Interview by Mamoon Alabbasi – London The UK-based Palestinian dabke theatre group Al Zaytouna will present its new production entitled Unto the Breach, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V set in modern-day Palestine. The show, […]

By Sam Bahour The horrendous reality of the Palestinian communities inside Israel—in places like Akka, Haifa, Nazareth, Yaffa, and the Negev—is not about being regulated to sit in the back of the bus; they could […]

By Hasan Afif El-Hasan Decolonization was a feature of post-World War II era and the surrender of Nazi Germany. The UN Charter was created; the Arab League was formed in 1945 by seven countries; twenty-nine […]

By Jamal Kanj Frustrated with the circuitous peace process and absence of a universal enforceable framework, Palestinians decided last year to turn to the United Nations (UN) to seek full state membership at the international […]

By Giorgio Cafiero When the Arab Awakening began last year, Hezbollah’s leadership expressed solidarity with revolutionary movements in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, and Bahrain. However, this support was not extended to those demanding political reform […]

By Uri Avnery There was this young Israeli who was captured by cannibals. They put him in the cooking pot and were about to light the fire, when he expressed one last wish: “Please box […]

By Tariq Shadid What better way to defeat an enemy than to cause a situation which has its ranks divided, and seeing its energy unleashed by one faction upon another, followed by tit-for-tat retributions, in […]

By Ramesh Jaura – Berlin A veil of silence and secrecy has shrouded the fate of a conference on the establishment of a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and all other weapons of […]

By Ramzy Baroud US elections are manifestly linked to the Middle East, at least rhetorically. In practical terms, however, US foreign policies in the region are compelled by the Middle East’s own dynamics and the […]

By Ismail Salami The recent EU move to take Press TV off the air is to be seen as part of a continued process of media violation against this alternative channel. On Monday, UK-based Eutelsat, […]

By Tamar Fleishman It was on Friday afternoon that they caught Munir Nayim Hamed who is fifteen and a half years old. ‘Munir is the leader’ people said. Every evening, Munir would lead his friends […]

By Matt Meyer What does it take to break a ‘crime of silence’? That was the stated purpose for Bertrand Russell’s original 1966 International War Crimes Tribunal on the Vietnam War, just as it was […]

By Stuart Littlewood I wonder if Abe Foxman and his mates ever read the Scottish poet Rabbie Burns… especially this verse from ‘To a Louse’ (1785):O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie usTo see oursels […]

By Bernhard Schell – Beirut Though legally bound by their respective constitutions to honor basic economic and social rights, Arab government usually violate such rights in practice, which partly explains the socio-political eruptions in the […]

By Tariq A. Al-Maeena I suspect Syrian President Bashar Al Assad to be Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s true friend. It is his continuing atrocities against the Syrian populace that have completely diverted the world’s […]

By Ramzy Baroud Media consensus has been conclusively reached, or so it seems: Turkey is forced into a Middle Eastern mess not of its making as ‘Zero Problems with Neighbors’, once the centerpiece of the […]

By Uri Avnery    So we have two election campaigns in the next three months – one in the USA and one in Israel. I don’t know which of them is more important for our lives. […]

By Shahira Amin – Cario It’s been nearly two years since the mass uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak, but Egypt’s film makers are still plagued by censorship they say is stifling their creativity. Religion […]

By Bill Van Auken Defense Secretary Leon Panetta Wednesday confirmed the existence of the task force, which was first reported by the New York Times. Speaking to the media at the close of a two-day NATO […]

(Norman Finkelstein, Knowing Too Much: Why the American Jewish Romance with Israel is Coming to an End. OR Books, 470pp, ISBN 9781935928775) Reviewed by Matt Hill The twentieth century saw American Jews leave the ghetto […]