By Hasan Afif El-Hasan The post-colonial societies everywhere have been fascinated with the military, maybe because the first and last encounter of the post-colonial societies with the colonizing power had been a struggle against its […]
By Ahmad Barqawi Their ambivalent stance was not enough, for no middle ground is safe in the Syrian war. No middle ground to be found there anyway. And the worst thing that could happen to […]
Israeli forces injured five Palestinian protesters with rubber-coated steel bullets and caused dozens more to suffer from excessive tear gas inhalation as they dispersed protests across the West Bank on Friday. The weekly protests against […]
By Uri Avnery In the middle of the 70s, Ariel Sharon asked me to arrange something for him – a meeting with Yasser Arafat. A few days before, the Israeli media had discovered that I […]
By Dr. Ludwig Watzal Neoconservatives and Zionist lobbyists from the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and their allies on Capitol Hill driven by the right-wing Israeli government are trying everything to sabotage the agreement […]
Seven Palestinian refugees were killed and dozens injured late Thursday in a bombing that targeted Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus. The head of the Omari Battalion, a Free Syrian Army militant group, told Ma’an that […]
Palestinian film, Omar, has been nominated for an Oscar, making it the second-ever film from Palestine to compete for the prestigious film award. The nomination came on Thursday morning when it was announced that it […]
Palestinian medical sources say four children and a woman were injured in an Israeli raid on the occupied Gaza Strip after rockets were at Israel. The five Palestinian civilians were hit by shrapnel but their […]
By Felicity Arbuthnot – London A “devastating” two hundred and fifty page document: “The Responsibility of UK Officials for War Crimes Involving Systematic Detainee Abuse in Iraq from 2003-2008”, has been “presented to the International […]
By Omar Shaban Statements of “solidarity” with Palestinian refugees in Yarmouk are emerging one after the other. Albeit very late as it took some groups 200 days to assemble the courage to announce to the […]
Israeli authorities on Wednesday agreed to free two Palestinian Jerusalemites on the condition that they be deported from Jerusalem, a prisoners’ committee spokesman said. Amjad Abu Asab, a spokesman for a committee that represents Jerusalemite […]
Jewish settlers are suspected of setting fire to a mosque’s entrance in the occupied West Bank, after last week’s beating and detention of Israeli settlers by Palestinians. The perpetrators wrote “Arabs out” and “Revenge for […]
By Felicity Arbuthnot and Dr. Ang Swee Chai As Israel buried Ariel Sharon amid eulogies from world figures, Tony Blair, a Butcher of Baghdad, paid a tribute to the Butcher of Beirut which included the […]
By Shafiq Morton Ariel Sharon, former Israeli Prime Minister, has passed on at the age of 85. After a lingering coma induced by a stroke in 2006, his body has finally shut down – and […]
By Jamal Kanj My friend and I were on a cross-country flight from San Diego to Washington, DC on Saturday, September 18, 1982. We arrived at our friends’ home with gleaming smiles, but were received […]
Naming the settler’s hate crimes towards the Palestinians “Price Tag” is to be unfaithful to the truth. No other word other than terror could describe the outcome of the crime committed by settlers from Beit- […]
By Julie Webb-Pullman On Tuesday 7 January the Deputy Director General for Latin America of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Itzhak Shoham, met with the charge d’affaires of the Embassy of Chile in Israel, […]
Israel’s former prime minister, Ariel Sharon, has been buried at his ranch kilometres from the occupied Gaza Strip in the southern Negev desert. Eight generals carried Sharon’s coffin to the grave on Saturday alongside that […]
Israeli airstrikes on Monday targeted al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip after rockets fired by Palestinians landed in southern Israel. A Ma’an reporter in Gaza said that no injuries were reported but Israeli […]
Head of the PLO delegation to Syria Ahmad al-Majdalani said that Islamist militants opened fire at an aid envoy on its way to a besieged refugee camp near Damascus. Al-Majdalani said in statement that meetings […]
By Ramzy Baroud The death of former Israeli leader Ariel Sharon enlivened US media’s interest in the legacy of a man considered by many a war criminal, and by some a hero. In fact, the […]
The head of Fatah’s reconciliation team told Ma’an Thursday that he would visit the Gaza Strip to meet with Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in the coming days. PLO central committee member Azzam al-Ahmad said […]
Palestinian activists on Thursday tried to prevent a joint Palestinian-Israeli organization from holding a conference at Ramallah’s City Inn Hotel, witnesses said. They said the activists attempted to break into the conference hall, but that […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth US Secretary of State John Kerry spent last week testing the waters with Israelis and Palestinians over his so-called framework agreement – designed to close the gaps between the two […]
By Jim Miles (Why Israel? The Anatomy of Zionist Apartheid – A South African Perspective. Suraya Dadoo and Firoz Osman. Porcupine Press, Melville, South Africa. 2013.) Why Israel? is a large work of enormous value […]
A group of sick refugees who were to leave Yarmouk camp for treatment were unable to be transferred out of the camp after rebel militants opened fire at the camp’s popular committee members and Palestinian […]
The Fatah reconciliation team has made a proposal to Hamas regarding a national unity government, a Fatah spokesman told Ma’an Wednesday. The proposal stipulates that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas set dates for new presidential […]
By Ramzy Baroud A worst case scenario is unfolding in Syria, and Palestinian refugees, particularly in the Yarmouk refugee camp, are paying a heavy price for Syria’s cruelest war. They are starving, although there can […]
By Nicola Nasser Obsessed with the “Iran threat,” which leads to its warmongering in Syria, Saudi Arabia is acting like a bull in a china shop, wreaking regional havoc in an already Arab fragile political […]
By Iqbal Jassat – Johannesburg An intriguing dispute has arisen between the United States of America and Israel over China that may have adverse implications for both countries but most certainly for the Zionist regime. […]
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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