The Palestinian Authority’s top negotiator refutes the Israeli premier’s offer which obliged the Palestinians to recognize Israel in return for a settlement freeze. "I hope he will stop playing these games and will start the […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth A ghost haunted the meeting of the Arab League in Libya at the weekend, as its foreign ministers decided to give a little more time to the peace talks between Israel […]
By James Gundun – Washington, D.C. For a moment the Palestinians appeared to be playing with fire by continuing Israel’s momentum. September 26th felt like a distant memory when the Arab League finally convened a […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel Which is the real Netanyahu? – Bibi the weakling, the invertebrate, who always gives in to pressure, who zigzags to the left and to the right, depending whether the pressure […]
By Jamil Salman – Amman, Jordan Many of last month’s headlines would have you believe that a vibrant, independent Palestinian state had become an inevitable reality. On the back of ‘peace talks’ which offered renewed […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London It has been an unsettling week watching Obama’s unholy alliance with Israel take the world a step nearer the edge of the abyss. First I read Mark Glenn’s scary piece, […]
By Paul Graham – Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada A few days ago, Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger announced his government’s intention to deepen economic and cultural relations with Israel. "Manitoba and Israel have common interests in clean […]
By William A. Cook ‘Our goal is two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security,’ (President Obama) such is the illusion that resurfaces to restart the peace negotiations that will […]
Continued unauthorized presence by the Israeli Air Force’s over the Gaza Strip has been followed by the warplanes inflicting injuries on nine Palestinians. A Wednesday Press TV report said the fighter planes had violated the […]
By Seraj Assi This is the tenth anniversary of the Second Intifada, which broke out in Palestinian cities and villages in late September 2000 unmasking the myth of the peace process in the region. So […]
Israel plans to approve a bill demanding an oath of loyalty to Israel as a "Jewish and democratic state" for anyone wanting to become a citizen. A statement issued by the office of Israeli Prime […]
Crews on a flight of the Australian national airline have overpowered a young Israeli man, who had threatened to kill himself and his fellow travelers. While on the flight from Melbourne to Hong Kong, the […]
By Ramzy Baroud On September 30, within the time frame of a few hours, an accused man reportedly confessed to terrorism charges in Germany, the terrorism threat level was raised in Sweden, and former US […]
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on Israel to renew its partial settlement moratorium on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. "I urge Israel to restore settlement restraint, under its Roadmap obligations," Ban […]
By Gilad Atzmon Sarah Gillespie, myself and at least 40 other leading artists from UK and Palestine are trying to achieve the impossible next week. We are promoting and playing together in a massive music festival […]
Israeli troops have ‘humiliated’ a blindfolded Palestinian woman by filming her while one of the soldiers was belly dancing close to her in a detention center. The video clip that shows the Israeli soldier dancing […]
By Franklin Lamb – Maron al Ras on the Lebanon border You can see Akka, Palestine from my favorite Lebanese village, Maron al Ras. On any day, but particularly since September 21 of this year, […]
The author of the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) Code of Conduct has strongly defended the military’s use of "the enemy’s" civilians as human shields. Asa Kasher, known as the forces’ "ethic" guru, said on Tuesday […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, has insisted from the launch of the current peace talks that the Palestinians set no preconditions, while making his own precondition the centrepiece of negotiations. Netanyahu […]
The UK-based charity Viva Palestina hopes that Egypt lets it travel through the country in its mission to bring aid to the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip. A relief mission, organized by the group, departed from London […]
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington, D.C. Forty years ago this month, the Arab world was mourning in an unprecedented numbers the unexpected death on September 28 of a great Arab hero, Gamal Abdel Nasser, the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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