By Jonathan Cook – Canada Park As spring sets in early, Israelis have been pouring into one of the country’s most popular leisure spots. Visitors to Canada Park, a few kilometres north-west of Jerusalem, enjoy its […]
Palestinian groups have resumed talks in Egypt on the formation of a unity government that would prepare for presidential and legislative elections and oversee the reconstruction of Gaza. The resumption of talks on Tuesday follows […]
By Ludwig Watzal Israel’s Occupation, Neve Gordon, University of California Press, Berkeley 2008. Israel has used Gaza as a free fire zone for 22 days and nights. Inevitably, the question arises how could Israel’s occupation […]
By Mohamed el-Sawwaf – Rafah To the ovation of thousands of jubilant Palestinians, an aid convoy led by British lawmaker George Galloway arrived in the besieged Gaza Strip on Monday, March 9. "(I’m here) to […]
By Ahmad Barqawi Something happened in Gaza that shook the very core of my foundation and being. If this is what the ‘progress’ and ‘evolution’ of the human species have yielded so far, then I […]
By IRIN News UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director Ann M. Veneman recently paid a visit to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory to assess the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, with special focus on children. […]
By Joharah Baker It has been almost two years since the fabric of Palestinian unity was torn down the seam. For almost two years Hamas and Fatah have duked it out on the ground and […]
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago As The New York Times reported on January 22, Barack Obama signed Executive Orders (EOs) banning torture and "directing the CIA to shut what remains of its network of secret […]
A British convoy carrying medical relief for the impoverished residents of the Gaza Strip has crossed into the territory from Egypt. Gazans cheered and waved Palestinian flags as the convoy finally entered the territory through […]
Israeli Premier-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to give far-right, anti-Arab Avigdor Lieberman several key ministries in the new government, raising eyebrows even within his own Likud party. "We will know the framework of the coalition […]
By Sonja Karkar An epic journey across eight countries is nearing its end. Gaza is almost within sights of the weary drivers and their navigators. On Day 21, the British convoy leaders decided to by-pass […]
Mohammed Abu Shabah, aged 22, lies in al-Wafa rehabilitation centre in northern Gaza, paralyzed from the waist down after a missile fired by an Israeli drone on 11 January left pieces of shrapnel near his […]
Israel on Friday closed down its embassy in Mauritania, one of three Arab nations that has diplomatic ties with the Jewish state, the foreign ministry said, in the wake of a dispute over the Gaza […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel This week I had a nostalgic experience. I met a parliamentary delegation from one of the European countries. What turned this meeting into a special occasion for me was its […]
By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai This is a strange world. All those who stood around and stared while Israel pounded Gaza for three weeks have now come together apparently to rebuild it. From UN […]
By Natalie Abou Shakra – Gaza City There is a limit to the sea, and there is a limit to the land. To a Palestinian’s life in Gaza, there is a limit that is not […]
By Dina Jadallah-Taschler Recent developments in the aftermath of Israel’s attack on Gaza have once again called into question basic definitions of words and categories used to describe and/or hide events, conditions, demands, and agendas. […]
By Mohamed El Mokhtar Haiba Although George W. Bush is universally recognized for his right-wing leaning, he is not so well-known, at least publicly, for upholding some of the most fundamentalist apocalyptic thoughts underpinning the […]
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago Called human trafficking or forced labor, modern slavery thrives in America, largely below the radar. A 2004 UC Berkeley study cites it mainly in five sectors: — prostitution and sex […]
By Ramzy Baroud While various Western governments are struggling to define a possible relationship with the Palestinian movement Hamas, some progressive and leftist circles are also uneasy regarding their own perception of the Islamic movement. […]
Health standards in the occupied Palestinian territories have badly deteriorated, exacerbated by Israel’s military occupation and stifling restrictions, a medical study found on Thursday, March 5. "Since 2000, the occupied Palestinian territory has experienced increasing […]
By Franklin lamb – South Beirut Part I: Village Updates: Lebanon’s ‘International’ Election ‘We do not consider the coming elections as fateful, but rather as important. If the opposition wins the elections it is normal for […]
Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, has criticised Israel’s plans to demolish dozens of Palestinian homes in occupied East Jerusalem, describing the move as "unhelpful". In a news conference with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian […]
The government of the United Kingdom has decided to boycott Israeli diamond and real estate mogul Lev Leviev over his companies’ construction of Israeli settlements on Palestinian land in the Occupied West Bank, the Israeli […]
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged on Tuesday to press hard for Palestinian statehood and open dialogue with Syria, putting Washington on a possible collision course with Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu. "We happen […]
Hamas movement accused on Tuesday, March 3, some in the international community, particularly the United States, of politicizing donations to rebuild the bombed-out Gaza Strip and blackmailing the group to change its policies. “Some participants, […]
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan The Palestinians in the occupied lands and the refugee camps must have been puzzled by those Palestinian leaders’ declarations and commentators’ peppy articles lamenting the loss of the butchers of Gaza, […]
By Ivan Eland A front page article in the New York Times starts out with the sentence: "The budget that President Obama proposed on Thursday is nothing less than an attempt to end a three-decade […]
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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