By Ludwig Watzal Netanyahu’s speech at the UN General Assembly was a political impudence. He showed the world that he has not understood the signs of times. He seemed out of place with diplomacy and […]
By Ramzy Baroud Since the Hamas election victory in January 2006 — and particularly after the Hamas-Fatah clashes and split between Gaza and the West Bank in the summer of 2007 — Gaza has undergone […]
By Tamar Fleishman I don’t know his name. But I know the clear gaze of his eyes through which deep desperation was reflected, and the time that passed hasn’t dissolved or dulled the memory of […]
Reviewed by Jamal Kanj (Fast Times in Palestine. Pamela Olson. Seal Press, March 2013) Whenever I read a biographical book, I make it a point to start with the acknowledgement page to learn a little […]
Israeli forces shot 6-year-old Musab al-Sarahneh in the eye in al-Fawwar refugee camp south of Hebron early last week, his family reported. The boy lost his right eye after Israeli forces opened fire on the […]
By Vacy Vlazna What image of Palestinians would viewers, who have a smattering, or if any, knowledge of the Palestinian struggle, gain after seeing Dror Moreh’s documentary, The Gatekeepers? The word ‘terrorist’ and versions thereof […]
By Uri Avnery Benjamin Netanyahu aroused my pity. From my 10 years of membership in the Knesset I know how unpleasant it is to speak before an empty hall. His die-hard followers – a pathetic […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth The furor over the recent chemical weapons attack in Syria has overshadowed disturbing events to the south, as Egypt’s generals wage a quiet war of attrition against the Hamas leadership […]
By Neve Gordon In the 2012 elections, J Street, the relatively new pro-Israel lobby whose stated purpose is to promote a progressive peace agenda in the Middle East, says its PAC disbursed more than $1.8 […]
By Nicola Nasser – Birzeit, West Bank Iran seems successful in turning the Iraqi “strategic” agreement with the US into a tactical one, while it is succeeding in turning its own tactical accords with Iraq […]
By Iqbal Jassat – Johannesburg Revelations made in South Africa’s weekend newspaper City Press during the end of September 2013, places Israel’s notorious Mossad at the center of alarmist reports raised on the so-called “White […]
Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian farmer in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, locals said. Witnesses told Ma’an that Israeli forces stationed east of Gaza City opened fire at a group of farmers in […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reiterated his country’s position that the only way to peacefully stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons is to combine tough sanctions with a credible military threat, asserting that Israel […]
By Richard Falk General Observations During my period as the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Palestine on behalf of the Human Rights Council I have been struck by the persistent efforts of Israel […]
The United States reserves the right to keep all options, including military action, on the table with regards to engaging with Iran, the US president has said after holding talks with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin […]
Suspected Israeli extremists vandalized a Christian cemetery in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan early Tuesday, a local group said. Father Firas Hijazeen said extremists destroyed a tombstone and sprayed racist slogans on the outer […]
By Ramzy Baroud Egypt’s new ruler, General Abdul Fatah al-Sisi, may not realize that the bond between Egypt, Palestine and especially Gaza is beyond historic, and simply cannot be severed with border restrictions, albeit they […]
A Palestinian refugee was killed in Syria on Tuesday, a local group said. The Workforce for Palestinians in Syria said that Muhannad Ahmad Abu Jrouh, 33, was killed during government shelling on Daraa refugee camp. […]
By Zaakir Ahmed Mayet – Johannesburg The shopping complex known as Westgate mall in the Kenyan capital Nairobi is on everyone’s lips and every news agency appears to be covering the ghastly event that catapulted […]
By Sandy Tolan Edward Said died ten years ago – in September 2003, after a twelve-year battle with leukemia. One of the 20th century’s great intellectuals, Said, author of the masterworks Orientalism and Culture and […]
Stranded travelers tried to storm through the gates of Gaza’s Rafah crossing on the Egyptian border on Sunday to protest delays at the terminal. Travelers including students denounced Egypt’s closure of the crossing and demanded […]
Dozens of Palestinian youths on Tuesday smashed a hole in Israel’s separation wall in Abu Dis, near Jerusalem, locals said. The youths managed to open a 60-cm hole in the wall separating the village from […]
By Iqbal Jassat – Johannesburg True to form, South Africa’s controversial Israeli-linked and self-styled “Islamist Terror Expert” Hussein Solomon, has made a shameless re-entry to claim his “I told you so” moment in the wake […]
By Ibrahim Vawda The latest Russian-American truce in Syria does not mean that the crisis is over. Far from it. The insurgency in Syria seems to have overshadowed another crisis in the region. The overthrow […]
By Ilan Pappe The recent attempt to revive the peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians is not likely to produce more meaningful results than that of any of the previous attempts. It comes 20 […]
By Jeremy Salt Until joined by the Islamic government in 1979 and then by Hizbullah in the 1980s, Syria was Israel’s most visceral enemy. This enemy is now being destroyed but not by Israel. So-called […]
By Ramzy Baroud Mark Landler is a White House correspondent for The New York Times. Under the title “Through Diplomacy, Obama Finds a Pen Pal in Iran”, Landler wrote of President Barack Obama’s deep “belief […]
Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy has warned Hamas of a “harsh response” if the Islamist movement that rules the neighboring Gaza Strip threatened Egypt’s national security. The response “will be harsh if we feel that elements […]
By Richard Lightbown On 21 August 2013 a series of chemical attacks were perpetrated in the Ghouta suburbs of eastern Damascus. Sources say that between 281 and 1,729 civilians were killed, while Medcins Sans Frontiers […]
By John V. Whitbeck In an opinion article entitled “Israel Should Annul the Oslo Accords” which was published on September 21 in the New York Times, Danny Danon, Israel’s deputy defense minister, offered his own […]
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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