By George S. Hishmeh – Washington, D.C. The Jasmine Revolution, as the popular and unarmed Tunisian uprising that ousted the corrupt and autocratic president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, is known, will go down in history as […]
By Stephen Lendman Merriam-Webster defines racism as ‘a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.’ It was the […]
Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, has reaffirmed recognition of a Palestinian state, saying Moscow will not change the position adopted by the former Soviet Union when it recognised independence for Palestinians in 1988. "Russia’s position […]
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan The accomplishments of the Palestinian Authority (PA) since the signing of the Oslo Accords agreements can only be described as a national tragedy. Gaza is under Israeli and international crippling blockade; […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Ehud Barak, Israel’s defence minister, appears to have driven the final nail in the coffin of the Zionist left with his decision to split from the Labor party and create […]
Children in Gaza are coming under regular gunfire from Israeli soldiers while scavenging in the ruins of buildings bombed during the Israeli invasion of Gaza in 2009, a new Save the Children report has warned. […]
Ehud Barak, the Israeli defence minister, has said that he is leaving his Labour party to form a new political party called Independence. "We have presented a request to the Knesset to recognise us as […]
By Kim Bullimore On Tuesday, the Israeli military demolished the dreams of a family of five in the Palestinian village of Azzoun Atma. At 8.30am, on January 11, more than 100 Israeli soldiers surrounded their […]
By Basil Abdelkarim While flipping through channels on television last week, I ran across an episode of Friends, the long running hit NBC sitcom (1994-2004), which grabbed my attention. In this episode from 2004, paleontologist […]
(An Open Letter to Sandy Berger and Stephen Hadley) By William A. Cook Let me introduce myself lest you discard a letter from someone you do not know. I am a citizen of this nation […]
Two South African groups have launched a move to get an arrest warrant issued against Tzipi Livni, the chairperson of Israel’s Kadima party, during a visit to the country next week, Israeli media have said. […]
Recent media reports have raised fears that Israel is planning another war on Gaza under the pretext that rockets have been fired into southern Israel. The reports suggest that Tel Aviv is planning to launch […]
It is 1pm and the terminal building on the Palestinian side of Gaza’s only crossing into Egypt – Rafah – is empty. The desks at passport control are not even manned. Outside the terminal, a […]
By Franklin Lamb – Beirut, Lebanon ‘In case no one has noticed, the Obama administration just gifted Lebanon to Iran. Washington earlier presented Iraq, Afghanistan, the Gulf, and Pakistan. Could it be clearer that Iran’s […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel Lebanon is in crisis. And what is new? Since the founding of the state, 90 years ago, the word ‘crisis’ has been inseparably linked with its name. But from the […]
By Robin Yassin-Kassab (Written on the night of January 14th, 2011) The dictator, thief and Western client Zein al-Abdine Ben Ali, beloved until a few hours ago in Paris and Washington, has been driven from […]
By Alison Weir There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it’s the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona […]
By Stephen Lendman Salam Fayyad is the appointed Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. His resume includes a University of Texas economics Ph.D., a teaching position at Jordan’s Yarmouk University, and […]
Palestinians have clashed with Israeli police in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan, in the latest flaring of tensions in the area. Youths threw stones at Israeli police in riot gear, who shot tear gas […]
A wide-open strike by Israeli Foreign Ministry workers may cancel German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s planned visit to Tel Aviv, an Israeli official has announced. Foreign Ministry’s union of employees spokesman Yaakov Livne said on Thursday […]
Guyana has joined a Latin American campaign of recognizing Palestine as an independent state, showing its commitment to Palestinians, says the country’s Foreign Ministry. "It is Guyana’s hope that the increasing recognition of the state […]
Turkey’s prime minister has called for the ousting of Avigdor Lieberman before the far-right Israeli foreign minister causes more political waves. Speaking to the Qatar-based news channel Al Jazeera on Wednesday, Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip […]
Lebanon’s army says 14 Israeli war planes have breached the country’s airspace in a flagrant violation of a United Nations Security Council resolution. An army statement said on Thursday that the Israeli aircraft entered Lebanon’s […]
Israeli forces have demolished almost an entire village in the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron), leaving hundreds of Palestinians displaced. At least 300 Palestinians were left homeless after Israeli bulldozers, backed by several […]
By Ramzy Baroud Deepak Tripathi’s most recent book, Breeding Ground: Afghanistan and the Origins of Islamist Terrorism (Potomac Books) raises several issues, both within and outside of its content. It is based on research for […]
By Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh After I finished my last book on popular resistance in Palestine over the past 130 years, I became certain that political Zionism will fail and that Palestinian refugees will return to […]
By Yves Engler Canada’s tax system currently subsidizes Israeli settlements that Ottawa deems illegal, however, the Conservative government says there’s nothing that can be done about it. In June of last year, Guelph activist Dan […]
By Ali Younes When Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri met with president Obama on Wednesday, the meeting was read by the opposition in Beirut as part of an American plan to press for the Special […]
By Neve Gordon – Israel Imagine a college student returning to her university after spending Christmas break at home. At the airport she logs on to the Internet to double check some of the sources […]
By Nicola Nasser – Bir Zeit, West Bank Suddenly, the U. S.-European alliance is acting to protect the ‘existence’ of the Christian Arab minority against the Muslim Arab majority whose very existence is besieged and […]
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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