By Tristan Sturm Jerusalemites have no doubt witnessed an increased Christian Zionist presence on the streets in the last few days. Indeed, more than 6,000 Christian Zionists have returned to Israel for their annul “Feast […]
Since peace talks between Israel and the PLO resumed two months ago, President Mahmoud Abbas has maintained a no-comment policy on the political situation and potential compromises. Abbas, who arrived in Washington Saturday, seemed more […]
Over 300 Israeli rightists entered the al-Aqsa compound on Sunday, a local foundation said. The al-Aqsa foundation said that four groups consisting of rabbis, families and rightists entered the mosque compound via the Mughrabi Gate […]
A Palestinian sniper shot and injured an Israeli national outside Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque in the occupied West Bank, Israeli media reported Monday. Israel’s Ynet news site reported that the unnamed man sustained serious wounds in […]
By Somdeep Sen Already burdened by a crippling political and economic blockade, Hamas and its domain of influence, namely the Gaza Strip, are reeling under the pressure of yet another fit of border closure initiated […]
By Hussein Al-alak I was recently reading the Selected Letters of Jack Kerouac, when a number of thoughts crossed my mind, about the amazing and unique characters, which made up the American Beat Generation. What […]
An Egyptian military court sentenced five Palestinian fishermen on Wednesday for one year in jail. The fishermen were convicted of breaching territorial water off the Rafah coast near the maritime borders between Egypt and the […]
By Nicola Nasser The blind sectarian rampage, which has been waging a war on worship mosques, churches and religious shrines have become a modern Arab trade mark phenomenon, since what the western media called from […]
By Julie Webb-Pullman The Gaza Strip is facing a humanitarian crisis, with such a critical shortage of gasoline that police have been ordered to transport students and workers to schools, universities and workplaces, the local […]
By Vacy Vlazna Israel, a leading innovative armament designer, producer and exporter has released worldwide, against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS), a new weapon – a mutation of the pesky and potentially lethal […]
By Uri Avnery If somebody steals something precious from you, say a diamond, you may be angry. Even God himself said so. When He sent a worm to kill the gourd which provided shade for […]
By Nasser Barghouty In the eleventh hour of their day I am reminded of your day eleven primes ago when hatred and steel blinded them and the sun gray and halted your time your smile […]
By Ramzy Baroud Many US media commentators were fairly accurate in labeling some of the language used by Russian President Vladimir Putin in a New York Times article as “hypocritical”. But mainstream US media should […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth President Barack Obama may have drawn his seemingly regretted “red line” around Syria’s chemical weapons, but it was neither he nor the international community that turned the spotlight on their […]
By IRIN Residents and officials in Gaza say the repeated closures of the border crossing into Egypt, a key lifeline for Palestinians in the occupied territories, is destroying livelihoods, harming health and lowering basic living […]
A man killed by Israeli forces in Jenin on Tuesday was executed in cold blood after confirming his identity to soldiers, family members said. Islam al-Tubasi, 22, died from gunshot wounds during an Israeli raid […]
Egyptian naval forces opened fire at Palestinian fishermen off the Gaza Strip’s southern coast and arrested two of them, the Hamas movement said. Hamas “condemns the fire from Egyptian gunboats toward Palestinians within Palestinian waters, […]
Washington’s top diplomat arrived in Jerusalem on Sunday for talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over plans to destroy Syria’s chemical arms and peace talks with the Palestinian Authority. After landing at Ben Gurion […]
By Brian Terrell On May 23, President Obama gave a major address from the National Defense University, ON THE FUTURE OF OUR FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM, in which he acknowledged for the first time the US […]
By Iqbal Jassat 20 years ago when the Oslo accords were signed on the White House lawn amidst a huge amount of fanfare, a Palestinian voice made a compelling argument against it. The voice belonged […]
By Ramzy Baroud The distance between Gaza and Ramallah in sheer miles is hardly significant. But in actuality, both cities represent two different political realities, with inescapable cultural and socioeconomic dimensions. Their geopolitical horizons are […]
By Zaakir Ahmed Mayet The world seems to be spiraling out of control. As murder, death and wanton destruction becomes the order of the day; these realities are demonstrated in Syria. The mass slaughter occurring […]
By Nicola Nasser Because “defensive alliances which have fixed and limited objectives are often more durable,” the “Syria-Iran alliance has survived” more than three decades of unwavering and insistent US – led military, economic, diplomatic […]
By Jamal Kanj The myopic view of the world’s most powerful men in Washington never ceases to amaze me. I am reminded of the 1980s when then American president Ronald Reagan compared the Afghan Mujahideen […]
Reviewed by Hatim Kanaaneh (Beyond Tribal Loyalties –Personal Stories of Jewish Peace Activities. Avigail Abarbanel, Editor; Cambridge Scholars Publishing; 2012.) Of late, the atmosphere in The Middle East has been murky; indeed murkier than usual. […]
Frank Barat Talks to Professor Noam Chomsky Frank Barat: What is the definition of negotiations in Israel-US language and why is the Palestinian Authority playing along? Noam Chomsky: From the U.S. point of view, negotiations […]
By Iqbal Jassat Shocking details unearthed by award-winning journalist Max Blumenthal reveal a gory mix of shady PR operatives with links to Israel, behind an active push for war on Syria. This comes against the […]
Israeli municipality staff and police issued four demolition orders for commercial properties in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on Sunday, a local group said. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center said that Israeli forces raided […]
By Jeremy Salt – Ankara Two million refugees out of Syria, some of them Palestinian refugees from 1948 and 1967 and some Iraqi refugees from 2004. They are the consequences of war and yet the […]
By Binoy Kampmark Historical analogies can be effective tools to command attention. They can also be grotesque fabrications and dangerous distortions. Each historical event has its own locale of development, its own forces, and distinctiveness. […]
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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