By Tammy Obeidallah Two dictators gone in less than a month. Mass protests from Yemen and Bahrain to Algeria and Libya. In Lebanon, Hezbollah—due to a broad coalition of Muslim, Christian and now Druze support—named […]
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has slammed the US for vetoing a UN Security Council resolution condemning illegal settlement activities by Israel on occupied Palestinian territories. "It is a devastating blow to the […]
The United States has vetoed a UN resolution that would have condemned "illegal" settlements on the occupied Palestinian territories. The US cast two vetoes in 2006 when the council tried to pass Arab-backed resolutions that […]
The Israeli naval forces plan to enforce Tel Aviv’s claim over sea-based gas resources off Israel, including one belonging to Lebanon and another, which extends into the country’s waters. The resources, including Lebanon’s Tamar field, […]
By James Petras One of the least analyzed aspects of the Egyptian pro-democracy movement and US policy toward it, is the role of the influential Zionist power configuration (ZPC) including the leading umbrella organization – […]
By Stephen Lendman On February 18, as expected, Washington vetoed a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements as illegal under international law. The vote: 14 yes, America the sole no, isolating the US and […]
Bu Uri Avnery – Israel This is a story right out of ‘1001 Nights’. The genie escaped from the bottle, and no power on earth can put it back. When it happened in Tunisia, it […]
By Mamoon Alabbasi – London The revolution in Egypt came in spite of (or because of) a long-standing US backing of the dictatorship there. It was clear from the beginning that the protestors were united […]
By Jim Miles ‘US vetoes UN vote on settlements.’ — Al-Jazeera, Friday, February 18, 2011 It is common within early U.S. history to describe the communications from the white settlers to the indigenous population as […]
Thousands of Palestinians have rallied in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank calling for unity between the Hamas and Fatah factions. One of the protesters in Thursday’s demonstration told Reuters Television that the time had […]
A military court in Lebanon has sentenced a man to death after finding him guilty of spying for Israel’s intelligence service, Mossad. According to the charge sheet, Amin Ibrahim al-Baba, a Lebanese, was convicted of […]
The US is pressuring acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas to withdraw Palestine’s appeal to the UN Security Council (UNSC) for condemning Israeli settlement constructions, a senior official says. Azzam al-Ahmed, a member of Abbas […]
Israeli soldiers near Gaza border Israeli troops have shot and killed three Palestinian men who were trying to pass the border zone in the northern Gaza Strip, medical sources say. The medics said they recovered […]
A human rights group has blamed Israel for violating the rights of Palestinian patients leaving Gaza for medical treatment by intensifying interrogations against them. Data collected by al-Meezan Center for Human Rights and its international […]
Turkish President Abdullah Gul says world leaders are urging Israel to lift its blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has caused a serious humanitarian crisis there. “The blockade going on Gaza is not a legitimate […]
By Ramzy Baroud Now that the Egyptian people have finally wrestled their freedom from the hands of a very stubborn regime, accolades to the revolution are pouring in from all directions. Even those who initially […]
By Shafiq Morton – Cape Town It has been many years since I last attended the State of the Nation address at Parliament in Cape Town, South Africa. And on this sultry February afternoon as […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London ‘The Government are a friend to both Israelis and Palestinians,’ UK foreign secretary William Hague, a dedicated Israel fan, told Parliament this week. "We are calling for both sides to […]
By Nicola Nasser The international Quartet of the US, EU, UN and Russia on Middle East peace and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) seem set on an agenda that perceives September 2011 as an historical […]
Opinion polls indicate Palestinians’ support for the recent revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, and a failure of Western efforts to portray the uprisings as secular. A survey conducted by the Arab World for Research and […]
The municipal council of al-Quds (Jerusalem) has approved the construction of 120 new illegal Israeli settler units in the occupied West Bank. The buildings, whose construction received the go-ahead on Monday, are to pop up […]
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington, D.C. There were many memorable episodes in the glorious Egyptian Revolution, recorded in photos or on the Internet, that are bound to remain in memory of most people for many […]
The UN Security Council (UNSC) is to vote on a resolution that calls for a cessation of Israeli settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories. “A vote will be held on the resolution, filed by […]
By Jim Miles (Gaza in Crisis – Reflections on Israel’s War Against the Palestinians. Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe. Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2010.) When two of the most informed academics in the world collaborate on […]
Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah has downplayed Israel’s latest threat of invasion, saying Tel Aviv will pay a heavy price if it imposes another war on Lebanon. Addressing a gathering marking the group’s martyrs’ day […]
By Steve Breyman The Arab uprisings present US foreign policymakers with their greatest opportunity for a decisive shift in direction since 1989. Will they seize it? Unfortunately for the peoples of the former Soviet Union […]
By Ralph Nader Colman McCarthy, a former Washington Post writer and founder of the Center for Teaching Peace, must be very happy with the news from Egypt. For twenty-five years, McCarthy has been persuading high […]
By Mohamed El Mokhtar It felt sometimes quite depressing, and indeed demeaning, to be an Arab, living or going to school in America, during the Second Intifada, and hear ad nauseum the same old refrain […]
By Brian Napoletano Imperial conquests have always had their ideological justifications. Even in earlier ages, exterminating a people, exploiting their resources, stealing their lands, and enslaving their children were generally non-starters when it came to […]
By James Petras The mass movements which forced the removal of Mubarak reveal both the strength and weaknesses of spontaneous uprisings. On the one hand, the social movements demonstrated their capacity to mobilize hundreds of […]
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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