By Steve Breyman Believe the War on Terror has been an unmitigated disaster? Find it difficult to wrap your head around the Long War’s long list of horrors? Think the Obama administration and Congress’s willingness […]
By Ludwig Watzal In its recent report, Arrested Development: The Long Term Impact of Israel’s Separation Barrier in the West Bank, B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights organization, examines the ramifications of the Wall and the […]
Around 16,000 people registered to vote on Monday in the Gaza Strip, a lower turnout than expected, the Central Elections Commission said. Central Elections Commission spokesman Ola Salameh told Ma’an the low turnout was surprising […]
Freed detainee Akram Rekhawi on Monday said his 100 day hunger strike was the hardest stage of his nine-year prison sentence. “I saw death many times a day and it was very painful and Israeli […]
A close ally of Israel’s prime minister has called peace with the Palestinians “impossible”, saying the conflict between them and Israel can only be “managed”. Former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman in a television interview on […]
Israeli police have detained 10 women at one of Judaism’s holiest sites for wearing prayer shawls, which Orthodox tradition sees as solely for men, authorities confirm. Among those detained on Monday at the Western Wall […]
By Ernest Corea – Washington, D.C. Hear those sounds? They are probably the echoes of Israel’s fervent supporters in the US erupting in hosannas when the White House recently confirmed that President Barack Obama is […]
A Palestinian prisoner who spent 100 days on hunger strike last year was released to the Gaza Strip on Thursday. Akram Rekhawi crossed through the Erez crossing into Gaza to a public reception of political […]
A Palestinian medical center has said it had successfully carried out artificial insemination procedures by smuggling out the sperm of four Palestinians jailed by Israel. “The successful experience of detainee Ammar Ziben encouraged other prisoners […]
By Jamal Kanj Egypt’s is an experimental democracy in progress, but when the evolution of this process turns bloody it begs the question: is it worth it? An Egyptian tourist guide who has lost his […]
By Hussein Al-alak As 2013 marks the tenth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, I feel there are some points of focus which the media and campaigners need to address, if they wish to provide substance, […]
Reviewed by Ludwig Watzal (Globalizing Torture. CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition, Open Society Justice Initiative, New York 2013, pp 212.) “Today, more than a decade after September 11, there is no doubt that high-ranking […]
By Uri Avnery ‘Compared to the Knesset it could have been, this is a very good Knesset!’ I heard this, in so many words, from at least ten former Knesset members and others, as we […]
Israel will release a prisoner on Thursday who spent 100 days on hunger strike last year, his lawyer said Tuesday. Akram Rekhawi will be released Thursday, four months before completing a 9-year sentence, his daughter […]
The deputy leader of Hezbollah has attacked Israel for waging an “international campaign” against it after Bulgaria said the Lebanese group was behind a July bombing that killed five Israeli tourists. After a months-long investigation, […]
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday urged Islamic leaders to end Israel’s blockade of Gaza, but criticized official visits to the enclave. The ongoing siege of Gaza will prolong the conflict with Israel and […]
Israel arrested 23 Hamas members in the occupied West Bank on Monday, some of them lawmakers, according to the group and the Israeli army. Hamas said in a statement that the three lawmakers – Ahmed […]
By Jeremy Salt – Ankara Yet another politician has been hauled over the coals for criticizing Israel. David Ward, Liberal Democrat MP for the British constituency of Bradford East, recently issued a statement saying he […]
By Ramzy Baroud Despite much saber-rattling by Israel and the US administration and hyped-up expectations by the Palestinian leadership, the recognition of Palestine as a non-member observer state last November is fast becoming yet another […]
By Nicola Nasser – Bir Zeit, Palestine The timing of the Israeli air raid early on January 30 on a Syrian target, that has yet to be identified, coincided with a hard to refute indications […]
By Vacy Vlazna “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” — (Gospel of Matthew 7:15) The Jewish belief that when people die they go on […]
By Tariq Shadid If you follow Middle East events through social media, you may have noticed that a good number of pro-Palestinian activists all around the world have embraced the cause of Palestinian hunger striker […]
By Rashid Shahin Palestinians have waited for more than six decades following their Nakba, or catastrophe, in 1948, and more than four decades of occupation until the world has finally admitted that colonies or “settlements” […]
By James Gundun – Washington, D.C. On Thursday, February 7th, a relatively quiet affair will unfold at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington DC. His path to the top finally cleared by marital scandal, […]
By Felicity Arbuthnot – London “The refuge of the morally, intellectually, artistically and economically bankrupt is war.”– (Martin H.Fischer, 1879-1962.) It has not been an auspicious couple of weeks for UK Prime Minister David Cameron. […]
Long-term hunger striker Samer Issawi is at risk of death after refusing food for 187 days, Palestinian Knesset member Ahmad Tibi said Monday. Tibi, who visited Issawi in Ramle prison clinic, said the prisoner’s health […]
By Tamar Fleishman It was announced on the noon news flashes that security forces had caught a terrorist at Qalandiya checkpoint. It was said that the man had tried to pass eight pipe bombs in […]
By Fadi Elhusseini Breaching U.N. Charter and violating territorial sovereignty of countries through quick air strikes is not a newfangled product. Major Powers have adopted such a practice in order to achieve quick, clean and […]
By William A. Cook “The world is ruled by neither justice nor morality; crime is not punished nor virtue rewarded, one is forgotten as quickly as the other. The world is ruled by power and […]
By IRIN Donors channeling funds towards Syrian refugees in Lebanon must also assist their poor Lebanese hosts to diffuse rising tensions, aid workers and a government official said ahead of an international pledging conference for […]
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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