By Uri Avnery – Israel The Judge: ‘You are accused of murdering your wife and two children. How do you plead: Guilty or not guilty?’ The accused: ‘Your honor, I do not deal with the […]

By Robin Yassin-Kassab Here’s a strange and sparkly, jumpy and tightly-packed little book by PULSE’s own Belen Fernandez, in which our heroines (Belen and the photographer Amelia Opalinska) hitch-hike through Lebanon and Syria a few […]

By Jonathan Cook in Jerusalem Israeli police have been criticised over their treatment of hundreds of Palestinian children, some as young as seven, arrested and interrogated on suspicion of stone-throwing in East Jerusalem. In the past year, […]

By Ramzy Baroud The WikiLeaks vs. the US government saga started in July, when 77,000 secret US documents directly relating to Afghanistan were made available to major media organizations. Many of us shook our heads […]

By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Jews must not rent homes to ‘gentiles’. That was the religious decree issued this week by at least 50 of Israel’s leading rabbis, many of them employed by the state as […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai If only Burma had oil–as much as Iraq has–perhaps Aung San Suu Kyi wouldn’t have spent nearly two decades of her life in incarceration. If Burma had been somewhere […]

By Jeff Halper Struggling as I have for the past decades to grasp the dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and find ways to get out of this interminable and absolutely superfluous conflict, I have been […]

By George S. Hishmeh – Washington, D.C. Here we go again. Hummus is back in the news, and almost on the front pages of American newspapers. My column, titled ‘The Undeclared War on Arab Cuisine’ and […]

By Dr. Abdel-Qader Yassine If there is one thing a Palestinian cannot understand, or If he did understand cannot forgive, it is the apathy and hypocrisy with which governments in the ‘Free World’, especially in […]

By Stuart Littlewood – London Professor Richard Falk put it most eloquently: ‘The idea of Nuremberg after World War Two was that crimes against the peace, crimes against humanity and war crimes are also offences […]

By Nadeem Fayaz I wish I could take to the streets with a million men behind meChanting words of freedom, peace and honestyBe the image that defines our generation, the event that changed historyThose British […]

By Sam Bahour  The United States is at a crossroads in its mediation of Middle East peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians. The Obama administration can no longer walk on the Israeli side of the […]

By Ira Glunts Three years ago I heard the American-born Israeli Michael B. Oren promoting his new book Power, Faith and Fantasy:  America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present at a university near […]

By James Gundun – Washington, D.C. The acting president of the Palestinian National Authority (PA) chose an appropriate setting to issue his latest impassioned plea. Himself in political limbo, running on the fumes of an […]

By M. Shahid Alam Was there ever a time when a leading organ of the US media could speak the unvarnished truth about the links between the United States and Israel? Consider this quote from […]

By George Polley (Breakthrough: Transforming Fear Into Compassion, a new perspective on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Insight Press, Albuquerque, NM, November 2010. Paperback.) Richard Forer is a certified practitioner of the Meir Schneider Self-Healing Method. I […]

By Stuart Littlewood – London One of the most grotesque Wikileaks revelations so far is the disclosure that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was told in advance about the murderous assault on his countrymen in […]