By Tamar Fleishman – The West Bank Not so many years ago, when my friend and I arrived at Beit Furik checkpoint, the assigned commander hastily made his way towards us and demanded that we […]

By Ismail Salami – Tehran A report published on Sunday in Ha’aretz reveals that US National Security Adviser Tom Donilon has presented Washington’s contingency plans for a possible attack on Iran to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin […]

By Franklin Lamb – Beirut From this observers experience in Lebanon there is only one cosmic like event that is nearly as predicable from Ramlet al Baida beach in Beirut, near Shatila Palestinian refugee camp, […]

By Georgina Reeves We finally left Ramallah, later than planned. I was supposed to be back in Bethlehem at 4.30 for Zumba. (Yes, Zumba: but that’s another story!) We didn’t leave until almost 3.45, so even […]

By Hakim and Kathy Kelly – Kabul Abdulhai remembers his father being killed by the Taliban. ‘Anyone who takes up a weapon in revenge, whether the Talib or any other, is acting like the Talibs […]

By Richard Falk Dani Dayan’s article, ‘Israel’s Settlers Are Here to Stay,’ was published by the NY Times on July 26, 2012. Dayan is the chairman of the Yesha Council of Jewish Communities, and has […]

Reviewed by Thomas D’Evelyn (Syria – A Decade of Lost Chances: Repression and Revolution from Damascus Spring to Arab Spring By Carsten Wieland. Cune Press: 335 pages.) Even professional news gatherers have a hard time […]

By Jamal Kanj With the conclusion of the presidential primaries in the 50 US states, a new election campaign is shaping itself in the unofficial 51st state, otherwise known as Israel. A parade of US […]

By Mohamed El Mokhtar I have said shortly after the beginning of the Syrian uprising that the Baath regime could weather the gathering storm of a circumscribed popular revolt without a fatal damage provided it […]

By Eric Walberg – Cairo This Ramadan is a historic one, celebrating the triumph of the political vision of Egypt’s legendary Muslim Brotherhood (MB): to take inspiration from the Quran to regenerate Egyptian society. Gamal […]

By Sam Bahour Nearly two decades ago, I had a dream. I thought the historic tragedy that befell the Palestinian people was about to end. As such, I refused to be an observer to the historic […]

By Roqayah Chamseddine There is a fire burning beneath the ashes of occupation in Palestine; these are the flickering embers of resilience which have long advanced the people’s struggle for national liberation, and in Palestine […]

By Ernest Corea – Washington, D.C. Nobody said it was going to be easy. The transition from a military dictatorship of several decades to a democracy is never a straightforward out-in arrangement, as countries which […]

By Felicity Arbuthnot ‘A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression in […]

By Ramzy Baroud ‘The flames are quickly approaching Yarmouk (as) someone is trying to drag the Palestinians into the fire,’ reported Palestinian commentator Rashad Abu Shawar (as cited in Israeli Jerusalem Post, July 20). Yarmouk […]

By Franklin Lamb – Dahiyeh, South Beirut This observer admits that politically speaking, things might appear a bit tough for Hezbollah these days but will spare the dear reader the tedium of a laundry list […]

By Kathy Kelly – Kabul For the Afghan Peace Volunteers, living in a working class area of Kabul’s ‘Karte Seh’ district, daily problem-solving requires a triage process. Last week, upon arrival, I looked at the sagging […]

By Felicity Arbuthnot – London ‘We are the indispensable nation.’– US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, NBC, 19th February 1998. On 21st September 2001, George W. Bush addressed Congress and the nation. He stated: “Americans […]

By Richard Falk Being disinclined to look in mirrors, not only to avoid evidences of aging, but also because of an autobiographical deficit, I have recently started to question the vectors of my motivation. Not […]

By Uri Avnery Whatever is happening to the Israeli social protest movement? Good question. It is not only being asked abroad, but in Israel, too. Last year the movement reached its peak in a giant […]

By Jim Miles (The Colour Revolutions. Lincoln A. Mitchell. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. 2012.) This proved an interesting book to review for two main reasons. First it discusses a region that I do not have […]

By Pina Piccolo I. The planets blaring symphonicallyAt the rhythm and rage of crickets You better listen to the dispatches sent As they scour their delicate limbsIn this summer of orbs and fires running wild […]

By Sonja Karkar Today, there is no excuse for not knowing the truth about Palestine.  Even taking the disinformation spread in mainstream media, there are enough glimpses one gets of an oppressed people in Gaza, […]

By Jamal Kanj Most Palestinians, whether they supported their late leader Yasser Arafat or not, were in agreement that he did not die of natural causes. They believed he was murdered by Israel or its […]

By Jaya Ramachandran – London Covert support for anti-regime fighters in Syria is likely to increase as disillusionment with current diplomatic efforts grows, according to knowledgeable sources. Although Saudi Arabia and Qatar have officially denied […]

By Ismail Salami Described as the Palestine of Asia by the UN, the Rohingya Muslim community in Myanmar is currently going through an unutterable ordeal at the hands of the Rakhine extremist Buddhists in Arakan […]

By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth   The recently published report by an Israeli judge concluding that Israel is not in fact occupying the Palestinian territories – despite a well-established international consensus to the contrary – has […]

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 […]