America or Israel?
By Issa Khalaf President Obama’s descent to Israel-groveling was fast and furious, considering it’s been a short time from his June 2009 Cairo speech to his September 2011 UN speech. MJ Rosenberg dubbed Obama as […]
Month: October 2011
Success at UNESCO: One up to the Palestinians
By Stuart Littlewood It makes a nice change for Palestinians to be able to chalk up a success. And admission as a full member to UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) is […]
UNESCO Approves Palestinian Membership
The US government has cut off tens of millions of dollars in annual funding to the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) after it voted to admit Palestine as a full member. Victoria Nuland, […]
Overnight Airstrike Brings Gaza Deaths to 12
Two fighter were killed overnight Sunday as Israeli forces targeted the Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll in the coastal enclave to 12 since Saturday. Palestinian medical sources identified the victims as Yousif Rawhi Mahmoud […]
Israeli Airstrikes Kill 10 Palestinians in Gaza
Israeli warplanes attacked areas in the southern and northern Gaza Strip on Saturday and Sunday, killing ten Palestinians and injuring several others. One Palestinian was killed and another injured in an Israeli airstrike on the […]
Israeli Ex-soldier Faces Prison over Leaks
An Israeli court has sentenced a former soldier to four and a half years in prison for leaking classified military documents to a newspaper, which later reported allegations of a policy to assassinate Palestinian fighters. […]
Occupy Wall Street, Not Palestine
By Ben Lorber As pro-Palestinian discourse begins to make its voice heard in the worldwide Occupy Wall Street movement, right-wing organizations and individuals in the United States, including the Republican National Committee and the Emergency […]
Israeli Airstrikes Kill Seven Gaza Fighters
Israeli airstrikes have killed seven Islamic Jihad fighters in the Gaza Strip, prompting a massive barrage of retaliatory rocket fire, officials have said. Adham Abu Selmiya, a spokesman for Gaza’s emergency services, said on Saturday […]
The Mess in the Middle East
(Below is the text of a speech delivered Thursday, October 27 by Ambassador Chas Freeman at the annual conference of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations in Washington. Freeman is a former American ambassador to […]
BDS Claims Victory after Alstom Project Derails
The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement has declared victory against the Alstom group after it lost a nearly $10-billion bid for part of a railway project in Saudi Arabia. On Wednesday, authorities announced that several […]
Israel Frees Egyptians in ‘Spy’-swap Deal
Israel has released 25 Egyptian prisoners in an exchange deal for a US-Israeli man accused of spying by Egypt and held in custody there since June. The 25 prisoners, who had all been convicted of […]
US Threatens UNESCO over Palestine
The United States has threatened to cut off its funds to UNESCO, if the UN organization recognizes Palestine as a full member of the United Nations. US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland gave the warning […]
American Crisis Politics
By Eric Walberg – Cairo American voters now have a clear view of who they can vote for next year, with Barack Obama as the Democrats’ certain candidate and Mitt Romney as the Republicans’. Both […]
US Congress for Black Ops against Iran
By Ismail Salami – Tehran The US secret agenda for tightening its vice-like grip on the Islamic Republic of Iran has taken on an apparently new form after the anti-Iran alleged assassination plot against the […]
New Projects to Ease Gaza Housing Crisis
In response to a growing housing crisis in the Gaza Strip in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), several new building projects have been initiated by the Hamas-led government, and thousands of families have begun purchasing […]
Palestine Occupation Equals Apartheid
Finland’s foreign minister has described Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territories as “apartheid,” warning that time for the two-state solution was running out. “If you are occupying areas inhabited by … Palestinians who do not […]
Israel, Palestinians Agree to Offer Peace Proposals
The United Nations and its diplomatic partners in the search for peace in the Middle East met separately today with Israeli and Palestinian officials in Jerusalem, with both sides agreeing to come forward with comprehensive […]
Official Hypocrisy: Prisoner Hamouri is also French Citizen
By Richard Lightbown A further example of the blatant hypocrisy of European politicians towards Middle East realities is detailed on the French website for solidarity with French-Palestinian Salah Hamouri. This 26-year-old son of an East […]
Israel to Free 25 Egyptians in Prisoner Swap
Israel’s cabinet has approved the release of 25 Egyptian prisoners in exchange for a man with dual US-Israeli nationality who has been held in Egypt on espionage suspicions since June. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s special […]
Archaeologists Protest Removal of Muslim Graves
The "surreptitious and unscientific" removal of hundreds of bodies from ancient Muslim graves in Jerusalem violates international and Israeli law, a group of archaeologists warned Friday. Some 84 archaeologists and and professors of archaeology from […]
Israel Closes ‘Hamas, PFLP’ Offices
Israel has closed down two offices in East Jerusalem which were allegedly being used by the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Israeli police officials said the […]
Gaddafi: British Media Revels in Blood Lust
By Nathaniel Mehr – London If the violent nature of Col. Gaddafi’s grisly demise was depressingly predictable, there was, similarly, a sense of numbing inevitability about the triumphalism with which British mainstream media reported, and […]
Iraq War Declared Over, but War Party Persists
By Ramzy Baroud In a White House Statement on October 21, US President Barack Obama pledged that his country would finally withdraw forces from Iraq. “After nearly nine years, America’s war in Iraq will be […]
Palestinian Delegation Prepares for UNESCO Vote
Palestinian officials are preparing for an intense diplomatic battle as UNESCO opens its General Conference on Tuesday. UNESCO’s board decided on Oct. 5 to let 193 member states vote on a Palestinian application to upgrade […]
Hamas, Fatah Leaders to Meet in Cairo
Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas Political Bureau Chief Khaled Meshaal will meet in Egypt next month, a Hamas official says. Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah had agreed to hold a meeting in […]
Prisoner Exchange Must Extend to Peace Talks: UN
The United Nations political chief today called on Israel and the Palestinians to show the kind of resolve to take the kind of difficult decisions seen in the recent prisoner exchange in their search for […]
I Wish to Tell You about Gaza
‘To those who were martyred for the land of sad oranges.’ By Lillian Rosengarten Gaza life exists in a cage, an open air prison that has been kept mostly isolated from the world. Its citrus […]
Pro-Israel Lobby Courts African Americans
By Ira Glunts Hasbara is the Hebrew word for a particular type of pernicious propaganda first employed by early Zionists leaders to explain the unexplainable actions of the Jewish administration in Palestine. In recent years, hasbara […]
Prisoner Deal Major Victory for Palestinians
By Mohammed AlNadi – Gaza On Tuesday October 18, 2011 a prisoner exchange deal was successfully carried out between Hamas and Israel for the first time. Since the capture of Gilad Shalit, Israel had been […]
Fresh Analysis Needed on Gaddafi, Libya and the TNC
By Iqbal Jassat – Pretoria Until Sunday – three days after the killing of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi – it appeared that South African media was lacking in coverage of this momentous event. While there has been […]
