By Dallas Darling If Yasser Arafat, former co-founder of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), died from a lethal radioactive substance known as polonium, not only was it a clear case of political assassination by means of […]

By Patrick O. Strickland – Tel Aviv On Monday, student activists examined the remains of a Palestinian cemetery that had been uprooted and mostly destroyed to make space for a shopping center and new student […]

By Deepak Tripathi Recent wars from Libya to Afghanistan and Pakistan in a region of vast natural wealth and strategic importance highlight a phenomenon as old as humanity. Iraq and Libya had oil, but their […]

By Ismail Salami Preposterously bizarre as it is, the head of MI6 foreign intelligence agency John Sawers made a rare appearance before Britain’s civil servants in London on Friday and warned that the Iranians are […]

By Ramzy Baroud The widespread killings of Rohingya Muslims in Burma – or Myanmar – have received only passing and dispassionate coverage in most media. What they actually warrant is widespread outrage and decisive efforts […]

By Hasan Afif El-Hasan The Palestinians alleged that Israel had poisoned their leader, Yasser Arafat, who died in a French military hospital in 2004. Eight years later, al-Jazeera news investigating team reported that a Swiss […]

By Patrick O. Strickland – Ramallah ‘Why has the Arab Spring not reached Palestine?’ Such has become a common question among analysts, pundits, and polemicists. Over the last two years, innumerable articles have regularly seeped […]

By Ira Glunts A case adjudicated in the Jerusalem municipal court recently illustrates the total lack of equal justice for Palestinians. It also demonstrates how the Israeli press often elides details from the English version […]

By Ludwig Watzal The West wages a war of sanctions, sabotage and assassinations against the Iranian people. The sanctions are not ‘smart’ but murderous. There is also a psychological and cyber war going on against the […]

By Ali Younes – Washington, D.C. Ever since Islamist President Mohammed Mursi won the presidency in Egypt, last month, he has been facing an unrelenting war from a broad coalition made up of the Supreme […]

By Felicity Arbuthnot ‘But I don’t want to go among mad people,’ Alice remarked‘Oh, you can’t help that’, said the Cat: We’re all mad here. I’m mad, you’re mad.‘How do you know I’m mad?’ Said […]

By Uri Avnery Two former Prime Ministers of Israel are in the news these days. They represent two of the many faces of Israel. They also raise a universal question: which is preferable – an […]

By Ali Younes When Jordanian Member of Parliament (MP) Mohammad Shawabkeh pulled a gun during a live television show In Amman last week, it was a shocking stunt that was the first of its kind […]

By Paul Larudee ‘The old will die and the young will forget.’ – David Ben Gurion, 1948 (1) When I first went to Palestine in 1965, Ben Gurion’s prediction seemed plausible.  Palestinians and the Palestine solidarity […]

By Ismail Salami – Tehran A new book reveals that a department known as Kidon within the Mossad has dispatched assassins into Iran in order to murder the nuclear scientists, thereby stunting the country’s nuclear […]

By Ramzy Baroud Despite early assurances by Egypt’s new President Mohammed Morsi regarding his ‘commitment to international treaties and agreements,’ one can already foretell a likely confrontation between Egypt and Israel. A chaotic transition notwithstanding, […]

By Jamal Kanj Writing from Oceanside California where budget constraints forced the city to cancel last week’s 4th of July fireworks for the third year in a row. This was just one example where many […]

By IRIN ‘I have never seen such brutality in my life, except from the Israeli forces,’ says Aliya,* still shocked a day after her protest march through the West Bank town of Ramallah was violently […]

By Uri Avnery – Israel For me, there was no surprise. From the very first day, I was convinced that Yasser Arafat had been poisoned by Ariel Sharon. I even wrote about it several times. […]

By Vacy Vlazna France, the nation whose 1789 Revolution gave the world the ideals of Equality, Fraternity and Liberty especially freedom of  speech and of the press, jumps to attention (as a docile marionette does) when […]

By Felicity Arbuthnot – London ‘We came and turned the native Arabs into tragic refugees. And still we dare to slander and malign them, to besmirch their name. Instead of being deeply ashamed of what […]

By Ismail Salami – Tehran The illegal oil embargoes against Iran have begun to take effect; a precocious smile of satisfaction breaks upon the face of Zionism; and the US once again proves its lapdog […]

By Ralph Nader If the Democrats in Congress were all drinking water from the same faucet, there might be a clue to their chronic fear of the craven and cruel corporatist Republicans who dominate them. But they […]

By Jamal Kanj The outcome of peace negotiations and conflict between Israelis and Palestinians has been irrational and incongruous. The first has led to a quadrupling of the population in "Jewish only" settlements. Conflict, however, […]

By Stuart Littlewood A press release has just arrived in my inbox from the Palestinian Mission UK proudly proclaiming Ambassador Hassassian’s jaunt to the Labour Friends of Palestine Gala Dinner where he was keynote speaker […]

By Nihad Awad As we mark one of history’s most triumphant acts of liberty, I want to share with you some of the many things America’s Muslims are doing to preserve this fundamental principle of […]

By Jeremy Salt – Ankara Tension between Turkey and Syria along their border is edging closer to flashpoint. Last week a Turkish air force jet was shot down after violating Syrian air space. The Syrian […]

By Ramzy Baroud ‘Will the Arab Spring serve the cause of Palestine?’ is a question that has been repeatedly asked, in various ways, over the last year and a half. Many media discussions have been […]

By Kathy Kelly In April of 2003, I returned from Iraq after having lived there during the U.S. Shock and Awe bombing and the initial weeks of the invasion.  Before the bombing I had traveled […]

By Tamar Fleishman Testimony num. 1: • ‘Had it not been a security matter and a humanitarian one, we wouldn’t be doing it!’ said Gidi who was training a dog trainer who was training the […]