PLO official Saeb Erekat said Tuesday that Palestinian leaders are examining ways to secure a resolution from the UN Security Council condemning Israeli settlement building, after Israel gave legal sanction to three settler outposts. In […]
Palestinians have gathered in the city of Bireh in the central West Bank to express support for prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails. Palestinian demonstrators gathered in front of the International Committee of the […]
Israel has approved three settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, the office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has said in a statement. At a meeting late on Monday, a ministerial committee "decided to formalize the […]
More than 1,300 Palestinians living in Gaza’s Khan Younis camp will move into 223 housing units built by the United Nations agency assisting refugees in that area, with the financial support the Netherlands, it was […]
An Israeli military court on Monday refused an appeal by long-term hunger-strikers Thaer Halahla and Bilal Diyab to end their detention without charge, prisoners groups said. Muhjat al-Quds society for the defense of prisoners said […]
The head of the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company has said it has terminated its contract to ship gas to Israel because of violations of contractual obligations, a decision Israel said overshadowed the peace agreement […]
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is visiting Baku amid reports that Tel Aviv may use Azerbaijan’s soil to launch a military attack against Iran. Lieberman arrived in Baku on Sunday to hold talks with Azeri […]
By Ralph Nader Have you heard much lately about the 1.5 million Palestinians illegally imprisoned by the Israeli government in the world’s largest open-air Gulag? Their dire living conditions, worsened by a selective Israeli siege […]
By William James Martin It is impossible to understand the present Palestinian/Israeli conflict without understanding the past, in particular, the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe, who are not Semitic […]
Reviewed by Jim Miles (Side by Side – Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine. Ed. Sami Adwan, Dan Bar-On, Eyal Naveh. New Press, New York, 2012.) This is an intriguing work of historical writing. For the parameters […]
By Samah Sabawi ViolatedFromInside and outSeeking refugeAmongst masked menGuided byDisjointed wordsBreathing in Rhetoric devoid of meaningProcessingMeaning devoid of actionsExhalingActions…Random…Devoid of strategiesDeveloping strategiesThat fall on deaf earsWhispering FreedomIn a chorus of loud noiseViolatedFromInside and outThe enemy […]
By Gilad Atzmon When we were young there was hope in the air. There was good reason to look ahead. Some of us enrolled at university, but we also knew that if life did not […]
Stockholm’s international airport has refused to allow Israeli security inspections to take place, forcing an Israeli airline to stop its service, daily Haaretz reported Thursday. Israeli security procedures, which often involve ethnic and personal profiling, […]
By Felicity Arbuthnot ‘No person has the right to rain on your dreams.’ — Martin Luther King, 1929-1968. Many dreams have been rained on since peace was declared at the end of the Second World War, […]
By Kathy Kelly Last weekend, in Kabul, Afghan Peace Volunteer friends huddled in the back room of their simple home. With a digital camera, glimpses and sounds of their experiences were captured, as warfare erupted […]
By Uri Avnery ‘In blood and sweat / A race will arise to us / Proud and generous and brutal…’ Thus wrote Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky, the founder of extreme right-wing Zionism, who was also a […]
The demand for microloans has risen steeply in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in recent years, according to data from the Palestinian Network for Small and Microfinance (Sharakeh), which represents 11 microfinance non-profit institutions […]
The Palestinian Authority Foreign Ministry on Thursday accused Israel’s Foreign Minister of trying to mislead international public opinion. Avigdor Lieberman on Tuesday told Cypriot President Demitris Christofias that President Mahmoud Abbas was not interested in […]
By Eric Walberg – Cairo Kabul was cast into chaos Sunday as the Taliban began their spring offensive with attacks on US, British, German and Russian embassies, NATO headquarters, Camp Eggers, a hotel, President Karzai’s […]
Five female French pro-Palestinian activists have strongly criticized the ‘psychological violence’ exercised by Israeli security personnel against them while in detention. The five pro-Palestinian activists arrived in the southern French city of Nice in early hours […]
“The happiness I saw on my peoples’ faces made me forget all the suffering I experienced when I was on hunger strike,” freed Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan said Wednesday. When he arrived in Jenin, instead […]
A senior United Nations official has condemned the eviction today of two Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem and called for an end to such violations of international law. The eviction today follows […]
Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan says Israel is on the brink of “disaster” and that Israel faces a “very bad” forecast of its future. “We are on the edge of — I would not say […]
By Ramzy Baroud ‘My Lords, I was in Gaza six weeks ago,’ began Baroness Tonge, when she spoke at the House of Lords in January 2009. ‘Now, as a result of the impotence of the […]
By Jamal Kanj The upcoming Egyptian presidential election has started with a wild ride. The poll contenders covering wide political spectrum ranging from the ultra conservatives to Leftists; from the anti-dictatorship to Mubarak’s subservient; from […]
Khader Adnan, a Palestinian prisoner who went on a 66-day hunger strike over his detention without charge by Israel, has been released following a deal reached in February. Adnan has since arrived at his home […]
PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat and Palestinian intelligence chief Majed Faraj met Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday and handed over a letter on the peace process. The letter from President Mahmoud Abbas included references […]
About 1,600 Palestinian prisoners have begun an open-ended hunger strike in the Israeli jails across the occupied territories to protest imprisonment without charge and solitary confinement exercised by the Tel Aviv regime. Palestinian prisoners began […]
By Eric Walberg Ben Gurion Airport was thrown into chaos for the third annual Flytilla on Sunday. As starry-eyed tourists arrived to visit the Holy sites and beady-eyed new Israelis arrived to kick more Palestinians […]
By Kathy Kelly At the start of The Kite Runner, a novel by Khaled Hosseini later adapted for film, a brave and selflessly loyal Afghan boy runs to help his much wealthier friend, singing out […]
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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