The Israeli army has announced that it would close an Arabic-language radio station broadcast for people residing in Lebanon and Syria, a report says. The report by the Israeli Hebrew-language daily Ma’ariv said the reason […]
By Deepak Tripathi The Wall Street Journal recently carried a speculative article by Ian Tally suggesting a link between the International Monetary Fund’s bailout loans to the European Union’s worst hit economies and sanctions against […]
Reviewed by Jim Miles (The Palestinian Arab In/Outsiders – Media and Conflict in Israel. Mustafa Kabha and Dan Caspi. Vallentine Mitchell, London/Portland, 2011.) ‘The Palestinian Arab In/Outsiders’ is an apparently comprehensive text book on the […]
By William A. Cook A curious glance at the current crop of presidential candidates makes it clear that Ron Paul stands alone when it comes to the issue of US engagement in foreign wars. He […]
By Nath Aldalala’a This is the world of Afghanistan now, a world in which blood blends with urine; Afghanistan reached into this world through the falling of bodies coupled with a fallen dignity. On the […]
By James Gundun – Washington, D.C. Although instrumental in drafting the Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC) power-sharing agreement in Yemen, including an immunity clause for Ali Abdullah Saleh’s extensive family, the Obama administration has advanced the […]
A new European Union (EU) report says Israel’s illegal actions in the Area C of the West Bank are seriously undermining prospects for the establishment of a viable Palestinian state based on pre-1967 borders. The […]
Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has warned that a new military operation on the coastal strip "will be no picnic" for Israel and vowed the territory could stand up to any aggression. Recently returned from […]
By Uri Avnery ‘Shining torch’, in Hebrew, is the literal meaning of the name of our latest political sensation: Ya’ir Lapid. This week, he announced his intention to enter politics and set up a new […]
By Dr. Ismail Salami – Tehran ‘I saw a motorcycle. They were wearing ski masks – black ski masks. They were two people. I saw the motorcycle speed by. I saw them. It seemed as […]
By Richard Lightbown French Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière was in the news again this week when his embarrassing allegations against the President of Rwanda were laid to rest by a French inquiry. The former head of […]
The Israeli Army has been grappling with a series of massive leaks of classified information by its own soldiers through online services, a report says. Israeli Army secrets are beaming around the world, mostly from […]
Israel’s Supreme Court has upheld a controversial law that bans most Palestinians who marry Israelis from obtaining either citizenship or residency in the country. In a six-five ruling, the court agreed that Palestinians who gain Israeli […]
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu party has proposed a bill that would dissolve Arab parties in the Knesset (parliament) if passed into law. On Tuesday, Yisrael Beiteinu member Moshe Matalon submitted the proposal […]
Jordan has agreed to allow an Islamic Jihad delegation to join talks in Amman to discuss the future of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the movement said Thursday. In December, Jordan denied Islamic Jihad delegates visas […]
By Jeremy Salt – Ankara In his speech to university students this week, Bashar al Assad spoke of a conspiracy against Syria. Use another word if you like, but of course there is one. The […]
By Ahmad Barqawi It’s exactly three years ago that 1,417 innocent Palestinians lost their lives in Gaza while the whole world kept silent. And it’s three years ago -to the day- that humanity and everything […]
By Stuart Littlewood The imprisonment and collective punishment inflicted on the civilian population in the overcrowded enclave of Gaza continues without let-up. For example, those whose children were killed or maimed by Israel’s murderous blitzkrieg […]
By Paul Craig Roberts Only the blind do not see that the US government is preparing to attack Iran. According to Professor Michel Chossudovsky, ‘Active war preparations directed against Iran (with the involvement of Israel […]
By Philip Giraldi Back in September 2007 I wrote an article for Antiwar.com called ‘What World War III May Look Like.’ The article, which presumed that an incident involving U.S. troops on the border between […]
The committee tasked with implementing the reconciliation agreement between Hamas and Fatah has finalized all administrative preparations and will begin work immediately, committee head Rabah Mhannah said Wednesday. Speaking to reporters after a committee meeting […]
Israel is preparing to receive Syrian Alawite refugees on the occupied Golan Heights if the Bashar al-Assad government collapses, Israel’s army chief of staff has said. It is the first time that a senior Israeli official […]
Egypt has told Israel it would not be "appropriate" for Israeli pilgrims to make an annual visit to the tomb of a 19th-century Jewish holy man in the Nile Delta, officials say. The Egyptian foreign ministry […]
By Eric Walberg – Cairo ‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’‘The question is,’ said […]
By Ralph Nader The same neocons who persuaded George W. Bush and crew to, in Ron Paul’s inimitable words, ‘lie their way into invading Iraq’ in 2003, are beating the drums of war more loudly these […]
By Vacy Vlazna There is a growing campaign to urge the London Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre to cancel Israel’s Habima Theatre’s performances of ‘The Merchant of Venice’ on 28-29th May 2012 at the Shakespeare Globe to […]
Quartet envoys asked the Israeli Prime Minister to provide "confidence-building measures" to keep Palestinian officials in talks after the end of the month, Israeli media reported on Tuesday. PLO official Saeb Erekat met Israeli envoy […]
New findings by an Israeli organization show the expansion of illegal settlement buildings in the West Bank increased by 19 percent in 2011 compared to the previous year. According to the January 2012 report published by […]
By Ramzy Baroud In the final days of the Libyan conflict, as NATO conducted a nonstop bombing campaign, an Aljazeera Arabic television correspondent’s actions raised more than eyebrows. They also raised serious questions regarding the […]
By Lillian Rosengarten I have such a problem with Zionism today, some kind of distorted incarnation of what was once created from the ashes of the Holocaust to be a safe haven for Jews within […]
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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