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 […]

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 […]

By Clive Hambidge Does Israel really care for its returned son? Or was he used as a political pawn? As a young soldier returns home to assuage the "righteous indignation" of a nation state, no […]

By William A. Cook ‘ … disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy […]

By Uri Avnery The Most sensible – I almost wrote ‘the only sensible’ – sentence uttered this week sprang from the lips of a 5-year old boy. After the prisoner swap, one of those smart-aleck […]

By International Solidarity Movement – Gaza The military trial of the four men charged with the death of Italian International Solidarity Movement Activist Vittorio Arrigoni continued in Gaza City today. The small courtroom was packed […]

By James Gundun – Washington, D.C. Who is Ali Abdullah Saleh? U.S. ally? Sworn enemy of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)? Defender of universal rights and free expression? Helpless victim? Yemen’s strongman claims that […]

By Ali Younes The killing of former Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi today might bring a swift end to the bloody rebellion that erupted against his rule eight months ago. News reports showed a bloody and […]

By Ismail Salami The report that the evasive Libyan ruler Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has died as a result of the wounds he sustained during a NATO attack has flung the Libyans into a jubilant frenzy […]

By Eric Walberg – Cairo  In the lifestyle sweepstakes, the answer is ‘none of the above’. The economic and social experiments in the past three decades by British governments from left to right have left […]

By Kathy Kelly In Kabul, Afghanistan’s beleaguered capitol city, a young woman befriended me during December of 2010.  She was eager to talk about her views, help us better understand the history of her country, […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai A great deal of time in my adolescent years was spent with my father’s books. I was introduced to some of the finest names in Urdu and Western literature […]

By Ershad Abubacker Mitzpe Hila, a small town in northern Israel close to Lebanon border must not have seen such a celebration in the recent years.  Similarly the 200,000 Palestinians who assembled in Katiba Square […]

…spare a thought (and do something) for the thousands of Palestinians still languishing in Israel’s prisons By Stuart Littlewood I was once a national serviceman myself, drafted into the military by a barmy government. So […]

By Ismail Salami Despite its evidently make-believe facade, the cooked-up story of the Saudi envoy assassination plot does not seem to be something which can be easily banished from the minds of the American powers […]

By Ramzy Baroud During his deliberately offensive speech on September 23, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the General Assembly as ‘the theater of the absurd.’ Israel’s few friends at the United Nations – led […]

By Jeremy Salt – Ankara A legend is being created that is going to haunt the people who have been propelled into power in Tripoli. In Sirte a handful of men have set an example […]