By George S. Hishmeh – Washington, D.C. Though obnoxious, Benjamin Netanyahu is no dummy. After all, the Israeli prime minister knows that if he got away with something the first time, he might as well take […]

By Stephen Lendman An October B’Tselem/HaMoked, Center of the Defence of the Individual report, titled "Kept in the Dark: Treatment of Palestinian Detainees in the Petach-Tikva Interrogation Facility of the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet)" […]

By Haidar Eid – Gaza In ‘The Music of the Violin,’ a short story by South African writer Njabulo Ndebele, one of the characters comments on the ‘concessions’ made by the apartheid regime to the indigenous […]

By Jim Miles A couple weeks after being rejected by the General Assembly for a position on the Security Council, Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper has expressed his sour grapes at the rejection stating that […]

By Stuart Littlewood – London To their eternal shame, Western churchmen seem to care little about the plight of their brothers and sisters in the Holy Land or the fate of the holy places where […]

By Belen Fernandez I sometimes worry about Philip J. Crowley, assistant secretary for the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Public Affairs and emcee of the department’s Daily Press Briefings. Do his work habits adversely affect […]

By Lillian Rosengarten Dedicated to the memory of Paul Celan. ‘You were my death: you I could hold when all fell away from me.’ Dare we whisper of racial hate, cruelty that feeds voraciouslyRighteous moral certainty […]

By Samah Sabawi (Excerpts from a speech presented at the first National BDS Conference in Australia October 2010.) Israeli propagandists attacking the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement often claim that pro-Palestinian activists hide behind words […]

By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth The tranquility of Safed, a small Israeli city nestled high in the hills of the Upper Galilee close to the Lebanese border, is not usually disturbed except by the occasional pilgrimage […]

By William A. Cook ‘He’s neither alive nor dead.’ Raanan Gissin, Sharon’s former advisor, made the above comment last month as quoted in the Jerusalem Post (20-10-2010) upon the exhibit of a lifelike sculpture by […]

By Iqbal Jassat – Pretoria The late Palestinian author and eloquent spokesman for the Palestinian cause in the West, Edward W. Said, in a ‘96 essay titled ‘Mandela, Netanyahu, and Arafat’ brilliantly captured the contrasts […]

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By Stephen Lendman Wall Street does it. Other Western banks do it. They all exploit markets, often ripping off customers illegally. Why not Israeli banks also in their own back yard, easily in expanding settlements. […]

By Shyamalee Mahibalan (Inspired by the work of Edward Said) Your stones fly like medieval armor across the barbed wire fence.A fence that says yours and mine. One stone for no running water. One for […]

By Deepak Tripathi – London The moment when President Obama emerged at the White House to speak to the press (November 4), less than twenty-four hours after the Democratic Party’s midterm drubbing, provided the most […]

By Dr. Eyad El Sarraj – Gaza – She asked: Where have you been all day? I was worried about you! And why did you turn off your mobile? – Then he replied meekly:"It was […]

By Hasan Afif El-Hasan Only through force and sheer violence, not negotiations, an exclusively Jewish state could be established in a country inhabited and owned by another people. It is humanly inconceivable that people surrender […]

By Uri Avnery ‘Half and half,’ the late Prime Minister, Levi Eshkol, is said to have answered, when asked whether he wanted tea or coffee. This joke was intended to parody his hesitation on the […]

By Stephen Lendman Israeli settlements are illegal under international law, including Fourth Geneva’s Article 49 stating: "Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of […]

By James Petras The November 2, 2010 electoral debacle of the Democratic Party in the US cannot be solely ascribed to the failed policies of President Obama, the Congressional leadership or their senior economic advisers. […]