized by the UK-based charity Viva Palestina, has crossed Rafah, the border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. On Thursday, the aid mission of 150 vehicles entered the […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London The UK is to become a safe haven for Israeli psychopaths while they continue their brutal military occupation, colonization and ethnic cleansing of the Holy Land, and carry on bombarding […]
By Gilad Atzmon – London London Jazza festival is behind us. It was stressful and we took a massive risk, but it turned into a great success. For some of us, it was the most musically […]
By Ramzy Baroud An American activist once gave me a book she wrote detailing her experiences in Palestine. The largely visual volume documented her journey of the occupied West Bank, rife with barbered wires, checkpoints, […]
By Miko Peled Setting aside for a moment the argument of whether dividing historic Palestine into two states was ever a good idea, clearly forty years ago it was a viable solution. Today as liberal […]
By Stephen Lendman Defence for Children International (DCI) Palestine Section (DCI/Palestine) "is a national section of the international non-government child rights organisation and movement (dedicated) to promoting and protecting the rights of Palestinian children," according […]
Former Irish President Mary Robinson, chairing a delegation of global Elders visiting the Gaza Strip, has called the situation in the territory "shocking." “I was last here in 2008, just before the Gaza war. The […]
Israeli soldiers have arrested a lawmaker of the Islamic Hamas movement after raiding his home in the city of al-Khalil (Hebron) in the southern West Bank. Hamas MP Hatem Qafaish was arrested early on Monday […]
The Palestinian Authority’s ambassador to the UN has called on the international community to put pressure on Israel over the resumption of its illegal settlement activities. Palestinian envoy Riyad Mansour said on Monday that Tel […]
By Uri Avnery Will Germany enact a law that demands that every Turk aspiring to citizenship swear allegiance to the ‘German Federal Republic, the Nation-State of the German People’? Sounds like a ridiculous idea. Will […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth As US-sponsored peace talks have stalled over the issue of settlements, Israel’s national police force has revealed that it is turning to the very same illegal communities in its first-ever drive […]
By Ralph Nader The strong case that Eric Alterman’s book What Liberal Media? made in 2003 against the propaganda-style claim by rightwingers, that the mass media has a liberal bias, is an expanding understatement. Just […]
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit says Arab nations might ask the UN to recognize a Palestinian state in response to Israel’s failure to respect the new round of talks. Aboul Gheit said on Friday […]
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Israel will "remain isolated" if Tel Aviv fails to apologize for killing Turkish human rights activists. "Israel must apologize to Turkey and pay compensation. If it does not, […]
Despite global opposition to Israel’s settlement projects, Tel Aviv has invited tenders to build 238 new settlement units in the occupied Palestinian territories. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved building of the new units in […]
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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