Obama’s Winning Formula for Syria
By Ali Younes Ever since the beginning of the crises in Syria that started last March in the southern city of Deraa President Bashaar Al Assad seemed not to be able to grasp the enormity […]
Month: June 2011
Strangers at Checkpoint: Wondering How You Are Doing
By Mats Svensson It is early evening in Ram, a neighborhood in the outskirts of Jerusalem. The workers are on their way home to their families. The queue is long. I am sitting in my […]
UK Detains Palestinian-Israeli Leader Salah
Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel group, has been detained in London while on a speaking tour, the UK Home Office has confirmed. Salah was detained late on Tuesday night […]
Activists Say Israel Sabotaged Gaza Convoy
Organizers of a humanitarian aid flotilla to the Gaza Strip say Israel has attempted to stop them by sabotaging the convoy. The flotilla members said a joint Greek, Swedish and Norwegian boat was found sabotaged […]
Israel Warns Gaza Flotilla Activists
Amid Israel’s efforts to block the arrival of a new international aid flotilla to the blockaded Gaza Strip, Tel Aviv has threatened to confront activists on board the Gaza-bound flotilla. Speaking on an Israeli radio […]
Israel Arrests Four Hamas Members
Israeli troops have arrested four members of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas in the occupied West Bank, officials say. Palestinian security sources and officials said Israeli soldiers arrested four Hamas members, including a lawmaker, […]
US Invigorates Policy at Gaza’s Expense
By Ramzy Baroud United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has made a series of stern and fiery statements recently, giving the impression that war is somehow on us once again. Oddly, Clinton’s sudden reappearance […]
Actions, Not Words Needed in Yemen
By James Gundun – Washington, D.C. Although she didn’t leave a scratch on his brutal crackdown, Hillary Clinton recently launched a metaphysical barrage at Syria’s strongman, Bashar al-Assad. In an op-ed to Saudi-owned Asharq Al-Awsat, […]
Break the Siege, Support Freedom Flotilla II
Besieged Gaza, Occupied Palestine We Palestinians of Gaza want to live at liberty to meet Palestinian friends or family from Tulkarm, Jerusalem or Nazareth; we want to have the right to travel and move freely. […]
Don’t Attack Flotilla: Open Letter to Senator Kirk
(An Open Letter to Illinois Senator Mark Kirk, from three constituents, responding to his call for U.S. Special Forces to attack a flotilla of ships that will sail to Gaza.) Senator Mark Kirk 524 Hart Senate […]
‘The Message of the Soul’: 20th Annual MPAC Media Awards
By Elana Golden ‘Recognizing Voices of Courage and Justice’ was the caption on the two large TV screens looming over the glitzy ballroom of the Sheraton Parkway Hotel in Los Angeles where the 20th annual […]
Ex-US Politician Joins Gaza Aid Convoy
A former US political figure will join a Gaza-bound vessel although the State Department has criticized his act. Samuel Hart, a former US ambassador to Ecuador, is one of the passengers of The Audacity of […]
Israel Pushes Greece to Halt Gaza Flotilla
Organizers of an international flotilla to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip say the Tel Aviv regime is making Greece halt delivery of aid to the Palestinian territory. They complain that Greece is throwing […]
Israel Warns against Palestinian UN Bid
Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has warned the Palestinians against going ahead with their plan to seek statehood at the United Nations. “Any unilateral steps will damage the peace process and consequences of these unilateral […]
Israel Backs Away from Flotilla Media Threat
Israel has backtracked on its warning to foreign journalists covering the Gaza-bound international aid flotilla, saying they will not face the same punishment as other participants in the convoy. Israel’s government press office had given […]
Israel Threatens to Halt Denmark Flights
Israel has threatened to halt all direct flights to Denmark after Copenhagen refused to allow Israeli security personnel to perform security checks at the country’s main airport. Tel Aviv had demanded that Israeli security personnel […]
Staying Human: Preparing to Sail to Gaza
By Kathy Kelly Last week, newly-arrived in Athens as part of the US Boat to Gaza project, our team of activists gathered for nonviolence training. We are here to sail to Gaza, in defiance of […]
The PA’s Historic Mistake, and Opportunity
By Jeff Halper No one knows the precise plans of the Palestinian Authority vis-a-vis September: will Mahmoud Abbas declare a Palestinian state within recognized borders and ask that it be admitted as a full member […]
The Liberation Anthem – A Poem
By Samah Sabwai To the people of Israel who fear our freedom: Don’t be afraid, we will liberate you too. This is my renditionOf an anthem to be sungThat day you and IWill stand side […]
Obama’s Singularities
By William A. Cook ‘We arouse and arrange our memories to suit our psychic needs.’ — Michael Kammen, Columbus in History. If George W. Bush could attest to his mission from God Almighty to invade Iraq– […]
‘How The West Was Won’ – A Song For Shaker Aamer
By Sarah Gillespie – London Over a year ago I went to see Andy Worthington and Polly Nash’s brilliant documentary ‘Outside the Law, Stories from Guant
Israel Declares War on Flotilla
Israel and the United States have threatened journalists and human rights campaigners against taking part in a Gaza Strip-bound aid mission. On Sunday, Oren Helman, director of Israel’s Government Press Office, said joining the Freedom […]
Official: Egypt Working to Fix Rafah Delays
Head of the crossings authority in Gaza said Sunday that Egyptian authorities have begun implementing a new mechanism at the Rafah crossing to alleviate a backlog in travel. Hatem E’weidah said the new protocol would […]
Israel Reroutes West Bank Barrier at Bilin
Israel’s army has begun tearing down a section of the West Bank separation barrier near the village of Bilin, four years after the Israeli Supreme Court ordered them to do so. The rerouting on Sunday […]
Israel Military Ordered to Stop Flotilla
Israel reportedly orders its military to prevent an incoming convoy of vessels known as Freedom Flotilla II from taking humanitarian aid to the Tel Aviv-blockaded Gaza Strip. The Israeli regime has instructed its forces “to […]
Palestinians to Seek Recognition at UN
Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas says Palestinians will ask for membership and recognition of their state at a UN General Assembly meeting in September. “I say that if negotiations have failed we will go […]
Bethlehemites Are Palestinian Christians
By Fadi F Kattan Coming from a Bethlehemite Christian family, my anger rises when I hear such colonialist analysis of my city from the mouth of a respectable church official, moreover the Archbishop of Canterbury. […]
Of course Flotilla is Political Provocation
By Joe Catron As the launch of the Freedom Flotilla – Stay Human approaches, increasing numbers of Zionist officials and commentators illuminate the depths of their moral and intellectual bankruptcy by arguing that it is […]
Back to UNGA: New Paradigm in Palestine, Israel
By Mahmoud N. Musa and Awni M. Sarrif All roads to a meaningful settlement of the Arab Israeli conflict are at a dead end. Nevertheless, should two states be established in historic Palestine, bloody conflict […]
Egypt Sentences Three ‘Israeli Spies’
A special court in Egypt has sentenced an Egyptian businessman, as well as two Israeli officers tried in absentia, to 25 years in prison for spying on the behalf of Israel. Cairo’s supreme state security […]
