By Mohammed ALNadi – Gaza As I write this, I’m listening to ‘Ween el Malayeen’ song, meaning ‘where are the millions’, a revolutionary song which used to stir the patriotic emotions inside millions of raging […]
By Sherri Muzher In the wake of Newt Gingrich’s ridiculous comments about Palestinians being an “invented” people I’d like to make a recommendation: Newt, before making historically inaccurate statements, please go read up on Middle […]
A Palestinian protester hit in the face by a projectile fired by Israeli forces died of his wounds, activists said. Witnesses say Mustafa Tamimi, 28, was throwing stones at a military vehicle when a tear gas […]
Republican White House hopeful Newt Gingrich has stirred controversy by calling the Palestinians an "invented" people who could have chosen to live elsewhere. The former House of Representatives speaker, who is the frontrunner for the Republican […]
By Theresa Wolfwood It seems like a great idea – to buy a counter top device that converts tap water into sparkling fizzy water. Add a line of 100 flavours of sweet syrups; in the […]
By Vacy Vlazna My friend, the late Father Percy Church MSC wrote a dramatic description of his Christmas in Bethlehem: The bitter wind, the road blocks, the x-rays and the body searches had robbed the mass […]
By Stuart Reigeluth When you see Gaza in the news and you hear about the siege, you imagine that the Strip is entirely cut off from the world — hermeneutically sealed and slowly but surely […]
By Eyad Sarraj – Gaza Yesterday, my six year old son Ali went to his swimming hour after school in Wafa hospital for the elderly in the eastern part of the town. It contains the […]
Israel has conducted a number of aerial attacks against the besieged Gaza Strip, killing at least three Palestinians and wounding over a dozen others. On Thursday, Israeli warplanes launched several airstrikes which left 15 people […]
International runners, from top athletes to weekend warriors, are being invited to enter next year’s marathon in the Gaza Strip, the United Nations-created race that made its debut this year. The UN Relief and Works […]
By Ben Lorber On the 7th of December, a windy Wednesday morning behind the boys’ school in the Palestinian village of Burin, 15 teenagers, dressed in red uniform, took to the football field under the […]
By Uri Avnery On the anniversary of David Ben-Gurion’s death, the usual memorial meeting was held at his graveside in Sdeh Boker, the Negev desert village where he lived in his retirement. There is no […]
By Sam Bahour My friend is Walid Abu Rass. He is the Finance and Administration Manager for the Health Work Committees (HWC, at www.hwc-pal.org), one of the largest community health service providers in the occupied […]
An Israeli air strike on a car killed two fighters and wounded two other men on a crowded Gaza street, the Israeli army and local medical officials said. The men were identified as Issam Al-Batish and […]
Israel’s deputy foreign minister accused the UN agency for Palestinian refugees of perpetuating Palestine’s conflict with Israel, in a speech at the UN refugee headquarters in Geneva on Thursday, Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post reported. […]
Republican US presidential candidates have vowed to undertake "covert" operations against Iran and Syria, including assassination, sabotage and aid to opposition forces, if they are elected to the White House in next year’s election. Newt Gingrich, […]
By James Petras After suffering major military and political defeats in bloody ground wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and failing to buttress long-standing clients in Yemen, Egypt and Tunisia and witnessing the disintegration of puppet […]
By James Gundun – Washington, D.C. An ongoing international crime spree is being committed in Yemen, where casualties mount into the thousands, and millions of pro-democracy protesters have no one to turn to other than […]
By Eric Walberg – Cairo With a 60 per cent turnout, United Russia’s solid 49.5 per cent plurality in the 4 December Duma elections, giving it 238 of the 450 seats, is the envy of […]
The rate of unemployment among refugees registered with the United Nations in the Gaza Strip in the occupied Palestinian territory stands at 33.8 per cent, indicating that their participation in the labour market has declined […]
Former Israeli president Moshe Katsav has reported to prison to begin a seven-year sentence for rape and other sexual offences. Before travelling to Maasiyahu prison on Wednesday, Katsav, who was president from 2000 to 2007, […]
One Palestinian has been killed and at least five others injured in an Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip. On Tuesday, Israeli warplanes, Apache helicopters, drone aircraft, and tanks launched several airstrikes, targeting eastern Gaza […]
Israeli Jewish settlers have again terrorized a Palestinian community by setting fire to a mosque and two vehicles in the West Bank, local residents say. They said that the settlers attacked the mosque and the […]
By Ramzy Baroud The Palestinian Uprising or Intifada of 1987 remains the single most significant triumph of popular mobilization in Palestinian history. The First Intifada, as it is commonly known, had, once and for all, […]
An Israeli military court on Tuesday ordered the deportation of a Palestinian lawmaker from Jerusalem to Ramallah, a statement from the Palestinian Legislative Council said. Ahmad Attoun, a Jerusalemite, was detained in front of the […]
Acting Palestinian Authority (PA) chief Mahmoud Abbas has vowed that the Palestinian initiative for full membership at the United Nations will not come to a halt. “Regarding the [UN] Security Council and the membership application […]
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) says Israel has been using drones to launch airstrikes on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip According to the rights group’s most recent report, Israel deploys drones to initiate […]
By Stuart Littlewood Britain’s foreign secretary William Hague has written a widely acclaimed 576-page biography of William Pitt the Younger, who became prime minister in 1783 at the tender age of 24. Pitt was the […]
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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