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Month: August 2012

Non-aligned Nations to Confirm Palestinian Refugee Rights
The final statement of the Non-Aligned Movement summit will confirm the rights of Palestinian refugees, President Mahmoud Abbas’ diplomatic adviser said Friday. The 120-member Non-Aligned Movement is expected to issue a 680-clause statement on Friday. […]

Rachel and Anne: A Legacy of Two Martyrs
By Jennifer Loewenstein – Madison, WI Sixty-Seven years after the end of World War II, a team of researchers and cameramen from the Anne Frank House in Holland showed up at the Capitol Lakes retirement […]

After Zionism: Only a One State Solution is Possible
By Karen Dabrowska Time has run out for the two-state solution because of the unending and permanent Jewish colonization of Palestinian land. That is the conclusion of Antony Loewenstein and Ahmed Moor the authors of […]

Israel’s Master of Mischief
By Uri Avnery Avigador Lieberman has a restless nature. From time to time he has to do something, anything. As Minister of Foreign Affairs he should be doing something about, well, foreign affairs. Trouble is Israel’s […]

Corrie Congressman Unsurprised by Verdict
A retired 6-term congressman who represented slain activist Rachel Corrie’s district said Thursday he was unsurprised by an Israeli court verdict to dismiss a civil suit filed by the family. Democrat Brian Baird of Washington […]

Palestinian Farmers Ordered to Leave Lands
Israeli authorities have given Palestinian farmers living in Jericho, in the occupied West Bank, an order to uproot palm trees they have grown and leave agricultural lands within 45 days. The orders came in the form […]

Lieberman’s Diplomatic Terrorism
By Jamal Kanj Here we go again! Evet Lvovich Lieberman, the Moldavian who became Avigdor Lieberman when in 1978 his religion uniquely qualified him for instantaneous Israeli citizenship, is demanding removal of Palestinian President Mahmood […]

Parting with Sister Anne Montgomery
By Kathy Kelly Anne Montgomery died yesterday. I remember her words to me and to our young Iraqi friend Eva, sitting in the Al Monzer hotel in Amman, Jordan. This was in 2006, and she’d […]

No Prosecution of US Troops for Defiling Corpses, Burning Korans
By Bill Van Auken Three US Marines and six soldiers have escaped criminal prosecution in connection with the videotaped urination on the corpses of slain Afghans and the burning of copies of the Koran in […]

Palestinian Refugees from Syria Feel Abandoned
In Jordan and Lebanon, the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) has registered nearly 5,000 Palestinian refugees from the 17-month conflict in Syria. As both countries are already home to large Palestinian refugee populations, the […]

Hamas Office in Damascus ‘Still Open’
Hamas’ politburo in Damascus is still open and has not moved to Cairo, the party’s representative in Yemen said Wednesday. "The movement’s office in Syria did not move to Cairo, it was not closed and […]

Freedom Sailors
By Jim Miles (Freedom Sailors. Ed. Greta Berlin and Bill Dienst, M.D. Free Gaza Movement, 2012.) It is difficult to imagine the thoughts and feelings of the people who are forcing the hypocrisy and lies of […]

Final Session in NYC: Russell Tribunal on Palestine
By Alice Walker, Angela Davis, Dennis Banks, Russell Means and Stephane Hessel We are writing to you on behalf of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP), an international people’s tribunal that was created to expose […]

ISM’s Response to the Rachel Corrie Verdict
By ISM The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is deeply concerned by the verdict of Judge Oded Gershon that absolved Israel’s military and state of the 2003 murder of American ISM activist Rachel Corrie. Rachel was […]

Fighting Apartheid in Palestine: South Africa’s Unfinished Business
By Ramzy Baroud The recent approval by South Africa’s cabinet to distinguish between products made in Israel and those made in illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank was both politically sound and morally consistent […]

Rachel Corrie Verdict Highlights Impunity for Israeli Military
By Amnesty International – Washington, D.C. Amnesty International condemns an Israeli court’s verdict that the government of Israel bears no responsibility in the death of Rachel Corrie, saying the verdict continues the pattern of impunity […]

Palestinians Slam Corrie Verdict
Palestinian leaders and factions on Tuesday slammed an Israeli court’s decision which rejected accusations of negligence over the 2003 killing of American activist Rachel Corrie. An Israeli court had cleared Israel’s military of any blame […]

Israeli Army Cleared in Rachel Corrie Death
An Israeli court has ruled in a civil case that the Israel army was not at fault in the bulldozer death of American pro-Palestinian activist Rachel Corrie nearly 10 years ago. Corrie was 23 years […]

Analysis: A Tunnel-free Future for Gaza?
By IRIN – Gaza City This month’s border attack in the Sinai Peninsula, which killed 16 Egyptian soldiers, has bolstered calls to shut down a network of underground tunnels between Egypt and the isolated Gaza […]

UN Warns Gaza ‘Will Not Liveable By 2020’
The Gaza Strip will not be "liveable" by 2020 unless urgent action is taken to improve water supply, power, health, and schooling, according to the United Nations’ most comprehensive report on the Palestinian territory. "Action needs […]

High Ranking Officials Ordered Suppression of Ramallah Protests
High ranking Palestinian Authority officials ordered the suppression of protests in Ramallah against negotiations, rights groups said Monday. The Council of Palestinian Human Rights Organizations on Monday announced the results of its inquiry into a […]

Arrigoni’s Murder Trial in Gaza: Answers Not Just a Verdict
By Ramzy Baroud There was once a young man from a very small Italian town called Bulciago who wished to change the world. As soon as he finished his exams, he began his quest. He […]

Iran and the Brunt of Nuclear Crucifixion
By Ismail Salami – Tehran With over 2000 highly operational nuclear weapons already in the world, it seems ridiculously ironic to try to attribute global insecurity to Iranian nuclear energy program which the US, Israel […]

Any Chance Today for a Non-Aligned Movement?
By Ernest Corea – Washington, D.C. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s decision to attend the sixteenth summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM16) in Tehran from August 26 to 31 follows the precedent set by his predecessors […]

The Dispensability of the Abbas Regime
By Ludwig Watzal When Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defence Minister Ehud Barak are not demonising Iran and its leadership, their colleague Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman starts talking, or even better, writing bizarre […]

Restoring Syria’s Uprising to the Syrian People
By Jamal Kanj The defection on 6 August of Syrian Prime Minister Riad Farid Hijab was a public relation blow to the regime of Bashar Assad but had no other significance. In Syria, power is […]

Dozens Sentenced over Cairo Embassy Attacks
A court in Egypt has sentenced a man to five years in prison and another 75 people to one-year suspended sentences in connection with attacks on the Israeli and Saudi embassies in Cairo last year, […]

‘Welcome to Palestine’ Group Denied Entry into West Bank
Dozens of foreign peace activists were denied entry into the West Bank by Israeli authorities at the Allenby Bridge crossing on Sunday evening, organizers of the third ‘Welcome to Palestine’ initiative said. "The Welcome to […]

Ayn Rand, Preacher of Selfishness Inspiring Paul Ryan
By Uri Avnery I was not interested in Paul Ryan, the man about to be nominated by the Republican party for the office of vice-president, until the name Ayn Rand popped up. Ayn Rand, it […]

Syria Between Scylla and Charybdis
By K. P. Fabian With the Free Syrian Army being supplied aid by the West and the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, the endgame for the Syrian regime has begun. Does Assad’s exit guarantee the replacement […]