By Ahmad Barqawi – Amman From the self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi to the immolation of Syria. From the euphoric scenes of Tahrir Square to the ungodly sight of a sword-wielding 12 year old kid beheading […]
By IRIN Ashraf Azzam, 33, stands in the ruins of his house in Zeitoun Area, Eastern Gaza City, destroyed in an Israeli bombing attack two months ago. “Everything went so fast. In the beginning, a […]
Israel has become the first country to boycott a UN Human Rights Council review of its rights situation, sparking heated debate among diplomats on how to respond. “I see that the delegation of Israel is […]
By Ramzy Baroud The British security firm G4S is set to rake in massive profits thanks to crises in Mali, Libya and Algeria. Recognized as the world’s biggest security firm, the group’s brand plummeted during […]
A delegation representing the Arab League will soon head to the United States to move forward the Middle East peace process, a Palestinian envoy said Tuesday. Muhammad Sbeih, secretary-general for Palestinian affairs in the Arab […]
By Rima Merriman “The clearest distinction between [Mahmoud] Abbas’s Fatah and their main competitor, Hamas, is that Fatah argues for negotiations as the only way to resolve the conflict, and Hamas argues for violent resistance […]
Hamas chief Khalid Mashaal on Monday rejected talks on confederation with Jordan before the establishment of a Palestinian state, official Jordanian media reported. “Talking about the confederation with Jordan before the establishment of a Palestinian […]
Seven years after suffering a massive stroke, comatose ex-Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon has surprised his doctors by displaying “a certain degree of consciousness,” said an expert who examined him using an MRI scan. The […]
By Stuart Littlewood Alistair Carmichael is the Liberal Democrats’ Chief Whip. His letter to Karen Pollock of the Holocaust Educational Trust about MP David Ward’s remarks just before Holocaust Memorial Day is now in the […]
By Steve Breyman It’s a news article! It’s a news analysis! It’s an op-ed! The Times’ is at it again in Gaza. Fares Akram’s recent piece about Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s visit to the […]
Dozens of Palestinian activists entered a demolished protest village in northwest Jerusalem on Friday, starting to rebuild the al-Karamah (Dignity) encampment. The tent village was established last Friday to protest Israel’s land confiscation and settlement […]
“I saw an Israeli soldier on the main road firing gunshots haphazardly, so I put my left hand on Lubna’s back, and grabbed her to try and run backward. A gunshot hit my hand, and […]
Malaysia’s prime minister has defied Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip to visit the Palestinian enclave, a move that has earned the ire of West Bank leaders, despite Najib’s pledge of solidarity with the Palestinian […]
By Jamal Kanj Israelis voted on Tuesday to kill the prospect of peace. Out of 34 factions contesting election, voters chose right wing parties advocating land annexation and “Jewish-only” settlements. This should come as no […]
By Uri Avnery It was the night of the optimists. Tuesday at 10.01 pm, a minute after the ballot boxes were sealed, the three TV news programs announced the results of their exit polls. The […]
By Stuart Littlewood Rowan Williams, the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, has stepped down from his post (sigh of relief). Williams’s role as a figure of unity in the worldwide Anglican Communion, which is represented in […]
Hundreds of mourners on Wednesday attended the funerals of a woman and a teenager shot and killed by Israeli forces in Bethlehem. Lubna Hanash, 22, was shot in the head on Wednesday morning as Israeli […]
[vsw id=”yxgnDSNbEIA” source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”] With nearly all the votes counted, Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud-Beitenu bloc is claiming victory in Israeli parliamentary elections. The Prime Minister has lost seats in the Knesset, but still remains […]
By Nicola Nasser In his inaugural address on January 21, U.S. President Barak Obama made the historic announcement that “a decade of war is ending” and declared his country’s determination to “show the courage to […]
By Ramzy Baroud A reductionist discourse is one that selectively tailors its reading of subject matters in such a way as to only yield desired outcomes, leaving little or no room for other inquiries, no […]
By Ludwig Watzal The call for early elections brought Benyamin Netanyahu a Pyrrhic victory. The Israeli voters made it clear that his dreams are not up to the sky. Netanyahu and his right-wing partner Avigdor […]
By William A. Cook ‘As it looks now, more than half the members of the 19th Knesset will belong to the extreme right and beyond, at least a dozen of them honest to goodness fascists.’ […]
By Jeremy Salt The French bombing of Islamic extremists and terrorists in Mali contrasts nicely with France’s support for Islamic extremists/terrorists in Syria. Francois Hollande says Mali had to be stopped from becoming an Islamic […]
(Remarks by Ambassador Chas Freeman, delivered on January 16 at a conference of the Washington-based Middle East Policy Council, of which Chas is president emeritus. The remarks were circulated yesterday by the American Academy of […]
Preliminary exit polls from Israel show Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s Likud party with the largest bloc of seats in the next parliament, but winning by a narrower margin than expected. The first round of exit […]
Voting has begun in Israel’s general elections, which are expected to return Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to a third term with a smaller majority in a coalition government of rightwing and religious parties. Security has […]
The Israeli elections are more likely to produce an even more extremist right-wing government led by the current prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, says senior PLO official Muhammad Ishtayya. In a lecture at the Ramallah branch […]
By Felicity Arbuthnot One day … Children at school will ask: What is war? You will answer them. You will tell them: Those words are not used any more. Like stagecoaches, galleys or slavery. Words […]
By Jaya Ramachandran – London The increasing resort to drones by President Barack Obama will over the long term usher in “a new arms race and lay the foundations for an international system that is […]
With less than 24 hours until Israelis vote in general elections, party leaders were campaigning down to the wire ahead of a ballot that is expected to return Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to office. The […]
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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