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, […]
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan The Egyptian people aspire to fulfill their needs for individual emancipation, self assertion, the legitimate pursuit of their interests and the establishment of state institutions that enhance these interests. They expect […]
The top United Nations envoy to the Middle East today called on Israel and the Palestinians to refrain from provocations and submit concrete proposals to revive the peace process and engage in direct negotiations. “We […]
Israeli Knesset member Haneen Zoabi has described Israel as “a racist system with laws discriminating against Palestinians,” Press TV reports. Zoabi, who represents the Balad party in the Knesset (parliament), said in an exclusive interview […]
By Ramzy Baroud When Recep Tayyip Erdogan became Turkey’s prime minister in 2003, he seemed to be certain of the new direction his country would take. It would maintain cordial ties with Turkey’s old friends, […]
Dozens of Israeli settlers have attacked a house in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron in protest against the release of a man in the recent Israeli-Palestinian prisoner swap. Israeli soldiers on Saturday clashed […]
Israeli authorities shut down a radio station over claims that it sought to ‘incite’ public opinion against the Tel Aviv establishment, an official says. Danny Danon of the Israeli Likud Party, led by Prime Minister […]
President Mahmoud Abbas applauded King Abdullah II of Jordan’s visit to Ramallah on Monday, after a brief surprise trip by the royal. Abbas told reporters in Ramallah that King Abdullah’s visit was "great," after the […]
By Sarah Gillespie Herodotos is an historian who trains you as you read. It is a process of asking, searching, collecting, doubting, striving, testing, blaming, and above all standing amazed at the strange things humans do. […]
By Deepak Tripathi Popular uprisings that began with peaceful protests in Tunisia and Egypt nearly a year ago, and spread across the Arab world, have created a new reality, not only in countries to experience […]
By Jim Miles I have just watched the video of the University of California students at Davis against the heavily armed police that is becoming prominent on many internet sites and I am reminded, among […]
By Ludwig Watzal (Mazin B. Qumsiyeh, Popular Resistance in Palestine. A History of Hope and Empowerment, Pluto, London-New York 2011.) Palestinian resistance against an Israeli ‘belligerent occupation’ is mostly viewed as terrorism and rocket attacks. […]
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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