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Egypt’s foreign ministry denounced Hamas on Saturday for raiding an Egyptian cultural center in Gaza and detaining several Egyptians. “The foreign ministry strongly condemns and denounces this irresponsible act and demands their release,” it said […]
By IRIN – Masna’a (Lebanon-Syria Border Crossing) Palestinian refugees fleeing the violence in Syria have been refused entry into Lebanon for three weeks now. Since 6 August, according to Human Rights Watch, the Lebanese government […]
By Eric Walberg Two recent events, while not of any great significance in themselves, reveal much about the state of Canadian foreign policy. *B’nai Brith Canada, Canada’s oldest Jewish service organization, founded in 1875, hosted […]
By Richard Falk The U.S. Government rains drone missiles on civilian human targets anywhere in the world, continues to operate Guantanamo in the face of universal condemnation, whitewashed Abu Ghraib, Bagram, and the torture memos, […]
By Ralph Nader Dear President Obama: Before you decide to attack Syria, yet another Arab or Islamic country that does not threaten U.S. security, there are certain constitutional “niceties” that you should observe. Chronically violating […]
An Egyptian security official on Thursday denied claims by Hamas that Egyptian intelligence agents were working in the Gaza Strip. “Such false accusations are part of attempts by the Hamas movement to discharge its domestic […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said Israel deployed its Iron Dome missile defense system to bolster security as the West weighed military strikes on neighboring Syria. But he echoed President Shimon Peres in […]
By Jeremy R. Hammond Palestine’s illegitimate president, Mahmoud Abbas, is doing incredible damage to the cause of his people. It is betrayal enough that he has decided to return to the U.S.-led so-called “peace process”—which […]
By Nicola Nasser The U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on this August 26 removed the sword of the alleged Syrian chemical weapons from its sheath and let the snow ball of this subterfuge for […]
By Ramzy Baroud How many Egyptians have been killed since the January 2011 revolt? My pursuit for exact figures has proven to be futile. Various sources suggest all sorts of numbers, some scrambled in such […]
By Joshua Brollier To those who think the United States should intervene in Syria, remember this is the same United States which; • is still deeply involved in two failed wars of aggression in Iraq […]
(A Reply to Nasser Barghouty) By Francis Oeser You’re right, it doesn’t feel like spring. Leaves of love are fallen, contempt poisons the ground, even the stars dim in pain. No! It’s certainly not spring. […]
Four Palestinian refugees were killed Tuesday in the ongoing clashes in Syria, a Palestinian group said. The Workforce for Palestinians in Syria said in a statement that Mir’i Muhammad died shortly after he sustained critical […]
By Jim Miles The recent aggressive talk and actions by the U.S. are being fully supported by the current Canadian government led by Stephen Harper. In a recent telephone call reported by CBC radio, Harper […]
By Jeremy Salt – Ankara If there is any comfort in how the Guardian has been reporting the Middle East, especially Libya and Syria, it is that many of its readers, judging from their remarks […]
By Jeremy R. Hammond The United Nations was founded with the stated aim of maintaining peace among nations, but the reality is that not only has it consistently failed to prevent international conflicts, it has […]
Palestinian officials have threatened to sue Israel through international bodies if it continues expanding illegal settlements in the occupied territories, warning it was an issue that could scupper fledgling talks. “These are not just dots […]
By Gaza Action Ireland Irish activists have expressed growing concern about the dire consequences in Gaza due to the closure of the Rafah crossing, at the border with Egypt. While deploring the violence in Egypt […]
By Nasser Barghouty I thought in numbers we could say what is or what was right placards drawn with blood and no fright young and old stay the course street by street and night after […]
By Vacy Vlazna “But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and […]
By Julie Webb-Pullman Hundreds of New Zealanders gathered on Friday evening in capital city Wellington’s Civic Square together with Christian and Muslim leaders, to express solidarity with the people of Egypt, and to denounce the […]
Egyptian intelligence and security services trained members of a group calling itself “Tamarod Gaza,” a senior Hamas official charged Friday. In a video released Sunday, masked activists read a statement by “Tamarod Gaza” calling for […]
By Nicola Nasser The internal crisis in Egypt has indulged the country in its most critical foreign relations test since these relations were shaped by the U.S. sponsored Camp David accords and the peace treaty […]
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan If I were given the chance to vote in Egypt’s last elections, I would not have voted for the Islamists, but once they won the elections I would give them the […]
Reviewed by Ludwig Watzal (Moshe Machover, Israelis and Palestinians: conflict and resolution, Haymarket Books, Chicago 2012, pp327) This anthology of essays, written by a former Israel activist between 1962 to today, shows the work of […]
The Palestinian Authority’s ministry of foreign affairs on Thursday urged the international Quartet to immediately bring to an end all illegal Israeli settlement activities. In a statement, the ministry called upon local, regional and international […]
Several rockets were fired at Israel from southern Lebanon on Thursday, but one was intercepted by an anti-missile shield and three others fell outside Israeli territory, the military said. There were no reports of casualties, […]
By Ramzy Baroud “Lord! You know well that my keen desire is to carry out Your commandments and to serve Thee with all my heart, O light of my eyes. If I were free I […]
By Sam Bahour The first proclaimed leak from Secretary John Kerry’s efforts to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, as it is so often called, were published last week in the reputable London-based daily Arabic newspaper, Al-Hayat. […]
By Richard Falk In retrospect, Tahrir Square was “a revolution” that never was, which has now been superseded by “a counter-revolution” that was never possible. The dislodging of a Mubarak dynasty in 2011 did not […]
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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