By Uri Avnery And suddenly: quiet. No Qassams. No mortar shells. The tanks are not rolling. The aircraft are not bombing. In Sderot, sighs of relief. Children venture out. Inhabitants who have exiled themselves to […]

By Ghassan Khatib The ceasefire agreement that was reached between Israel and the Hamas leadership through Egyptian mediation and that has been observed successfully by the two parties since Thursday marks a very significant development […]

By Mahmoud El-Yousseph He believes Muslims  are responsible for America’s moral decay, that Islam is ‘Anti Christ’, that the Holy Quran was revealed to prophet Mohammad from the demons and not from the true God, […]

By Gaither Stewart in Rome Anyone traveling to Italy this year will find a lovely, calm and tranquil country. This June the rolling hills around Rome are unusually green and the waters of the Tiber […]

By Ramzy Baroud Abstract: A study of the political, religious and cultural factors underlying the pro-Israeli bias apparent in the Western media today, as depicted in the mainstream news and television programmes. As Palestinians hurriedly […]

By Joharah Baker The question lingering in the air right now is, "What will make this time any different?" Ceasefire agreements between Israel and Hamas have been reached before, all of which have flown right […]

By Azmi Bishara Some have an almost religious faith that Israel will one day cease to exist. Others maintain that Israel will end if the Arabs optimise their conviction that it is an alien entity […]

By Ramzy Baroud A six-year-old Palestinian girl from Gaza was killed by Israeli fire on 12 June. "Medics say the girl was decapitated by a [tank] shell," Associated Press (AP) reported the next day. The […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed There’s an old adage in Urdu that when you are going through rough times, your closest friends abandon you and your own shadow deserts you. You can’t really accuse President Hamid […]

By Robert Weitzel "My number one priority in foreign policy is to protect Israel." – Former House Speaker Richard Armey.  Rocky was a boyhood friend. He was as big and as strong as his name. In […]

By Shafiq Morton – Cape Town A story in the Jerusalem Post of May 22 "World Christian legislators meet in DC to buttress support for Israel" has passed by unnoticed in South Africa. In a country […]

By Neve Gordon It took me a moment before I understood why my story about a few relatively inconsequential incidents, which occurred years ago at my high school, had such an effect on the undergraduates […]

By Ramzy Baroud When US forces descended on Baghdad five years ago, they seemed unstoppable. Military arrogance had reached an all time high, and it seemed only a matter of time before the same frenzied […]

By Franklin Lamb – Beirut Secretary of State Rice’s aircraft kept its engines warm and its fuselage surrounded by the US Secret Service and Lebanon’s Internal Security agents as she dashed into Beirut for less […]

By George Bisharat On his first day as the presumptive Democratic candidate for president earlier this month, Barack Obama committed a serious foreign policy blunder. Reciting a litany of pro-Israeli positions at the annual meeting […]

By Iqbal Jassat South African media has shown exceptional tenacity in its ability to probe and uncover many startling details in relation to shady operations by powerful individuals and groups. Many of the daily and […]

By Najwa Sheikh The 20th of June is the day where the world will put more focus on the refugees, and where they will celebrate what is called the world refugee day, a day that […]

By Rannie Amiri "If a cat dies in Lebanon, the world knows about it. Here in Yemen, we are forgotten." – Zaidi scholar Sayyid Mourtada al-Muhatwari The jambiya or ceremonial curved, double-edged dagger worn under […]

By Gush Shalom – Tel Aviv Contrary to some expectations, the visit of the two controversial American professors was a great success. John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, whose book "The Israel Lobby" has caused an […]

By Ahmed Yousef Will there be a major incursion or a ceasefire in Gaza? That is the question Palestinians are asking themselves at the moment. On the Palestinian side, all the political and military factions […]

By Joharah Baker Israeli intellectuals and political pundits often accuse the Palestinians of living in the past, hashing up the old excuse of "the occupation" to push aside any "real and genuine" Israeli efforts for […]

By Uri Avnery This week, the Prime Minister of Canada made a dramatic statement in Parliament: he apologized to the indigenous peoples of his country for the injustices done to them for generations by successive […]