By PACBI It is with great disappointment that the undersigned organizations learned of your scheduled performance in Israel set for 2011 as part of your ‘Circle Tour’. Given that Israel is involved in grave violations […]
Tensions are running high over stalled direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority especially after recent remarks by hawkish Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. The controversial Israeli minister told AFP on Tuesday that he […]
Despite Israeli calls, the US is reluctant to release jailed Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, saying the former Navy employee is guilty of "the most serious crimes." "I think it is important to underscore that Pollard […]
Israeli shelling of the Gaza Strip has killed at least one Palestinian and injured another in the northern part of the besieged coastal sliver. Hamas government sources have said that the two Palestinians were targeted […]
An American delegation headed by former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark has called for an end to the Israeli-imposed Gaza siege. The delegation arrived in Gaza via the Rafah border crossing for a three-day visit. […]
By Ramzy Baroud When late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat read the Declaration of the Palestinian Independence just over 22 years ago, Palestinians everywhere were enthralled. They held onto his every word during the Palestinian National […]
By Stephen Lendman December 28 was Cast Lead’s second anniversary, a three week onslaught inflicting an appalling human, destructive and environmental toll. The war ended. Regular attacks continued, and Gaza remains suffocating under siege. Yet […]
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington Barack Obama must be very disappointed these days since he was hardly applauded in the American media which reviewed his domestic and foreign policies, especially his stance on the Middle […]
By Jehan Bseiso I Maktoob: It is written. Where? In a big book in the sky. II Tata, my grandmother, would only tell the story in staccato: “1948. Falasteen. Orange blossom fields. Salt. Blue Gaza […]
By Belén Fern
By Stephen Lendman Social psychologist Hans Toch coined the term ‘isolation panic’ to describe symptoms he observed in men he interviewed, including panic, rage, a sense of total loss of control, emotional breakdown, regressive behavior, […]
Israel’s prime minister has asked Barack Obama, the US president, to pardon an American who spied for Israel. The White House said on Tuesday it was reviewing the request from Binyamin Netanyahu. Pollard, a former […]
Palestinian psychiatrist Eyad El-Sarraj on Tuesday won the 2010 Olof Palme Prize for his "self-sacrificing and indefatigable struggle for common sense, reconciliation, and peace" in the Middle East, the Swedish jury said. El-Sarraj, who in […]
A report has indicated that Israeli troops are knowingly using a deadly tear gas against Palestinians who take part in peaceful demonstrations. The report followed the death of a Palestinian woman, who lost her life […]
Egyptian authorities have prevented an Asian convoy’s ship carrying humanitarian aid and activists from reaching the Gaza Strip. The ship has not allowed to dock at the Egyptian port of El Arish. The vessel, which […]
A walkout staged by Israeli foreign ministry workers has forced Tel Aviv to cancel an official planned visit by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. The visit, which had been scheduled for mid-January, was postponed because Israeli […]
Benyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has said that talks to secure a new settlement freeze ground to a halt when the United States stopped pressing for the settlement ban, and not because Israel had […]
By Nasser Rego ‘I think the fact that the defendant is an activist for Bedouin ‘diaspora’ rights only makes it harder for his situation. Because he cannot on one hand argue that there are rights […]
Two civilians have been injured in air raids on Gaza by Israeli forces, according to Palestinian emergency services officials, while the Israeli military says a projectile has been fired on Israel. A military spokesman said […]
Hundreds of Palestinians and anti-barrier activists have attended the funeral procession of a Palestinian protester who died after inhaling the gas fired by Israeli forces quelling a protest in the occupied West Bank. Mourners at […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel ‘I have three answers,’ the Jew told the rabbi when his neighbor sued him for not returning a borrowed jar. "First, I never borrowed a jar from him. Second, the […]
By Iqbal Jassat – Pretoria If Karima Brown is correct in her evaluation of President Jacob Zuma’s canny ability to gain ascendancy despite teetering on the brink, would it be an unreasonable expectation to have […]
By George Polley (Efraim Karsh. Palestine Betrayed. Yale University Press, 2010.) Howard Sachar, author of A History of Israel, calls it ‘A work of meticulous, even exhaustive scholarship which must be taken with great seriousness […]
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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