Sovereignty in the Middle East
By Dina Jadallah It is a sad state of affairs, but indicative of the times, that talk of sovereignty around the world is usually limited to the level of the state. What about the people? […]
By Dina Jadallah It is a sad state of affairs, but indicative of the times, that talk of sovereignty around the world is usually limited to the level of the state. What about the people? […]
Palestinian Authority officials have come down hard on secret documents obtained by Al Jazeera showing that top negotiators offered major concessions to Israel in the division of holy sites and Jerusalem, the would-be capital city […]
The Palestinian Hamas movement has lashed out at the Palestinian Authority (PA) over the leaked classified documents revealing the PA’s alleged cooperation with Israel. Sami Abu Zuhri, a spokesman for the Islamic movement, said on […]
More than 16,000 controversial documents on allegedly secret talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) between 2000 and 2010 have been leaked. The documents, released by Al-Jazeera TV on Sunday, maintain that the PA […]
A report has revealed that Israel sought to completely destroy Palestinian neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip during its war on the coastal enclave by the turn of 2008. The report published on Sunday by the […]
An Israeli investigation panel has declared Tel Aviv’s military attack on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla aid convoy as ‘legal’ under international law. Headed by former judge Yaakov Turkel, the six-member committee concluded that "the actions […]
Turkey is dismayed over an Israeli investigation panel’s attempt at rationalizing Tel Aviv’s deadly strike on the Gaza-bound convoy, Freedom Flotilla. Ankara said it was “appalled and dismayed” at the Israeli panel’s findings, which had […]
Former high-ranking US officials have called on President Barack Obama to avoid vetoing a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel’s illegal settlements in the West Bank. The officials, including a former US secretary of defense, […]
Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has launched an aid convoy to the besieged Gaza Strip, in the latest international effort to help the Palestinian nation. The Viva Palestina Malaysia (VPM) was officially launched on […]
By Dr. Ahmed Yousef – Gaza The Israeli occupation has never missed an opportunity to brand Hamas a fundamentalist, terrorist, racist, anti-Semitic organization. True to the Mossad motto which states ‘By way of deception, though […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel Israel is, as we well know, the land of unlimited impossibilities. In Israel, for example, the diplomats are striking. A strike of diplomats? But that is impossible! Postmen strike. Longshoremen […]
By Richard Irvine On the 12 January Colonel Adam Zussman of Dan Region, Israeli Home Front Command issued a dramatic warning: ‘danger has returned to Tel Aviv. Under any war scenario, it will be hit by […]
By David S. Halpin, FRCS The deliberate injury of the limbs of 23 boys by high velocity weapons has been logged and described by Defence for Children International – Palestine Branch (DCI-P) since March 2010. […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London What our Foreign Office minister said on his recent visit to Israel and Occupied Palestine shows more clearly than ever why the struggle in the Holy Land extends all the […]
Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces have scuttled a rally in the West Bank, planned to show solidarity for the uprising in Tunisia, the French daily Le Monde has reported. The rally on Wednesday was denied […]
By Nicola Nasser – Bir Zeit, The West Bank The ongoing Tunisian Intifada (uprising) cannot yet quite be termed a revolution; Tunisians are still revolting, aspiring for bread and freedom. This Intifada will go in […]
An Israeli soldier has been discharged over the killing of an unarmed Palestinian man as he slept in his bedroom in the occupied West Bank. In a statement, the Israeli military said it "deeply regrets" […]
Walid Jumblatt, a Druze leader from Lebanon’s opposition camp, has announced his support behind Hezbollah in a move that could give the group and its allies a veto over who becomes the country’s next prime […]
By Iqbal Jassat – Pretoria Mazin Qumsiyeh calls himself a ‘Bedouin in Cyberspace’ while a villager at home in Occupied Palestine. And it is from having his feet firmly planted on earth that this human […]
An application by two South African groups for the arrest of Tzipi Livni, the former Israeli foreign minister, who was due to vist the country later this week, has been turned down by the South […]
Brazil and Malaysia have condemned Israel’s illegal construction on the occupied Palestinian land following the submission of an anti-settlement draft resolution to the UN Security Council by Arab nations. The countries’ ambassadors at the Security […]
By Philip Giraldi As of last week, 110 countries in the United Nations have extended diplomatic recognition to the State of Palestine. All recognize Palestine as including the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza […]
Israeli military forces have shot dead a Palestinian near the West Bank city of Jenin, the military says. The shooting took place at a guard post near the settlement of Mevo Dotan, some 10 kilometers […]
By Ramzy Baroud When faced with problems, most authoritarian regimes maintain a policy of rigidity when the appropriate response would be flexibility, political wisdom and concessions. This policy gives authoritarian leaders their ability to control […]
The Israel military forces used weapons containing white phosphorus during the 22-day assault on Gaza. An Israeli human rights group has called for an independent inquiry into Israeli war crimes against the Palestinians during a […]
By Mohamed El Mokhtar Tunisia is a compelling case study for the Arab world. Here is a repressive ‘secular’ police state imposed, with the flagrant complicity of the West, upon one of the most economically […]
A senior Palestinian health official says the lives of at least 400 people are at risk as funds required for kidney dialysis medications in the besieged Gaza Strip are running out. "We are suffering from […]
The Palestinians have raised their flag on top of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) diplomatic mission in Washington in a symbolic move that will surely anger US government officials. “We are proud to see the […]
Dramatic increases in cancer cases, sterility and abnormal births in south of the West Bank is said to be linked to a uranium leak at the Dimona nuclear power plant. In villages located in the […]
By Mahmoud El-Yousseph When you do not distinguish between combatants and unarmed civilians during war, then you deserve to be named a ‘terrorist.’ It makes no difference what your religion is! That is exactly what […]
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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