Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine leader Jamil Mizher said Friday the "deception and stalling" of Hamas and Fatah to reconcile was no longer acceptable. In a statement, Mizher said the Palestinian people and […]
Arab League (AL) Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi has slammed Israel’s plan to construct new illegal settlement units in the Gilo neighborhood of East Jerusalem. Al-Arabi called the decision a “scandalous violation of international law” and […]
By Uri Avnery Here is a story that has never been told before: When the Titanic was well out into the Atlantic, its crew mutinied. They demanded higher wages, less cramped quarters, better food. They […]
By Eric Walberg – Cairo Turkey’s foreign policy shift is now in full gear. Having kicked out the Israeli ambassador and rejected the UN Palmer Report, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says that Turkey plans […]
By Eyad Sarraj – Gaza Just a few words to our European friends before the Security Council meeting on the question of Palestine membership application of the UN. We are talking to friends and partners […]
By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai President Barack Obama’s shameful turnaround over Palestine has exposed the ‘audacity of hope’ for what it is—a sham. More important, it has turned the spotlight on the world body […]
A Palestinian Authority ministry and national research institute released a joint study Thursday which estimates that the Israeli occupation cost the Palestinian economy around $7 billion in 2010. "Without the occupation, the Palestinian economy would […]
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is reportedly processing the Palestinian Authority (PA)’s demand for the UN’s recognition of Palestine as an independent member state. Lebanon’s UN ambassador, Nawaf Salam, who currently holds the UNSC’s […]
A United Nations panel has called on Israel to stop the destruction of the Palestinian houses and structures in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. "These actions by the Israeli authorities violate human rights […]
The European Union and the United States have condemned Israeli plans for the construction of 1,100 new housing units in occupied East Jerusalem as being counterproductive to negotiations on peace talks with the Palestinians. They […]
Thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons have begun a three-day hunger strike to protest "an escalating series of punitive measures by the Israel Prison Service (IPS)”. Palestinian minister for prisoners, Issa Qaraqa said on […]
Thousands of people in Syria have been killed, injured, displaced or detained in a series of protests against the Syrian government since mid-March which have been ruthlessly quelled by the government. How is this uprising […]
By Ramzy Baroud ‘Both of Ibrahim’s arms were cut off. He had a hole in his lung. Parts of his legs were missing. His kidney was in a bad condition…we need people to stand with […]
By Eric Walberg Russian President Dmitri Medvedev’s nomination of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as Russia’s pretender to the throne and Putin’s promise to keep his friend as premier was hardly a surprise. All along, except […]
By Aalia Shaikh His Lost Treasure (Dedicated to all children who have lost their innocence in conflicts and wars) He sits on the ground, playing with marblesThey have lost their sheen, like the irises of […]
Israel’s government has granted the go-ahead for construction of 1,100 new housing units in illegally occupied east Jerusalem, raising already heightened tensions fuelled by last week’s Palestinian move to seek full UN membership. Israel’s interior […]
The European Union has criticized Israel for its illegal expansion of settlement units in the occupied Palestinian territories. EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said on Tuesday that Israel’s plan to build 1,100 new illegal […]
Three Palestinians were pronounced dead on Tuesday morning after Egyptian authorities pumped sewage inside a smuggling tunnel under the Gaza border on Sunday. The ambulance and emergency services committee in Gaza said the three victims […]
By John V. Whitbeck The number of UN member states extending diplomatic recognition to the State of Palestine has now risen to 131, leaving only 62 UN member states on the wrong side of history […]
By Mats Svensson Today’s wall is longer, higher and it does not stop terrorist activities inside the West Bank. Houses are demolished, land is destroyed and people are dying. It is night. He is dark […]
The UN Security Council has begun closed-door negotiations on the Palestinian bid for UN membership as major powers step up pressure for direct Palestinian-Israeli talks. Although a vote on the historic bid is not expected […]
Fatah and Hamas officials are scheduled to meet in Cairo by the beginning of October for further dialogue over reconciliation talks and political issues, Fatah official Azzam al-Ahmad said Monday. Al-Ahmad, who heads Fatah’s national […]
The acting Palestinian Authority chief has ruled out new talks with the Israeli regime without a total halt to settlement expansion efforts on his return from New York to the occupied West Bank. "We have […]
By Ralph Nader The fast developing predator drone technology, officially called unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs, is becoming so dominant and so beyond any restraining framework of law or ethics, that its use by the […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Amid the enthusiastic applause in New York and the celebrations in Ramallah, it was easy to believe — if only a for minute — that, after decades of obstruction by […]
By El Habib Louai The feeling is not anymore the sameDear brothers and sisters I do not blameFurious, angry crowds poured outFrom every single side to cry outWe simply cannot anymore yieldTo your orders we […]
By Tenzin Nima An important news item making headlines all over the world these days is the Palestinian Authority’s bid to secure full membership at the ongoing 66th session of the United Nation’s General Assembly in […]
By Alexandra Robinson Friday, September 23rd de facto president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, approached the United Nations to request their recognition and acceptance of a Palestinian State that would include the territories of […]
By Stuart Littlewood No-one connected with the old discredited peace ‘circus’ should be allowed anywhere near the new quest for justice in the Holy Land. Too many are strangers to fair play and appear to […]
By Jim Miles (The Longest War – The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al-Qaeda. Peter L. Bergen. Free Press, New York, 2011.) Writing history is a matter of placing points in time as bookends or […]
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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