Israel has announced that it will release tens of millions of dollars of tax funds owed to the Palestinians, ending a standoff that the Palestinians say has caused grave damage to their fragile economy. The […]
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has called on the UN member states to spare no efforts to pursue the issue of Palestinian statehood bid. PA’s ambassador to the UN, Riyad Mansour called on the UN member […]
By Ramzy Baroud The so-called ‘Arab Spring’ is creating an intellectual divide that threatens any sensible understanding of the turmoil engulfing several Arab countries. While it is widely understood that revolutions endeavor to overthrow political […]
By Jaya Ramachandran – Geneva Some two months after the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas transmitted Palestine’s application for membership to the United Nations to the Secretary-General, high-ranking UN officials have reiterated the need for […]
By Franklin Lamb – Embassy of Palestine, Tripoli, Libya Every year on November 29, approximately a quarter million Palestinian refugees who were forced into Lebanon, along with those in more than 130 countries where they […]
By Eric Walberg – Cairo Morocco, with its 35 million people, where 1 in 3 are unemployed and poverty is widespread, has had multi-party elections since independence in 1956 without anyone taking much notice. Even […]
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that a Palestinian state was "long overdue," in a statement to mark the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. "The need to resolve this conflict has […]
Israel has fired several missiles into the southern Lebanese town of Ayta Shaab, in response to the shooting of Katyusha rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel, according to the Lebanese National News Agency. The NNA said […]
By Clive Hambidge A Military Conquest ‘… We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours … When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be […]
By Stuart Reigeluth Despite the eruption of turmoil in the centre of Cairo, the Palestinian factions met in the Egyptian capital on November 24, to advance an agreement of national reconciliation. This accord is long […]
By Dan Freeman-Maloy Israel is currently experiencing an internationally visible collapse of its ‘liberal democratic’ camp, raising significant problems for a state whose underlying theocratic and apartheid features have historically been partially covered from international […]
By William James Martin November 29, 1947 was the date the UN passed the Partition Resolution partitioning Palestine, more or less equally, into a Jewish and an Arab state. In fact, the ethnic cleansing commenced […]
The Israeli defense ministry has approved plans for 119 housing units in the settlement of Shilo, north of Jerusalem, the Israeli news site Ynet reported. The permits were issued as part of the Israeli state’s […]
Israeli military officials have announced that about 50 percent of the Israeli conscripts refuse to serve in the army, a report says. The announcement was made during a visit by a group of Israeli Knesset […]
The head of the United Nations relief agency for Palestinian refugees today urged the international community to strengthen support for the refugees, particularly the youth who constitute an increasingly significant segment of the population. Filippo […]
The Palestinian Authority (PA) says Israel’s suspension of the transfer of Palestinian tax revenues has had a "devastating impact" on the economy of Palestine. Palestinian caretaker Prime Minister Salam Feyadh said the Israeli freeze on […]
By Deepak Tripathi My reflections last week were about the United States grand strategy anchored in the energy resources and Israel’s defense in the Middle East. How that grand strategy, offering a validation for the […]
By Ben Lorber and Khalil Ashour On the third floor of the Nablus Municipality Library, there sits a room of over 8,000 books set apart from the rest. Many of these books are very old […]
By Stuart Littlewood When Marcellus, in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, famously says, ‘Something’s rotten in the state of Denmark’, he means that the body politic is rotting from the top down and the corruption stinks to high […]
By James Petras We live in a time of dynamic, regressive, regime changes. A period in which major political transformations and the dramatic roll back of a half century of socio-economic legislation are accelerated by […]
Exiled Hamas chief Khalid Mashaal said Friday that Israeli threats after reconciliation talks with Fatah leader President Mahmoud Abbas "would not scare us but rather assure us that reconciliation is the right track for the […]
By Ahmed Amr – Cairo Nostalgia for more innocent times is a comforting refuge when hope is scarce. This week, as we inhaled a toxic dose of tear gas in Tahrir Square, we were all […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Last February Britain’s then defense minister Liam Fox attended a dinner in Tel Aviv with a group described as senior Israelis. Alongside him sat Adam Werritty, a lobbyist whose ‘improper […]
By M. I. Bhat When Arab streets started swelling with anger political pundits in the West tried to explain it away as public outburst against poverty, unemployment and dictatorial suppression, and spin it as the […]
The leaders of the main Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas, have agreed to hold elections in May 2012 after holding talks in Cairo over a power-sharing arrangement. Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, and Khaled Meshaal, […]
PLO official Nabil Shaath said that Sweden will stand by Palestinians at the UN, after meetings with officials in the country on Thursday. Shaath said the undersecretary to the Swedish foreign minister told him that […]
The United Nations has called on the Israeli regime to immediately release Palestinian tax collections and stop its illegal construction activities in the occupied territories. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon "stressed the need to de-escalate" Israeli-Palestinian […]
An Israeli warplane has conducted an airstrike on the southern Gaza Strip, but there have been no reports of casualties or damage so far, Press TV reports. An Israeli F-16 fighter jet fired a missile at […]
By Josh Ruebner Fifty years ago, Freedom Riders braved beatings and arson by supremacists intent on maintaining apartheid in the Jim Crow South. By challenging segregated transportation through nonviolent action, these African American and white […]
The Palestinian Authority cabinet on Tuesday condemned Israel’s ongoing refusal to hand over Palestinian tax revenue. Israel froze the transfer of funds owed to the West Bank government, amounting to around $100 million a month, […]
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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