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By Jim Miles Once again Canada has assumed its sycophantic role of supporting the U.S. and Israel in their determination to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian territories. The reality of the vote for Palestinian participation in […]
By Joshua Brollier – Gaza City The past few days have been harrowing, yet still deeply inspiring in Gaza as people in the strip must carry on with their lives after the Israeli army’s deadly […]
The UN General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to grant Palestine a non-member observer status at the world body. The vote, which was taken at a meeting in New York on Thursday, represents a long-sought victory […]
Israeli forces opened fire and injured a Palestinian man east of Jabaliya on Thursday, medics said. Wahid al-Fasis, 20, was shot in the Tal Abu Safayeh area and transferred to Awdeh hospital, medics said. An […]
“We do aid not politics”, has been the traditional mantra of the mainstream humanitarian community. But that division is not always easy to maintain, perhaps nowhere more so than for those working in the occupied […]
By Uri Avnery It was a day of joy. Joy for the Palestinian people. Joy for all those who hope for peace between Israel and the Arab world. And, in a modest way, for me […]
By Stuart Littlewood The day before the United Nations vote on Palestine, UK foreign secretary William Hague was explaining his devious policy to Parliament. “We support a negotiated settlement leading to a safe and secure […]
By Fadi Elhusseini Today marks the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People as per the anniversary of United Nations resolution 181. This year and every year, many commemorative activities take place all over […]
[Editor’s Note: Gerri Haynes and Laura Hart, of Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, have returned to Gaza, taking in medicine and a message of support and solidarity. Gerri will be sending back regular reports about […]
The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution on Thursday to upgrade Palestine to a “non-member state” at the United Nations, implicitly recognizing a Palestinian state. There were 138 votes in favor, nine against and […]
Egyptian security services are planning an “extraordinary” crackdown on smuggling tunnels under the Gaza border, a security source said Wednesday. The Egyptian security official said tunnels were operating at 5 percent of previous levels, and […]
The Palestinians will renew a bid to upgrade their status at the United Nations, a move which could strengthen their statehood claims after talks with Israel stalled. Palestinians are listed as a UN observer “entity” […]
Seven Palestinians who were accused of spying for Israel and publicly executed during the latest assault on Gaza were already in jail when the war started, and several had been held for more than a […]
By Khalil Nakhleh Since the appearance of signs of an eminent attack on Gaza appeared in the horizon, with the assassination of Ahmad al-Ja’bari, Hamas’s military commander, on the 14th of November, I was triggered […]
By Stuart Littlewood Britain’s Foreign Office, on its website, states loudly and clearly: “The UK is committed to upholding international justice and all of our international obligations. Our core principle is clear. Those guilty […]
By Kourosh Ziabari American journalist and scholar Gregory Harms believes that the recent 8-day Israeli war on the Gaza Strip might have been waged to distract public attention from the internal socioeconomic crises and problems […]
Names, not numbers: a film commemorating the Palestinians killed by Israel’s Operation Pillar of Cloud, by Harry Fear – http://GazaReport.com
(Editor’s Note: This article by late Professor Edward Said was published in Al-Ahram Weekly On-line (1 – 7 October 1998 – Issue No.397). It is republished here due to the direct relevance between the topic […]
The Palestinian Authority will start legal proceedings against Israel at the International Criminal Court if forensic tests prove that President Yasser Arafat was murdered, chief investigator Tawfiq Tirawi said Tuesday. “We have evidence and indications […]
France will vote in favor of Palestinian “non-member status” at the United Nations. “This Thursday or Friday, when the question is asked, France will vote yes,” Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius announced in the lower house […]
By Ramzy Baroud In life, some phenomena cannot be explained by ordinary logic or technical language, let alone official discourses. How did Gaza manage to fight back with such ferocity and undying vigor in quelling […]
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan Zionism is a nineteenth century European settlers’ movement presented its mission as a return to ‘an empty wasteland that has been waiting for them since thousands of years to make it […]
By Deepak Tripathi It is important to dismiss some fallacies surrounding the recent Gaza war before we examine the significance and fallout of Israel’s eight-day bombing campaign. One is that Hamas started the fighting by […]
By Stuart Littlewood Alistair Burt is the UK Foreign Office minister in charge of Middle East affairs. He is also a former officer of the Conservative Friends of Israel lobby group. He resigned from that […]
By Francis Oeser Medea is myth. Of course the Greeks were garralously self-conscious, naked and proud of it. Proud as gods (beyond the ordinary). Preposterous: no one murders kith and kin. Not even gods! Gods […]
By Zaakir Ahmed Mayet In 2008 the world was filled with hope as global attention centered on the first black president entering the White House. As the New Year approached, families, friends and loved ones […]
By Hussein Al-alak The Gaza Community Mental Health Programme is the leading Palestinian non-governmental organization which provides mental health services to the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip. In a recent statement, the U.N. Committee on […]
By William A. Cook ‘I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.’ — […]
By Eric Walberg At last Egyptian politics is moving. President Mohamed Morsi is slowly building on his summer ‘coup’, when he stared down Egypt’s generals and put his men in the top army and defence […]
Remains of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat are being exhumed to help determine the cause of his death. Al Jazeera’s Nadeem Baba, reporting from the West Bank capital, Ramallah, said that “according to Tawfiq al-Tirawi, the […]
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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