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Month: May 2011
Israel Approves Nearly 300 Settlement Units
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has approved the construction of 294 new illegal Jewish settler units in the occupied Palestinian land. The units are to go up in the Beitar Ilit settlement in the occupied West […]
Israel Approves Nearly 300 Settlement Units
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has approved the construction of 294 new illegal Jewish settler units in the occupied Palestinian land. The units are to go up in the Beitar Ilit settlement in the occupied West […]
Join the One State Initiative Share
Many people of good faith yearn for a future that is a joint democratic pluralistic state that encompasses all of the historic land of Palestine (currently the political entities of the apartheid State of Israel […]
Netanyahu: No Return to 1967 Borders
Israel is prepared to make "generous" concessions for peace in the Middle East, but cannot go back to the country’s "indefensible" 1967 borders, Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu said after White House talks with Barack […]
Demonstrations in the Arab World: Reason for Introspection
By Jamil Toubbeh As the sand settles on few demonstrations in the Arab world, Arab leaders and political analysts are busily assessing their long-term impact on Arab societies while their counterparts in the Western world […]
Fragments: The Nakba Day at Qalandiya
By Tamar Fleishman The smell is the first to attack the senses with a mixture of sting and sweetness that penetrates all the channels of the face. Pillars of smoke and gas rose above the […]
Palestinians: Last Victims of the Holocaust
By Lillian Rosengarten Where is the heart of the Jewish soul? Soul as ethical compassion, the Jewish spirit as it struggled to survive the darkest nightmare of Nazi racial laws. How do the first and […]
Let Obama Be Clear, But Can He?
By Lina Sawan When Hillary Clinton introduced Barack Obama’s long-awaited speech on Middle East policy to the State Department on Thursday May 19, her introduction pinpointed the purpose of the highly-anticipated speech, or what may […]
Qalqiliya: A Day at the Zoo
By Stephen Williams It’s the little things that distinguish the longest military occupation in modern history; the minor inconveniences, the trivial acts of spite, the Kafkaesque bureaucracy, its sheer silliness. There we were, a Palestinian […]
Israeli Troops Shoot Gazan Protesters
Israeli troops have opened fire on Palestinian demonstrators in the besieged Gaza Strip, injuring several anti-occupation protesters. Hundreds of Palestinians and pro-Palestinian activists were holding an anti-Israeli march near the border fence when the shooting […]
Abbas Calls Meeting to Discuss Obama Speech
President Mahmoud Abbas has called an urgent meeting following US President Barack Obama’s speech on the Middle East on Thursday, a PLO official said. Saeb Erekat said Abbas appreciated Obama’s efforts to reach a comprehensive […]
The Palestinians’ Existential Struggle
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan The US media intentionally missed an opportunity to provide its public with insightful analysis to the essence of the Palestinian refugees peaceful demonstrations to commemorate the Nakbah ‘catastrophe’. The US media […]
Why Does Saban Support Arab Spring?
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Unity is Not Compromise: Towards a Real Palestinian Strategy
By Ramzy Baroud As the Palestine Papers demonstrated, the major obstacle to a real, lasting and just peace in Palestine is the Israeli leadership’s unwillingness to accept anything less than full domination over the Palestinians. […]
Obama Seeks Palestine State on 1967 Borders
Barack Obama, the US president, has laid out his vision for the Middle East and North Africa during a key speech in Washington. On the issue of Palestine, Obama said: "The borders of Israel and […]
WHO Condemns Occupation’s Effect on Health Sector
The caretaker Minister of Health said a new victory was chalked at the World Health Organization’s 64th assembly this week, when the body passed a resolution condemning the effects of Israel’s occupation on Palestinian health […]
Israel OK’s over 1,500 New Settler Units
Israel has once again defied international law by approving the construction of over 1,500 more illegal settlement units on occupied territories of Palestine, a report says. Israel’s Interior Ministry Planning Committee has given the final […]
Some Questions for Bibi
By Philip Giraldi Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in the United States today for a much anticipated visit. He will do a little fund-raising, will speak before Congress and at the American Israel Public […]
Nakba Protests: A Taste of the Future
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth They are extraordinary scenes. Film shot on mobile phones captured the moment on Sunday when at least 1,000 Palestinian refugees marched across no-man’s land to one of the most heavily protected […]
U.S. Was Warned about Nakba
By Dallas Darling Even alleged terrorists have authentic grievances, obvious truths that cannot be denied in regards to state-sponsored terrorism. This ancient certainty was again revealed when Israeli soldiers shot and massacred over twenty Palestinian […]
Israel Unblocks Palestinian Funds
The Palestinian Authority is due to receive tax revenue funds withheld by Israel since Palestinian factions agreed a unity deal earlier this month, according to Israeli officials. Approximately $86m in tax and customs revenues from […]
UN: Israel Displaced 149 Palestinian Children in 2011
Israel’s policy of demolishing Palestinian homes has displaced 149 children in the West Bank so far this year, figures from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees show. Between January and April, Israel destroyed at least […]
We Will Never Recognize Israel: Hamas
Hamas’ Deputy Foreign Minister Ghazi Hamad says the major Palestinian faction will never recognize Israel, despite its recent unity deal with the Palestinian Authority. “Hamas still believes that Palestine belongs to the Palestinians. Hamas will […]
Palestinian State: Can the UN be Trusted?
By Stuart Littlewood One of Hamas’s top men, Mahmoud al-Zahar, says he doesn’t trust the United Nations to hand statehood to the Palestinians. Dr al-Zahar notes that Bush promised an independent state and Obama can’t […]
Security Forces Fire on Cairo ‘Nakba’ Rally
At least 353 people were injured, one of them critically, when Egyptian security forces attacked a pro-Palestine demonstration outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo on Sunday night, according to witnesses and the Health Ministry. Activists […]
The Nakba, in Human Terms
By Sonja Karkar The Nakba is the Palestinian catastrophe. It means upheaval, violence and cataclysmic loss; it describes the terror, which drove almost one million people out of their homeland, as well as the perpetual […]
Palestinians Killed in ‘Nakba’ Clashes
Several people have been killed and scores others wounded in the Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, Ras Maroun in Lebanon and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, as Palestinians mark the "Nakba", or day of "catastrophe". The Nakba […]
Stay Human Convoy: Dispatches from Gaza
By Stay Human Convoy Everywhere in the world, the sea evokes the universal feeling of an endless expanse of water that stretches out to the horizon, as far as the naked eye can see…bearing evocations […]
Arrests as Palestinians Prepare to Mark Nakba
Several people have reportedly been arrested following clashes in Jerusalem as Palestinians gear up to mark the 63rd anniversary of the "Nakba", or "day of catastrophe". Every year Palestinians commemorate what they call "Nakba Day", […]
Two Seriously Injured in Nabi Saleh
A US citizen sustained head injuries and an Israeli protester’s arm was broken on Friday as Israeli forces violently shut down a rally in Nabi Saleh, activists said. An American was rushed to hospital for […]