A large number of Palestinian people have participated in the funeral of five Palestinians who were killed by an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip. Hundreds of people attended the funeral in Deir-al Balah in […]
Turkey has summoned the Israeli envoy to protest a deal between Tel Aviv and Cyprus over "economic rights in the Mediterranean," officials and media reports say. Turkish Foreign Ministry summoned Ambassador Gaby Levy on Thursday, […]
Arab countries will submit a draft resolution to the UN, protesting Israel’s defiant construction of illegal settlements on the occupied Palestinian lands. Nabil Shaath, a Palestinian negotiator said on Saturday that the draft would be […]
By Uri Avnery The expression ‘Ship of Fools’ was used by a Swiss theologian 515 years ago as the title of a book harshly criticizing the Catholic church of his day. Its licentiousness, he foresaw, […]
By Sama Adnan As House Resolution 1765, formerly 1731 and 1734, passed in the House by a voice vote enjoining the Obama administration to oppose a unilateral Palestinian declaration of independence, the peace camp looked […]
By Yves Engler – Ottawa Last week, Canada’s House of Commons unanimously passed a private member’s bill to establish a national Holocaust monument. While it is a good thing to commemorate the suffering of Jews […]
By George Polley (A Doctor in Galilee: The Life and Struggle of a Palestinian in Israel. Hatim Kanaaneh. Foreword by Jonathan Cook. Pluto Press, 2008) Hatim Kanaaneh is the kind of physician I enjoyed working […]
By Stephen Lendman A November 10 Qatar News Agency article headlined, "Israel Plans to Rebuild Old Jerusalem – Palestinian Official," stated: Attorney Ahmed Al-Ruwaidi, "responsible for the Jerusalem unit in the Palestinian Authority (PA), said […]
Arab foreign ministers have said there will be no more negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis unless the United States makes a "serious offer" for resolving the conflict. "The negotiation track between the Palestinians and […]
By Ramzy Baroud When a copy of William A. Cook’s latest book, The Plight of the Palestinians arrived in my mailbox, I initially felt a little worried. The volume, featuring the work of over 30 […]
International activists are to reach Gaza next year under the banner of Freedom Flotilla II after a first such fleet came under a deadly Israeli attack. The seaborne convoy is to sail to the beleaguered […]
A European Union prosecutor who says Israel has been trading with an elaborate organ trafficking network in Kosovo has brought the case to Pristina District Court, a report says. Jonathan Ratel, who serves in Kosovo […]
Despite rejecting US calls for extending a partial settlement freeze on the occupied Palestinian territories, Israel is still looking to acquire another 20 US-built F-35 fighter jets free of charge. Earlier in November, the United […]
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington, D.C. When President Barack Obama described the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives in the mid-term elections last month as a “shellacking,” he was praised for his outright admission […]
By Jonathan Cook – Katzir The pretty two-storey home with a red-tiled roof built by Adel and Iman Kaadan looks no different from the rows of other houses in Katzir, a small hilltop community in northern […]
By Tammy Obeidallah ‘Stop criticizing us—just look at how your own kind treats you.’ This cliché, so often sneered by Israelis and their apologists, attempts to downplay the occupation of Palestine and to make Palestinians […]
By Iqbal Jassat – Pretoria Noam Chomsky calls it one of the most humiliating moments in US diplomatic history. Sam Bahour refers to it as a dead end. Both are referring to President Obama’s pathetic […]
Israel has barred a group of Palestinian firefighters from attending a ceremony where they were to be honoured for their help in battling a deadly forest fire last week. At least 10 Palestinians were invited […]
Foreign ministers from the European Union have said they would recognise a Palestinian state "when appropriate". The ministers’ declaration on Monday followed a call from Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, for the […]
Tens of thousands of Hamas supporters have filled the streets of Gaza City in a mass rally to boost support for the Palestinian resistance group on its 23rd anniversary. Cars and buildings were adorned in […]
Israel’s ambassador to the US has said that settlement building has never been an obstacle to making peace, just days after Washington ended attempts to push the Israelis into extending a moratorium on building the […]
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has made clear that comments by the country’s defence minister, in favour of dividing Jerusalem between Israelis and Arabs were not the policy of the Israeli government. "Ehud Barak’s […]
The leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel has been released from prison after serving a five-month prison sentence. Raed Salah was convicted of assault in July for an incident that took place in 2007 […]
Two Palestinians have been killed and an Israeli soldier wounded in an exchange of gunfire near the border of the Gaza Strip with Israel. The Israeli army said in a statement that the two Palestinians […]
By William A. Cook Philip Crowley, speaking for the State Department, seemed to imply a new beginning for the US as it halted the peace negotiations it had started last May, when he noted there […]
By Ludwig Watzal – Bonn Last week, the German-Israeli human rights lawyer, Felicia Langer celebrated her 80th birthday in the German town of Tuebingen. Ms Langer was born in Poland. When Nazi-Germany attacked Poland in […]
By Dr. Ahmed Yousef – Gaza Since the creation of Hamas in 1987, its election through the Change and Reform bloc in 2006, and the failed Fatah-led coup attempt in 2007 that left it and […]
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan On September 9, 1993, Yasser Arafat, the PLO chief, signed a letter addressed to Yitzhak Rabin accepting UN Security Council resolutions 242 and 338 and recognizing the right of Israel to […]
By The Elders For nearly two decades, there have been peace processes in the Middle East but no peace. In our recent visits to four countries across the region and the occupied Palestinian territory, we […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London Rarely do I enter a church unless it’s to admire the medieval architecture, a soaring testament to man’s faith in a more dangerous and uncertain age. One reason being that […]
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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