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Month: January 2011
Obama Hesitates as Israeli Bulldozers Demolish
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington, D.C. Hillary Rodham Clinton was quick to rebuke Israel for its demolition of part of the historic Shepherd hotel in occupied Arab East Jerusalem where Jewish settlers are hoping […]
Hamas and Women: Clearing Misconceptions
By Dr. Ahmed Yousef – Gaza Women in every society have a different perception of their respective roles, which are generally molded by social and cultural norms. Evidently in many parts of the world, these […]
The Future of Israel
By C. Hazakyah Hardy-Dia – Haifa, Israel What a country Israel is! The fact that any reputable person anywhere could come to sincerely believe that they have enough evidence to publicly compare Israel, the so […]
Erdogan: Israel Threatens Mideast Stability
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says policies pursued by the Israeli regime greatly undermine peace and stability in the Middle East. In an exclusive interview with Doha-based al-Sharq newspaper on Tuesday, Erdogan said Israeli […]
Israel to Erase Palestinians from al-Quds
In an act violating international laws, Tel Aviv has played a direct role in the demolition of a Palestinian heritage hotel in East al-Quds (Jerusalem), a political expert says. “Israelis have had many racist and […]
Hezbollah to Quit Lebanon Govt. over STL
Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah and its allies have said they will relinquish the Lebanese government unless their demands over the US-backed tribunal investigating the assassination of Rafiq Hariri are met. Lebanese Health Minister Mohamad Jawad […]
‘Israel Humiliating Arab Journalists’
Israeli security forces have barred a pregnant Arab journalist from attending Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s press conference after she refused to undress. Al-Jazeera producer and reporter Najwan Simri Diab said on Wednesday that after enduring […]
Israel Begrudges Palestine Its Fragile Tourism
By Stuart Littlewood- London The Israel lobby here in the UK is creating a storm in an advertising teacup in a bid to throw a spanner in the works of Palestinian tourism The Jerusalem Post […]
Refugee Rights: Saying No Israeli Racism
(The text of a lecture by Professor Ilan Pappe at the Stuttgart Conference – November 2010 – entitled: Supporting the Refugees’ right of return is saying No to Israeli racism.) By Ilan Pappe I begin […]
Breeding Ground
By Chris Moore (Deepak Tripathi. Breeding Ground: Afghanistan and the Origins of Islamist Terrorism. Potomac Books, Washington, DC. 2011) There was once a king whose land was poor and surrounded by rivals. The king struggled […]
EU Envoys in East Jerusalem Call
European Union envoys in the Middle East have urged Brussels to treat East Jerusalem as the future capital of a Palestinian state and severely criticised Israeli polices there, according to a leaked report. In the […]
Israeli Troops Shoot Gaza Farmer
A 65-year old Palestinian farmer has been killed by Israeli troops in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical and security officials say. Adham Abu Selmiya, a spokesman for the Hamas-run medical services, named the farmer […]
Arafat’s Aide: New Information on President’s Death
The special advisor to Yasser Arafat said Monday that he will soon release new information on the death of the late president. In an interview with Ma’an Radio, Bassam Abu Shareef said research conducted by […]
Death by Tear Gas: On West Bank ‘Calm’
By Stephen Lendman Daily accounts can be followed on important sites such as Palestine Chronicle.com, Palestine Telegraph.com, and the Electronic Intifada.net as well as others like Israel’s oldest daily newspaper, Haaretz, available online in English. […]
Demolishing another Jerusalem Landmark
By Jeremy Salt – Ankara Once again Israel demonstrates its contempt for the world. This time the location is the Jerusalem quarter of Sheikh Jarrah and this time the occasion is the demolition of the […]
Wild Woman Laments
By Lillian Rosengarten What is this strange, strange world where children die?Question the killers, dark wars. Suffering everywhere. Callous indifferencedeadened in pursuit of blood on the ground of Palestine stolen from the living.Little screams on […]
Wide Gap of Hypocrisy: Don’t Let Injustice Win
By Marilyn Robinson Federal charges have been filed against Jared Lee Loughner, the suspected gunman in a shooting rampage at a Safeway supermarket in Arizona during a political event that left six dead and 14 […]
Israel Demolishes the Shepherd Hotel
Bulldozers have demolished a hotel in east Jerusalem to make way for a new Israeli settlement, the latest in a wave of new buildings globally seen as an obstacle to the now stalled peace process. […]
Israel Academics to Boycott College
At least 165 Israeli professors have declared a boycott against a contentious college in the occupied West Bank, deepening an internal rift over the expansion of Israeli settlements there. Organisers of the boycott said on […]
Israeli McCarthyism: Have You No Sense of Decency?
By Uri Avnery – Israel Good morning, Joe. At home in the US, your name is mud. But here you can really feel at home. In your time, you succeeded in infecting all of the […]
Chile Recognizes Palestinian State
Chile has become the latest South American country to officially recognize Palestine as an independent state. "The government of Chile has adopted the resolution today recognizing the existence of the state of Palestine as a […]
‘Israel Took Bribes for Gaza Entry’
A US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks indicates that a key Israeli cargo crossing for goods entering the Gaza Strip was rife with corruption, forcing American businesses to pay hefty bribes to Israelis to get […]
A Sleeping Palestinian Killed in Israeli Raid
Israeli troops have shot dead a sleeping Palestinian man during a dawn raid in the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. Family members found Suliman al-Qawasmeh, 66, in a pool of blood in […]
In Ajami, Mas’ha: Evidence of the Continuing Nakba
By Alex Kane – Ramallah, West Bank The Palestinian catastrophe, the Nakba of 1948, never really ended. What happened since then, as Yehouda Shenhav, an Israeli sociologist and the author of Bounded by the Green […]
Israel’s Knesset Targets Leftist Organizations
By Stephen Lendman On January 5, Israel’s Knesset, by a 47-16 vote, approved forming a parliamentary committee to investigate leftist Israeli organizations. Among them, B’Tselem issuing a same day press release headlined, "B’Tselem proud of […]
Israel Warned against New Gaza War
Egypt has voiced its opposition against any Israeli military action against the Gaza Strip, warning a new war could seriously harm stability in the Middle East. The warning came during a meeting between Egyptian President […]
‘Israel to Have Role in US Secret War’
A former US Senate candidate has refused to rule out involvement by Israel in the Washington-waged "secret war on terror groups." The US administration is reportedly ratcheting up offensives around the globe by establishing a […]
Israeli Warplanes Attack Gaza again
Two of the air raids targeted the east of Gaza City and the third airstrike hit an area east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israeli military has not commented on the attack […]
Egypt Allows Iranian Aid to Reach Gaza
Egypt has opened its border with Gaza to humanitarian aid and relief, allowing medical supplies from Iran to be delivered to the besieged enclave through the Rafah border crossing. The Iranian medical supplies are part […]
One Palestine Story at a Time
By Joumana al-Jabri – Beirut There is all the reason for a Palestinian youth to feel distressed, uninspired, bored, angry, depressed, resolved to the status quo. There is even more reason for a Palestinian adult […]