Senior Hamas and Fatah leaders will meet Tuesday to discuss nominations for the prime minister of a unity government, a Fatah official said Monday. Fatah central committee member Jamal Muhesin told Ma’an that Azzam al-Ahmad, […]
Israel may jail illegal immigrants for up to three years under a new law, an Interior Ministry official has said. The controversial law, which was put into effect on Sunday, was passed by parliament in January. The […]
By Mazin Qumsiyeh It seems like yesterday that we watched Israeli tanks rolling down the hills towards our sleepy town of Beit Sahour 45 years ago today. As a child it was the most frightening […]
By Deepak Tripathi The Day of Judgment for Hosni Mubarak arrived on June 2. The 84-year-old deposed president was given a life sentence with his interior minister Habib al-Adly for the killing of hundreds of […]
By Stuart Littlewood Last year engineering students from the Gaza Strip took on the cream of Europe’s technical universities in a competition to build a race car, despite obstruction by the Israeli regime. Formula Student […]
By Iqbal Jassat The author of an important piece of critique ‘Jewishness of Israel fuels xenophobia’, Heidi-Jane Esakov, published in the Mail & Guardian (June 1 to 7, 2012) can expect to be blasted by an […]
By Daughter of ’48 (This poem is dedicated to all political prisoners past and present all over the world who seek a life of dignity, freedom, safety, human rights and justice. This poem is dedicated […]
Arab states on Saturday pledged to provide the Palestinian Authority with $100 million each month as a back-up if Israel withholds tax revenues, official PA media said. The decision was taken at the meeting of […]
By Issa Khalaf Even in the face of overwhelming evidence that Israel deliberately undermines peace and is single-mindedly pursuing the Palestinians’ socio-political extinction and national erasure, liberal supporters of Israel, who may acknowledge that Zionism’s […]
Rights groups on Thursday expressed outrage at Israeli authorities "disregard" of the immediate danger to the lives of two Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike. Mahmoud al-Sarsak has been on hunger strike for 74 days and […]
Two Palestinians have been reportedly killed and three others injured in two separate Israeli attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip. The first Palestinian victim, identified as 20-year-old Ahmed Abu Nasser, was shot dead by Israeli […]
By Uri Avnery It’s a true story. I have told it once, and I shall tell it again. A friend of mine in Warsaw, who is half Jewish, advised a well-known Polish journalist to visit […]
Israel has handed over the remains of scores of Palestinian fighters killed in attacks on Israel. Seventy-nine bodies were handed over to Palestinian officials in Ramallah on Thursday and another 12 were transferred to the […]
By Jamal Kanj It is ironic that Western nations seeking to halt Iran’s nuclear ambitions are the same countries that sold nuclear technology to it in the first place. Iran worked with the US and […]
By Ralph Nader The rule of law is rapidly breaking down at the top levels of our government. As officers of the court, we have sworn to ‘support the Constitution,’ which clearly implies an affirmative commitment […]
A committee set up by President Mahmoud Abbas has found the union of public sector employees has no legal standing, six years after it first started representing government workers. The committee report, of which Ma’an […]
The arrest and imprisonment earlier this month of the head of Israel’s biggest trafficking ring of young women will deter some of those involved in sex slavery, but former victims and activists say much more […]
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon has strongly hinted that Israel was involved in creating the computer virus Flame — a new Stuxnet-like espionage malware — to sabotage Iran’s nuclear plans. Speaking in an interview […]
The United Nations envoy for the Middle East peace process warned a session of the UN Security Council on Tuesday of the continuing diplomatic impasse between Israel and the PLO. Robert Serry told the council […]
An Israeli court has convicted two police officers of negligent homicide in the death of a Palestinian man who was left to die on the side of a road. On Monday, the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court convicted […]
Reviewed by Ludwig Watzal (Sarah Irving. Leila Khaled, Icon of Palestinian Liberation, Pluto Press, London 2012, 155 pp.) Western discourse about Palestine or Palestinians is peppered by stereotypes such as ‘terrorists’, ‘suicide bombers’, ‘irrational’ or […]
By Felicity Arbuthnot ‘We don’t need spectators to witness our suffering and tell us they feel with us. We need help to put a stop to it.’ – Raja Shehadeh, 1951, ‘When The Birds Stopped […]
By Ramzy Baroud Yemeni forces continue to push against fighters affiliated with al-Qaeda. Their major victories come on the heels of the inauguration of Abd Rabbuh Mansur al-Hadi, who is now entrusted with the task […]
By Franklin Lamb – Beirut The official results of the first round of the historic Egyptian presidential elections, the first ever in Mother Egypt where the results were not known in advance, present an encouraging snapshot […]
By Kathy Kelly -Kabul Here in Kabul, Voices co-coordinator Buddy Bell and I are guests at the home of the Afghan Peace Volunteers, (APV), where we’ve gotten to know four young boys who are being tutored […]
Gaza’s government agreed Monday to allow the Central Elections Commission to start work immediately to prepare for a vote. The chairman of the elections commission Hanna Nasser met Monday with Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. […]
By Ismail Salami While Iran and the world six powers wrapped up their talks on Thursday in an atmosphere apparently meant to resolve the nuclear issue, US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs and top […]
By Abdelrahman Rashdan Consider this a very opinionated piece and let me talk in the ‘I’ figure of speech because the presidential elections proved that not all Egyptians believe in what I believe in. ‘I’ […]
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton released the US State Dept.’s annual report on human rights Thursday, criticizing Palestinian security forces for abusing detainees and restricting civil liberties. The 2011 report’s sharpest criticism was leveled at […]
The father of a Palestinian soccer player on hunger strike for 67 days in an Israeli jail urged the sporting community to "show solidarity" with his son. Mahmoud al-Sarsak, a forward in Palestine’s national soccer […]
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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