Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, has warned the Palestinian leadership against any attempts to unilaterally declare statehood for the Gaza Strip, the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. West Bank-based Palestinian officials said on Sunday […]
Israel has threatened to annex more land in the occupied West Bank, should Palestinians declare statehood without concluding a peace agreement. "If the Palestinians take such a unilateral line, Israel should also consider … passing […]
The wife of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks out to keep alive the memory of Palestinian women and children suffering from a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. Iranian First Lady Azam Farahi urged world […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel When the TV news starts with a murder, people are relieved. This means that no war has broken out, no suicide bomb has exploded, no Qassam rocket has been launched […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Right-wing groups in Israel want to create a climate of fear among left-wing scholars at Israeli universities by emulating the ‘witch-hunt’ tactics of the US academic monitoring group Campus Watch, Israeli professors […]
Palestinian officials are preparing to ask the United Nations to endorse their quest for an independent state after years of failed peace talks, Palestinian authorities have said. Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, said officials […]
The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has warned that Israel is fabricating pretexts to launch a fresh military offensive on the Gaza Strip. Israel recently accused Hamas of having test-fired a long-range missile that could reach […]
Talking to the press alongside US officials in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Sunday, Salam Fayyad dismissed Israeli concerns as irrelevant and said, "They’re talking about unilateralism, to which we reply yes, building […]
By Ron Forthofer This past September, the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict issued its report. Richard Goldstone, a South African Justice and a strong supporter of Israel, headed the effort. During the […]
By Deepak Sarkar ‘In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.’ — The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Nobel Laureate (Former British Admiral […]
By Professor Haidar Eid – Gaza Strip Dear Mr. President, You will probably not read this letter due to your busy schedule and the huge number of messages you receive from Presidents, Kings, Princes, Sheiks, […]
Israeli soldiers have killed a Palestinian and wounded at least one other in a confrontation near a Gaza Strip crossing, the Israeli army and Palestinian medical workers said. An Israeli military official said their troops […]
Israeli forces have opened fire on Palestinian protesters in the West Bank village of Naalin, leaving two of them wounded. Palestinians demonstrating against the Israeli separation wall, said Israeli forces resorted to force and used […]
By Franklin Lamb- Beirut If those in Lebanon watching the news on 11/12/09 blinked they might have missed an interesting news item. It appeared at approximately 4:20 pm on Narharnet.com, the pro-US/Saudi news website. The news […]
By Steve Lendman – Chicago A personal note. This writer was stationed at Fort Hood in summer 1956, a quiet time, post-Korea and pre-Vietnam, when terrorism and Islamophbia weren’t issues, and shooting only happened on […]
The Palestinian Authority’s Central Elections Commission Chairman blames Hamas for a likely postponement of the upcoming elections in Gaza. Hanna Nasser, talking to reporters in the central West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday, said […]
Israeli forces detain two Palestinians and nine foreign nationals working on the ‘Green Palestine’ project near the village of Umm Salamoneh south of Beit Lahm (Bethlehem). Ibrahim Awad, the coordinator of the Popular Committee Against […]
A Jewish-American extremist, Jack Teitel, has been charged in Jerusalem Al-Quds district court with 14 counts, including shooting two Palestinians to death. District attorney, Sague Ofir, said it was an "extraordinary" case with regards to […]
Ismail Haniyah cautions about Israeli plans for another military offensive against the Gaza Strip, reiterating that it is not the Islamic Hamas movement that is after a war. Hamas is "not looking for more violence," […]
By Jeff Gates When waging war ‘by way of deception,’ the motto of the Israeli Mossad, well-timed crises play a critical agenda-setting role by displacing facts with what a target population can be deceived to […]
The United Nations’ top human rights official has called for taking punitive measures against Israel over committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay told the Security Council on […]
The leader of the Lebanese group Hezbollah has accused Barack Obama, the US president, of ‘absolute bias’ in favour of Israel and of disregard for the dignity of Arabs and Muslims. In a televised speech […]
Twaneh School in Hebron has seen some improvements since former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair paid it a visit as UN Middle East envoy last year. The track leading from the school to the new […]
The latest attempt by the US president to salvage the Middle East peace talks appears to have come to nothing after his meeting with Israel’s prime minister ended with only a brief statement from the […]
Israel is facing mounting criticism over its continued settlement expansion as Tel Aviv allies see the prospects of peace through a two-state solution vanish into thin air. In a meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah in […]
A prominent leader of the Hamas movement has stated that no one will be sorry about the departure of Mahmoud Abbas from the political stage because he achieved nothing for the Palestinian people. Mahmoud al-Zahar, […]
Efforts to revive Middle East peace talks have so far failed to bear any result, says US Assistant Secretary of State William Burns. "I wish I could stand before you today and point to substantial […]
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington DC Like most of his predecessors, Barack Obama has failed to come up with a logical approach to resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, now in its 62nd year. Many optimists on […]
Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas has threatened to resign because of the impasse in peace negotiations. Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said on Tuesday that if the efforts to revive peace talks that can […]
The deputy director of the Hamas political bureau says the Islamic Resistance Movement is the pulse of the Arab and Islamic nations. This is because Hamas is the main advocate of resistance against Zionist occupation […]
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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