Turkish President Abdullah Gul justifies his country’s recent row with Israel over its acts of war in Gaza, reiterating that his government’s criticism of Israel is fair and valid. The Turkish president said in a […]
By Deepak Tripathi President Barack Obama is having a bad time. The health reforms he so confidently promised have been bogged down in Congress for months; his Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, said the other day […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London Christianity too has its extremists and none worse than the Christian Zionists. A prize example is His Eminence The Very Reverend Charles J. Edgbaston, DD, PhD, Chair, Christians for Moses […]
By Kim Bullimore Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed victory in the wake of US President Barak Obama’s first speech to the United Nations General Assembly and the September 22 meeting in New York […]
Thousands of Gazan farmers may be unable to replant their crops during the region’s main planting season in October due to agricultural land still damaged by the Israeli offensive at the start of the year, […]
A senior Palestinian official has accused Hamas of trying to derail unification efforts by insisting on conditions it knows would be impossible for the Fatah administration to meet. Yasser Abed Rabbo, the secretary of the Palestine […]
More than 80 Israeli students have announced their refusal to serve in the Israeli military because of what they call their nation’s track-record of oppression in the occupied territories. The conscientious objectors issued a letter […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged a ‘lengthy fight’ against a United Nations report as the UK and France express support for Israel to ‘defend’ itself. "We are now setting out to delegitimize those […]
By Catherine Rottenberg and Neve Gordon Educating children in a conflict zone is no simple matter. More often than not, those responsible for the curricula succumb to the masters of war and adopt a pedagogical […]
By George Hismeh So Barack Obama has unexpectedly won the Nobel Peace Prize this year and he was gracious enough to admit publicly that he did not think he deserved it. The American president has […]
Extremist Jewish organizations in Israel have demanded that the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock from East Jerusalem Al-Quds be transferred to Mecca. Gershon Salomon is seeking the removal of the mosques from […]
Hamas and other Palestinian groups have denounced the current text of an Egyptian-proposed reconciliation deal, saying they "will not sign it". The text strips the Palestinians of their right to resist the Israeli occupation, Hamas […]
At a press conference with Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on Thursday, he said that many countries, including the United States, support recognition of a Palestinian state. He added that Spain is […]
United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has kicked off a two-day meeting to debate a report on Israel’s war crimes during the Gaza conflict. On Thursday, most member states expressed their concerns about the deteriorating […]
By Timothy Seidel As he came near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, ‘If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace! But now they […]
By Joel S. Hirschhorn Millions of Americans are politically informed, smart, active and angry. They see many wrongs in our political and government system. They are fed up with politics as usual, meaning corrosive corruption of […]
By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai ‘Listen to this,’ my boss said compulsively scanning his inseparable BlackBerry for a zillionth time. ‘Barack Obama gets the Nobel Peace Prize!’ I laughed out loud. He was obviously kidding […]
Israel has announced plans to demolish 150 Palestinian homes in the mostly Arab east Jerusalem Al-Quds in a move that would displace more than 1,000 Palestinians. Palestinian homes that are threatened with imminent demolition are […]
A day before the UN Human Rights Council convenes to debate on a UN report accusing Israel of war crimes in Gaza, Tel Aviv threatens to scrap peace talks with Palestinians unless the damning report […]
115 countries of the Non-aligned Movement (NAM) have called on the UN Security Council to hold Israel responsible for atrocities committed in Gaza during its offensive. NAM Ambassador Maged Abdelaziz asked the Security Council on […]
By Ramzy Baroud As Israeli bombs fell on the Gaza Strip during its one-sided war between December 27, 2008 and January 18, 2009, millions around the world took to the streets in complete and uncompromising […]
‘Yousef Abu Zuhri, 38, the brother of Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri, was martyred in an Egyptian prison as a result of torture,’ Fawzi Barhum, the other main spokesman for the group, told AFP news […]
On the eve of a UN meeting on the atrocities Israel carried out during the Gaza war, the Israeli prime minister has declared that Israeli officials will not submit to prosecution for war crimes. The United […]
By James Gundun Several droplets had barely dripped down the sides of a frozen Israeli-Palestinian conflict when a new blizzard iced them up again. The Goldstone report, nearing infamy, has transformed into a political groundhog. […]
The Acting Palestinian Authority chief says he will push for a vote on a recently released UN report about Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip. Mahmoud Abbas had earlier requested the UN Human Rights […]
Freelance Swedish journalist Donald Bostrom has reportedly demanded an international war crimes investigation into claims that Israeli soldiers harvest organs of dead Palestinians. Six weeks after he caused a political storm over his article "Our […]
The political bureau chairman of Hamas, Khalid Mashaal, says the acting Palestinian Authority chief, Mahmoud Abbas, is unfit and ineligible to lead the Palestinian nation. During a speech in Damascus on Sunday evening, Mashaal referred […]
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon backs a Palestinian bid to re-launch the debate on the Goldstone report, which accuses Israel of war crimes as well as crimes against humanity during its weeks-long onslaught on […]
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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