By Hasan Afif El-Hasan Nations and organizations reward success. They elect and re-elect leaders who deliver and advance the interests of their constituency and they terminate the tenure of the failure, the incompetent and the […]
By Jonathan Cook – Beersheva The walls have been freshly plastered and painted white, the sculpted stone window frames are filled with frosted glass and the builders are hanging spotlights from the ceiling. The municipality of […]
By M. Shahid Alam ‘The ultimate goal…is, in time, to take over the Land of Israel and to restore to the Jews the political independence they have been deprived of for these two thousand years…The […]
Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip have returned to school after their summer break, with a shortage of school supplies and overcrowded classrooms posing a threat to the quality of their education. Nearly 300 schools […]
The Muslim holy month of Ramadan has begun for most of the world’s 1.2 billion Muslims. Ramadan, the month when Muslims traditionally fast from sunrise to sunset, began on Saturday for most in the Middle […]
Former US presidential nominee Mike Huckabee says Israel is much better favored by the American evangelicals than by the American Jewish community. "Maybe one of the hard things is to convince some of our Jewish […]
A plan for a new Jewish settlement in the Israeli occupied Arab east Jerusalem has been submitted for approval to city hall, a newspaper reported on Sunday, which was likely to dominate Israeli Prime Minister […]
Inadequate infrastructure, lack of equipment and a shortage of hospital staff are contributing to the deterioration of hospital care for mothers and newborns in Gaza, according to a July 2009 assessment by the World Health […]
A new UN report describes the devastating humanitarian impact of two years of Israel’s ‘unprecedented blockade on all border crossings in and out of the Gaza Strip’. Released in August by the UN Office for the […]
Israel denies press credentials for the Swedish daily Aftonbladet amid a row over an article accusing Israeli troops of involvement in an organ theft scandal. The newspaper published They plunder the organs of our sons […]
By Donald Boström You could call me a ‘matchmaker,’ said Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, from Brooklyn, USA, in a secret recording with an FBI-agent whom he believed to be a client. Ten days later, at the […]
Aijaz Zaka Syed Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains, lamented French philosopher Jacques Rousseau. Inspired by Rousseau and other French philosophers, America’s founding fathers made Liberty, Equality and Justice the cornerstones […]
By Uri Avnery My first thought was: Good God, this man was responsible for the lives of our soldiers! The second thought was: What’s the big surprise? You always knew what kind of person he […]
By Neve Gordon Israeli newspapers this summer are filled with angry articles about the push for an international boycott of Israel. Films have been withdrawn from Israeli film festivals, Leonard Cohen is under fire around […]
Israel eased up restrictions for West Bank Palestinians and extended the operational hours of some of the crossings in the territories for the month of Ramadan. A statement issued by the Israeli army Thursday said […]
Sweden’s Foreign Minister Carl Bildt on Friday played down a diplomatic row with Israel sparked by a Swedish newspaper’s claims that Israeli soldiers stole organs from dead Palestinians. But Bildt declined to condemn the piece, […]
Ihab Al-Ashqar, a 14-year-old Gazan, smiles bitterly while explaining why he does not feel the joy that always accompanies the arrival of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. ‘All the crosses are sealed. They [Israel] […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth If a single person deserves the title of serial thorn in the side of the Israeli state, Uri Davis, a professor of critical Israel studies at al Quds University on […]
By Jeff Gates In 2005, the Nobel Prize in Economic Science was awarded to Israeli mathematician and game theory specialist Robert J. Aumann, co-founder of the Center for Rationality at Hebrew University. This Jerusalem resident […]
By George S. Hishmeh The historic conference of Fateh, the Palestinian Liberation Movement, held in Bethlehem earlier this month, generated widespread optimism in the region, including Israel, due to the dethroning of the old guard […]
By James Petras Introduction The US seven-year war and occupation of Iraq is driven by several major political forces and informed by a variety of imperial interests. However these interests do not in themselves explain […]
Barack Obama, the US president, has said that there has been "movement in the right direction" on Israel’s policy of building settlements on occupied Palestinian land, after talks with Egypt’s president. "My hope is that […]
The United Nations on Wednesday premiered a film narrated by former Pink Floyd front man Roger Waters on the plight of Palestinians living in the shadow of Israel’s controversial separation barrier. The 15-minute film entitled […]
Israeli newspapers accused the United Nations nuclear watchdog of holding back incriminating evidence of Iran’s drive to obtain nuclear weapons as Israeli President Shimon Peres said Wednesday Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev had promised to review […]
By Terrell E. Arnold In late 2005, the Bush administration, along with the Israeli government of Ariel Sharon, promoted parliamentary elections in Palestine. The goal, obvious if unstated, was to provide a popular credential for […]
By Aisha Mouneimne – Cape Town Following a campaign launched this week by Friends of Al Aqsa calling on the boycotting of Israeli dates this Ramadan, the Cape Town based Muslim Judicial Counsel (MJC) on […]
Israel’s prime minister agreed on Tuesday not to invite tenders for West Bank settlement building in the coming months so as to advance the peace process, a government minister said on Tuesday, which critics fell […]
By IRIN – Nahr al-Bared, Lebanon Two years on from the devastating battle which destroyed their homes and livelihoods, Palestinian refugees from Nahr al-Bared are set to see reconstruction work begin inside the camp’s official […]
The Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip has triggered a ‘protracted human dignity crisis’ with negative humanitarian consequences, UN says. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) released a report on […]
The United Nations’ relief agency is appealing to donors for USD 181 million to help avert a humanitarian crisis in the war-torn Gaza Strip. As the holy month of Ramadan nears, the United Nations’ relief […]
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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