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Month: September 2012
PLO: 18 Palestinians Killed in Damascus
At least 18 Palestinians were killed Thursday and their bodies displayed publicly in Damascus, PLO officials in the capital’s largest refugee camp said. The PLO office in Yarmouk said the Syrian regime "committed a massacre" […]
Israeli Airstrike Kills Two in Gaza
An Israeli airstrike on a vehicle has killed two Palestinian security officials and critically wounded another in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said. The Israeli military confirmed it had launched an airstrike in Gaza on […]
Not a Gaffe, but the Real Romney
By Ralph Nader There was something missing from the release of a tape showing Mitt Romney pandering to fat cats in Boca Raton, Florida with these very inflammatory words: “There are 47 percent who are with […]
West Braces for Clash of Cultures
By Ismail Salami With the publication of the profane pictures of the holy Prophet of Islam in Charlie Hebdo magazine, the West seems to be consciously moving in a direction where chaos will dominate the […]
Has David Miliband Changed His Spots?
By Stuart Littlewood Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) has been providing vital help to vulnerable Palestinian communities ever since the Sabra and Shatila massacre 30 years ago. Eyebrows therefore shot up when MAP announced that […]
Who Gains from Anti-Islam Film?
By Jamal Kanj Zionist and right wing Christian evangelists exploit US freedom of speech by fuelling sedition and hate between two great religions. On the other hand, right wing religious elements are manipulating Muslims’ righteous […]
Report: Abbas Intends to Quit
President Mahmoud Abbas has instructed officials to "look for a new president," a Palestinian official told Saudi newspaper al-Watan. Abbas reportedly made the announcement at a meeting of faction leaders in Ramallah. "You have 10 […]
Sabra and Shatila
By Francis Oeser Ruinous walls define a simple street – a place for donkeys, the calls of walkers selling wares, a place banded by bars of sunshine and shadow. But all is changed. See a […]
Justice for All: Alexander Cockburn, Palestine, and US Media
By Alison Weir Longtime journalist Alexander Cockburn passed away on July 21st, an enormous loss. Cockburn was a brilliant, witty, and courageous opponent of falsehoods and injustice. He stood on the side of the oppressed, […]
Palestinian Hunger Strikers ‘Close to Death’
One of three long-term Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli detention has been moved to a hospital intensive care unit suffering from a drop in blood sugar, a spokeswoman for the Ramallah-based Palestinian Prisoners Club has […]
Abbas Tells Egypt Only 1 Palestinian Representative
PA President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday urged the Egyptians to deal only with one representative of the Palestinian people, either the PLO or the Palestinian Authority. During a meeting in his office in Ramallah with […]
Charity Economics, Subservient Politics: Why Oslo Must Go
By Ramzy Baroud Recent demonstrations in protest of the rising cost of living have swept across the West Bank. While they are not indicative of a Palestinian version of the ‘Arab Spring’, they are still […]
The Struggle for Rachel Corrie’s Legacy
By Patrick O. Strickland – Ramallah Two weeks ago, an Israeli court ruled that the death of Rachel Corrie, a Palestinian solidarity activist crushed by an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) armored bulldozer in Gaza in […]
The Post-Gaddafi Libya is Not Real
By Jen Alic – Washington People often ask me why the West doesn’t attempt a Libya-style intervention in Syria. After all, things are going so well in Libya. Oil production is up. But oil production […]
Hot Palestinian Summer
By Yacov Ben Efrat We can relax: the disturbances in the Occupied Territories appear to have subsided, and the would-be third Intifada may have skipped over 2012 as it did over 2011. Back then it […]
Gaza Court Convicts 4 Men in Murder of Vittori Arrigoni
An appeals court in the Gaza Strip on Monday convicted four Palestinians of the killing of Italian peace activist Vittori Arrigoni in 2011. The court sentenced Mahmoud Salfiti, 23, and Tamer Hasasna, 25, to life […]
Galahs in Canberra parrot Hasbara
By Vacy Vlazna ‘These matters do not in any way detract from our overall position – that we fiercely, unequivocally, strongly oppose BDS.’ — Bob Carr, Foreign Minister of Australia, 13 September 2012. On reading, Baroud’s […]
Israeli PM Demands US ‘Red Line’ on Iran
The gap between Israeli and American perspectives on Iran appeared to widen on Sunday as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu insisted on a "red line" from Washington, claiming Tehran is "90 per cent" finished developing a […]
Israel Lobby of Germany: Targeting Judith Butler
By Ludwig Watzal – Bonn Smear campaigns against people who do not follow the narrowly defined, politically correct, rhetoric concerning the permanent violations of human rights and Israel’s brutal oppression of the Palestinian people are […]
The Massacre at Sabra and Shatila, Thirty Years Later
By Sonja Karkar It happened thirty years ago – 16 September 1982. A massacre so awful that people who know about it cannot forget it. The photos are gruesome reminders – charred, decapitated, indecently violated […]
Red Cross Warns Hunger Strikers Risk Death
The International Committee of the Red Cross on Friday warned that three Palestinian hunger strikers were at risk of death in Israeli jail. Samer al-Barq is on his 116th day of renewed hunger strike, Hassan […]
Turkey’s Syrian Misadventure
By Jeremy Salt – Ankara Turkey’s intervention in Syria has been an act of unprecedented folly. Not since the republic was established in 1923 – not even when the military was in charge – has a […]
Protest in Ramallah
By Uri Avnery Visiting Ramallah in the West Bank after an absence of several months, I was again amazed by the ongoing building activity. Everywhere new high-rise buildings are going up, and many of them […]
The Wind and the Sun – And Netanyahu
By William A. Cook Aesop tells the story of the North Wind and the Sun: who is the stronger? They chose a traveler to test their strength; which of the two could force him to […]
O Sabra and Shatila
By Stephen Brackens-Brinkley (In memory of people killed in the Sabra and Shatila by Lebanese Christian Phalangists and by the Israeli government. This happened in September 16 to 18, 1982.) O Sabra and Shatila, I bear […]
Palestinian Leaders Call for ‘Liberation’ from Oslo
Palestinian leaders on Thursday called for release from the Oslo Accords, on the 19th anniversary of the signing of the agreements. The accords, signed Sept. 13, 1993, were meant to be an interim agreement leading […]
Sinister September: Zionist Anti-Islam Plot Simmering
By Ismail Salami – Tehran The month of September has witnessed an accelerated trend of coordinated attempts to desecrate Islam and tarnish the image of the Muslims across the globe. That a blasphemous movie desecrating […]
The Pope and the Palestinians
By Franklin Lamb – Shatila Refugee Camp, Lebanon The only time this observer recalls Yassir Arafat ever becoming frustrated with the late American journalist Janet Stevens, whom he adored as a daughter, was during a visit […]
21st Century Robotic Wars
By Jamal Kanj On the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a new ‘sanitized war’ is reshaping the future of America’s military industrial complex. The drones, or the new robotic war, is operated by […]