By Frank Barat – London Frank Barat: You recently took part in the Free Gaza movement (1) and successfully reached Gaza by boat with others activists, journalists and human rights workers from around the globe. How […]

By Ghada Karmi – London Sixty years ago, on 11 December 1948, the United Nations General Assembly passed an important resolution about Israel and the Palestinians. It called on the newly formed Israeli state to […]

By Joharah Baker – The West Bank During Israel’s first Universal Periodic Review (UPR) session on December 4 in Geneva’s UN Palais de Nations, a number of issues were brought to the fore by representatives […]

By Joshua Frank Joshua Frank Talks with Press TV Correspondent Afshin Rattansi. Afshin Rattansi has for more than a decade worked in broadcast and print media around the world. In the UK, he has worked […]

By IRIN News Gaza’s sole power station supplies about 30 percent of Gaza’s electricity; 10 lines from Israel supply about 62 percent; and two lines from Egypt about 8 percent. The station supplies about 65MW […]

By Gaither Stewart – Paris "Non, rien de rien, je ne regrette rien!" (As sung by Edith Piaf from the Eiffel Tower to celebrate the end of World War II) After the slaughter of World […]

By Dr. Terry Lacey – Jakarta The collapse of the Icelandic banking system in October 2008 came during the final months of the most unpopular American President in living memory, who presided over a Wall […]

By Kathleen and Bill Christison Palestine and Palestinian suffering have always taken a back seat in the world’s attention while the United States starts this war, finishes off that war, or expands it; while the […]

By Yinon Cohen and Neve Gordon – Israel As Barack Obama enters the oval office he will face a series of daunting challenges. One of these is confronting the age old Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has […]

By Jim Miles Robert Kagan is a difficult subject to analyze. At times his writing seems to be very honest and directly critical of U.S. intentions as well as being clearly honest about the sometimes […]

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) sent a letter urging Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to ensure that Israel ends the blockade of Gaza. The letter was sent (Dec 2) in support of the U.N. High Commissioner of Human […]

By Shaimaa Mustafa – Gaza Every year, Abu Lu’ai used to participate with six of his family members in buying a calf to slaughter as a sacrifice marking the four-day Palestinian feast (Eid al-Adha). "This year, […]

By Free Gaza Movement – Cyprus The Free Gaza Movement announced today that it would send a delegation from Cyprus to Gaza aboard their blockade-busting ship, the Dignity, at 11pm, Monday, 8 December. The Free […]

By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Extremist settler groups currently involved in violent confrontations with Palestinians in the centre of Hebron have chosen their next battleground, this time outside the West Bank. A far-right group know as the […]

By Stuart Littlewood – London To Mr David Miliband, You seem like a clever man – Kennedy scholar, something big in Social Justice, then head of Tony Blair’s policy unit, now foreign secretary. Tell us, […]

By Nadia W. Awad – The West Bank Last week, approximately 100 American Orthodox Jews gathered in Jerusalem’s Talpiot district in conjunction with a national convention for the Orthodox Union, an American Jewish group. The […]

By Uri Avnery – Israel For the President-Elect, Mr. Barack Obama.  The following humble suggestions are based on my 70 years of experience as an underground fighter, special forces soldier in the 1948 war, editor-in-chief […]

By Hatim Kanaaneh – Galilee This sounds like a lovely title for a children’s book or even a fairytale. Indeed the tale told here is fantastic and hard for the sane mature to believe, fit only for […]

By Ramzy Baroud World media rashly celebrated the "historic" security pact that allows for US troops to stay in Iraq for three more years after the Iraqi parliament ratified the agreement on Thursday, 27 November. […]

By Nicola Nasser – The West Bank Failing to substantiate for the President of the autonomous Palestinian Authority (PA), Mahmoud Abbas, a credible ‘legal’ basis to extend his term from the Basic Law, which is […]

By Ralph Nader In ancient China, the character for "crisis" was associated with "opportunity." This month Congress will be faced with both challenges from General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, whose CEOS are begging for a […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai Waching with me on television the terror nightmare unfold in Mumbai over the past three days, my children have repeatedly asked me: "Who are these terrorists and why are […]

By Mohammed Abu-Nimer – Washington Arabs and Jews were separated for decades before the separation wall was built in the West Bank and around Gaza. When former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat travelled to Israel in […]

By Dr. Terry Lacey – Jakarta They both begin with I. They are both a group of islands. They both have a lot of fish. They both have volcanoes, geothermal energy, hydro-power and tourism. There […]

By Michael Severson Advertising finances a magazine’s publication. The higher the readership, the higher the cost to place an ad on its pages; evidently, the higher the readership, the higher the exposure for the advertiser. […]

By Susan Abulhawa and Ramzy Baroud We build playgrounds for Palestinian children.  It’s our way of using love to resist Israel’s miserable occupation of Palestine.  Love of children.  Love of play.  Love and admiration of […]

By Snorre Lindquist and Lasse Wilhelmson – Stockholm The Gaza Strip is now the largest concentration camp in the world. The situation grows steadily more insufferable for the 1.5 million Palestinians who live there. Deliveries […]