The Palestinian Hamas movement has rejected a revised Middle East peace initiative put forward by the Arab League, saying outsiders cannot decide the fate of the Palestinians. In meetings this week in Washington, Arab states […]
The Palestinian Authority is broke, the Palestinian leadership is a failure and Fatah will “break down,” resigned premier Salam Fayyad said in an interview published Friday in The New York Times. “Our story is a […]
Israeli officials have confirmed that the country’s air force carried out a strike against Syria and say it targeted a shipment of advanced missiles. The officials said on Saturday the shipment was not of chemical […]
By Sam Bahour You are born in a country, say the United States. As such, you become a citizen of that country. You are issued a passport from your country of citizenship which allows you […]
By Uri Avnery An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for the good of his country, a British statesman famously wrote some 400 years ago. That is true, of course, for all […]
By Rima Najjar Merriman After all the hasbara and whitewashing Israel has been vigorously conducting, the conversation about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is finally changing – at least among activists and academics. Here is a distillation […]
Relatives of prisoners on Thursday criticized a Palestinian Authority decision to stop paying fines imposed by Israeli courts. The PA Ministry of Prisoner Affairs recently announced it would stop paying fines issued by Israeli courts […]
By Vacy Vlazna The villages, Lidice in former Czechoslovakia and Deir Yassin in Palestine are harrowing examples of ethnic cleansing and collective punishment perpetrated on the innocent by Nazis and Israelis respectively. Significantly, on moral […]
By Dr. Bill Dienst I’ve been coming to Gaza for a long time. My first was in 1985 and this is now my seventh trip to the region. In the 80’s, there were no substantial […]
By Jamal Kanj Israeli leaders are masters at muddling the international community with trivial issues while turning the peace negotiations into a temporizing process “to end all peace.” Assured by US subservient backing, and for […]
By Ramzy Baroud During his talk sponsored by the New American Foundation in March 2008, author Parag Khanna addressed the rising challenges facing the US’s global hegemony. According to Khanna, China and the European Union […]
Israel’s prime minister says the conflict with the Palestinians is not about territory, rather the Palestinians’ refusal to recognize Israel as the Jewish homeland, appearing to counter a modified peace proposal from the Arab world. […]
Settlers started over 50 fires across the West Bank on Tuesday following the fatal stabbing of a settler in Nablus, official news agency Wafa reported. A report by the civil defense said firefighters had to […]
Israel’s alleged cache of nuclear arms is in the spotlight again. Egypt withdrew from Non-Proliferation Treaty talks in Geneva on Monday, over the failure to plan for a Middle East free of nuclear weapons – […]
An Israeli air strike has killed a Palestinian man and wounded another in the Gaza Strip, medics said, in what appeared to be the first such attack since a ceasefire ended an eight-day war last […]
US Secretary of State John Kerry has held talks with Arab League officials as he pursues painstaking efforts aimed at revitalising the Middle East peace process. “We’re all here to have a very key discussion […]
The PLO’s top negotiator said Tuesday that a concession by the Arab League that Israel and the Palestinians trade land was already an official position. “This is not something new,” Saeb Erekat said in a […]
Egypt has walked out of a round of global nuclear talks in protest at what it called the failure to implement a 1995 resolution for a Middle East as a zone free of nuclear weapons. […]
By Ahmed Kathrada – Ramallah, Palestine (Following is a transcript of a speech delivered by prominent South African politician, former political prisoner and anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada at the “Freedom & Dignity” international conference in […]
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered his ministers to cease making public comments on the civil conflict in Syria, especially reports regarding the alleged use of chemical weapons by Syrian government forces, Israeli media said. […]
Israel’s air force has carried out three strikes in the Gaza Strip, witnesses have said. Two airstrikes hit the southern town of Khan Yunis, early on Sunday. The third was near the southern town of […]
Undercover Israeli forces abducted a café owner in a village in the northern West Bank on Sunday night, the local mayor said Monday. Three armed men in plainclothes stopped in a car outside an internet […]
By Eric Walberg The world is taking note of the ruling Conservatives’ shameful betrayal of Canada’s once admirable reputation as a fair country, sincerely working on the world stage to improve the lot of the […]
Israeli soldiers have fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse about 500 Palestinian villagers marching towards an illegal settlement outpost in the occupied West Bank. Friday’s procession, the largest of its kind for years, […]
A Palestinian teenager was shot by Israeli forces in Jabaliya refugee camp, medics said. Jameel Heesha, 17, was shot in his left foot near the northern border of Gaza Strip. He was taken to a […]
By Jay Janson While staring at the New York Times front page photo of the bat-winged nuclear-capable B-2 Stealth Bombers up in the blue sky on their first non-stop long-range mission from the US on […]
By Uri Avnery When the huge immigration wave from the Soviet Union arrived in 1990, we were glad. First of all, because we believe that all immigration is a good thing for the country. This, […]
By Ali Younes In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, the American political environment is increasingly moving toward placing Islam itself on public trial not the actions of those who committed the crime. Mainstream […]
Hamas on Thursday condemned a reported decision by the Palestinian Authority to postpone five UNESCO resolutions following US intervention. “This step is like a reward to the occupation for its crimes and violations,” Hamas spokesman […]
The Israeli military says it has shot down an unmanned aircraft several kilometers off the coast of the northern port city of Haifa after it entered Israeli airspace from Lebanon. “An unmanned aircraft [UAV] was […]
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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