A Palestinian detained by Israel, Khader Adnan, has agreed to end his 66-day hunger strike as part of a deal under which he will be released without charge, sources tell Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera’s Nisreen El-Shamayleh, […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the recent revolutions in the Arab world have put pressure on Israel’s security and defense efforts. Addressing the 38th Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (19-23 February) […]
Israeli forces detained three Palestinians in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Tuesday, after clashes broke out when two groups of Israelis toured the holy site. Witnesses told Ma’an that eight Israelis and a group of […]
By Yousef M. Aljamal – Gaza, Palestine For the 7th week in row, the Center for Political and Development Studies, (CPDS) – a Gaza based think-tank – held a lecture via Skype with Palestinian and […]
Reviewed by Jim Miles (The Unmaking of Israel. Gershom Gorenberg. Harper Collins, New York. 2011) Many recent works are reflecting an internal crisis within Israel, part of which is the increased power of the ultra-Orthodox Jews within […]
By Josh Ruebner Speaking before students at Northern Virginia Community College on February 13, President Obama unveiled his 2013 budget request, in which he proposed "some difficult cuts that, frankly, I wouldn’t normally make if […]
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By Eugene Sigaloff ‘Jewish life is going on here in Hebron, and there’sNothing you, or anybody, can do about it!’A settler’s words,Pugnacious words,Stiff-necked words,Words behind a gun,Words holding all the cards,Mean words,Hostile words,Full of spite,Full […]
An energy crisis is currently hitting the Gaza Strip’s public services hard and could lead to a severe humanitarian crisis if a sustainable solution is not found soon. “If the power plant does not resume […]
The United States and Britain have urged Israel against any military action against Iran and its nuclear programme, after Iranian warships passed through the Suez Canal to dock at the Syrian port of Tartous, ratchetting […]
Israel’s security apparatus, Shin Bet, has prevented head of a Palestinian Human Rights organization, al-Haq, from leaving Israel to attend a UN meeting. Director-General of al-Haq organization Shawan Jabarin was set to attend a UN […]
By Stuart Littlewood In an interview with The Daily Telegraph Britain’s Foreign Secretary, William Hague, claims that Iran is threatening to spark a nuclear arms race in the Middle East which could be more dangerous […]
By Sam Bahour Hamas, the Palestinian ‘Islamic Resistance Movement,’ is on the move. Hamas is leaving Syria, where it has been based until now, making a pit stop in Jordan to mend affairs with King […]
By Deepak Tripathi The bombing of an Israeli embassy car in Delhi threatens India’s diplomatic maneuvers between Israel and Iran, and has put India’s discreetly nurtured ties with Israel since 1992 through a severe test. […]
By Gilad Atzmon Israeli Ynet admitted today that an Israeli air force attack on Iran is unrealistic. The Israeli paper quoted a New York Times article that described such an attack as ‘highly complex operation’. It […]
Several thousand Palestinians have rallied in Gaza and the West Bank in support of jailed Islamic Jihad leader Khader Adnan, who is on the 63rd day of a hunger strike to protest against his detention […]
By Jamil Toubbeh ‘Obsession with Israel’ is akin to wearing the Stars and Stripes on one’s lapel; while both may be symbols of commitments to causes, the causes, by virtue of their uniqueness, are rarely […]
By Ron Forthofer Madeleine Albright, former U.S. ambassador to the UN and former Secretary of State in the Clinton administration, once asked General Colin Powell, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: "What’s the […]
A Palestinian prisoner, who is on his 61st day of hunger strike in Israeli detention, is in immediate danger of death, according to a medical report issued in an effort to secure his release. Thirty-three-year-old […]
Five-year-old Muhammad escaped the deadly crash of his school bus near Qalandiya on Thursday, but he cannot shake off the images of his classmates as the vehicle caught fire. "We were shouting, dancing and singing […]
An independent United Nations human rights expert today added his voice to the concerns expressed about the health of a Palestinian detainee who has been on a hunger strike for almost two months. Khader Adnan […]
By Matt Buckley Rundle Mall is an open-air shopping mall in the heart of the Australian city of Adelaide. It has shops, cafes, a tavern and sculptures. On any given day in Rundle Mall one […]
By Uri Avnery After the founding of Israel, God appeared to David Ben-Gurion and told him: ‘you have created a state for my chosen people in my holy land. This merits a great reward. Tell […]
A truck lost control in slick, rainy weather and barreled into a Palestinian school bus on Thursday, killing seven children and a teacher and drawing hundreds of people to a West Bank hospital in an […]
Four people have been injured in two airstrikes conducted by Israeli warplanes on areas in the north and center of the blockaded Gaza Strip, Press TV reports. The attacks were carried out during early hours […]
The prime minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, on Thursday arrived in the coastal enclave after his second tour which included Qatar, Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iran, and Egypt. Haniyeh said that some of the countries offered […]
By Eric Walberg – Cairo Salafist (excuse me, ‘deeply Catholic’) Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum appears back in the race for chief elephant after trouncing Mitt Romney in Minnesota and Colorado. But beware: Minnesotans are […]
Reporters Without Borders on Wednesday condemned violence used by Israel against photojournalists covering demonstrations against Israel’s West Bank barrier. Reporters Without Borders "deplores the total impunity enjoyed by the soldiers responsible for these abuses," the […]
Mumin Najar drags open the massive door to the goods depot of his father’s furniture factory, the Modern Industrial Group, in Rafah in the Gaza Strip. “Everything you see here is waiting to be sold […]
By Ramzy Baroud While top officials representing rival Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, signed yet another unity agreement on February 6 in Doha, Qatar, Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan crossed the 50-day mark of his hunger […]
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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