By Natalie Abou Shakra – Gaza The concept of civil resistance is not new at all. This non-violent, unarmed, citizen oriented strategy of resistance in modern history played a role in the struggles against colonialism, […]

By Franklin Lamb – Sidon, Lebanon Yesterday afternoon, Kamal Medhat, 58, known in Lebanon’s Palestinian Camps affectionately as ‘Kamal Naji’, a senior member of the Palestinian Fatah movement was killed exiting Mieh Meih Camp by […]

By Yousef Al-Helou – Gaza City The devastation left by the Israeli war on beseiged Gaza means youngsters now make a living by sifting through piles of rubble. Children as young as five collect metal […]

By Terry Lacey – Jakarta The Egyptian-mediated reconciliation talks between Fatah and Hamas appear blocked over how to set up a unity government, elections and the make up of the security forces. But reportedly there […]

By Samah Sabawi What is a life worth?A grain of earthA drop of oilA flag on a hill of holy soilA cross…a star…a crescent moon…Is it worth ending a life too soon? What sacred verses […]

By Lise Brouillette In the West Bank and Gaza when it’s bright and sunny it does not mean no rain or storm in the forecast  For the rain that may come then has naught to […]

By Hasan Afif El-Hasan The policies of the Israeli governments and the settlers’ movement have rendered the chances for a real durable peace and the so called ‘two-state solution’ dead, even if some Arab and […]

By Uri Avnery – Israel The most important sentence written in Israel this week was lost in the general tumult of exciting events. Really exciting: In a final act of villainy, typical of his whole […]

By Jim Miles Another four Canadian military personnel have been killed in Afghanistan. It is well past due that Canadian forces be brought home from this senseless war before more die for a poorly defined cause. At […]

By Ira Glunts The Israeli authorities have prevented all events associated with al-Quds Arab Culture Capital 2009 celebration from occurring in what they consider to be Israeli sovereign territory. The harsh suppression of the cultural […]

By Franklin Lamb – Beirut "The tactics of the Israel Lobby plumb the depths of dishonor and indecency and include character assassination, selective misquotation, the willful distortion of the record, the fabrication of falsehoods, and […]

By Ahmad Barqawi I wonder if this day is any different than any other ‘ordinary’ day for Palestinian mothers in Gaza; more blockade, no access to running water, more electricity blackouts, more explosive sounds of leftover […]

By Dina Jadallah-Taschler Part I:  Reconstructing Puppets ‘Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.’  Otto von Bismarck, (1815-1898), German Chancellor Should we still believe that the Palestinian Authority, even in the […]

By Jim Miles American Raj: Liberation or Domination? – Resolving the Conflict Between the West and the Muslim World. Eric S. Margolis. Key Porter Books, Toronto, 2008. In a wide-ranging and thorough overview of essentially […]

By M. Shahid Alam It has never been easy offering a critique of capitalism or markets to my undergraduate students. Most have never heard an unkind word about these bedrock institutions, which they know to […]

By Ramzy Baroud Though the dust has settled in Gaza, the rubble from the untold number of demolished buildings, homes and mosques is far from being cleared away. Graves continue to receive victims, young and […]

By David Rovics I was in Olympia, Washington driving towards Evergreen State College when I got a phone call from someone in the occupied West Bank of Palestine. An Evergreen graduate named Rachel Corrie had […]

By William A. Cook The will to change requires fortitude, a firmness of mind to endure pain, conviction in belief that stands against self-interest, and commitment to act regardless of consequences. To stand against the […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai  ‘What do we do with Pakistan?’ ‘Let’s turn it over to builders.’ This is what I hear almost on a daily basis on a Dubai-based Pakistani television network that […]

By Ronnie Kasrils At the onset of international ‘Israel Apartheid Week’ in solidarity with the embattled Palestinian people, I want to start by quoting a South African who emphatically stated as far back as 1963 […]

By Jonathan Cook – El-Bat, Israel Little Ashimah Abu Sbieh’s life hangs by a thread — or more specifically, an electricity cable that runs from a noisy diesel-powered generator in the family’s backyard. Should the generator’s […]

By Nicola Nasser – The West Bank In view of a world consensus on a two-state solution for the Arab-Israeli conflict, most political analysts and commentators have concluded that the Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu, […]