By Robin Yassin-Kassab Tony Blair, with the blood of Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine dripping from his fingers, says Egyptian dictator Husni Mubarak is “immensely courageous and a force for good.” The opinion is based on […]
Hamas has announced that it would boycott Palestinian municipal elections in the occupied West Bank. Hamas has said that the presence of PA security forces, who collaborate with the Israeli occupation in the West Bank, […]
An Israeli warplane has once again pounded the southern Gaza Strip, targeting the tunnel network used to transfer vital goods from Egypt to the blockaded territory. The F-16 jet flew over the city of Rafah […]
By Ahmed Amr – Cairo There is a joke making the rounds in Egypt that Hosni Mubarak threatened to demonstrate in front of parliament and self-emulate himself if the Egyptian people refuse to step down […]
By Ali Younes President Barak Obama calls on President Mubarak to immediately arrange for transfer of power, and that a transition of power must begin ‘now’ not only sounds hypocritical but also disingenuous. Not to […]
By Paul Larudee On June 1, 2001, tens of thousands of Palestinians attended the funeral of one of their leaders, Faisal al-Husseini, in Jerusalem. They came from all over Palestine. They did not ask for […]
By Jim Miles The situation in Egypt remains highly unsettled and the eventual outcome is still an unknown, but two things are clear: first that Obama is a failure, in spite of all his record […]
By Ramzy Baroud As Palestinians are becoming increasingly confident about the authenticity of the Palestine Papers – 1,600 leaked documents that Al Jazeera began publishing on January 23 – they can also find little to […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged the US and the West to link the recognition of any new Egyptian government to preserving the country’s peace deal with Israel. Closely […]
The Republic of Suriname has recognized a free and independent Palestinian state on the lands occupied by Israel in the Six Day War. In letters sent to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and acting Palestinian […]
By Ahmed Amr – Cairo The Egyptian uprising came to my front door last Friday and I ended up getting my fair share of America’s foreign aid budget by inhaling an unhealthy dose of tear […]
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington, D.C. The surprising but determined refusal of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who has been in office for nearly 30 years, to step down immediately has probably stunned many world-wide […]
Reports say Israel has sent crowd dispersal weapons to the Egyptian regime to curb massive protests against President Hosni Mubarak’s 30 years of authoritarian rule. The International Network for Rights and Development said that three […]
Israel fears that the ongoing popular uprising against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak could threaten its natural gas supplies from the North African nation. "We again realize that the Middle East is not a stable region. […]
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has urged the so-called Middle East Quartet to recognize a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders as the foursome plans to meet later this week. “We call on the international Quartet […]
By William A. Cook ‘The only people in Egypt who are committed to peace are the people in Mubarak’s inner circle, and if the next president is not one of them, we are going to […]
By Stephen Lendman In July 2003, a USAF Institute for National Security Studies report titled, ‘Egypt as a Failing State: Implications for US National Security’ suggested ‘Mubarak’s traditionally autocratic and oppressive short-term fixes’ weren’t working. […]
People in the Gaza Strip are stockpiling supplies due to concerns that Egypt’s uprising will affect the flow of basic necessities through the Rafah border crossing. Egyptian protesters took to the streets for the seventh consecutive […]
The president of Cyprus has announced that his country recognizes a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders after several South American states made the similar move. Demetris Christofias sent a letter to acting Palestinian Authority […]
The fate of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak seems to be entwined with that of Palestinian Authority (PA) Chief Mahmoud Abbas, who is trying to overcome a scandal that has angered Palestinians. On Sunday, over 3,000 […]
Following a mass prison break in the Egyptian capital, officials in Tel Aviv have expressed concern over the fate of an Israeli inmate Auda Solomon Trabin, convicted of espionage in Cairo 11 years ago. On […]
An international human rights group has criticized the Palestinian Authority (PA) for dispersing a demonstration in support of anti-government protests in Egypt. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday that the organizers of the rally […]
Israel has escalated its military presence near the southern Lebanese border, stepping up their surveillance activities along the Lebanese frontier, reports say. Israeli forces patrolled the border on Sunday, carrying out maintenance work at several […]
Palestinian activists jailed in Egypt have been reunited with their families after liberation from a prison, amid anti-government protests across the North African country. The activists jailed by the Mubarak regime managed to escape Abu […]
By Nicola Nasser – Bir Zeit, The West Bank The Arab world is the beating heart of the overwhelmingly Muslim Middle East, and the Arab masses are angrily moving for a change in the status […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth With the 18-year-long Middle East peace process finally pronounced dead, is the Palestinian Authority finished too? That is the question being asked by Palestinians in the wake of a week of damaging […]
By Ali Jawad Not long ago, the Western world was up in arms decrying the ‘grave human rights violations’ on the streets of Tehran. In the aftermath of the June elections, media outlets such as […]
By William A. Cook While the people of the mid-east rise in protest against their respective American supported dictators in Tunisia and Egypt, with the American-Israeli attempts to control Lebanon on the brink of chaos […]
By James Gundun – Washington, D.C. The video phones are ringing off the hook. Crumbling and nervous allies, observing foreign governments, journalists, activists, maybe an opposition figure or two. All wanting to know how the […]
By Basil Abdelkarim As an unprecedented wave of protests swept across the Arab world, United States Vice President Joe Biden shared these illuminating thoughts with NewsHour host Jim Lehrer regarding Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, whose […]
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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