By Samah Sabawi ViolatedFromInside and outSeeking refugeAmongst masked menGuided byDisjointed wordsBreathing in Rhetoric devoid of meaningProcessingMeaning devoid of actionsExhalingActions…Random…Devoid of strategiesDeveloping strategiesThat fall on deaf earsWhispering FreedomIn a chorus of loud noiseViolatedFromInside and outThe enemy […]
By Gilad Atzmon When we were young there was hope in the air. There was good reason to look ahead. Some of us enrolled at university, but we also knew that if life did not […]
Stockholm’s international airport has refused to allow Israeli security inspections to take place, forcing an Israeli airline to stop its service, daily Haaretz reported Thursday. Israeli security procedures, which often involve ethnic and personal profiling, […]
By Felicity Arbuthnot ‘No person has the right to rain on your dreams.’ — Martin Luther King, 1929-1968. Many dreams have been rained on since peace was declared at the end of the Second World War, […]
By Kathy Kelly Last weekend, in Kabul, Afghan Peace Volunteer friends huddled in the back room of their simple home. With a digital camera, glimpses and sounds of their experiences were captured, as warfare erupted […]
By Uri Avnery ‘In blood and sweat / A race will arise to us / Proud and generous and brutal…’ Thus wrote Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky, the founder of extreme right-wing Zionism, who was also a […]
The demand for microloans has risen steeply in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in recent years, according to data from the Palestinian Network for Small and Microfinance (Sharakeh), which represents 11 microfinance non-profit institutions […]
The Palestinian Authority Foreign Ministry on Thursday accused Israel’s Foreign Minister of trying to mislead international public opinion. Avigdor Lieberman on Tuesday told Cypriot President Demitris Christofias that President Mahmoud Abbas was not interested in […]
By Eric Walberg – Cairo Kabul was cast into chaos Sunday as the Taliban began their spring offensive with attacks on US, British, German and Russian embassies, NATO headquarters, Camp Eggers, a hotel, President Karzai’s […]
Five female French pro-Palestinian activists have strongly criticized the ‘psychological violence’ exercised by Israeli security personnel against them while in detention. The five pro-Palestinian activists arrived in the southern French city of Nice in early hours […]
“The happiness I saw on my peoples’ faces made me forget all the suffering I experienced when I was on hunger strike,” freed Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan said Wednesday. When he arrived in Jenin, instead […]
A senior United Nations official has condemned the eviction today of two Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem and called for an end to such violations of international law. The eviction today follows […]
Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan says Israel is on the brink of “disaster” and that Israel faces a “very bad” forecast of its future. “We are on the edge of — I would not say […]
By Ramzy Baroud ‘My Lords, I was in Gaza six weeks ago,’ began Baroness Tonge, when she spoke at the House of Lords in January 2009. ‘Now, as a result of the impotence of the […]
By Jamal Kanj The upcoming Egyptian presidential election has started with a wild ride. The poll contenders covering wide political spectrum ranging from the ultra conservatives to Leftists; from the anti-dictatorship to Mubarak’s subservient; from […]
Khader Adnan, a Palestinian prisoner who went on a 66-day hunger strike over his detention without charge by Israel, has been released following a deal reached in February. Adnan has since arrived at his home […]
PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat and Palestinian intelligence chief Majed Faraj met Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday and handed over a letter on the peace process. The letter from President Mahmoud Abbas included references […]
About 1,600 Palestinian prisoners have begun an open-ended hunger strike in the Israeli jails across the occupied territories to protest imprisonment without charge and solitary confinement exercised by the Tel Aviv regime. Palestinian prisoners began […]
By Eric Walberg Ben Gurion Airport was thrown into chaos for the third annual Flytilla on Sunday. As starry-eyed tourists arrived to visit the Holy sites and beady-eyed new Israelis arrived to kick more Palestinians […]
By Kathy Kelly At the start of The Kite Runner, a novel by Khaled Hosseini later adapted for film, a brave and selflessly loyal Afghan boy runs to help his much wealthier friend, singing out […]
By Felicity Arbuthnot ‘There is a higher Court than the Courts of Justice, that is the Court of Conscience. It supercedes all other Courts.’ — (Mahatma Ghandi, 1869-1948.) Stefan Hansen, CEO and Chairman of the […]
By Richard Irvine Amongst what remains of the Israeli left, the siren cry for many years has been that the Occupation is destroying Israel. This view, brilliantly propounded by Pulitzer Prize Winner Richard Ben Cramer in […]
The results of Hamas’ internal leadership re-shuffle are still confidential, party officials said Monday. Hamas officials, speaking to Ma’an on condition of anonymity, denied that there had been any clashes over the process which took […]
Israeli police at Ben Gurion Airport of Tel Aviv have deported 18 pro-Palestinian activists taking part in the “Welcome to Palestine 2012” fly-in campaign to express support for the Palestinian cause. The 18 activists were among […]
An Israeli soldier has been suspended after video footage showed him hitting a foreign pro-Palestinian activist in the face with his gun during a bicycle rally in the occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli […]
By Ludwig Watzal The Pontifex Maximus, Pope Benedict XVI, will visit Lebanon from 14 to 16 September 2012. This papal visit will coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre that was […]
By Maria C. Khoury, Ed.D. In the last few years during Great Lent, I have developed a pattern of promoting our Christian presence in the Holy Land with a book tour (using the book Christina Goes […]
By Mahmoud El-Yousseph On April 4, 2012, an 84-year-old German writer and Nobel literature prizewinner Gunter Grass published the poem: ‘What Must Be Said’ (‘Was gesagt werden muss’) in several European newspapers. In this […]
By Susan Abulhawa No matter who you are, no matter what greatness you’ve achieved in your life or what gifts you’ve given to the rest of humanity, if you criticize Israel, you must expect to […]
President Mahmoud Abbas said Friday that NATO could fill any security gaps in a future peace deal with Israel. Speaking to diplomats in Tokyo, where he is on an official visit, Abbas said completing a […]
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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