By Mustafa Barghouthi I cannot recall a more important meeting between an American president and an Israeli prime minister than today’s meeting between President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Will the Obama administration have […]
By Jim Miles The Hebrew Republic – How Secular Democracy and Global Enterprise Will Bring Israel Peace at Last. Bernard Avishai. Harcourt (Houghton Mifflin), Orlando. 2008. Two events have severely diminished the prospects of this […]
By Mats Svensson – Tel Aviv We don’t know if we should stay. Late afternoon on the beach in Bat Jam south of Tel Aviv. There is a cool breeze. Just a few middle aged […]
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has unveiled a new government that excludes Hamas but comprises half of the cabinet from his Fatah faction. The government was sworn in on Tuesday at a ceremony in the […]
US calls for a two-state solution "fell on deaf ears", the Palestinians’ chief negotiator with Israel has said. Speaking to Al Jazeera on Tuesday, the day after the first official meeting between Barack Obama, the […]
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah warned late Monday that his Lebanese Shiite party was ready to fight a new war with Israel as the Jewish state prepares for one of its largest military exercises ever later […]
By Iqbal Jassat – Pretoria The perception that many American policies are influenced by Israel has been given a further boost with the latest attempt by the US Congress to silence free speech. The current […]
By Belén Fern
Palestinian delegations representing President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party and the Islamist movement Hamas agreed on Sunday on forming a common security force in the Gaza Strip until the beginning of elections in January 2010, a […]
For the last 30 years Ali Mohammed Hindawi, aged 84, has lived alone in a rusty tin shack in south Lebanon, without water, electricity or a toilet, sleeping among chickens, flies and litter, and separated […]
Israel’s prime minister has refused to commit to an independent Palestinian state during talks with Barack Obama, the US president, at the White House. Binyamin Netanyahu told Obama that he wanted the Palestinians to govern […]
Cover sheets for Iraq war intelligence reports written for then Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and presented to the White House were adorned with biblical quotations, according to pictures posted by the GQ magazine […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth The United Nation’s watchdog on torture has criticized Israel for refusing to allow inspections at a secret prison, dubbed by critics as "Israel’s Guantanamo Bay", and demanded to know if more […]
By Kourosh Ziabari Ramzy Baroud numbers among remarkable Palestinian journalists, alongside such figures as Khalid Amayreh and Laila el-Haddad. Having been a producer for Aljazeera, he taught Mass Communication at Australia’s Curtin University of Technology, […]
By James Petras ‘The Deltas are psychos…You have to be a certified psychopath to join the Delta Force,’ a US Army colonel from Fort Bragg once told me back in the 1980’s. Now President Obama […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel One of the happiest moments in my life occurred in a restaurant. It happened before the second Intifada. I had invited Rachel to celebrate her birthday with dinner at a […]
Despite billions of dollars of international aid pledges, thousands of Palestinian families in Gaza Strip still live in open air, months after Israel’s deadly war in the besieged strip. "We are living in a corridor […]
Thousands of Palestinians have gathered in the Gaza Strip to mark the 61st anniversary of the "Nakba", or "catastrophe", which describes the dispersal of hundreds of thousands of refugees following the creation of Israel. In […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will refuse on his trip to Washington to back the formation of a Palestinian state, an MP close to the premier said Saturday, according to Israeli national radio. "Netanyahu will […]
On the final day of his visit to the Holy Land, Pope Benedict XVI criticized Israel’s building of a wall separating Jerusalem and Bethlehem and called for the creation of a Palestinian state. The pontiff […]
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago After two years of ‘underground’ work, it was launched with a ‘successful press conference’ and announcement that: "The Russell Tribunal on Palestine seeks to reaffirm the primacy of international law […]
By Martin Saatdjian – Venezuela The recently held summit of Arab and South American leaders in Doha, Qatar, took place during a very critical historical moment for humankind. Social, environmental, food, and economic crises have […]
By Terry Lacey – Jakarta The mythological Ousalam bird became extinct because its mating dance was so complicated that it forgot the reason for doing it. Now we enter a new phase in the Middle […]
By Joharah Baker – Jerusalem Saying we are back to square one hardly does our situation justice. If we are to be more accurate, we should say we are below zero, pushed back to a […]
Thousands of Palestinians have marked the 61st anniversary of the "Nakba" or "catastrophe," in which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were displaced following the creation of Israel. Demonstrators marched through cities across the West Bank […]
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s party wants to ban Israeli Arabs from marking the anniversary of "the Catastrophe" in 1948 when Israel was created as thousands of Palestinians marked the 61st anniversary of the Naqba that […]
Israel’s prime minister has held talks with King Abdullah II of Jordan as part of an attempt to improve ties with Middle East nations before a planned meeting with Barack Obama, the US president. Binyamin […]
CIA chief Leon Panetta held secret talks in Israel with top officials who assured him the Jewish state would not launch a surprise strike on Iran, a report said on Thursday. According to the public […]
Amid an almost blackout by major Israeli dailies, Pope Benedict XVI travels to Nazareth, the boyhood town of Jesus, on Thursday, May 14, a day after calling for a Palestinian state and ending Israel’s long-running […]
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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