By Stephen Lendman – Chicago On February 10, Israel held parliamentary elections for 120 seats in its 18th Knesset. The process repeats every four years unless the body calls an earlier election by majority vote. […]
By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai This appears to be a year of anniversaries. If it was Iran’s Revolution last week, the media spotlight this week has been on the fatwa the late Ayatollah Khomeini […]
By Roni Ben Efrat The results of the elections to Israel’s 18th Knesset clearly bolstered the far Right, which won 65 of the parliament’s 120 seats. This outcome is partly due to the paralysis that […]
By Mohannad El-Khairy On February 2, 2009, then foreign minister Tzipi Livni, one of the architects of the 2008-2009 Gaza Massacre and Israel’s recent election winner, addressed a gathering that draws together both Israeli and […]
By Andrea Allamb (Antonio Caso was a Mexican philosopher who died in 1946, and was a friend of the poet Octavio Paz.) Antonio Caso warned us of this, in the language of the beautiful other […]
American lawmakers were shocked by the scale of Israeli destruction they saw on Thursday, February 19, during a rare visit to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip. "The amount of physical destruction and the depth of human […]
Right-wing Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu was named Friday, February 20, to form a new Israeli government, fueling concerns that a right-wing coalition would torpedo the Middle East peace process. "The president has made a […]
By Ramzy Baroud When US envoy to Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke met with Afghanistan’s ‘democratically’ installed President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on February 14, he may have just learned of the historic significance of the following […]
In a major policy shift, several European countries are holding direct contacts with the Palestinian resistance group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip. "It is the beginning of something new – although we are not […]
U.S. Senator John Kerry travelled to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip following two other Democratic lawmakers who also were in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory on Thursday, witnesses said. Kerry, a 2004 presidential candidate who now chairs […]
Hawkish Benjamin Netanyahu became on Thursday, February 19, very close to achieving his dream of a premiership comeback after as far-rightist Avigdor Lieberman backed his bid to form the next government. "We recommend Bibi Netanyahu, […]
By Salim Nazzal In 1939 Europe turned a blind eye to the rise of Nazism. The British foreign minister Neville Chamberlain believed that a policy of appeasement would work with Hitler; it did not. Hitler […]
By Franklin Lamb – Ain el Helwe Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon "Whatever will happen in the future, we shall not repeat the mistakes we made in leaving Gaza." – Shimon Peres to members of the […]
By Iqbal Jassat – South Africa Business Day carries an interesting account of a controversy raging in tennis circles over the denial of a visa to Israel’s Shahar Peer by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), […]
By Natalie Abu Shakra – Gaza ‘Raise your voice, raise your voice, raise it in your song! Songs are still possible, they are still possible!’ "Please tell me how he was! How did you find […]
By Mats Svensson Not a long time ago….. He himself intended to vote for Hamas. "I am not religious," he said. "I don’t pray, I don’t fast. But I will vote for Hamas because we […]
By Marc Herbermann – Seoul In recent years, life had become more and more unbearable in the area which once was called Palestine. Palestinians today, under a Jewish state that allows them no autonomy, suffer […]
Israel is involved in a covert war of sabotage inside Iran in an effort to delay Tehran’s attempts to develop a nuclear weapon, the Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on Tuesday. Quoting intelligence experts and an […]
By Ola Attallah – Gaza City Abu Ahmed Al-Madhoun has never felt more desperate. He toured Gaza City for hours with a long list of necessary commodities for his family. In every shop he visited […]
Thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip remain homeless after their houses were badly damaged or destroyed during Israel’s recent military offensive there. The Israeli army began with aerial bombardments of the enclave on 27 […]
By Dr. Ahmed Yousef – Gaza Pundits have asked Palestinians of every persuasion what they think of Israeli elections over the past several weeks. Opinions are varied and thoughtful; yet the truth is that to […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London Unable to attend the Viva Palestina convoy send-off in London, I watched video footage of the occasion with tears in my eyes. Here at last were people of courage and moral backbone… […]
By Miko Peled The common wisdom regarding Israel’s latest attacks on Gaza suggests that Israel is defending itself against a vicious enemy and that all means justify the cause of security for the citizens of […]
By Antoun Issa A culmination of events in recent years, and more importantly the past two months, has thrown the entire structure of the peace process upside down. Ironically, the two main protagonists in the […]
By Mats Svensson There is a shrinking group of free people, people who believe in a context with everyone’s equal worth. This group still dreams about a society where everyone is included and for this, […]
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago On February 15, Venezuelans voted on whether to let presidents, National Assembly representatives, governors, mayors, and state legislators run indefinitely for re-election after Chavez last December proposed a national referendum […]
By Natalie Abu Shakra – Gaza Tears drop on her hands, hands that he had once kissed passionately, on her engagement ring, that ring he chose for her, on her cheeks that oust the redness […]
By Deb Reich Most people will say I’m delusional; that’s okay. I will say what I have to say anyway. When your opinion is way out on the periphery, it may mean you are delusional […]
By Gaither Stewart – Rome ‘To seduce also means to destroy.’ I ran into a reference to The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits and found the suggestive old poem extensively reproduced […]
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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