By Hasan Afif El-Hasan More than half a century after the 1952 Jamal Abdel-Nasser coup, Egypt has come full circle. The people have the same grievances that led the Free Officers to take the advantage […]

By Sam Bahour Those damn Palestinians. They refuse to sit still. They just don’t get it. They are unable to fathom their reality. The more outrageous their situation becomes, the more human they become. When […]

By Neve Gordon Last year I gave the Israeli artist Amir Nave an old Hebrew copy of Immanuel Kant’s Perpetual Peace, which I teach every so often in my Introduction to Political Theory class. He […]

By Patrick O. Strickland – Jerusalem The organizers of Israel’s J14 movement demand social justice. Outraged by the increasing concentration of wealth and the soaring cost of living, many Israelis have stood up and called […]

By Jamal Kanj It has been more than 20 years since the Madrid talks and the peace process between Palestinians and Israelis started. Thus far, their abject failure has surprised even the most pessimistic of […]

By Prasanta Kumar Pradhan Ever since the protests started against Bashar al Assad’s regime, the Gulf countries have adopted a tough posture by criticizing and condemning the reactions of the Syrian government and squarely putting […]

By Stuart Littlewood The election of Egypt’s president Muhammad Mursi momentarily threw a spotlight on the long-forgotten Palestinians exiled to Gaza after the Israelis’ infamous siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in […]

By Ralph Nader I’ve been getting a variety of letters from President Barack Obama. The salutation is often: ‘Dear Ralph.’ One of them asks me for $25, adding ‘Ralph, this is that moment. This is […]

By Dallas Darling When Palestinian poet and author Naomi Shihab Nye wrote: ‘A man crosses the street in rain, stepping gently/looking two times north and south, because his son is asleep on his shoulder;’ right now, in […]

By Richard Falk Early in my blog life I wrote about Jewish identity. It was partly an exercise in self-discovery, and partly a response to those who alleged that I was a self-hating Jew, or […]

By Ramzy Baroud When Lebanese security reportedly killed 18-year-old Ahmad al-Qasim over a documentation dispute in the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, the camp’s Palestinian refugee population erupted in anger and dismay. Within a few days […]

By Jonathan Cook   In a traditional cowboy movie, we know what to do: we look for the guy wearing the white hat to be sure who to cheer, and for the one wearing the black […]

By Samah Sabwai (Watch a video recording of the article below). Leading Liberal Zionists have come out in impressive numbers calling for the boycott of settlements. But I have to warn you there is something to […]

By Stuart Littlewood Have you read this in the Wall Street Journal? It is not difficult to figure out why the Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee feels he has to write such nonsense. […]

By Ron Jacobs There was once a time not so long ago when the world seemed to be full of revolutionary heroes. These heroes were both men and women. The actions and accompanying commitment of […]

By Franklin Lamb – Beirut The killings of three Palestinian refugees this past week including Ahmad Qassim  from Nahr al Bared ( ‘cold river’) camp near Tripoli and 15 year old Khaled al-Youssef from Ein […]

By Uri Avnery Everybody knows by now why we are stuck in Palestine.

By Johannes Stern and Alex Lantier Egyptian military sources signaled plans for a crackdown against popular opposition to army rule yesterday evening, amid an escalating dispute over the outcome of this weekend’s presidential elections. The […]

By Jamal Kanj What started as an extension to the Arab Spring is pushing Syria to the verge of a civil war. Bashar Al Assad must stop deluding himself by blaming the frustration of the […]

By Felicity Arbuthnot ‘We travel like other people, but we return to nowhere … We have a country of words.Speak, speak so we may know the end of this travel.’ — (Mahmud Darwish, 1942-2008.) Wednesday, […]

By Richard Lightbown ‘mensch: a person of integrity and honor’  Merriam-Webster online dictionary Louise Mensch first came to fame when, as Louise Bagshawe, she earned recognition for her poetry and considerable commercial success for her […]

By Ramzy Baroud The fifth anniversary of the Israeli siege on Gaza was commemorated on June 14 with a barrage of statements, urging Israel to end the blockade and allow Gazans long-denied humanitarian assistance, freedom […]

By Deepak Tripathi The ‘global war on terror’ started by President George W. Bush more than a decade ago has taken a new and more sinister turn. Now we know that Barack Obama, the current […]

By Richard Lightbown Much has been written about the barbarous massacre in the Syrian administrative area of Al-Houla on 25 May 2012, in which 108 persons are known to have died including 49 children. Absent […]

By Hasan Afif El Hasan From day one after the 1967 war, Israel’s actions in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jerusalem suggest the occupation was not temporary and underscore Israel’s desire to erase the […]

By Patrick O. Strickland – Jaffa Last week Israeli military forces delivered demolition orders to the residents of Susiya, a small village in the South Hebron Hills. The villagers were told that they have illegally […]

By Felicity Arbuthnot ‘A rock,Breathing with the lungs of a lunatic,That is it, This is the twentieth century.’ — A Mirror for the Twentieth Century: Adonis – Ali Ahmad Said. Recently a contradictory, but in […]

By Uri Avnery ‘We shall not be a normal people, until we have Jewish whores and Jewish thieves in the Land of Israel,’ our national poet, Haim Nahman Bialik, said some 80 years ago. This […]

By Ralph Nader Mitt Romney’s daily dittohead assertions make one wonder what he got out of the law and business degrees he received from Harvard University. One of his regular blasts blames Barack Obama for […]

By Jamal Kanj This weekend, Egyptians will line up to select their next president in the first democratic election in the country’s modern history. It was moving a fortnight ago to witness voters, old and […]