Samer Issawi’s heart could stop at any moment, a lawyer said Monday, as the prisoner’s health continues to deteriorate after 236 days on hunger strike. Israeli doctors told Palestinian Prisoners Society lawyer Fawaz al-Shalawdi that […]
Israel has dismantled a tent camp Palestinians set up during US President Barack Obama’s recent visit to protest against Israeli plans to build a large West Bank settlement near Jerusalem. Before dawn on Sunday, about […]
Israel’s new defence minister Moshe Yaalon has vowed an “immediate” answer to all Syrian gunfire onto the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, saying the government in Damascus was responsible. “Every violation of Israeli sovereignty and shooting from […]
By James Petras As President Obama enters his second term with a new Cabinet, the foreign policy legacy of the past four years weighs heavily on their strategic decisions and their empire-building efforts. Central to […]
By Richard Falk It was master-crafted as an ingratiating speech by the world’s most important leader and the government that has most consistently championed Israel’s cause over the decades. Enthusiastically received by the audience of […]
By Stuart Littlewood Miko Peled doesn’t mince words: “The Israeli-Palestinian issue is, politically, a toxic wasteland that no US president in his right mind would want to clean up. It has become a vicious cycle […]
Two Palestinians were critically wounded on Friday during clashes with Israeli forces north of Jerusalem, medics said. Two Palestinian youths were shot with live fire, one in the pelvis and the other in the abdomen, […]
Israel Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has said he “expressed apology” to Turkey for any error that led to the death of nine Turkish nationals in 2010 in the Gaza flotilla incident. Netanyahu also said on […]
By Ernest Corea – Washington, D.C. Anniversaries are usually treated as occasions for celebration. They are given special names as in “golden” for a fiftieth anniversary and “tin” for a tenth. Goodwill is in the […]
US President Barack Obama visited Bethlehem’s Nativity Church on Friday later than scheduled due to bad weather and an extended meeting with Israel’s prime minister. Obama’s meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem overran by an […]
By Ralph Nader Ten years ago George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, as war criminals, launched the sociocide of the people of Iraq – replete with embedded television and newspaper reporters chronicling the invasion through […]
US President Barack Obama on Thursday downplayed continued Israeli settlement building as an obstacle to the peace process, and he called on the Palestinians to resume talks. In a joint news conference in Ramallah, Obama […]
“The Palestine Youth Orchestra was established by the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, aiming to bring together Palestinian musicians from all over the world into an ambitious collective effort, hoping to achieve the same […]
By Tariq Shadid Not everything in the Middle East, or more specifically in Palestine, is about politics. In this occupied nation, people are not only struggling for liberation and independence, but also to live a […]
Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip have hit southern Israel as US President Barack Obama was making his first official visit to the country in four years, police said. “One exploded in the backyard […]
By Jamal Kanj President Barack Obama’s visit to the Middle East has coincided with the 10th anniversary of the killing of American peace activist Rachel Corrie. She was murdered by an American-made and financed Israeli […]
Israeli rights group B’Tselem on Wednesday said Israel’s mass arrest of children in Hebron was “unacceptable,” and released a video of the detentions. The video shows soldiers forcefully arresting schoolchildren, one of whom is dragged […]
Barack Obama has made his first visit to Israel as US president, saying the alliance between the two countries is ‘eternal’ amid Iranian nuclear threat. The long-awaited visit, the first foreign tour of Obama’s second […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Those who hoped that Barack Obama would be arriving in Israel to bang Israeli and Palestinian heads together, after four years of impasse in the peace process, will be sorely […]
By M. Shahid Alam In April 2012, Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT), a Zionist organization headed by Charles Jacobs, began a smear campaign against Muslim students, the staff of Spiritual Life Center, and some […]
By Ramzy Baroud ‘Hi Papa .. Don’t worry about me too much, right now I am most concerned that we are not being effective. I still don’t feel particularly at risk. Rafah has seemed calmer […]
Ayman Sharawna says his release to Gaza felt like a victory over Israel’s occupation, after an 8-month hunger strike in Israeli prison. “Being released this time felt different. It felt like a victory over the […]
By Lewis Turner Shlomo Sand shot to prominence and controversy with his 2008 book The Invention of the Jewish People. His follow-up, The Invention of the Land of Israel, examines a nationalist mythology of land […]
By Kathy Kelly Ten years ago, in March of 2003, Iraqis braced themselves for the anticipated “Shock and Awe” attacks that the U.S. was planning to launch against them. The media buildup for the attack […]
A freed Palestinian prisoner has been given a hero’s welcome in the Gaza Strip after ending his hunger strike in an Israeli jail and agreeing to a plea bargain that will confine him to the […]
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s new governing coalition has taken office after a parliamentary vote with powerful roles reserved for supporters of settlers in occupied territory. While the new line-up, formally sworn in on Monday, […]
A Qatari committee announced Monday that a local construction company has been contracted to begin the first phase of reconstruction projects in the Gaza Strip. Head of the Qatari committee Muhammad al-Amadi said that the […]
By IRIN – Jerusalem Last month, an international fact-finding mission on Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) commissioned by the UN Human Rights Council found that settlements constituted a violation of international human […]
(This letter to US President Barack Obama was read out in Arabic by Heba, a 12-year-old girl from the town of Rafah on March 16. An event was held in the southern Gaza Strip town […]
By Felicity Arbuthnot – London ‘The Tony Blair Faith Foundation is … honouring International Women’s Day …’ — (Tony Blair Faith Foundation, 5th March 2013.) It was former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson who is […]
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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