The Arab League will possibly refuse a new Israeli three-month partial settlement freeze that excludes East al-Quds (Jerusalem), an official from the organization says. "If there is a settlement freeze that excludes Jerusalem, I cannot […]
Students at the University of Haifa plan to rally against a ban on a pro-Palestinian lawmaker who was aboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla when attacked by Israeli commandos in May. Supporters of Arab Israeli lawmaker […]
By James Gundun – Washington, D.C. Should anything else be expected from Benjamin Netanyahu? Fresh off his jet, the Israeli Prime Minister hit New Orleans running with a loaded freight train – plans from the […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London LibDem leaders know perfectly well that under ‘universal jurisdiction’ all states that are party to the Geneva Conventions are obliged to seek out and prosecute or extradite those suspected of […]
By George S. Hishmeh, Washington, D.C. Dear Secretary Clinton, My apologies for this open letter but I have been worrying that your briefing papers are not providing you with much-needed background for some of your decisions […]
By Neve Gordon Imagine a sheriff offering the head of a criminal gang the following deal: ‘If you agree to stop stealing from your neighbours for three months, I’ll give you cutting edge weaponry and […]
The US has offered Israel an incentive package to reinstate a 90-day moratorium on West Bank settlement building, in an effort to revive stalled peace talks with the Palestinians, diplomatic sources said. The proposed moratorium, […]
Israel is building a 60km-long barrier on its southern border with Egypt aimed at physically keeping out African asylum-seekers amid a rising tide of intolerance towards people widely referred to as “illegal workers". The barrier will […]
An official visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the US has been wrapped up with no concrete decision over extension of Tel Aviv’s partial settlement freeze. The Israeli premier left the United States […]
An Israeli activist has published a new video showing that Israeli soldiers are joyful over destroying Palestinian homes during the offensive against the Gaza Strip. The video, posted on the internet on Thursday, showed that […]
By Jim Miles The title from this issue of Foreign Affairs struck me as rather odd, in particular the subtitle ‘New Challenges Call for New Policies. Are the U.S. and Israel Ready to Change Course?’ […]
Hundreds of Palestinians have taken to the streets of Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) to protest the expansion of Jewish settlements. Holding banners reading, "Free Sheikh Jarrah" and "Stop Stealing Our Land," demonstrators […]
By Ron Jacobs Ramzy Baroud left Gaza when he was a young man. He departed with mixed emotions, knowing full well he might never see his father or Gaza again. Once he left, his activities […]
The United States has planned to expand its military aid to the Israeli regime over the next two years, adding smart bombs to the new supply list. US Congress approved a boost of $400 million […]
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has asked for an urgent UN Security Council meeting to debate the illegal expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. Acting PA Chief Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday instructed the […]
Amid international efforts to return Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) to direct talks, Israeli warplanes have once again bombed Palestinian targets. The fighter jets bombarded an area near the city of Khan Yunis in […]
The Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah, has warned of potential US-planned and Israeli-waged warfare on Lebanon and Syria. Hezbollah MP Nawaf al-Moussawi said on Thursday there was a potential "American political decision to wage a new […]
Commemorations in the West Bank have marked the 2004 demise of the former head of the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat. The Thursday anniversary in the city of Ramallah in central West Bank was attended by […]
By Ramzy Baroud On Sunday, October 31, when a group of militants seized a church in Baghdad, killing and wounding scores of Iraqi Christians, it signaled yet another episode of unimaginable horror in the country […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, is in the United States this week, but few observers expect an immediate or significant breakthrough in the stalled peace talks with the Palestinian leadership. In public, […]
By Toufic Haddad The story of the Palestinian experience in Kuwait is a microcosm of the Palestinian experience overall in all its tragic footnotes. Yet the truth of what took place there – from the […]
By Ahamad Amr The first lie you’ll encounter in ‘Decision Points’ is the identity of the author; Bush didn’t write no damn book and if I’m wrong about that, I’ll eat the shoe that Iraqi […]
By Stephen Lendman Disturbing signs are ominous. On November 8, Israel demolished and ransacked a Negev Bedouin Arab mosque in Rahat, removing it for Jewish development. Professor Yousef Salamah called it "a criminal act," done […]
By Dr. Abdel-Qader Yassine Where are you from?You ask…I am a gypsy, a wanderer,born of pain and affliction. Look at the map of the world,voyage across in a glance.Doubtless you will not find a land,where […]
Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, has joined a chorus of international leaders, in rebuking Israel for plans to build new illegal settlements in the West Bank. "This announcement was counterproductive to our efforts […]
Israeli troops have arrested Mahmoud Ramahi, the secretary-general of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Hamas sources have said. The troops stormed the Hamas legislator’s home in the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank in […]
International leaders from Europe to the United States have lashed out at Israel’s decision to build 1,300 homes in East Jerusalem, warning it risks wrecking an already fragile peace process with the Palestinians. Palestinians see […]
By Nicola Nasser The statement by former U.S. President George W. Bush in his 497 – page memoir of ‘Decision Points’ that a secret peace deal was worked out between the then-prime minister of Israel, […]
By Hatim Kanaaneh ‘Human kind cannot bear too much reality.’ — T. S. Eliot I. Rachel’s Revenge: Israeli Young Adults Struck by Alzheimer’s: I arrived at the Haifa District Court with a deep sense of […]
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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