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Month: August 2008
Israel Calls for Peace Deal without Jerusalem
Israel wants to reach a peace deal with the Palestinians by the end of the year but postpone a final agreement on the future status of Jerusalem, a senior government official said on Sunday. "Both […]
Sahar Vardi: An Israeli Refusing to Oppress
By Neve Gordon Eighteen-year-old Sahar Vardi is currently in an Israeli military prison. She is being punished for the crime of refusing to be conscripted into the Israeli military. A few weeks before her imprisonment […]
Israeli PR Fails the Test
By Stuart Littlewood – London When Ron Prosor arrived in London last year to take up his post as Israeli ambassador he was eager to step up public relations. He told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz: […]
Strategies of Resistance in Palestine
By Vijay Rajiva In a recent article on Palestinian political economy we are given a lucid and comprehensive account of neo liberal economic policy and the US-Israeli and European involvement in the process of integrating […]
Another Lost War in Afghanistan
By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai You don’t have to be born in the West or be a Westerner to hate the Taleban. Most of us in the Middle East and the larger Muslim world […]
John McCain: A Matter of Character
By John Chuckman McCain does a good job with the appearance of a boyishly honest man. He puts on his quiet voice and uses his boyish (albeit now partially fossilized) expressions and, reminding me of […]
Gaza Blockade Protesters Sail Back to Cyprus
Two boats carrying foreign peace activists who had defied an Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip left the Hamas-ruled territory on Thursday for Cyprus, taking with them seven Palestinians. An Israeli official said the Israeli […]
Olympic Follies and Triumphs
By Ramzy Baroud To run a full marathon experts suggest that the aspiring athlete requires at least six months of rigorous training, proper gear, a particular diet, regular check-ups, mental focus and preparation, and a […]
Is Israel One Disaster from Collapse?
By Ghassan Michel Rubeiz – New York Israelis are not united in supporting their government’s policies of a four-decade festering occupation of Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese territories. The occupation is costly, morally troubling and beyond […]
More than ‘Unhelpful,’ Settlements are Detrimental
By Joharah Baker – The West Bank In what will probably be her last trip to the region in her capacity as US Secretary of State this week, Condoleezza Rice called Israel’s settlement activity in […]
Torture as Official Israeli Policy
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago The UN Convention against Torture defines the practice as: "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes […]
S. Ossetia, Abkhazia and New Political Reality
By Ivan Simic – Belgrade On August 25, 2008 the Federal Assembly of Russia unanimously voted to urge President Medvedev to recognise Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states. On the following day, President Medvedev […]
Arab/Muslim Americans Should Not Vote for Obama
By Ali Alarabi The candidacy of Senator Barrack Obama is a remarkable one by all accounts, from a historical perspective it is an unprecedented feat that an African American stands for the highest office in […]
Book Review: Racing the Enemy
By Jim Miles Racing the Enemy – Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa. Belknap Press, Harvard University, 2005. The end of the Second World War with Japan is a story of the […]
Just Another Passing Moment in Gaza – A Poem
By Saber Ahmad Jazbhay Plain in the sniperscopelittle more than fleshless than completely skeletala silhouettedefiantly heads acrossno man’s landwhena missile less thanan inchblows a hole in his chestand like a dead leafhe crumbles in a […]
Jewish Settlements Doubled: Report
Israel has nearly doubled the construction of Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories since last year, placing more obstacles in the road of peace. "Despite the Israeli government’s renewed commitment during the Annapolis Summit […]
Empty Gestures will Not Help Abbas
By Ghassan Khatib Israel’s decision to release some 200 Palestinian prisoners as a "goodwill gesture" to President Mahmoud Abbas comes not long after the exchange of prisoners and bodies, including many Palestinians, between Israel and Hizballah […]
Sailing into Gaza
By Huwaida Arraf – Gaza On Saturday, after 32 hours on the high seas, I sailed into the port of Gaza City with 45 other citizens from around the world in defiance of Israel’s blockade. […]
Politics of Avoidance
By Ralph Nader The “politics of avoidance” is receiving a great deal of media attention during this period of national political conventions. Unfortunately, the newspapers and television programs do not use the phrase: “the politics […]
Israel Frees Palestinian Prisoners as Rice Arrives
Israel started freeing 199 Palestinian prisoners Monday in a goodwill gesture to president Mahmoud Abbas as U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was due in the region to give a push to U.S.-backed peace talks. […]
The Day Joe Biden Threatened to Kick My Ass
By Rannie Amiri Many, many years later, the memory of a campus speech delivered by Senator—now vice presidential candidate—Joseph Biden of Delaware remains especially vivid. Although the topic was predictably foreign policy, on which he […]
Is Georgia Different from Lebanon and Palestine?
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan The pro-US President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia ordered the bombardment of the Russian-majority South Ossetia province. This gave the Russians the justification to invade Georgia on August 8, 2008 and occupy […]
Poetry, Hip-Hop and the Palestinian Experience
By Remi Kanazi, New York In 1948, my grandmother was expelled from Palestine. Like many of the 780,000 evicted that year, she never saw her birthplace again. But she always dreamed of a dignified return […]
Voyage of the ‘Little People’ Shames West
By Stuart Littlewood – London A small band of brave, humanitarian-minded volunteers in a couple of hired boats have done, in the name of human decency, what the leaders of the US, Britain and the EU, […]
Reinventing the Evil Empire
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago For the West, everything changed but stayed the same, hard-wired and in place. Things just lay dormant in the shadows during the Yeltsin years, certain to reemerge once a more […]
50 Kilometres to the West of Gaza
By Eva Bartlett – Al Arish, Egypt The days are searing heat and sweat-drenched clothing. Most people stay indoors, in air-conditioning, or under shade. Near the sea, tents and umbrellas provide relief from the sun, […]
The Devil’s Hoof
By Uri Avnery – Israel I was shocked when I read the headline in Haaretz. It quoted Sari Nusseibeh as saying "There is no Room for Two", meaning two states between the Mediterranean Sea and […]
Boats Reach Gaza Despite Blockade
Two vessels carrying 46 international human rights activists have reached the Gaza Strip, despite Israel’s strict 14-month siege of the Palestinian territory. The end of the mission to symbolically break the siege came after Israel […]
Olmert Tells Russia Not to Arm Syria
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert would travel to Moscow within two weeks to press Russia not to sell new types of weapons to Syria, according to press reports on Friday. Government spokesman Mark Regev declined […]
Sailing for Gaza Freedom
Human rights activists set sail from Cyprus on Friday, August 22, to the Gaza Strip to break the months-long Israeli blockade on the 1.6 million Palestinians in the poverty-stricken strip. "The goal of our voyage […]