The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) will go to the United Nations Security Council and seek full membership in the world body next week, despite the looming threat of a US veto, a Palestinian official said. […]
Arab members of Israel’s Knesset (parliament) have warned of the consequences of Tel Aviv’s recent plan to force out 30,000 Arab Bedouins from their villages in Naqab desert, Press TV reports. “We demand the prime […]
By Audrey Bomse, Legal Adviser to the Free Gaza Movement Almost all the factual findings, as well as the legal analysis and conclusions of the recently leaked UN Secretary General’s Panel of Inquiry into the […]
By B. Z. Khasru If history is any guide, Palestinians stand to lose virtually nothing if they seek U.N. recognition for an independent state, despite warnings of doom and gloom by Western powers. They have […]
By Ayman Abu Shanab – Gaza As President Mahmoud Abbas prepares to submit a bid for recognition of Palestine as the UN’s 194th member, Palestinian factions are divided over the campaign. Abbas will head to […]
Egypt and Israel have said they want a return to normal diplomatic activities after the Israeli ambassador flew home on Friday following the storming of the embassy in Cairo during violent protests. Binyamin Netanyahu, the […]
The Israeli cabinet has given the go-ahead to a plan authorizing the expulsion of tens of thousands of Bedouin Arabs from the Negev desert where they have lived for generations. The plan, known as the […]
A new survey shows that most Palestinians believe that US President Barack Obama’s policies support Israeli interests rather than those of the Palestinians. The poll, conducted by the German organization Konrad Adenauer, revealed that 88 […]
By Nath Aldalala’a What was built on feeble foundations is feeble. The Egypt-Israeli Peace Treaty (EIPT) was signed at a time characterised by a very different domestic and regional political climate. The most notable aspect […]
By Mahmoud N. Musa Before Palestinian politicians go to the General Assembly of the United Nations to ask for recognition of their nominal state, they have to answer this question: Is this what the Palestinian people […]
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan The Americans and people all over the world who still remember clearly the unfolding of the horrible events on September 11, 2001 day are commemorating with pain and anguish when 3000 […]
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan The Americans and people all over the world who still remember clearly the unfolding of the horrible events on September 11, 2001 day are commemorating with pain and anguish when 3000 […]
By William A. Cook The moon outside that sheds its light over this desert landscape of chaparral and twisted Joshua trees where I live is not yet full, but it rises nonetheless, as the sun, […]
By Tamar Fleishman – The West Bank I wanted to write about Mahmud, the thirteen year old boy that ever since his return from Ofer prison is the first of the children who hurry to […]
By Julie Webb-Pullman – Gaza The hasty and undignified departure of Israeli embassy staff from Cairo following popular protests on Friday (September 09) underscores the highly-tenuous state of Israeli-Egyptian relations, as well as the strength […]
By Stuart Littlewood The last thing Israel wants is masses of bright and clever young Palestinians nextdoor in the shredded remains of the Occupied Territories. But that’s exactly what Palestinian youngsters are… bright and clever, […]
Israel’s embassy in Cairo has been stormed by protesters who tore down one of the outer embassy walls and threw thousands of documents from the embassy’s windows. The angry protesters also replaced the neighbouring country’s […]
Parts of the wall recently built around the Israeli embassy in Cairo, to protect the facility from Egyptian demonstrators has been torn down by angry protesters. Following the Friday Prayers, protesters and activists gathered outside […]
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has declared that despite pressure from some Western countries, Palestinians will move ahead with a statehood bid at the upcoming UN General Assembly meeting. "Whatever the pressures, we’re going to the […]
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has announced his support for an independent and sovereign state of Palestine, emphasizing that a Palestinian state is “long overdue.” “But…the recognition of a state is something to be […]
By John V. Whitbeck While many questions relating to the State of Palestine’s imminent application for UN membership are being raised and vigorously debated, one relevant question has not been. That question is how American […]
By Reverend Carolyn Boyd Americans are frustrated, angry and disappointed in the political leadership of our country. We are enduring one crisis after another: housing, war, jobs, budget, debt and deficit. We are also shouldering […]
By Uri Avnery It sounds like the title of a romantic movie. ‘Daphne, Itzik and all the Others’. It starts off with a friendship between two youngsters, he in his early thirties, she in her mid […]
A group of Palestinian activists and officials have submitted a letter to the United Nations urging Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to support the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) bid for recognition at the General Assembly later this month. […]
The first session of a murder trial for four suspects in the killing of Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni is due to start on Thursday in a Gaza court, a Ma’an correspondent reported. The Italian activist […]
Israeli police have clashed with demonstrators who staged mass rallies to protest persisting high costs of living and social injustice in Israel. Israeli police arrested about 40 protesters in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, Reuters reported […]
By Michele Giorgio – GazaTranslated by Daniela Loffreda – Rome Vittorio Arrigoni was strangled between 14 and 15 April between the hours of 11pm and 1 am. He was still alive in the video filmed […]
By Eric Walberg Muammar Al-Gaddafi’s demise is all but a done thing, carried out with a UN blessing, however dubious, and only belatedly opposed by Russia and China. Russian policy makers are now wondering if […]
The Turkish prime minister has accused Israel of lacking "trade ethics" in bilateral military contracts. "Israel has shown disloyalty in our bilateral agreements in the defence industry area," Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, referring […]
Palestinian officials say the differences with the US over the UN bid are wide and they will not give up the bid to seek recognition at the annual meeting of leaders at the General Assembly. […]
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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